Results for "Belfast"

Paul Clarvis Trio At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
February 25, 2023

Paul Clarvis Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland February 19, 2023 The last gig of Paul Clarvis Trio's fifteen-date UK tour to promote its debut album Freight Train (Village Life, 2022) was likely its smallest and furthest removed from bright city lights. Magy's Farm, a rural venue with a capacity of ...

My Name Is Ottilie At The Queen's Film Theatre + Q&A

by Ian Patterson
February 10, 2023

My Name Is Ottilie (DoubleBand Films, 2022) + Q&A Queen's Film Theatre Belfast, Northern Ireland January 28, 2023 Most music biopics tell a linear story, chapter by chapter, and then close the book. History as entertainment. The best documentaries, however, act as catalysts, creating a revival of interest in the subject, ...

Trio Grande At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
December 5, 2022

Trio Grande Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland November 28, 2022 Set in the rolling drumlins of County Down with farmland rising and falling on all sides, a couple of weathered donkeys looking on and the Mourne Mountains rising majestically ahead, Magy's Farm, it is safe to say, is not quite ...

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2022

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box Black Box Jazz Promotion Network Conference Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3, 2022 As a UNESCO City of Music and as the host of Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference (see separate article), Belfast was expected to deliver on the musical front. And ...

Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022

by Ian Patterson
November 29, 2022

Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022 The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3-4, 2022 Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference saw over one hundred delegates gather at Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) for two days of talks, exchange of ideas and music showcases (see separate article). Founded around a decade ago, ...

Camilla George At The MAC

by Ian Patterson
July 4, 2022

Camilla George The MAC Belfast, N. Ireland June 25, 2022 It was a sell-out crowd for Camilla George's Belfast gig, the penultimate stop on a ten-date tour of Ireland. In part, this no doubt reflected people's hunger for live music after the socio-cultural privations of lockdown, but above all, it ...

Brilliant Corners 2022

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2022

Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...

Brilliant Corners 2020

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2020

Brilliant Corners 2020 Various Venues Belfast, N. Ireland February 27 to March 7, 2020 Maybe it's global warming, for just as the first bloom of spring in these strange times appears in February, so too, Brilliant Corners starts ever earlier. From its first, modest edition over three days ...

Joseph Leighton

Joseph Leighton is one of the finest young jazz guitarists to emerge on the Irish jazz scene. He has performed alongside established jazz musicians Meilana Gillard, John Leighton and MOBO nominee David Lyttle. As well as regular residencies performing in his hometown of Derry, Joseph has also played at the Derry City Jazz festival and Stendhal Festival of Art. In 2016 Joseph featured in the line-up for Brilliant Corners Festival in Belfast playing support to acclaimed duo Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock and the Vein Trio. He has studied under David Lyttle, Mike Walker, Vijay Iyer and Jesse Van Ruller, was one of the youngest musicians to be awarded a place on the Jazz Course at the Banff Centre, Canada and was selected as one of Moving On Music’s ‘Emerging Artists’ 2016- 17

Lewis Smith

Born: March 8, 1974

Lewis started out as a classical clarinettist but at the age of 18 took up saxophone and began playing jazz. By the age of 19, while still a music student at the University of Ulster, he found himself to be a member of the Brian Irvine Ensemble as soprano saxophonist alongside the legendary English free jazz saxophonist Paul Dunmall. Working with Brian took Lewis all over Europe performing at many contemporary music and jazz festivals. This was a partnership that lasted 11 years and included performances for BBC Radio 3 with the Ulster Orchestra and also a performance with Keith Tippet. Throughout the years, Lewis has been the leader and composer for various outfits and projects