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Gary Hogg's Geordie Hour programme
on Radio Tyneside plays anything and everything 'Geordie'. Musicians from the
area, based in the area or having migrated to the centre of the universe
(Tyneside) are given an airing on 93.6 FM and online to a worldwide (Geordie
ex-pat) community at: Radio Tyneside.
For the best part of seven decades
Radio Tyneside has broadcast to the local hospital community and, over the
years, to an ever-growing global audience. Most weeks Mr Hogg will play a track
by a local jazz outfit or a track with jazz musicians on a recording. Sunday's
edition opened with the Juggernaut Love Band, described by GH as one of the
area's top function bands. In recent times the line-up has included Jamie
Toms and Liam Gaughan, two well known faces to Tyneside's
jazz audience.
Those moderately successful pop stars Madonna and Prince can claim a Geordie connection thanks to Chester-le-Street born and bred Marcus Brown. Composer/pianist Brown, an adjudicator at the Great North Big Band Jazz Festival (2018 and 2019), for many years lived in Los Angeles immersed in the film industry and working with Madonna and the late Prince of Paisley Park. Yesterday's Geordie Hour featured Marcus playing keyboards on a track by his sister Georgia Brown.
And to top things off, Roly
Veitch, one of the region's most respected jazz guitarists (and one half of
the Blaydon Aces alongside fellow guitarist and Honourary Geordie, James
Birkett) was heard singing When This Aad Hat Was New. Aye,
whenever you tune in to the Geordie Hour, you're sure to hear a Geordie! Tune
in Sundays at 5:00pm or catch the repeat Wednesdays at 7:00pm.
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