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A full five days of jazz gets un der way today with the start ofthe sixth Ribble Valley Jazz Festival. Now firmly established as
Lancashire’spremierjazz fes tival, thisyear’s event-spread across the May Day Bank Holi day weekend - will welcome
jazz fans from across the UK to star performances at The Grand in York Street and The Atrium Cafe Bar at Clitheroe Castle, as well as several other key venues around the town centre. The event begins today,
April 30th - which is also In ternational Jazz Day - when two top UK guitarists, Stuart McCallum and Mike Walker, play at Grindleton Pavilion. Four jazz-filled days later
the festival will'conclude at The Grand on Bank Holiday Monday (May 4th) with a per formance from the Northern Jazz Orchestra featuring BBC Radio 2 regular Georgina Jack- son “Celebrating the Divas”. In between will be a jazz
jamboree of more than 50 per formances across the week end, covering the breadth of jazz, blues and dub music across a number of venues, all within walking distance of the town centre, which is well served by public transport. Friday May 1st sees a
Supreme performs. The centrepiece of the fes
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Lunchtime Live Jazz Festival SpecialatTheGrandwhenthe Eric Ainsworth Trio shares thestagewiththeBBC’s Young Jazz Musician of the Year, Al exander Bone and his trio. Eric Ainsworth will be launching his debut CD celebrating 60 years in jazz (see page 24 for more on this). On Friday evening at The
Grand, highly regarded Brit ish mainstream jazz saxo; phonist Alan Skidmore leads a star quintet that includes Pe te King and Steve Melling pay ing homage to John Coltrane’s music, and in particular pay ing a tribute to long-time col laborator, drummer-Elvin Jones. A more rambunctious alternative on the Friday takes place at Clitheroe Castle’s Atri um venue, where the seven- piece dub jazz outfit Dread
tival is the free-to-attend Sat urday Street Fest. This takes place on .Castle Street, where the road is closed to traffic and two outdoor music stages will be blasting out music from 11 am until 5 pm. A full day’s programme of live music and street performance will be complemented by the 9.50 am “jazz train" from Blackburn to Clitheroe, with The Flat Cap 3 bringing the festival focus from the train and into Clithe- roe’s main streets. Ensembles of all shapes and sizes include Red Hippo, Beltones, the Glit- heroe Royal Grammar School Swing Band, Marmaduke Schnizel and the Leeds-based big band BassaBassa. A busy day at The Grand on
Saturday launches into events for children. Potential young musicians are encouraged to perform on plastic trombones and trumpets in a workshop from 11 am. An attraction for young family audiences will be the matinee show from the Living Story Music Ensemble “I Have a Duck Who Can Roar”. Tickets for Saturday night’s
headline artist Stacey Kent - one of the leading female sing ers from thejazzworld -have sold out, but tickets from The Grand’s Box Office remain
For those with more tra
ditional tastes, the Northern Jazz Orchestra, led by Paul Rigby, will be signing things off with the closing show on the Bank Holiday Monday af ternoon. This Big Band show will be fronted by the delight ful voiceofGeorgina Jackson, who’s career has skyrocket ed since her days playing the trumpet as a young musician in the Orchestra itself. Sunday and Bank Holiday
for other shows, children’s events, and music workshops over the weekend. Also on Saturday, The Atri
um provides a more dance floor-friendly alternative with Manchester’s 10-piece jazz- ska act Baked A-la-ska guar anteed to raise the roof. On Sunday, the festival wel
comes back the phenomenal award-winning Soweto Kinch Trio. Alto saxophonist Kinch will also be delivering a saxo phone workshop before his performance. The Sunday night show
cases a band featuring some ofthe finest exponents of con- temporaryjazz, British saxo phonist and composer Andy Sheppard,who leads an all- star group in this not-to-be- missed concert for true jazz aficionados.
Monday afternoons bring in novation to the 2015 Festival programme with the intro duction of jazz on Clitheroe Castle Bandstand on both af ternoons from noon to 5 pm. Bands playing over the two afternoons include the Black burn with Darwen Big Band, Ribble Valley Jazz Collective, Jam Factory, QEGS College Big Band, The Bedlam Road and Clitheroe Ukulele Orchestra. As ever, the festival is far
more thanjust about thehead- line guests at the key venues. Other free events at local ven ues include the Blues Stage at The Rose and Crown, a Soul Stage at The British Legion, three bands at Maxwell’s Cafe Bar, and more bands at El Tapeo, The Emporium Wine Bar and the Spread Eagle Ho tel at Sawley. Booking a table at some of
thesevenueswillbeessential. Festival dire4ctor Geoff
Jackson commented: “It’s an exciting time for everyone connected with the festival as bigger audience numbers than ever before look set to attend now it is firmly estab lished on the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend. We have a great variety of shows for wide music tastes and a number of opportunities for public to participate with workshops and free gigs in addition to the ticketed shows.” For full details pick up a
festival brochure from The Grand or the Visitor Centre in Station Road, or visit the web sites at: www.rvjazzandblues.
co.ukorwww.thegraiidvenue.
co.uk The ticket hotline is The Grand’s box office, 01200 421599.
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sica.stagi Castle Bandstand ana gigs in town centre shops cafes/wine Bars. Over 40 pands, 350 Musicians, ajazz Train from Blackburn and a Saturday Street Party with mighty big bands!
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Clitheroe Castle Bandstand Jazzin’ in the Park - Sunday & Monday. Town Centre gigs: Ale House, Atrium Cafe Bar, Clitheroe Library, Royal British Legion, El Tapeo, Emporium Wine Bar, Maxwells Cafe Bar, Royal British Legion. Also at Grindleton Pavillion, Spread Eagle - Sawley. Jazz Workshops: Improvisation - Saxophone - Drumming - Rhythm Sections. Saturday Children’s Events: at The Grand "A Duck who can Roar, pBone - Introduction to playing on plastic trombones & trumpets.
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