The Scarborough Jazz Club hosted its first shows in over a year last week and the countdown is now on to the Scarborough Jazz Festival at the end of September.
After over a year of deprivation musicians are desperate to play live jazz and fans are hankering to hear them.
They will get their chance at the Scarborough Jazz Festival over the weekend of 24-26 September when some of the very best and foremost players and some wonderful new talent will grace Scarborough Spa’s magnificent Grand Hall.
Alongside some Scarborough Jazz Festival’s regulars like Alan Barnes and Ian Shaw there are many new faces on the bill including the ground breaking Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie; violinist John Pearce and gypsy jazz from Djanco.
Fergus McCreadie is one of three performers on the line up who have recently who received Parliamentary Awards along with Nikki Iles and Jazz Vocalist of the Year Zoe Gilby.
Jazz giant Julian Joseph makes his Scarborough Jazz Festival debut alongside his trio and Tony Kofi returns to front his loving celebration of the jazz giant (in every sense) Julian ‘Cannnonball’ Adderley.
Mike Gordon, Festival Director, says:
“I was so excited by the programme which was planned for September 2020. It was a huge blow when we had to cancel the event and then again the rearranged dates in February. But we have been so lucky that all the bands I booked, but one, are available this September. Unfortunately Elftet have had to pull out but they are being replaced by saxophonist Tony Kofi’s ‘A Portrait of Cannonball’.”
The festival has been postponed twice due to the COVID lockdowns, Scarborough Spa say original Tickets from September 2020 & February 2021 remain valid for the September 2021 Festival.
The full programme can be seen on the festival webpage https://www.scarboroughspa.co.uk/event/scarborough-jazz-festival-september-2021
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