Ariana Grande Brings Message of Defiance to Concert for Manchester Victims<br />By CHRISTOPHER D. SHEAJUNE 4, 2017<br />GREATER MANCHESTER, England — The message onstage and in the crowd at "One Love Manchester," a benefit concert for victims of the Manchester attack<br />that was hosted by the pop star Ariana Grande, was one of defiance.<br />lenced, Manchester!" and Ms. Grande thanked the crowed for being "strong and unified." "I think<br />that the kind of love, the unity that you’re displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now," she said. that We will not be si<br />"We’re going to go to this concert, we’re going to have an amazing time, we’re going to enjoy life, we’re<br />going to sing at the top of our voices." "And we’re going to just prove them wrong," he added.<br />"You can’t stop it from living your life, doing what you want to do." Ms. Garner, who lives in central Manchester, added<br />that she had felt a community spirit in Manchester since the bombing: "It’s just so strong.<br />One in the group, James Ockerby, 25, wore a shirt dedicated to his friend Martyn Hett, who died in the attack,<br />and whom Mr. Ockerby described as "an icon." Mr. Ockerby, who was at the Manchester Arena concert, described sprinting from the arena and only later figuring out what had happened.<br />The event, at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Sunday evening, was Ms. Grande’s first appearance since a suicide bombing<br />at her May 22 concert at the Manchester Arena killed 22 people, including children, and wounded dozens of others.
