Jazz breaking news: Stuart McCallum, Soweto Kinch And trioVD For Marsden
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Counting down to the Marsden Jazz Festival in west Yorkshire, which gets underway in just over a week’s time, beginning tomorrow week Friday 7 October, and running through until the early evening of Sunday 9 October, opens with 52 Skidoo and a Revival Night Dance Class.
The first day programme of the fest, which dates back to 1992, includes Beverley Beirne, Kenny Ball And His Jazz Men, Brick, Terry Brunt’s Dead Good Boys And the Tame Valley Stompers, The Why and Wherefores, Legion All-Stars, Jazz Preservation Society, Backwater Blues, Jeremy Platt Funky Jams, and the Ken Marley Trio, with a table top sale and refreshments.
The table top sale continues on the morning of Sat 8 Oct as do the refreshments, with stalls, tombola and a book stall, plus a jazz walk organised by the National Trust. The afternoon music programme kicks off with the West Kirklees Music Centre Big Band, Rawchestra, a Jazz Parade with the Red Rose Brass Band, Stuart McCallum (Marsden Royal British Legion, midday), the Ben Crosland Brass Group, the Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra, Huddersfield University Big Band, Alphabet Suite, North Kirklees Music Centre Swing Band, The Owl Ensemble, Shelley College Jazz Band, Zoe Gilby and Andy Champion, Rod Mason’s Elements, Huddersfield Young Singers, the Heckmondwike Grammar School Big Band, WorldService Project, Fat Stanley, Jazz It Up Singers, Soweto Kinch (Mechanics Hall, 4pm) Hade Edge Jazz Band, Silver Bell Band, East Kirklees Music Centre Big Band, Richard Ormrod’s A Dread Supreme, Liane Carroll (Mechanics Hall, 7.30pm), Samuel C Lees feat. Jennifer Lees, Asaf Sirkis Trio (Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre, 8pm), Darren Dutson Bromley and Jenni Molloy, Dave Brennan’s Jubilee Jazz Band, Flock of 3, Swing Of Things, Blue Toots, Joe’s Allison and Submotion Orchestra (Mechanics Hall, 11pm).
The Jazz Morning Service With Winston’s Pennine Jazz begins the Sunday programme and then there’s a Poetry Jam with Write Out Loud, more refreshments, lunches, stalls, the tombola and a book stand in the morning and through until four o’clock, and then the Blackley Music Centre Stage Band, Los Camaradas, Rodina, Soweto Kinch Masterclass (with the Huddersfield University Big Band), the Kirklees Youth Jazz Orchestra, Calderdale Big Band, Fastest One Man band, trioVD (Mechanics Hall, 1.30pm), Graham Browning Trio, Storm The Stage interactive gig, Yarrow River Band, The Dizzy Club, Two Chord Trick, The Anchormen Ensemble, Ripon Grammar School Big Band, Brownfield/Byrne Quintet, Michael Sutton Quartet, Bad Back Blues Band, Alex McKown Band, Winston’s Pennine Jazz, and the MJF All-Stars Spectacular.
Venues include the Mechanics Hall, Carriage House, Marsden Liberal Club, Puleside Working Men’s Club, Marsden British Legion, The Railway Inn, Marsden Socialist Club, Marsden Conservative Club, The Riverhead Brewery Tap, United Church, Parochial Hall, Marsden Railway Station, the New Inn, Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre, Marsden Cricket Club, the Band ’Ole and The Shakespeare.
– Stephen Graham
For more go to www.marsdenjazzfestival.com