Trad tradition still going strong
JAZZ
Pickering's annual traditional jazz festival remains an endearing feature of jazz in North Yorkshire.
The 22nd festival, which begins on Monday will be preceded on Sunday by a memorial concert in Lady Lumley's School for the late Joe Passey, who inaugurated the event 21 years ago.
Lady Lumley's was the venue for several of the earlier festivals, before being succeeded by the Memorial Hall which seats 150 and is invariably full for each of the six evening shows.
This year's programme opens with the Yorkshire Stompers, followed by the Chicago Teddy Bears, the Sussex Jazz Kings, the Big Bear Stompers, George Huxley's Jazzmen and the Forest New Orleans Jazzmen.
The majority of the festival's supporters are holiday-makers who visit the coast during the day and return to Pickering for the concerts. "It works out well for the town, and the event," said Norval Jackson, of the Pickering Jazz Society.
James Taylor's organ-led quartet, at the Harrogate Theatre tonight, and the beguiling Jacqui Dankworth, in cabaret at the Crown Hotel tomorrow, maintain a jazz presence in the Harrogate International Festival. Alongside the festival, the Big Chris Barber Band plays at Harrogate Theatre tomorrow night.
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Sunday 12 February 2012
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