Daria Golovchenko is performing at a Eurovision event at Halifax's Piece Hall.
The Piece Hall performance was almost scuppered because of the lack of a keyboard, but Ms Golovchenko managed to borrow one in the nick of timeA pianist who fled her home in war-torn Ukraine with just her young daughter and a suitcase has said she will use her instrument as a "weapon" at a concert in West Yorkshire.The Eurovision Song Contest is being staged by the UK in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine.
The pianist, who fled her home in Kherson in April 2022, said it had been "the most difficult decision of my life"."We had to pay crazy money for a driver. You could buy a ticket to Australia for the price we paid - and it was just from Kherson to Odessa, which is not a long distance," she added.
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