A Day of Django

Celebrating the life and music of Django Reinhardt with live concert performances from living legends of Gypsy Jazz

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Introduction and interviews:

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the Robin Nolan Trio with the amazing Jimmy Rosenberg: 

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Romane with Daniel John Martin:

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Ultrafaux led by Michael Joseph Harris with special guest Jason Anick:

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Balconi

Improvised music performance by Cold Bath Street, premier of the film from footage recorded at the Harris Museum using binaural microphones for enhanced headphone playback.

Watch the teaser here: 

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or see more on the X-Periments In Sound Youtube Channel

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Queen Conference 

The World's First Academic Conference Looking at the QUEEN Phenomenon, 

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Part 1 Academic Papers:

Part 2 Interviews with Tim Staffell, Phil Hilborne, Simon Bradley and the Collectors:

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Harvey Brittain Presents 

Music and talk from Harvey Brittain and two of Preston's up and coming artists:

What Is Your Jazz?

IMPROV - INCIDENT AT BROOKFIELD 2021

An exploration of how jazz permeates (or doesn't) into people's everyday lives and how musical improvisation relates to everyday survival:

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The Toolshed Chronicles - A Short Film

Graham Massey's Toolshed Project has been running for 24 years. Taking electronic music as a starting point and handing it overtook a rotating cast of improvisors, the film documents the band coming out of lockdown, introducing a new collaboration with Shunya and talking about the evolving North West music scene whilst looking back over the decades to the results of previous experiments:

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Jazzin' the Park 

Featuring exclusive live performances including Pat Thomas, Myele Manzanza, Jermaine Peterson and the Jazzin' the park resident DJs:

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16 May -
5 June


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