Scarborough Jazz Festival Rescheduled

Tuesday, 1 December 2020 07:34

The 2020 edition of the Jazz Festival had been moved to next February, now it will take place next September.

The 18th edition of the Scarborough Jazz Festival will now take place in September 2021.

Originally rearranged to take place in February 2021, the 3-day festival will now take place in its usual weekend of 24-26 September 2021 at Scarborough Spa.

The festival line-up remains unchanged and due to the date change the festival’s Earlybird weekend ticket offer has been extended until the end of July 2021 and customers only need to get in touch if they can’t make the rescheduled festival when a full refund will be given.

Mike Gordon, The Scarborough Jazz Festival Director said:

“The great news is that I have been in touch with all the performers we had booked for September 2020 and I’m delighted to say that they are all available for the rearranged dates in September 2021. I’m particularly pleased about this as I have received many enthusiastic positive comments about the programme line up. So, COVID permitting, we can look forward to a fantastic weekend. I’ve already ordered sunshine and blue skies.

The Scarborough Jazz Festival line-up features a host of established jazz musicians alongside many new faces:

the groundbreaking pianist Fergus McCreadie;
violinist John Pearce (with Dave Newton);
the eleven piece Elftet led by vibes player Johnny Mansfield
and gypsy jazz from Djanco.

The highly respected pianist Nikki Iles has put together a Who’s Who of British jazz with her 19-piece Jazz Orchestra. Another big outfit, Hans Koller – Bird Migration, will be celebrating the anniversary of one of the great jazz legends and the smaller combos on the bill represent some of the UK’s most creative musicians: Julian Joseph Trio, Jean Toussaint All Star 6tet, Karen Sharp Quartet, Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft Quartet, Phil Robson’s Organ Trio and Zoe Gilby’s Quartet who will perform her Aurora project.

Offering something very different will be the Oxley-Meier Guitar Project with 12 guitars on stage; words and music spinning a tale from Rafe’s Dilemma; and undoubted surprises from world class singer Ian Shaw, with Iain Ballamy and James Safir.