With
great pleasure we announce the 8th year of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music.
Launched 2017, the festival continues to respond
to the city’s appetite for a contemporary grassroots jazz festival, presenting
an innovative and diverse international line up, celebrating and pushing
boundaries that challenge perceptions of jazz and improvised music.
This year we welcome new performance spaces
including Jesmond Swimming Pool and the legendary Tyneside music haunt The
Cumberland Arms, alongside our regular venues Gosforth Civic Theatre, The Globe
and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society.
We have a special collaboration with the Friday
Night Chill Out at Jesmond Pool, and we’ll be featuring live soundtracking to a
selection of historic surrealist films in Gosforth working with the help of
Northern Silents, once again also commissioning a series of recorded Interludes
that can be heard over the PA systems across the festival events and available
through New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings.
We continue to work with our lead partners Jazz
North East, but also other key regional promoters including Jazz.Coop, GemArts,
and this year we also welcome Endless Window into the fold.
Alongside British and International UK based
artists this year we’re delighted to be bringing musicians from Copenhagen,
Holland, Switzerland, Japan and the USA.
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
gratefully acknowledges Arts Council England, associated partners and funders
for their support.
We hope you enjoy the show!
Wesley Stephenson (Artistic Director and Festival
Producer)
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