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The Swanage Jazz Pageant programme has simply been introduced, and tickets at the moment are on sale.
FULL PROGRAMME LISTINGS (*)
Friday 12 July – From 4pm
The Surprise of Stevie with Derek Nash and Noel McCalla
Ian Shaw and Tony Kofi – Tribute To Billy Strayhorn
Artwork Themen’s Organ Quintet
The Sound of Bluenote with Greg Abate
Horns Upfront
Thokozile
Jivin’ Miss Daisy
Saturday 13 July – From 10.30am
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New Orleans Pageant Parade
The Emma Rawicz Jazz Orchestra
The Gary Crosby Sextet ‘Mingus Strikes’
The Brandon Allen Groove Band
Dave Newton/Alan Barnes Duo
Henry Lowther’s Nonetheless Waters
The Clark Tracey Quintet
The Emma Rawicz Quintet
The Noemi Nuti Quartet
Yetii
Soldoro
Jazz Knots
The TJ Johnson Band with Alex Clarke
Forest Hill Owls
Songs of 1924 with Janie Day and Martin Litton
Martin Litton’s Purple Sizzling Peppers
Sunday 14 July – From 11am
The Liane Carroll Trio
Zoe Rahman’s Color of Sound Octet
5 Means Cut up
The Printmakers with Norma Winstone and Nikki Iles
The Henry Spencer Band
The Alyn Shipton Quartet performs Gerry Mulligan
Marianne Windham’s Jazz Samba Undertaking
The Andy Hague Quintet
Lucy Moon sings Anita O’Day
Alex Webb’s Quintet Blue
Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen
John Maddocks’ Jazzmen
The Gin Bowlers
Classic Jazz Collective
Plus free Pageant Fringe in Swanage Motels and Pubs – particulars to be introduced. And free outside concert events
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“Swanage Jazz Pageant launches 2024 Programme Friday twelfth July – Sunday 14h July 2024
· Swanage Jazz Pageant proclaims its greatest programme since 2018
· Second Marquee added on Sandpit Area, rising Pageant capability
· Arts Council funding secured for a brand new bands and new audiences programme.
Tickets have gone on sale for the thirty third Swanage Jazz Pageant that includes one other wide selection of the very best UK jazz on provide. The programme begins at 4pm on Friday 12 July and runs by means of to 10.30pm on Sunday 14 July.
Headline names within the 50 Band programme embody:
Liane Carroll Trio – their first efficiency at Swanage for 10 years
The Emma Rawicz Jazz Orchestra
Ian Shaw and Tony Kofi performing a tribute to Billy Strayhorn
Zoe Rahman’s Colors of Sound Octet
Gary Crosby’s Mingus Strikes Band
The Surprise of Stevie with Derek Nash and Noel McCalla
The Printmakers with Nikki Iles and Norma Winstone
An Abundance of Expertise
The 2024 Swanage programme consists of ‘outdated favourites’ and British Jazz legends similar to Dave Newton and Alan Barnes, Norma Winstone, performing with The Printmakers, The Clark Tracey Quintet, Artwork Themen’s Organ Quintet, American alto saxist Greg Abate and the return of Henry Lowther’s Nonetheless Waters who carried out to nice acclaim in 2022.
These are complemented by new rising stars together with Emma Rawicz who performs together with her quintet and her 20 piece Orchestra, trumpeter Henry Spencer and his band and singer Noemi Nuti and her quintet.
The Sound of Issues To Come
Swanage Jazz Pageant has secured funding from Arts Council England and Dorset Council to draw new bands and new audiences in a programme titled ‘The Sound of Issues to Come’ This programme will largely be housed in a 250 seat marquee on Swanage’s Sandpit Area which overlooks the ocean, increasing the Pageant’s capability. The element of the ‘The Sound of Issues to Come’ programme will probably be introduced in March.
Social gathering on Friday
Swanage’s Friday programme takes on a celebration environment with West and South African influenced Thokozile, Horns Upfront offering a Tower of Energy environment adopted by Derek Nash and Noel McCalla jazzing up Stevie Surprise with their ‘Surprise of Stevie’ present.
New Orleans Programme
Swanage’s programme all the time features a energetic New Orleans and mainstream aspect and this 12 months that programme strand consists of Simon Thorpe’s exuberant ‘Jivin’ Miss Daisy’ band, Martin Litton’s Purple Sizzling Peppers and trumpeter Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen, his first look at Swanage for 9 years.
Gerry Mulligan characteristic
Famend writer and broadcaster Alyn Shipton will probably be speaking about his ebook on Gerry Mulligan and later performing music from Mulligan’s pianoless Quartet and no less than one Jazz Jam session is deliberate. Work can also be underway to re-stage the Sunday morning Jazz and Gospel Service at Swanage Methodist Church which proved highly regarded in 2023.
Pageant Fringe
The Pageant may have a free Pageant Fringe in pubs and golf equipment with over 20 bands anticipated and the Pageant expects to host as much as 4 youth Massive Bands in Swanage’s iconic refurbished bandstand.
Tickets
Advance Tickets for this jam-packed weekend of high quality Jazz are £140 for a weekend stroller, £43 for a Friday-only stroller and £82 for a Saturday or Sunday Stroller. Stroller tickets give purchasers entry to all ticketed venues, topic to capability. Advance tickets are on sale till 31 Might and costs will rise from 1 June.
Tickets can be found from www.swanagejazzfestival.co.uk/tickets Residents of the BH19 put up code can get a ten% low cost on the above costs. These tickets will solely be obtainable to buy in particular person from Swanage Data Centre, Shore Highway and will probably be obtainable from a date in March to be introduced.
(*)Some additional acts are but to be booked and programme updates will probably be made sooner or later.
Paul Kelly, Chair of Swanage Jazz Pageant stated, “Following the success of our 2023 Pageant we’re delighted to be bringing an excellent larger programme of top-quality artists to Swanage in 2024. We’re grateful to Arts Council England and Dorset Council for serving to us construct the Pageant capability. We’re in all probability the most important Pageant on the South Coast of England programming simply Jazz and nothing else and we’re one of many largest Jazz Festivals in England with a singular and great setting. We’re a lot trying ahead to July and listening to such a beautiful and numerous array of sounds and types”. (ENDS)
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