[Dixielandjazz] Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival

[Ken Mathieson]

Hi Marek et al,

The Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival is now over for another year, but I can thoroughly recommend it for OKOM followers if they can get there easily. It's too early to say how it turned out financially, but I can tell you the brewers can't have lost money on their involvement! The barman at the Town Hall venue was actually the head brewer at the brewery, so the ales there were in tip-top form throughout and certainly enthusiastically supported. The food in local hotels, restaurants, cafes and fish & chip shop was great and what I heard of the music was excellent too. When you're playing a festival, it can all go past in a bit of a blur: you're either playing, eating, resting, or catching up with old pals and sampling the local ales (usually simultaneously), so hearing other bands can be a bit incidental.  Over Classic Jazz Orch's 2 gigs, we played a eclectic mix of Morton, Bix, Louis, Oliver, Ellington, Bechet, Bigard, Waller, Fazola, Basie, Benny Carter, Savoy Sultans and even some Gerry Mulligan and Bob Brookmeyer pieces, so there was something for most OKOM tastes.

This coming weekend we're off to the Cleethorpes Jazz Festival in England to play a full concert of Benny Carter's  glorious music with good buddy and wonderful alto-saxophonist Alan Barnes as our guest. If we discount the 500 mile round trip, it should be great fun!

Cheers,

Ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marek Boym 
  To: Ken Mathieson 
  Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List 
  Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 3:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival


  Oh my,

  Why have I not heard about that festival before?  I've looked at the lineup, and it looks great!  And craft brewer is n deterrent, either.  Too late for this year - I've just returned from a month in Canada and the US, but as to the next one - who knows?  If I know long enought in advance, of course.

  Cheers




  On 12 June 2013 03:06, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

    Hi Folks,

    For any listmates heading to the Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival in Scotland this coming weekend, just a quick mail to say my Classic Jazz Orchestra will be there on Saturday evening 15th June in the Town Hall, St Mary St from 9:40 to midnight and in the same place on Sunday 16th from 3:00 to 5:15pm. It's a small but very friendly festival concentrating on New Orleans and other early jazz styles, so we'll be playing a stack of our Jelly Roll Morton, Bix, Louis, Oliver and Ellington repertoire. If any of you are going to be at the festival, please come up and say hello.

    Kirkcudbright (pronounced Kirkoobray) is a gorgeous, historic wee country town near the Solway Firth in the picturesque south west of Scotland. The weather here has been marvellous here recently, so we're all crossing our fingers it stays that way for the festival. If it's all sounding great so far, the icing on the cake is that one of the main sponsors of the festival is the excellent local craft brewer, so a great weekend beckons. You can see a full list of bands, times and locations at the festival website: www.kirkcudbrightjazzfestival.co.uk

    Cheers,

    Ken Mathieson
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