STOP PRESS:
Biggar Big Band
Carlops Jazz Band
Floozie Soo
Little Biggar Band
Kings of Cheeze...
and more....... at
BLF Spring Music Festival
Sunday 24 May 2009 from 2.00pm
more details: http://www.biggar-little-festival.com/html/index.php
Biggar Little Festival 2009 - opening night
15 October 2009
9.00 pm
Corn Exchange, Biggar,
Cathie Rae
Cathie's influences include singers such as Ricky Lee Jones, Chet Baker, Bob Dorough, Shirley Horne, Ernestine Anderson, Nat King Cole and Nancy Wilson. She is confident, classy and equally comfortable singing beautiful ballads with her trio or fronting the swinging sound of her fabulous quintet.
Tickets £10 (to include food) - 01899 220999 or mike.chad@btconnect.com
For a taste of Cathie's singing......
Recent past......
Biggar Little Festival - Paul Towndrow quartet.
Also Ken Mathieson Classic Jazz Orchestra
Last event before that: 15th June 2008 - Midsummer (well almost) mini-jazz festival, with barbeque, at Persilands. Great afternoon, with three different bands, barbeque, lots of sunshine, etc. What better way to spend a summer Sunday? Photos on the Photo Gallery
Do you like Jazz?
Do you know people who say that they don’t like jazz, without realizing the broad spectrum of jazz music that is available? From “trad” to “swing” to many contemporary forms, to the downright “experimental”, I would suggest that there is genuinely something for everyone.
Most of us like music of one type or another, and today there is more music available than ever before – radio, CD, TV, ipod, and the internet give us fast access, and digital sound quality is high.
Despite this, there is nothing that can replace the excitement and spontaneity of live performance. That’s what “Jazz in Biggar” is about. It is also about discovery – giving anyone, of any age, the opportunity to hear live jazz, and decide whether they like it (all our concerts are free to under-eighteens).
What is Jazz anyway?
Putting it simply, jazz is just improvised music, or “spontaneous composition” built around a basic tune, or chord sequence. All the famous classical composers used improvisation -“variations on a theme…” - the only difference being that these variations were studiously written down and copied by their students. Modern jazz musicians do it “in real time”.
Jazz in Biggar
Jazz in Biggar is starting to gain an identity. It began at the 2006 Biggar Little Festival, and, since then, many jazz musicians have played in Biggar – artists like Colin Steele, David Milligan, Phil Bancroft, Stu Ritchie, Alan Pendreigh, George Burt, Allon Beauvoisin, Stuart Brown, Mario Caribe, Paul Harrison, Martina Almgren, Laura Macdonald, Aidan O’Donnell, Graeme Scott, Rob Hall, Chick Lyall, Brian Molley, David Patrick, Konrad Wisniewski.
Committee
Mike Chad (Chair)
Gil Dunn (Secretary)
Tracy Short (Treasurer)
George Burns
Do you listen to Jazz?
I’ll add you to the emailing list and when we are ready to formalise membership, you will be among the first to receive an invitation to join. In the meantime, we'll do our best to let you know what events are coming along.
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