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Derek Galloway’s Bunters Imperials - Jazz on a Sunday

Derek Galloway’s Bunters Imperials

Derek Galloway’s Bunters Imperials breezed into town for a cornucopia of Jazz entertainment with Galloway’s vocals very much to the fore. A last minute ‘team change’ brought in the excellent clarinet and alto sax man, Brian Legan to join Malcolm Hogarth on keyboards, John Muskett on double bass, Brian Woods on drums, and of course trombonist Galloway.

Into the first set with “Four Leaf Clover” with Galloway in good voice and going on to regale the tales

Date published: 18/03/2010

High 'Voltage' at the Brickcroft

Geoff Greenwood - Voltage

Playing together since the early 80s, Geoff Greenwood and Geoff Hollows joined forces with Alan Gill and Roger Kinder to re-launch Voltage as a gigging band for the second time in 20 years...

Date published: 06/03/2010

Peter Frank Dixieland Allstars - Jazz on a Sunday

Peter Frank Dixieland Allstars

The Peter Frank Dixieland Allstars is a band made up of bandleaders and if you thought you would find six musicians pulling in different directions, you could not be more mistaken....

Date published: 25/02/2010

Co-operative Milnrow Band

Co-operative Milnrow Band is in rehearsal for area contests to be held at The Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Sunday 14 March. Milnrow will be competing against eleven other top class bands from the North West Region. A good result here would help to ensure the bands' Championship Section status.
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Date published: 22/02/2010

Barb Jungr

It is a sign of how the Rochdale-born singer Barb Jungr’s reputation has travelled across the Atlantic that she returned to Woody Allen’s Upper East Side haunt, Café Carlyle, last week.
The Times critic Clive Davies commenting on her latest collection - The Man I Love: The New American Songbook - said: Walking a fine line between cabaret, jazz and grown-up pop, Jungr has...

Date published: 22/02/2010

Tame Valley Stompers - Jazz on a Sunday

Tame Valley Stompers

Valentine’s Day meant love was in the air, and Mayfield’s clubhouse manager Catherine’s imagination had run riot, as Jazz on a Sunday was welcomed with the tables, walls and band area...

Date published: 18/02/2010

Rochdale Music Society concert review

Music-lovers were treated to an outstanding display of ripening performance talent by three young musicians from Chetham's School of Music at Heywood Civic Centre.

16-year old trombonist Peter Moore, 13-year old violinist Callum Smart and 13-year old pianist Youanfan Yang each caught the enraptured attention of a delighted audience with highly accomplished performances....

Date published: 16/02/2010

For the love of music

Ant of The Pins - Back Door Music Project Fancy Dress Valentine's & Band Night

Heading the bill at a packed Back Door Music Project Fancy Dress Valentine's & Band Night tonight were The Pins with the Brightsparks in support and DJ James Lord spinning the...

Date published: 12/02/2010

Silver Leaf Jazz Band - Jazz on a Sunday

Silver Leaf Jazz Band

A rare visit from Barnsley’s Silver Leaf Jazz Band attracted a full house, and apart from the odd ‘hiccup’ the jazzers enjoyed an evening of musical entertainment. ...

Date published: 10/02/2010

Chicago Teddy Bears - Jazz on a Sunday

Chicago Teddy Bears at Jazz on a Sunday

The Chicago Teddy Bears Society Jazz Band have been around for a long time and always provide an evening of first class entertainment.
Led by trumpeter Kenny Doran straight into “Teddy...

Date published: 08/02/2010

Clone Roses at Studds

Gav Scott - Clone Roses

Eighties 'Madchester', indie bands aplenty but one stood out as different, deliberately, diffidently, not quite with 'the scene', The Stone Roses.
Looking back across the decades their...

Date published: 31/01/2010

New Orleans Heat - Jazz on a Sunday

New Orleans Heat at Jazz on a Sunday

New Orleans Heat are one of the most popular bands in the country, and even though three regulars were absent due to difficult illnesses a stranger would never have known.

With deputies...

Date published: 05/01/2010

Christmas concert success at cricket club

The annual Christmas concert at Milnrow Cricket Club went ahead on Sunday (20 December) and was a resounding success despite the difficulties caused by the weekend snow fall.

Frances Thewlis, manager of the Co-operative Milnrow Band, spent most of Sunday watching weather reports and contacting players to ensure none were likely to be snow bound and Musical Director John...

Date published: 22/12/2009

Sammy Rimington & Tuxedo Jazz Band - Jazz on a Sunday

Sammy Rimington & Tuxedo Jazz Band

Sammy Rimington has been entertaining Jazz aficionados with his reeds mastery since the sixties, playing all over the world, and he has been visiting the North of England for a November...

Date published: 09/12/2009

First prize for Milnrow quartet

Milnrow Junior Band recently entered its first slow melody contest at Skelmanthorpe and gained first prize for best quartet ensemble.

The group is trained and conducted by Brent Warren and is made up of Euphonium (Steven Collins), Solo cornet (James Charnock), second cornet (Thomas Harrison) and Tenor Horn (Leanne Kirkby)....

Date published: 07/12/2009

Milnrow Band enjoys weekend in Scotland

Milnrow Band enjoyed a weekend in Perth, Scotland, where they played well in a contest but could only manage 12th place overall.

The band were disappointed with result and thought they deserved better but said they had still had a great weekend away....

Date published: 02/12/2009

Millennium Eagle Jazz Band - Jazz on a Sunday

Millenium Eagle Jazz band - Jazz on a Sunday

Matt Palmer brought his Millennium Eagle Jazz band to Castleton for another evening of pure entertainment. This Midlands outfit features teenage drummer Jack Cotterill the latest in a line...

Date published: 25/11/2009

Jazz tribute to Harry Cameron

The Jazz Club lost a long standing regular with the passing of Harry Cameron in January 2009.

Harry was always happiest at Castleton, and he chose to leave his collection of Jazz books, CDs, tapes and vinyl to his friends which his brother-in-law Bob Cavanagh brought along to the gigs with the request to the enthusiasts: “Help yourselves and enjoy”. ...

Date published: 11/11/2009

Harlem Hot Stompers - Jazz on a Sunday

Harlem Hot Stompers - Jazz on a Sunday

Always popular, always well received, the Harlem Hot Stompers were back in town to entertain, and the Rochdalians are beginning to realise that ‘Jazz on a Sunday’ is the place to be! ...

Date published: 10/11/2009

The Yorkshire Stompers - Jazz on a Sunday

The Yorkshire Stompers at Jazz on a Sunday.

The Yorkshire Stompers rode into town to an enthusiastic welcome by appreciative fans. Led by veteran trumpeter (his words) Tony Smith, the band included Phil Campen on double bass due to...

Date published: 19/10/2009

Chimera Opera - Cinderella

Chimera Opera - Cinderella

The word opera means "work" in Italian (it is the plural of Latin opus meaning "work" or "labour") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and...

Date published: 08/10/2009

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