Ms Savage lost her home in the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 and said the experience has stuck with her more than a decade on.

"I lost everything in that, my whole community was wiped out and it was years of walking and driving through burnt out landscapes," Ms Savage said.

"It's terrible, it's depressing, it destroys those communities and it takes a long time to come back from that."

"The rebuilding is just starting now, it's going to take years for those communities and they need to know that we haven't forgotten them - and that when things are really tough, we haven't turned our backs on them."

It was that personal experience which led Ms Savage to reach out to the Western Riverina Arts and the Murrumbidgee Regional Conservatorium of Music to help put together a concert aiming to raise funds for those who have been affected by the most recent bushfire season.

Ms Savage said while the focus has gone off fires and onto other incidents, the concert is a way of showing those who suffered as a result of the fires they are not being left alone.

"We're showing the victims that we haven't forgotten them," Ms Savage said.

"I think it's really easy once the fires go out for people who are away from it - it's not in our faces anymore, we're not breathing the smoke, we can't see it, it's not on the TV anymore - so we think the crisis is over.

"But the victims are waking up every day and there's still ash around them, there's still ruins around them, they still don't have their homes, the kids still don't have schools to go to, the playgrounds are still burnt out."

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A range of local artists have stuck their hand up to help, with Jorja Dalton, Anastasia Comarin, Ben Ceccato and Ali Ratcliffe taking to the stage alongside band Happy Avenue, jazz group Little Big Band and the Griffith City Band.

Musician Robert Fattore - who plays in performing band Happy Avenue - said the event is the city's way of helping give back to those who lost everything during the most recent bushfire season.

"Now that it's further away from the event, people are starting to realise what they've lost," Mr Fattore said.

"We've just got to try and give them something back - Griffith's got to give them something back."

"That's what this concert is about."

All proceeds from the event will be going to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and WIRES Australia.

The event is due to kick off from 4pm, with tickets to the event costing $25 for adults if purchased before 5pm on Thursday or $30 at the gate and $10 for children between the ages of five and 17, with those under the age of five allowed in for free.

To purchase tickets in advance, you can visit the Griffith Regional Theatre or call 6962 8444.