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Wakefield Jazz have been hosting top quality gigs for over 30 years at their Wakefield Sports Club home, and Friday night’s event was no exception. Following a successful performance at The Vortex on Wednesday, Alexander Hawkins and Marco Colonna brought [...]
This performance by Rob Cope’s ‘Gemini’ was the second half of the opening concert of the 15th series of concerts in Sandbach. Originally setup in 2010 by local musicians Andy and Lauren Scott, the momentum for the series has really [...]
John Arnett writes: Taking place over four days in one of the cinemas of the very congenial Ambleside institution that is Zeffirellis, this four day festival was the seventh, annually, in what has proved to be a highly successful and [...]
Seven concerts… seventeen (so far) listed musicians. Lists below… Derek Hook started the Ambleside Days Festival, “a Contemporary Music Festival in the heart of the English Lake District”, in 2017. This year’s edition builds to a large ensemble concert [...]
First night in Buxton, and a double bill of Madeline Bell and Judi Jackson. Having interviewed Judi Jackson prior to the Festival (link below), I could already visualise what to expect: barefoot in the likeness of her idol Nina Simone, [...]
St. Andrew’s Church, Grinton. 2 June 2024. Swaledale Festival.Framed by a grand archway lit in blue and purple, it took only a few notes from guitarist Martin Taylor, playing solo, to have the crowd under his spell. Opening with Neal [...]
‘We’re going to be playing some tunes from our new album as well as some tunes from our earlier albums’. Having opened proceedings with this statement, Fergus McCreadie followed up by telling the sell-out audience that he couldn’t say which [...]
St Ann’s church is an established festival venue for Manchester Jazz Festival and the concert by Trish Clowes and Ross Stanley continued this tradition as the only concert taking place there in the 29th festival. The great acoustic of the [...]
There was an almost tangible air of excitement before last night’s concert by the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at the Royal Northern College of Music as part of the 29th Manchester Jazz Festival. The concert had originally been scheduled to [...]
