DIARY DATES

May 18th JULIE LEWIS Vocalist and Keyboard Player 3pm

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  “Julie Lewis's singing and piano playing has banished many a deep conversation into misty irrelevance in local bars and restaurants”

June 29th SUE HAWKER & Guy Gardener Trio 3pm

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  Sophisticated guitar and vocals-led modern jazz. “Hawker is a full-blown jazz singer with a husky seductive voice who can wade through bop phrasing as boisterously as Anne Ross.”
  

July 13th DEIRDRE CARTWRIGHT 3pm

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  Jazz guitarist well known as the guitar presenter on ground-breaking BBC series RockSchool.


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  “Cartwright is currently the most imaginative guitarist on the scene”
  

August 24th SHINE 3pm

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  One of the foremost gypsy jazz bands in the UK play their distinctive style of gypsy swing which immediately captivates the audience with both the sheer joy of playing and their infectious enthusiasm for the music
  

September 28th BOBBY WELLINS 3pm

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  “Saxophonist Bobby Wellins belongs to a generation of jazz players who cut their teeth on bop, but now plays in a rather less frenetic, more lucidly mainstream style. His playing concentrates on assured and highly coherent melodic and harmonic developments, played in an expressive, beautifully articulated fashion.”
  
  

All at the Hobby Horse Ballroom, Minehead Tickets £6 per person

See blog, local press or e-mail diane@spra-uk.org for further dates and details

Proceeds from all above concerts go to the Society for the Protection and Re-homing of Animals Charity No. 1098713 http://www.spra-uk.org/