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21st Lichfield Real Ale Jazz & Blues Festival
24th - 27th June 2010 @ Lichfield Rugby Club
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Full Festival including camping/caravan £36 /£33 concs /£30 members £18 students
Caravan/Camping £6 per night (per caravan/tent)
Separate tickets required for Blues Band and Alan Price Set
Thursday June 24th The Blues Band £18/£17 concs/£16 members £10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
Friday June 25th £8/£6 concs/£5 members £4 students
Saturday June 26th all day ticket £16/£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
Sunday June 27th all day ticket £16 /£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
Sunday June 27th Alan Price Set £18 /£17 concs/£16 members/£10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
Children under six free
Student Prices: Offer applies to full time students only with identification
Concessions: Applies to over 60s and registered unemployed
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| A Message From Your Festival Director |
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We celebrate our 21st birthday with a great line-up of some of the finest jazz and blues bands plus our usual renowned real ales. This year we will have a larger marquee and an improved seating.
So do come and enjoy yourselves for an evening, a day or a whole weekend with excellent company, unbelievable music and wonderful relaxed atmosphere!
Book your tickets now!
Festival Director
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With over 35 beers , plus traditional ciders and foreign beers
you will be spoilt for choice
The bar is open Noon -11.00pm each day
Don't forget the well stocked club bar serving a wide range of Lagers,
Wines and Soft drinks.
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| How to get here |
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Lichfield Rugby Club, Tamworth Road (A51), LICHFIELD, Staffordshire WS14 9JE
By Car
Our venue, Lichfield Rugby Club, is less than 20 miles from the M42/M6/M6Toll and just off the A38. Follow the signs for A51 (Tamworth Road)
Click for Map to Rugby Club
By Bus
Regular service from Lichfield Bus Station service 765 to the Rugby Club
We also have a FREE jazz bus on Saturday 11.00am - 11.30pm
By Rail
Lichfield has two railway stations with a regular hourly service at Trent Valley on the West Coast mainline London to Crewe and we also have Lichfield City railway station with a regular 20 minute service from Birmingham New Street.
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| Accommodation |
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For details of local accommodation ring 01543 412112 or visit www.visitlichfield.com
Should you need any help with accommodation call Lichfield Arts on 01543 262223
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| Camping/Caravans |
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A caravan or camping is included in the cost of a full festival ticket. Otherwise bookings can be made on a per night basis with a caravan or tent costing £6 per night
Lichfield Rugby Club has good toilet and shower facilities
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Thursday 24th June 8.00pm -£18/£17 concs/£16 members £10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
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Top Class Blues To Kick Off The Festival | | The Blues Band | |
We are simply delighted to be celebrating our 21st birthday with this band who are simply the best purveyors of the Blues in the UK today.
Celebrating 30 years together they are PAUL JONES, DAVE KELLY, ROB TOWNSEND, GARY FLETCHER and TOM McGUINNESS
Their fabulous musicianship is augmented by their close and personal understanding of the genre and their heartfelt pleasure in performing. After 30 years of performing together, the integral voices and instruments interlock seamlessly with feeling and understanding. You won't leave a Blues Band concert with 'the blues'.
Arguably the most successful Blues Band in Britain today, these blues lovers and great showmen continue to delight audiences with their extensive mix of Rhythm & Blues and Roots music. Powerful and emotional lead vocals from Paul Jones and Dave Kelly are the 'icing' on an evening of authentic blues music. Their extensive canon of recorded material includes a large catalogue of original songs as well as their own interpretations of songs from the genre's finest writers like Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters,to Howlin' Wolf.
Acknowledged throughout Europe and beyond as being amongst the very finest purveyors of R&B, they have inspired numerous other blues bands - but The Blues Band remain an increasingly popular fixture.
All reserved seats book early to avoid disappointment.
www.thebluesband.com
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Friday 25th June 8.30pm - £7/£6 concs/£5 members £4 students
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Classic Rock 'n' Blues To Get You In The Groove | | Bare Bones Boogie Band | | |
If you are looking for some classic rock ‘n’ blues then this band is for you. They are the Award-winning and critically acclaimed Helen Turner, Iain Black, Trev Turley and Andy Jones who play some great heart-wrenchin’ classic rock ‘n’ blues, together with their own unique brand of original material. Couple this with some hot, deep down soul, all topped off with a dose of R&B, then all that’s left is to get the drinks in, roll back the carpet, and get yer dancin’ shoes on . . .
To use just two quotes:
"Helen Turner has probably the best blues voice in the UK at this time . . .”
"Good-time, stripped down, no nonsense, rock ‘n’ blues ‘n’ boogie!!”
www.myspace.com/barebonesboogieband
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Saturday 26th June noon onwards - full day ticket £16/£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
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A great day of fine music |
| Tommaso Starace Quartet - Noon & 4.00pm | |
Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace is acclaimed for his dynamic bebop style and melodious jazz compositions.
This new international vibrant quartet was formed with the idea of combining musicians that display different styles and that together bring a distinctive, fresh and exciting sound to the music performed focusing on new compositions and the rework of jazz standards of composers such as Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley to name a few.
This will be a great gig of hard swinging no nonsense jazz.
To use one quote, ‘Starace's melodious originals offer good blowing potential for alto and soprano solos delivered in a cleanly articulate post-bop style reminiscent of Phil Woods.’
www.tommasostarace.com | | |
| Chicago Red - 1.00pm - 5.15pm | |
If it’s the REAL blues you want to hear then this Chicago born bluesman is the man for you. ‘Chicago Red’, now living in Los Angeles, learnt his music through the pain of life with fine songs, superb guitar musicianship a fine voice and a wicked sense of humour he is the complete performer.
As one review said “Red lays it on naturally with a clear voice and heartfelt emotion. The originality in his song writing is refreshing but I was blown away by his guitar playing.
www.chicagored.com | | |
| The Kingsize Five - 2.00pm & 6.30pm | |
The Kingsize Five are a eight piece band led by tenor saxophone Michael Brown plus two singers and a full hot driving rhythm section. They play swing, rock and roll , ska and retro 50’s and are a real party band.
To use one quote “Refreshing music, swinging, jumping, jiving blues somewhere near jazz and beyond rock & roll done with panache-get out and see them."
www.myspace.com/thekingsizefive | | |
| Sarah Gillespie with Gilad Atzmon - 3.00pm & 7.45pm | |
When a superb singer/songwriter Sarah Gillespie meets a wonderful jazz composer/saxophonist Gilad Atzmon you can only expect a brilliant album and ‘Stalking Juliet ‘is just that. In my humble opinion the BEST I heard in 2009 !!!. Just listen to the opening track
You will hear an eclectic mix of Beat poetry, folk, jazz with middle eastern elements played by the wonderful Gilad Atzmon on saxes/clarinet/accordion supported by the awesome Josh Blackmore on drums and the bristling double bass of Ben Bastin.
To use one quote “She is a young singer who is loud, defiant with a punkish ferocity and a mix of Bob Dylan’s drawl and Tom Wait’s growl the opposite of world –weary matching the inspirational Gilad Atzmon
A must see at the festival.
www.sarahgillespie.com
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| Big Easy - 9.30pm | |
No strangers to Lichfield having played both Fuse-The Event in a Tent festivals. THE BIG EASY are a hot 6-piece jazz/blues outfit. comprising; Preacher D – lead vocals/harp, Martin Barter – keyboards/vocals, Bill Williamson - guitar, Dean Parker – tenor sax, Steve Sage – bass, Fedrico Girlando – drums/ percussion.
The popular outfit cover the very best of ‘good time’ jazz, blues and rhythm & blues in a style they uniquely refer to as 'JooZ'. THE BIG EASY are a workmanlike band who deliver with energy and style a fine selection of classic numbers, right across the board, from the 1930s to the present day. Aint no sitting back when THE BIG EASY hit town. Prepare yourself for an evening of hot, steamy ‘raucous & roll’ from the coolest, most cruellest band on the planet!
Formed 4 years ago they are admired from all corners of the music scene mainly due to their appealing renditions of classic jazz and blues numbers and thoroughly entertaining and energetic live shows. Preacher D has been described as: “possibly the best around in what he does” .. “a vocalist of great dexterity and power.” While the band’s undoubted skills as vocalists, musicians and arrangers is now taking them into the big league. It is therefore no surprise that The Big Easy is attracting much interest. They are unique! With such a fast growing reputation they are quite simply becoming a band difficult to ignore.
The Big Easy - one of the UK’s premier jazz/blues outfits!
No chance of sitting down to this band.
www.bigeasyband.com | | |
Sunday 27th June noon onwards - all day ticket £16 /£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
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Hopefully you will have recovered with a few hours of rest ready for a day of truly wonderful music |
| Asaf Sirkis - Noon & 4.00pm | |
Now recognised as one of Britain’s finest drummers Asaf Sirkis brings his latest project for you to enjoy at the festival with him is the wonderful Tassos Spiliotopoulos on guitar and Yaron Staoi electric bass. Their spell binding hard hitting, thought provoking fusion reflects Asaf’s varied background, it is reflective, sometimes dynamic but bears the hallmark of wonderful musicianship.
His album ‘the Monk’ received this rave review “Wonderful music underpinned and shaped by Sirkis searching drumming. It is an utterly distinctive learning experience.”
A great start to the day.
www.asafsirkis.co.uk | | |
| Back Door Too - 1.00pm & 5.00pm | |
Those who remember the jazz rock of the 70’s will know what to expect but those who don’t are for a real treat. Founder of the original trio guitarist Colin Hodgkinson joins forces with drummer Paul Robinson and one of this festival’s favourites saxophone players, the superlative Rod Mason. This power jazz/blues trio play wonderful new material written by Rod Mason as well as old favourites. The empathy between bass innovator Colin Hodginson and drummer Paul Robinson is something really special.
www.backdoortoo.co.uk | | |
| Zoe Gilby - 2.00pm & 6.00pm | |
From the North East we welcome this tremendous young jazz vocalist Zoe Gilby who has been making a real impression on the jazz scene today with her superb interpretations of the great American songbook and her own original songs with her excellent backing musicians Andy Champion double bass and Mark Williams guitar.
To use just one review "She has the bluesy versatile voice and the jazz chops of a future star - Modern Mature and swings like a bell with a wide vocal range, warm timbre and clear diction which she uses skilfully to unveil her moods. It's clear that she's already found her own voice."
www.zoegilby.co.uk | | |
| Led Bib - 3.00pm & 7.00pm | | |
Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. Taking their name from a protective garment used on patients during dental treatment, this Walthamstow based five-piece of twenty-somethings pride themselves on side- stepping convention, with incendiary results. The friends, who can usually be found in one another’s homes drinking tea and discussing the merits of biscuit types, have together torn apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation. And whilst fun may not be something which often comes to mind in relation to jazz, it’s the addition of this playfulness that has over years seen Led Bib throw out any jazz preconceptions and entice a whole new army of supporters to the genre. Combining the energy and passion of a rock outfit with the technical ability of trained jazz musicians their effect is exhilarating.
Led Bib are bandleader Mark Holub on drums, Liran Donin on electric and stand up bass, Toby McLaren playing Rhodes and piano and Chris Williams and Pete Grogan up front as the two duelling alto sax players. Although egalitarian in design, Holub’s presence as bandleader is felt throughout. Fired by the sounds of Ornette Coleman and John Zorn emanating from the downtown scene where he started out, he leaves his mark on the group by driving tracks through at full throttle with his 700 BPM drumming.
Led Bib continue to reflect the realities and dreams of life living in London, offering an honest comment on the struggle, drama, losses and loves – but always they deliver it with an element of playfulness.
www.ledbib.com
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Alan Price Set- 8.45pm
£18/£17 concs/£16 members £10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
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What better way to finish off this festival then with the ‘Alan Price Set’
The name immediately summons up some of the most memorable sounds in the last 40 years: from the Animals’ ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ to his quirky take on Randy Newman’s ‘Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear’ to his many hits with Georgie Fame, including the most famous ‘Rosetta’.
His induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994 was testimony to his achievements throughout his career in the music industry and sits well alongside his BAFTA award for the soundtrack of the highly acclaimed film ‘O Lucky Man!’ in which he also appeared as ‘himself’.
With superb musicians backing him, is great love for the blues, which highlights his live concerts and makes him such a stunning performer, acknowledged as one of the most talented and enduring musical artists to have emerged from the 1960’s British Beat Boom.
What a way to end this wonderful festival www.alanprice.com | | |
| Catering |
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Hot and Cold Food and Snacks will be available throughout the Festival
.....and of course we will have the 'famous' pork pies
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| BOOK NOW! |
CLICK HERE TO BOOK ONLINE NOW!
Full Festival including camping/caravan £36 /£33 concs /£30 members £18 students
Caravan/Camping £6 per night (per caravan/tent)
Separate tickets required for Blues Band and Alan Price Set
Thursday June 24th The Blues Band £18/£17 concs/£16 members £10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
Friday June 25th £8/£6 concs/£5 members £4 students
Saturday June 26th all day ticket £16/£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
Sunday June 27th all day ticket £16 /£15 concs/£14 members/£8 students
Sunday June 27th Alan Price Set £18 /£17 concs/£16 members/£10 students/ £10 for holders of full festival tickets
Children under six free
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