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2019 Parliamentary Jazz Awards

The voting is open between now and May 31 to enable site visitors to nominate their choices in the various categories of this year's APPJAG awards which can be done here.
BSH was very proud to be nominated and to win the 2018 Media Award and hope we can have your support again this year.

Today Monday May 27

Afternoon

Jazz

Vieux Carré Hot 4 - Spanish City Plaza, Whitley Bay NE26 1BG. 12:00 - 3:00pm. Free.

Jazz in the Afternoon - Cullercoats Crescent Club, 1 Hudleston, Cullercoats NE30 4QS. Tel: 0191 253 0242. 1:00pm. Free.

Tyne Valley Big Band - Bywell Hall, Bywell, near Stocksfield NE43 7AB. £15.00. (concs. £14.00., child £5.00., £35.00. family). 2:00-4:00pm. A Northumberland County Show (all day) event.

Evening

Ruby Turner - Whitley Bay Playhouse, Marine Avenue, Whitley Bay NE26 1LZ. Tel: 0844 248 1588. 7:30pm. £28.80. A Mouth of the Tyne event.

To the best of our knowledge, details of the above events are correct but may be subject to alteration.

Monday, May 21, 2018

RIP Tony Pringle

John Carstairs Hallam has informed me (via Russell) of the death of Liverpool born/Massachusetts based cornet player Tony Pringle of the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. 
I must confess to being unfamiliar with him. Did he ever play at any of the Whitley Bay Jazz Festivals/Jazz Parties I wonder?
Reading his obituary in the Syncopated Times, which also included his own memories of those early days where he recalls how he got into jazz, I found myself in agreement with him when he wrote that being a jazz fan was like catching an obstinate bug that stays with you forever. 
It didn't matter that his obstinate bug was of the vintage New Orleans variety and mine was hatched on 52nd St. the end result was the same - incurable!
Tony Pringle passed away on May 4, aged 81. and will, I'm sure, be sadly missed by all who knew him.
May he Rest In Peace.
Lance.
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