MO SCOTT with Rod Sinclair
Sunday 3 September 9:00pm £5
Barrels Alehouse
Mo, who has established a reputation through performances at major jazz and
blues festivals, is regarded as one of the most exciting female singers around.
Carrying on in the tradition of the great female vocalists, she performs a variety
of music ranging from the most ‘delicate’ of jazz ballads to ‘hot’
blues.
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TAM
WHITE
Saturday 2 September 7.30pm £8
The Maltings
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Over the past ten-to-fifteen years, well-sold/packed houses at gigs as diverse
as Ronnie Scott's Club, The Queen's Hall (Edinburgh), The Acoustic Music Centre
(Edinburgh), Southport Arts Centre, The City Hall (Glasgow), The Old Fruit Market
(Glasgow), The Isle of Bute Folk Festival, Strathaven Folk Festival, Penicuik
Folk Festival, Birmingham Town Hall, Traquair Fair, and Aden Country Park have
been grabbed by this striding talent of a blues writer and singer.
TAM WHITE's on-stage presence insists that we will enjoy ourselves. His gravelly
voice - it is no surprise to find that his trade is stone-masonry - commands
immediate attention, whether fronting a nine-piece big band (definitely a
hot, cooking band) or in perhaps a more restrained mode with an acoustic blues
trio.
His was the voice behind Robbie Coltrane's Big Jazza in the highly successful
BAFTA award-winning BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti. Close your eyes and you are
immediately in Chicago listening to hard-working, hard-living, hard-hitting
blues.
In more recent years he has had several TV and film roles including Braveheart,
starring and directed by Mel Gibson and in which Tam played the chief of Clan
MacGregor.
TAM has been around. From rock 'n roll with the renowned Boston Dexters around
the early club days of the 1960s in Edinburgh, to London from whence Scottish
Television lured him back north of the border with an offer of a series and
a 'monkey suit'. "Worst decision I ever made.", said the man. He
learned a lot in the intervening years!
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T
J JOHNSON AND HIS BAND
Friday 1 September 9:00pm £7
The Maltings
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TJ Johnson is one of the most acclaimed musicians on the UK jazz scene today.
His distinctive vocal talent, swinging piano and band driven by youthful enthusiasm
combine to create transcendent music that is jazz, blues and way beyond. He
began his career in music aged fifteen, singing and playing piano in his home-town
of Stockport. He was discovered by Max Collie and toured internationally with
his band for three years.
In the early nineties TJ left to pursue a solo career and is now considered
‘one of the finest vocalists and R&B piano players on the jazz scene
today.’ (Just Jazz) Playing music that ranges from Ray Charles and Dr
John to Louis Armstrong and Louis Prima to Johnny Cash and BB King, it all
has the TJ Johnson hallmark and it is this inimitable sound that won him a
British Jazz Award nomination for Best Small Act 2005.
TJ & his Band play regular dates at jazz venues and festivals throughout
the UK and they are also popular in Europe. They have recorded 7 albums, but
the latest ‘The Heat of the Night’ (Lake Records) is generally
regarded as his best yet. It combines R&B with country blues and soulful
jazz and according to its fans ‘swings like hell’!
TJ is one of the UK's best rhythm & blues and jazz
piano players Just Jazz
The frontiers between jazz and blues are becoming blurred
- (as his lastest CD the Heat of the Night exemplifies) Jazz
Rag
A Barnstorming outfit driven by youthful enthusiasm
Jazz UK I recommend you see this band live where they rock it up nicely Blues
in Britain One of the most popular on the scene, playing music that goes into
warmer and more exotic realms Humphrey Lyttelton - Radio 2
- 2005
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DJANGOLOGY
Sunday 6pm £5
The Maltings
Guitars: Dave Harris & Paul Donnelly
Violin: Emma Fisk
Bass: Mick Shoulder
Djangology create an exciting and authentic atmosphere recreating the rhythmic
swinging music of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club De France. The band features
Dave Harris, a sought after session musician, and Paul Donnelley, ex N.Y.J.O.
and London session musician, on guitars; Emma Fisk of the Rye on violin; and
Mick Shoulder, a much in demand Bass player and member of Wagga Jawagga, on
Double Bass. They recorded their debut cd (now sold out), which received extensive
radio airplay, in August 2002, and perform regularly including a recent appearance
on BBC TV. Their second cd ‘Echoes’ is now available on the Jazzaction
label.
Performing the classic repertoire and their own original material, Djangology
are currently the only ‘Hot Club’ band in the North East to reproducing
the exciting and swinging music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
Prior to today’s performance members of the band will be hosting a
workshop for all interested local guitarists, which will be a great opportunity
to learn something of this fascinating style of playing
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BUENA
VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (U)
Friday1 September 7:00pm £4
The Maltings
Director: Wim Wenders.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ferrer; Ry Cooder; Juan de Marcos Ganzalez.
Running Time: 104 minutes
Buena Vista Social Club was initially the name of an album put together by
the great instrumentalist Ry Cooder in order to save a form of music that
was on the brink of dying out. He visited Cuba and caught up with such venerable
musicians as Ibrahim Ferrer and Rubén González, and his old
friend Wim Wenders captured these meetings, the recording of the LP and the
subsequent concert tour on film. No-one could have guessed what a phenomenon
all of this would become, but thanks to Buena Vista Social Club, Ferrer, González
and Co. not only got their moment in the sun, their music found a global audience
which will ensure that the songs they created will live forever. A welcome
return for this cult classic.
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VARIOUS JAZZ & BLUES
Saturday 2 September
2:00pm to 5:00pm £2/children free
The Maltings
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Your Host: Hazel Quinn
2pm - 3pm
Chris Maynard
Solo improvisational blues guitarist. Much admired by other musicians. Rockin’,
rollin’ and very exciting!
Jimmy Nelson
Guitarist/singer Lovely warm vocal sound with excellent repertoire.
3pm - 4pm
David Faill Very exact, authentic blues/Southern American
states/ragtime guitarist. Made his mark in the clubs round Newcastle and has
his own tracks on a couple of recent compilation blues CDs. Featuring Marcus
Paine vocals/guitar, a very mellow voice, and Laid Back Dennis
vocals/guitar (see below).
Laid Back Dennis (vocals/guitar) and lan Hay
(harmonica). Known for both being members of local band "The Tinkers',
as well as their many solo gigs in the area. Well known songs and humour.
4pm-5pm
Formed especially for the festival: The Quinn Quartet playing
standards, swing, latin and having fun. Featuring Alec Young,
guitar; tasteful, authentic jazz player with over 50 years experience; currently
a member of' ‘Swing Street Jazz’, Graham Blanche
doublc bass, current member of 'Swing Street Jazz’, amongst others.
Kate Philp, congas and saxophone - stylish, sensitive playing.
Kate is also a successful painter of world renown. Hazel Quinn,
vocals, decades of professional experience from the London Palladium to intimate
jazz clubs.
Lucy Cohen, violin. Paul Dickman, guitar.
Cowboy swing with hints of Stephan Grappelli and Django Rheinhardt. Clever
and stylish arrangements. Professional violinist Lucy is in demand with orchestras
all over the world for concerts and recordings.
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Saturday
2 September 11:00am
Look out for today’s street parade in the town centre
featuring the HONESTAS marching band, and followed by an outdoor
performance by Peter Roughhead and his Band at 2:00pm.
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CHILL FACTOR
Sunday 3 September 1:00 pm £4
At The Pilot Inn
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GUITAR
WORKSHOP
With members of Djangology
Sunday 3 September 2:30 to 5:30pm Free
The Maltings
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THE JOURNEY OF JEANNIE DEANS
Saturday 1 September 7:30pm
£8.50/£7.50 concessions
light refreshments @ heights
300 years on from the Act of Union between England and Scotland,
Judy Steel’s re-telling of Walter Scott’s The Heart
of Midlothian has powerful contemporary resonance.
Political and private issues collide dramatically in post-Union
Edinburgh. As the city erupts into riots, can Jeannie save her sister
from execution? Borders-based Rowan Tree Theatre Company brings
its latest production to the Maltings direct from the Edinburgh
Fringe.
The play combines humour, passion and tension and is performed
in the intimate style and the robust Scots for which Rowan Tree’s
productions are renowned. Directed by Catriona Taylor, with Nicola
Jo Cully, Zoe Hunter, Sean Kane and Hannah Read.
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