Friday 9th July, 8.00pm to 10.30pm - John Shillito Select Six

I love to share the enjoyment and pleasure jazz has brought me for over 55 years and to communicate with audiences (listeners and dancers) and I have never been happier than playing with the groups I front today - the Select Four and Select Six. They really are two first rate bands - super musicians and great guys and friends!   You can hear that our music comes out of New Orleans - but we play it our way - and that gives us a great deal of satisfaction pleasure and pride.

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Saturday 10th July, 1.00pm to 3.30pm - Pete Canter Quartet

Fine tenor sax player with a great sound and a hard-swinging and extremely talented rhythm section. Expect a choice set of bebop, hardbop, latin-jazz and dramatic ballads spiced up with Pete's contemporary originals.

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Saturday 10th July, 8.00pm to 10.30pm - From America, Greg Abate

Greg Abate is a jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer. In the mid 70’s after finishing a four year program at Berklee College Of Music, Greg played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra for 2 years. In 1978 Greg formed his group Channel One which was a favourite in the New England area and from there had the opportunity to play tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under leadership of Dick Johnson from 1986 to ’87.

Since then Greg has toured extensively and recorded in the States and Europe and was nominated for a Grammy in four categories for his 2004 recording 'Evolution.'

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Friday 13th August, 8.00pm to 10.30pm - Tony Oreshko Jazz Guitar Trio

Guitarist Tony Oreshko appears regularly at major festivals in the UK and Europe, and has worked with many top jazz musicians such as John Etheridge and Alan Barnes. The trio's melodic style is rooted in the legacy of Django Reinhardt, but goes much further, taking in a wide variety of music that includes traditional gypsy tunes, classical music, French musettes and Latin American music, as well as a core of popular jazz standards. The trio is completed by dynamic young rhythm guitarist Glen Hawkins, and by Doug Kyle on double bass.

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Friday 10th September, 8.00pm to 10.30pm - Maggie Reeday

Maggie Reeday has had a long and varied career, starting off as a resident singer in a local band. Later she was to appear in a succession of TV shows for ITV with stars such as Paul Daniels and Jim Davidson, more recently an 8 week slot on ITV’s “Langsford Late “show. Maggie maintains that the highlight of her carer was a royal command appearance at the London Palladium, attended by HM the Queen Mother. More recently Maggie has been taking the country by storm with her Jazz concerts, and has had rave reviews of her CD  “World on a string” plus, more recently the follow up CD ”Fire and Rain”.