A TRIBUTE album by friends of a popular Chepstow landlady who died in March will be released in December.

Mum-of-two Alison Beasley who ran The White Lion/Pye Corner in the town, grew up in Bulwark and was a pupil at Chepstow School.

All money raised by album sales and a jam night in the town on October 3 will all be donated to St David’s Hospice, which cared for Ms Beasley in her last few days.

A number of Chepstow artists have contributed their own songs to the record, including Helen Child Villiers and Terry Theobald.

One artist, Kath McRoberts, had not written a song before she decided to compose one for the album. She wrote some lyrics, sang them into her mobile phone and friends helped her develop it.

It will be launched at the Severn Bridge Social Club in Bulwark on Friday, December 5.

And it was produced by Ms Beasley’s friend Paul Hobday.

They both thought up the idea of an album while they were both receiving cancer treatment at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport and planned to complete it once they had recovered.

The Electric Landlady Big Jam Night will be held at The Smirnoff Bar on Friday, October 3 and a raffle will also be held, for which organisers are seeking donations.

A close friend of Ms Beasley, Lucy Fear, has been tasked with promoting the album and the jam night. She said: “People will be able to make donations and we will raise as much as possible. There is so many people involved.”

Those already on the bill include Stoo Harris, Terry Theobald with Stoney Broke, Isobel Brown with Twysted River and Super Gaz.

As part of her working life in the town, Ms Beasley managed The King’s Head, The Five Alls and The Three Tuns with her brother, Gerv Durran.

Until 2003 she worked at Loco Residential Recording Studio in Usk as a studio manager and met Coldplay and the Manic Street Preachers. She was also a founder of Chepstow Radio.