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Ipswich Jazz Festival

The third Ipswich Jazz Festival is nearly with us.  Have you bought your tickets yet?  The festival featuring some international, national and local stars will run from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June.  Tickets for most events are available from the New Wolsey Theatre www.wolseytheatre.co.uk  01473 295 900.  Tickets are going quickly, so don’t miss out.

Starting with Rumba de Bodas from Bologna, Italy who play a heady mix of high-octane, gypsy-swing to Latina to swing, Balcanica to reggae, soul to folk and who will appear at St Peters by the Waterfront in Ipswich on Friday 22nd June, the festival also features top names from the UK jazz scene.

On Saturday 23rd June at St Peter’s, singer and pianist Ian Shaw will perform with saxophone players Brandon Allen and Vasilis Xenopoulos and the local Chris Ingham Trio.  Their show will include a new piece of music specially commissioned by the Festival based on Suffolk’s musical heritage and which will be a musical legacy for the town.  The young players of the South Suffolk Youth Jazz Ensemble will also impress the crowds.

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To end the festival singers Jacqui Dankworth and Charlie Wood will be at St Peter’s on the evening of Sunday 24th June.

Over the weekend, local jazz followers can enjoy free jazz performances on the afternoon of Sunday 24th June at The Duke of York on Woodbridge Road, The Arbor House on High Street and East Anglia’s top big band Horn Factory will also play a free gig at St Peter’s that afternoon.

Anyone with an instrument or who sings, can take part in workshops to hone their jazz skills with workshops for guitarists, drummers, singers and ensemble players.  For photographers, jazz snapper John Watson returns with a workshop on special effects to photograph musicians.  John’s international photographic exhibition The Jazz Moment will also be on show at Sub Arts in St Nicholas Street while there will be an exhibition of jazz-themed art at Ipswich Town Hall.

And if that’s not enough, more serious people can listen to music professor Martin Hathaway lecture about the history of jazz at Ipswich Institute while film fans can watch performances at Ipswich Film Theatre of Beware of Mr Baker and Whiplash about two very different jazz drummers.

Festival organiser Neil Bateman said: “We are looking forward to another great little festival.  There has been a lot of interest in the festival line-up, so grab you tickets before they go!  If you buy in advance you can get them a bit cheaper”.

More details are on the Ipswich Jazz Festival website www.ipswichjazzfestival.org.uk or by “liking” their Facebook page where regular updates and fun competitions with musical prizes happen www.facebook.com/ipswichjazzfestival/

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