Climax Blues Band are delighted to be invited back again to headline the Lichfield Blues & Jazz Festival on Friday, 2 June, 2017.
PRESS RELEASE
Lichfield Blues and Jazz Festival ……
Venue: Lichfield Guildhall & Other City Centre Venues
Friday 02 June 2017 – Sunday 04 June 2017
Lichfield Arts is delighted to bring back this popular Lichfield-based music festival with its mouth-watering variety of blues and jazz performed by some of the best known and loved names on the national and regional music circuit.
Visitors will be treated to a wide range of concerts and performances in pubs and historic venues right across this picturesque city, with music ranging from acoustic and strident Blues, to Big Band Jazz, Swing, Boogie –Woogie and full-on Jazz.
The Festival line-up features the Climax Blues Band, Sticky Wicket & his Swing Orchestra, Chris Gumbley & Anything Goes, Remi Harris Trio, Fred ‘T’ Baker, Emma Johnson Boogie Woogie Quartet, Masai Blues, Dunnettbaxter Big Band, Callum Roxburgh ‘Swing’ Orchestra, Lichfield Jazz All Stars, Blast Off, Lindy Hop dance workshop and a wide variety of street events.
New venues this year include a ‘Festival Hub’ based at the George 1V public house, complete with pop-up blues and jazz stage, and the Pokey Hole Blues Club, the city’s newest regular music venue.
Day Stroller tickets are available this year and there is a 15% discount on Festival tickets purchased before January 31st .
For further information on Festival bands and tickets visit: www.lichfield-jazz.co.uk
For further information visit www.lichfieldarts.org.uk book online or ring box office 01543 26223
Click here to view or download a copy of the Poster for the Lichfield Blues Festival with music patron Roy Wood and headline act Climax Blues Band.
Getting to Lichfield by train is easy .with both Lichfield City and Lichfield Trent Valley stations having regular services from Birmingham, London and the North.
For further information please contact Lichfield Arts Office: 01543 262223; info@lichfieldarts.org.uk; brenda_nicholson1@yahoo.co.uk