The International Jazz Festival at Gateshead has become one of the biggest and wide ranging annual jazz events of the region. This 11th jazz festival will run from 10th April to 12th April (Friday through Sunday) at the Sage Gateshead. The festival has a packed weekend, full of concerts and supplemented by talks, seminars and workshops. A selection of some of the free events in the full programme will be helpful to jazz music lovers.
The first evening in the Concourse will have two free events bracketing the evening’s live music shows. Starting at 6:30pm with New York Brass Band, it ends with guitarists Bradley Johnson and James Birkett. On the Concourse on Saturday, there is free music from 1:30PM to 7.00PM. On the Sunday, in the Concourse, there will be more free jazz all through the day, including a full afternoon concert by The Two Cookers in Hall Two. On the previous afternoon band members will be talking to Kevin LeGendre with extracts of recordings from the ’60s and ’70s, which is a free event but a ticketed one. The festival programme is full of various other concerts and performances, many of which are ticketed. Complete details of the jazz festival have been published in a brochure recently, but is also available on the site- sagegateshead.com. The jazz festival offers this year a Multibuy scheme for saving on tickets for fans, with all booking details available at the same address.
