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The closing night of this year’s festival features an exclusive south west gig for Polar Bear, led by the wondrously inventive drummer and producer Sebastian Rochford. This year sees them back on the road with an acclaimed new album In Each And Everyone with Rochford, a musician known for his numerous category-defying projects, leading the band in a new direction.

Rochford has worked with a mind-boggling array of musicians, including Yoko Ono, Andy Sheppard, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project. He appears along with a stellar line-up of musicians,...

Award winning guitar virtuoso Antonio Forcione joins dynamic Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale in a breathtaking duo which masterfully blends soul-jazz and Brazilian guitar with African and Latin rhythms. Passionately melodic, inventive and heartwarming, this is original world class music.

Hailed as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar’, Forcione is a charismatic and inventive performer, with admirers that include Paul McCartney and Paco de Lucia.

Creator of dynamic projects of all kinds – from visual arts to dance and theatre – Adriano Adewale has toured the...

Acclaimed jazz pianist Craig Milverton pays homage to sixteen great players from James P Johnson through to Bill Evans. Craig will talk about each of these ground breaking performers, their style and their influence on piano technique. Best of all, we get the chance to hear Craig play a selection of music by each of them.

Winner of the 2010 British Jazz Awards, Craig Milverton is one of Britain’s top jazz pianists and performs regularly with the best musicians on the UK jazz scene.

“A master of whatever he chooses to perform”. Humphrey Lyttelton

“A pianist with an...

The headline act of this year’s festival is not just one, but two of the most popular performers on the UK jazz circuit. Award winning vocalists Ian Shaw and Claire Martin will perform their own 70th birthday tribute to Joni Mitchell, whose beautifully crafted songs range from the legendary Blue album to her later musings on world issues. This powerful and intimate show in the beautiful setting of The Old Chapel is not to be missed.

BBC Radio 3 presenter Claire Martin has spent the last 27 years honing the craft of jazz singing. To worldwide critical acclaim she has established...

Louise Parker returns to The Old Chapel with a tribute to one of the finest and most influential singers of the twentieth century. If there is one performer whose music reflects and resonates with the spirit of the 1950s and 1960s, it is Nina Simone. Her sound channelled the emotional spark of the day; her vibrato-rich voice(childlike at times, deep and wise at others) reflected its innocence; her piano virtuosity elevated it with an air of elegance; her lyrics and song choices satisfied a need for intelligent social commentary.

Louise has been an admirer of Nina Simone’s work for...

Eleven young people from across the city are welcoming the public to an exhibition of work from British and International artists at Radiant Gallery on Derrys Cross this month.

Tuesday 19th August will be the first in a series of five “r[eff]uge” exhibitions from Effervescent, the social enterprise that recently converted an old bank into Radiant: a cultural laboratory and tea room.

Effervescent is an arts lab, which works across art forms to create extraordinary projects.

r[eff]uge is a curating project supported by Arts Council England, BIG Lottery and Plymouth...