14 days and nights of the best music & people @londonjazzfest 🧚🏻♀️
1. Opening night of The Jazz Social
2. @nicowiddowson doing a Piano Hour at TJS
3. @ajamonet in conversation with @zzzakia
4. aja monet w/ @ganavya & @sophyesoliveau
5. @marysia_osu inviting us into her dreamworld
6. @mattcarmichaelmusic
7. @shrisriram presenting Dhamaal- Core
8. @jasminemyramusic live with strings 🥹
9. celebrating 20 years of Take Five with The Evolution of UK jazz - 20 Years On ft @cammyg1 and @shabakahutchings
10. Realising standing on a big stage is really scary
11. @hiromimusic doing an intimate in-the-round solo performance and Q&A
12. The Aga Khan master musicians telling us how it’s REALLY done
13. @maalemelkasri
14. @cammyg1 leading the Mass Participation Orchestra
15 + 16. @nubya_garcia with visuals from @hamill_industries 💫
17. Print making workshop with the one and only Oli @split_design
Takes a bloody village to make this happen 💚
Lil look back at the third (and my final) @leedsjazzfest earlier this year
What a city - what a powerful place - what an incredible project to have had the privilege of puzzling together.
Thanks again to everyone involved in any way whatsoever, there’s some special alchemy going on up there 💚
Keep those 👀 peeled for 2025!
Video by @dannywestjr / @sablestudio
Music from @tcandthegroovefamily@franzvon_music
@leedsjazzfest 2024 🧚🏻♀️
Huge love to everyone who makes this festival what it is - a celebration of the musicians, scene, venues, promoters, organisations and wider cultural offering in the city. This year was full of curveballs and contingencies, but it flourished nonetheless due to some amazing humans.
Helming this festival for three years has been a privilege and the biggest learning curve, from producing @niknakdjmusic Inner Ireti in @leedsartgallery to forging collaborations with @tinaedwardsdj and @northbrewco , alongside writing the funding bids, overseeing the marketing, keeping the @welcometoleeds stage on track alongside @leedsbid and @newcitizensuk and liaising with alllll the programmers and partners. Thanks to everyone who contributed in any way 💚
Keep faking it till ya make it folks, that’s what we’re all doing x
Cloned myself for Christmas to simultaneously be in Dún na nGall AND in the @jazzfmuk studio.
Tune in 6pm-7pm tonight for a Celtic Christmas show with some songs and chat from this clown.
UK listeners can tune in via Jazz FM and Irish and non-UK listeners can use the mighty Radio Garden app 💚
