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Postage

16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Summertyne Americana July 22

 (Review by Russell)
For once the sun shone and Summertyne Americana lived up to its name. The revolving East Door at Sage Gateshead was just that – ever-revolving with ten gallon Stetsons and gaudy Hawaiian shirts parading their sartorial elegance. The Jumpin’ Hot Club open-air stage pitched on Performance Square hosted one turn after another – alt country, blues, hokum, in essence all things Americana.
Two stand-out sets were circled in the diary months ago and they lived up to expectation and more. First up, the veteran Hokum Hotshots followed by blues singer Teresa Watson.
Hokum Hotshots: Jim Murray (guitars, mandolin & vocals) and Pete Mason (guitars, ukulele, washboard, kazoo & vocals)
Jim Murray and Pete Mason play the blues. They play tunes of the Dust Bowl and its old timey forebears; an Appalachian folk tune, a Cajun jig, a Deep South gumbo. Shieldsmen Murray and Mason do it with panache, it’s as though they aren’t trying. They’re students of the genre, they’ve played the music for years, they’ve got the patter and an in-the-head set list as long as a ‘gator in the Mississippi.
Between sets the Red Arrows screamed overhead heading north east, then, banking left in formation, swooped low to Newcastle International Airport, their base prior to an evening appointment down the coast at Sunderland International Air Show. Bizarrely, some Sage rednecks burst into a round of applause. A long queue formed at the pop-up bar of one of the region’s micro breweries (a pint in a plastic glass at £4.00.). A neighbouring stall did its best to entice the hordes with the offer of burger, fries and soda – yours for £8.00. The under-unoccupied burger flipper had plenty of time to listen to the music.

Teresa Watson Blues Band: Teresa Watson (vocals), Johnny Whitehill (guitar), Paul
Donaldson (keyboards), John Morgan (bass) & Barry Race (drums)
A couple of years ago Teresa Watson went along to Summertyne Americana as a punter. A lady in self-imposed retirement, Watson decided she would like to be up there on stage – the roar of the greasepaint and smell of the crowd, and all that – and now in 2016, here she was, belting out the blues once more. Reunited with some of the best bluesmen on the scene, Watson was delighted to play ‘this little festival’. Our vocalist’s joined-at-the-hip bass and drums team – John Morgan and Barry Race – laid the foundations for a Johnny Whitehill guitar master class. The Northumbrian doesn’t strike a pose, his vintage Gibson Les Paul does the talking. Peter Green an obvious influence, referencing Chicago heroes, Whitehill’s encyclopedic knowledge of the genre makes him a guitarist’s guitarist. Teresa Watson is a Love Me Like a Man woman, happiest when she is telling you how it was and how it could be, the lot of a blues woman.

Americana at Sage Gateshead is an occasion. Outdoor, in door – on the concourse and in the halls – you’re never more than a few paces from bumping into a dude with a Stetson. Do take time to view the photographic exhibition outside Sage One and Sage Two. Sage in association with Amber is showing The Preacher and his Congregation. Side Gallery across the river in Newcastle is currently closed for major renovation works. Americana has taken the opportunity to loan James Perry Walker’s photographs of Reverend Louis Cole and his congregation shot on location in 1970s rural Mississippi and Tennessee. The Newcastle gallery reopens on October 1st, this Gateshead exhibition is a rare opportunity to view an important part of the documentary collection before it is returned to the vaults.
Russell.                 

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