Jazz Preview: Jazz bands go to market to set out their stall

One of the most endearing occasions in Yorkshire's jazz calendar, Doncaster Markets Jazz Day, takes place tomorrow with a four-hour programme which will bring a blast of Mardi Gras to the market area.

The event begins at 11 o'clock with a parade along High Street and Frenchgate into the market where Dave Brennan's redoubtable Jubilee New Orleans Brass Band and the Jackie Everton dancers will mingle with shoppers around the stalls and aisles.

Other contributors to the festivities from a couple of marquees will be the Half-Hand Hoodoo Blues Band, with John McKevitt on harmonica, Winston's Pennine Jazz, and Nicola Farnon's Quartet.

It all ends with a full-throttle finale in mid-afternoon.

This has been happening for the past 10 years and is now part of local culture.

It's all good fun, free – and a credit to the organisers, Jazz into Doncaster and the Doncaster Markets and Events team.

Jazz and shopping make a formidable combination, and spokesman Charlie Worsdale is confident the public will respond.

He is, however, concerned, about dwindling support for other Jazz into Doncaster events.

"Sadly, the hard fact is that live jazz could eventually become a thing

of the past in Doncaster unless attendances begin to increase dramatically in the coming months," says Charlie.

Food for thought as Doncaster market prepares for its annual jazz jamboree.