NEVER mind the music, Friday at the festival was an example of the skill of the emcee. The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble's A-Z of jazz was literally true, from May Aufderheide's Thriller Rag to Frank Zappa's Dogbreath Variations, but it was also a chronological journey entertainingly narrated by trumpeter Simon Lenton. He had a wealth of information to accompany the music (some of it new even to these jazz-tuned ears), but it was his arrangements for the quintet of work by Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Neal Hefti, Richard Rogers, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny that were the real meat of the programme. This was chamber music rather than jazz per se and improvisation was limited, but trumpeters Angela Whelan and Lenton took every opportunity to show off that there was, including a ...
EDINBURGH'S annual summer party began on Monday. Scotland's elegant capital is once again enjoying three weeks of opera, theatre and jazz, along with the world's largest arts festival -- the Edinburgh Fringe. Culture might dominate in August but year-round Edinburgh is a sharp-suited professional city, home to a financial services industry which once helped propel property prices sky high.
OVER the weekend, I've been listening to fine musicians from across the globe at the World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival in Wiltshire. Next weekend, I was supposed to be speaking at The Big Green Gathering in Somerset, where the music is also, usually, excellent. Sadly, despite granting the event a licence, the local council suspected the organisers had ordered non-regulation yellow traffic signs. Rather than check this, they threatened them with a High Court injunction. And rather than risk scant resources on legal fees, this not-for-profit, ecological awareness event yesterday decided to cancel. ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20
OVER the weekend, I've been listening to fine musicians from across the globe at the World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival in Wiltshire. Next weekend, I was supposed to be speaking at The Big Green Gathering in Somerset, where the music is also, usually, excellent. Sadly, despite granting the event a licence, the local council suspected the organisers had ordered non-regulation yellow traffic signs. Rather than check this, they threatened them with a High Court injunction. And rather than risk scant resources on legal fees, this not-for-profit, ecological awareness event yesterday decided to cancel. ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20
SOME of Africa's greatest musicians are heading for Liverpool to take part in one of Britain's biggest festivals of African music. The Africa Oye festival is now in its 12th year and while it has changed shape and even location over the years, it remains in fine shape. This year it will be staged in just one location - Sefton Park - over two days from Saturday.
OVER the weekend, I've been listening to fine musicians from across the globe at the World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival in Wiltshire. Next weekend, I was supposed to be speaking at The Big Green Gathering in Somerset, where the music is also, usually, excellent. Sadly, despite granting the event a licence, the local council suspected the organisers had ordered non-regulation yellow traffic signs. Rather than check this, they threatened them with a High Court injunction. And rather than risk scant resources on legal fees, this not-for-profit, ecological awareness event yesterday decided to cancel. ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20
FRIDAY JULY 3 10:30 National Express West Midlands Buses: Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 12:30 Mailbox: Millennium Eagle Jazz Band 13:10 Barber Institute of Fine Arts: Alan Barnes Quartet 15:00 Waters Edge Bandstand: Hot Djazz Trio of Cracow (Poland) & Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 18:45 Star City: Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 19:00 Old Orleans: Suzahn Fiering (USA) 19:00 Star City: Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 19:30 Garden House: Millennium Eagle Jazz Band 20:00 Wine Republic: Alan Barnes Quartet 20:00 Bluu: Becky Brine Rhythm Boys 20:00 Premier Suite, Cannock: King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys. pounds 12.50 21:00 Lord Clifden: Hot Djazz Trio of Cracow (Poland) SATURDAY JULY 4 11:00 Harborne High Street: Martinique Jazz Band 12:00 The Big Peg: The Shuffling Hungarians 12:00 Picadilly Arcade...
THE fine weather forecast is music to the ears of the organisers of this year's Caerleon Arts Festival, which opens on Friday. A bit like Glastonbury, the event has been dogged by bad weather conditions in the past. In recent years we've had tents blown away, we've seen the ground reduced to something resembling the 1914-18 trenches and we've had outdoor theatre productions forced inside," said festival chairman, Tim Davidson. "I think it's time that we had a run of good weather for a change. We deserve it.
AHEAD of presenting the Turner Prize to Damien Hirst in 1995, musician Brian Eno made a speech in which he berated the art world for its failure to address the big issues of the day. Invoking geneticist Richard Dawkins as an example, he said that science was doing the job art should: firing the public imagination by starting important conversations. That these conversations often became full- on domestic rows was even better in Eno's eyes. As the days count down to the launch of Gi, the third Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, it's worth recalling Eno's complaint. For those intending to view Gi's manifold attractions perhaps Jim Lambie's massive new show at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA); Catherine Yass's multi-screen installation High Wire at the CCA; or The Other C...
FRIDAY JULY 3 10:30 National Express West Midlands Buses: Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 12:30 Mailbox: Millennium Eagle Jazz Band 13:10 Barber Institute of Fine Arts: Alan Barnes Quartet 15:00 Waters Edge Bandstand: Hot Djazz Trio of Cracow (Poland) & Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 18:45 Star City: Festival Poet Steve Steinhaus 19:00 Old Orleans: Suzahn Fiering (USA) 19:00 Star City: Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 19:30 Garden House: Millennium Eagle Jazz Band 20:00 Wine Republic: Alan Barnes Quartet 20:00 Bluu: Becky Brine Rhythm Boys 20:00 Premier Suite, Cannock: King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys. pounds 12.50 21:00 Lord Clifden: Hot Djazz Trio of Cracow (Poland) SATURDAY JULY 4 11:00 Harborne High Street: Martinique Jazz Band 12:00 The Big Peg: The Shuffling Hungarians 12:00 Picadilly Arcade...
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