Posts Tagged ‘jazz festival’

Want to play at Harmonic?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

If you’re a musician based in Birmingham or the wider West Midlands area and want to get involved with Harmonic, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for duos to play at the CBSO Centre on Saturday 13th March in the foyer. We have three slots to fill:

6pm – 6.30pm
7.30pm – 8.00pm
9pm – 9.30pm

As well as a fee, we can offer you a free pass each for the Saturday gigs of Paul Dunmall Trio, Sara Colman, Chris Mapp’s Gambol and Moon Unit which can’t be bad! If you play in a duo already, or have someone you can make sweet music with drop us a line. We’re open to any combination of instruments, the only stipulation is that you have to ply your trade in the West Midlands. Remember this is a jazz festival. Take a look at our programme and see if your music will suit our line-up before you enter.

Drop us an email at: chris@harmonicfestival.co.uk with your names, instruments you play, where you live, and if possible a link to your website or Myspace.

Rules
- Closing date for entries: 24th February at 8pm
- We will look at all the entries, but we will only get in contact with those who are successful
- You need to provide your own instruments/backline. We’ll provide a small P.A.

Good things

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Things are shaping up nicely for the festival. We’ll be announcing details of our launch party soon, with a very special guest. Tickets will be on sale in the next few days, full details on this website as and when. We had a nice write up from Peter Bacon on his site The Jazz Breakfast along with Mostly Jazz Festival, another fine new festival for Birmingham in 2010.

Don’t forget you can follow us on Twitter for all the latest news on Harmonic. Please add your details to the Mailing list on the book tickets page to be kept informed about where and when you can get tickets. We’ll be on Facebook soon too, so there’s no excuse not to get in touch with us!

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Soweto Kinch & Lluis Mather

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Soweto is one of the most familiar faces on the Birmingham scene, nationally and internationally. His unique blend of rap and jazz has won him critical acclaim from jazz and hip-hop fans alike, as well as collaborations with some of the greats from both scenes. This will be his first appearance at Cobweb Collective’s weekly session at The Yardbird. Definitely long overdue and certainly worth the wait.

myspace.com/sowetokinch

Check out a video of this gig on our Media page

Lluis Mather is one of the most promising musicians to come from the jazz course at the Conservatoire. A fine saxophonist and composer, he has come to the attention of Dave Holland, and his quartet was awarded the Dave Holland/Birmingham Conservatoire ensemble award this year. A star of the Birmingham scene for the future playing at Harmonic now.

Line-ups:
TBC