What is wrong with UK jazz festivals?
2009 July 5
The LondonJazz blog has again delivered the right kind of goods with this guest piece by Peter Slavid.
Looks worthy of wide distribution, so in case you didn’t see it at Sebastian Scotney’s blog, here is the intro. Just follow the link below it.
What is wrong with UK jazz festivals, and could a few good ones expand the audience?
Although my first love is modern jazz, I also listen to a lot of other styles of music and I attend a lot of music festivals. I’ve just come back from helping out at a hugely successful folk festival in Yorkshire, a hall with 1000 people all weekend, a marquee with 300, and several other small venues. And then I watched some of Glastonbury on TV. And it has all caused me to wonder…..
via LondonJazz.
