Featuring: Ed Lomax - keys; Derek Smith - drums; Mel Hatchman - bass; Lyn Fairbanks - vocals.
The Mark Lewis trio is a popular local and experienced band presenting fine music and excellent entertainment at their dinner jazz sessions. Expect to hear top jazz standards from a band influenced by George Shearing, Bill Evans, Horace Silver. This band has played all eight Ribble Valley Jazz Festivals. A lively session is in prospect with plenty of repartee with a cosy audience in the Abbey Suite. The session will be enhanced by Lyn Fairbanks’ delightful vocals!

Details soon.

Musicians can just turn up and tell the band you are there, but advance notice of tunes and the key helps (email trishferrarin@gmail.com or pjrigby40@gmail.com).  

Entertaining for musicians and audiences alike, these sessions in Holmes Mill's Engine Room are proving popular so advance table booking essential if eating.

Guests and jammers who will be instrumentalists or singers, or both, will have the chance to play with an experienced backline, sharing in the delivery of tunes, and performing one or two solos. Age and levels of experience are no barrier to having a go in a jazz jam session, especially with an experienced band lead by jazz musician and tutor, Trish Ferrarin, and there is no need for potential jammers to book a spot, just turn up on the night with your instrument, and let the band know you are there. It's helpful to let Trish Ferrarin or Paul J Rigby know your tunes in advance, and the key played in.

Jam sessions will go ahead in the Holmes Mill Engine Room where accoustics are excellent, with standing room available alongside tables that can be reserved online or via a short phone call. These sessions are being managed and programmed by Ribble Valley Jazz & Blues. They are open to all who love live music. No only that, but Thursday evenings at Bowland Brewery are ‘new beer’ nights, presenting new ales brewed on site that are sure to be popular with members of CAMRA. Real ale buffs will also be able to join Bowland Beer Club, which entitles them to discount on ales not just at Bowland Brewery, but also at other places belonging to James Places.

Promoted by The Grand and supported by Ribble Valley Jazz & Blues.

Arun Ghosh, clarinettist, composer and educator, is a leading light on UK and international jazz scenes. He captivates audiences with dynamic performances and a charismatic rock 'n' roll spirit.

He returns to The Grand to celebrate the October release of his new double album, “Sheer”, and so will features tunes from the album. Following brilliant Artist-in-Residency festival performances in 2016 Arun is reunited with P J Rigby and his BwD Big Band whose collaboration was the highlight of the Festival.

Ghosh's compositions combine South Asian raags (scales) and taals (rhythms), with the musical inspirations of his British-Asian upbringing; jazz, rock, hip-hop and dance cultures. His musical identity, infused with the sound and spirit of the blues, the bauls and the breakbeats, is at once both epoch-defying and truly global, and he has taken his sound and style around the world, performing IndoJazz concerts and delivering masterclasses from New York to China, Ukraine, Morocco, Kenya, Kuwait and across Europe.

Revealing an 'indie-kid' Northern musical upbringing, the new material marks Ghosh's move away from his trademark Indo Jazz sound towards more song-like structures and psychedelic textures.  Alice Coltrane meets The Doors, Spiritualized and The Velvet Underground. Propelled by a hard driving rhythm section, and supported by the multi-layered guitar of Shirley Tetteh, Ghosh's celebrated lyricism, melodic outpourings and freewheeling improvisations become passionate and intensely emotional 'songs without words'.

Described by the late Pandit Ravi Shankar as a 'natural born improviser', Ghosh is a renowned innovator of the modern IndoJazz style. He has released three critically acclaimed albums on camoci records: Northern Namaste (2008), Primal Odyssey (2011), and A South Asian Suite (2013), a personal musical homage to both his beloved North of England and the Indian Subcontinent.

BwD Big Band directed by P J Rigby. (Apparently not to be confused with the "Blackburn with Darwen Big Band" as in The Grand brochure!)

Line-up: Arun Ghosh - clarinet; Chris Williams - alto saxophone; Dave Walsh - drums; Shirley Tetteh - guitar; Liran Donin - bass.

"Uproarious and irresistible"  Daily Telegraph.

"Life-affirming music that transcends cultural barriers" Manchester Evening News.

"An upfront mix of South Asian melodies and western street-groove" The Guardian.

"Extraordinary charisma and musicianship and a consistently riveting compositional skill" Jazzwise.

soundcloud.com/arunghosh

www.bwdbigband.co.uk

Featuring: Professor Stuart Hampton Reeves - guitar; Paul Murphy - rhythm guitar; John Wilton - double bass; James Goodwin-Hudson - lead guitar
Shades of Django Quartet leader, Stuart Hampton-Reeves, presented an illustrated performance celebrating the music of the legendary Django Reinhardt at Ribble Valley Jazz Festival in May. So well was it received that the band that specialises in Hot-Club style gypsy jazz has been invited to play some of Django’s memorable tunes at the Spread Eagle. Django’s music fused American Swing, classical music & gypsy music creating a unique sound. Don’t miss this performance.

Musicians can just turn up and tell the band you are there, but advance notice of tunes and the key helps (email trishferrarin@gmail.com or pjrigby40@gmail.com).  

Entertaining for musicians and audiences alike, these sessions in Holmes Mill's Engine Room are proving popular so advance table booking essential if eating.

Guests and jammers who will be instrumentalists or singers, or both, will have the chance to play with an experienced backline, sharing in the delivery of tunes, and performing one or two solos. Age and levels of experience are no barrier to having a go in a jazz jam session, especially with an experienced band lead by jazz musician and tutor, Trish Ferrarin, and there is no need for potential jammers to book a spot, just turn up on the night with your instrument, and let the band know you are there. It's helpful to let Trish Ferrarin or Paul J Rigby know your tunes in advance, and the key played in.

Jam sessions will go ahead in the Holmes Mill Engine Room where accoustics are excellent, with standing room available alongside tables that can be reserved online or via a short phone call. These sessions are being managed and programmed by Ribble Valley Jazz & Blues. They are open to all who love live music. No only that, but Thursday evenings at Bowland Brewery are ‘new beer’ nights, presenting new ales brewed on site that are sure to be popular with members of CAMRA. Real ale buffs will also be able to join Bowland Beer Club, which entitles them to discount on ales not just at Bowland Brewery, but also at other places belonging to James Places.

Featuring: Paul Rigby - Band Director & Leader of Northern Jazz Orchestra.   
Ribble Valley Jazz Collective has been presenting a fine portfolio of famous big band tunes to audiences across East Lancashire to splendid applause! The band returns to the Spread Eagle for a Christmas Special which will give you a rousing and entertaining performance, laced with solos, and likely to include renditions of Tuxedo Junction and Mack the Knife. Reserve a table for afternoon dinner and jazz in good time. The band’s performance last Christmas was fully booked.

Details soon.

Musicians can just turn up and tell the band you are there, but advance notice of tunes and the key helps (email trishferrarin@gmail.com or pjrigby40@gmail.com).  

Entertaining for musicians and audiences alike, these sessions in Holmes Mill's Engine Room are proving popular so advance table booking essential if eating.

Guests and jammers who will be instrumentalists or singers, or both, will have the chance to play with an experienced backline, sharing in the delivery of tunes, and performing one or two solos. Age and levels of experience are no barrier to having a go in a jazz jam session, especially with an experienced band lead by jazz musician and tutor, Trish Ferrarin, and there is no need for potential jammers to book a spot, just turn up on the night with your instrument, and let the band know you are there. It's helpful to let Trish Ferrarin or Paul J Rigby know your tunes in advance, and the key played in.

Jam sessions will go ahead in the Holmes Mill Engine Room where accoustics are excellent, with standing room available alongside tables that can be reserved online or via a short phone call. These sessions are being managed and programmed by Ribble Valley Jazz & Blues. They are open to all who love live music. No only that, but Thursday evenings at Bowland Brewery are ‘new beer’ nights, presenting new ales brewed on site that are sure to be popular with members of CAMRA. Real ale buffs will also be able to join Bowland Beer Club, which entitles them to discount on ales not just at Bowland Brewery, but also at other places belonging to James Places.