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Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival – Main Stage Line-Up

March 8, 2012
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Friday Evening 6:30pm – 7.45pm Octopus – This eight piece band of seasoned professionals will play us in with classic swing 8:15pm – 10:00pm Zena James – An energetic quintet presenting powerful originals, infectious grooves and jazz and pop classics as you’ve never heard them before. Inspired as much by 70′s soul as by the jazz greats, Zena has been acclaimed across the jazz media for her ‘lustrous’, ‘touching’ and ‘persuasive’ voice and her funky new take on popular and rare jazz gems and irresistible, low-down R&B sounds. “She’s very, very good live indeed …you’ll have a marvellous time!” Bob Sinfield, Jazz FM Radio .”With a brave leap into the soul-laden subtle groove end of the jazz spectrum, Zena projects on stage a warm, engaging personality and an infectious sense of enjoyment” Brian Blain, Jazz UK. Late Night Sessions Courtesy of the Beverley Arts Trust 10.00pm – 10.30pm John Cox – John Cox started writing his own songs at 15 on guitar. He started playing live a few years later, mainly playing bass in all kinds of alt-rock bands. Eventually he formed a post punk band called ‘Clox’, singing lead and playing bass, in the eighties. Their first single ‘Looking…

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The Multi Award Winning Stacey Kent to Headline the 6th Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival

February 11, 2012
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The Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival returns for its sixth year set in the award winning grounds and Elizabethan Hall of Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire, YO25 4NB. Organised by the Hall’s sax-playing owner, Simon Cunliffe-Lister, the festival runs over three days showcasing some of the UK’s hottest jazz and blues acts in the most stunning and serene of surroundings. “Possibly the most enjoyable jazz concert I’ve ever attended.” The Independent Grammy nominated and multi award winning Stacey Kent, including the British Jazz Award and BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best Vocalist’, is a sublime singer, rightly famed for her peerless interpretations of the Great American Songbook, but equally adept singing in French or Portuguese. Her beautiful tone and wonderful phrasing bring a fresh beauty to everything she sings and she sings from the soul. She tells us her stories with faultless phrasing and a lucid, enchanting voice and it is her beautiful version of Hushabye Mountain that has bewitched TV viewers on the recent Dreams Bed campaign. After eight studio albums, her current album Dreamer In Concert is her first live album and the first album that captures her magical onstage persona. Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival are delighted…

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