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Jazz great Courtney Pine has been announced as one of the headliners for Ribble Valley ' Jazz Festival's 2016 line-up.


Pianist Zoe Rahman and singer Claire Martin have also been confirmed for the festival, now in its seventh year and fast becoming one of Lancashire’s premier live mu-


$ sic events. The festival will take place


between Thursday, April 28th, and Monday, May 2nd, and headliners have been con­ firmed for the Friday, Satur­ day and Sunday night at The


‘ * Grand, Clitheroe. A second announcement


about confirmed performers is expected in the next few weeks.


. Courtney Pine, one of the UK’s most iconic jazz musi­ cians and star ofinternational repute, will perform an inti­ mate concert alongside pian­ ist Zoe Rahman at The Grand on Sunday, May 1st. The British saxophon­ is t and bass clarinet player


s‘ J will duet with Rahman, the Mercury Music Prize nomi­ nated pianist, for a special performance of jazz classics entitled “The Ballad Book”.


® Those who like their jazz with a swing will be delighted at the news that singer Claire Martin will be headlining on the Saturday night at The


Headliners confirmed for premier live event Plans are also in place


Grand alongside saxophonist RayGelato. Claire recently starred at


the BBC Proms, televised live from the Royal Albert Hall, cementing her place as one of the foremost jazz singers in the UK. It will be her debut visit to


Clitheroe, and follows a line­ up of top quality female vocal talent over the years - includ- ingJacqui Dankworth, Clare Tea], Liane Carroll and Stacey Kent. Also confirmed is the Ben


Crosland Quintet playing the Ray Davies Songbook, on Fri­ day, April 29th, at The Grand. There will also be live gigs at The Atrium,Clitheroe Castle, and a full programme at St Michael’s and St John’s Social Club.Lowergate. Festival organisers are


thrilled to introduce com­ poser and clarinetist Arun Ghosh as its first “artist-in- residence” for the duration of the 2016 weekend. Ghosh has forged an excellent reputation as a jazz modernist. Conceived in Kolkata,


bred in Bolton, matured in Manchester and now living in London, Ghosh’s musical vo­ cabulary and vision reflects hisrichgeographicalheritage. He will be working with


. a group of young local musi­ cians in the lead-up to the fes­ tival and will perform with his own group as well as members oftheBlackbumwithDarwen Big Band on Sunday, May 1st, in an afternoon concert at The - Grand.


for an extension to the festi­ val weekend, with warm-up events in Ribble Valley village venues from Monday, April 25 th, before the launch of the festival proper on Thursday, April 28th, at The Grand in Clitheroe. Festival chairperson Sue


Lightbown said: “We are thrilled to make this first an- nouncementof confirmed art­ ists. The calibre of the festival goes from strength to strength and to have names like Court­ ney Pine and Claire Martin illustrates the trqjectoiyofthe festival programme. “We are also very excited


to have someone as talented as Arun Ghosh set to take on the festival residency. Arun’s performance at The Grand last year was stunning and he will bring something magical to the event. We are sure that young local musicians will benefit greatly from working with him.” A limited number of “early


bird” Freedom" t ickets - which enable access to all of the principal ticketed shows of the Ribble Valley Jazz fes­ tival weekend - are available now from the Grand Box Of­ fice (£70 in advance). Individual tickets for Ben


Crosland Quintet, Claire Mar­ tin and Ray Gelato and Court­ ney Pine with Zoe Rahman, are also available from The Grand Box Office. • For more information,


visit www.rvjazzandblues. co.uk


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into the latest Ribble Valley Music Festival event when the award winning Win­ gates Brass Band performed at “The Last Night of the Chatburn Proms” at Christ Church, Chatburn. Many compliments were


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made about the first half of the concert, which created the experience of “going to the pictures” through a fu­


nce again the shoehorns were out and extra seating was used to get everyone


sion of live drama and film on the big screen brought together with the catalyst of live music from the movies. The quality and special


effects of the event became obvious from the power­ ful deep first notes of the evening played on the organ by Robert Tattersall, leading in the band who gave a spar­ kling performance of a whole range of film music. Darth Vader, aka actor


Leo Burke, failed to conduct the band with his lightsaber as effectively as musical di­


rector Paul Andrews, and the


. audience were relieved when the ensuing battle resulted in Paul taking control of the band for the rest of the con­ cert, including an entertain­ ing sequence from the film “Brassed Off” when band members donned miner’s helmets with lights to per­ form in a darkened atmos­ pheric church. A poem composed by


Joan Marsh brought back the Saturday matinee, and a video tribute was paid to actors who have passed away


in the past 12 months. Soprano Kaitlin Wineyard


made her debut visit to the Ribble Valley, and follows a line-up of top quality female


. vocal talent over the years. Kaitlin delivered beautiful


renditions of famous songs from the movies and lead the usual prom favourites which gave everyone the opportuni­ ty to perform. She went on to perform with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in Lon­ don four nights later. This latest Ribble Valley


Music Festival event raised £762 for Christ Church, Chat­ burn. Festival chairman Clive


Greenwood said: “We are absolutely delighted with the growing support for the festival in this first year, and especially with the increas­ ing number of people are visiting from outside the Rib­ ble Valley.


■ . - - “We are also receiving


suggestions for this particu­ lar concert to be accessible to a wider audience, through performances at more ven­


ues, and this meets with our objective of raising funds for landmark venues through bringing quality live music to the Ribble Valley.” The next event in this


year’s Ribble Valley Music Festival is on the afternoon ofSunday, Octoberi8th, when the Craven Accordion Orchestra will perform a concert at Chatburn Meth- • odist Church. . There will be further in­


formation on this in the Clit­ heroe Advertiser andTimes . nextweek. .


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