The first South Coast Jazz Festival was an unqualified success. Sell-out crowds turned out for three nights of carefully varied engaging bills, spanning vocal stars, big bands, a British bop veteran, and even some klezmer-circus-noir-swing!
Now entering into its 4th year, it remains a must-attend event on the Jazz festival calendar.
Highlights in 2018 look set to be Pete Long and The Jazz Repertory Company present ‘100 years of Jazz in 99 minutes’ featuring vocalist Georgina Jackson and an appearance by James Brown collaborator and funk master saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis to name just two.
Gwilym Simcock & Yuri Goloubev
Alexandra Ridout
The Jazz Repertory Company
Clark Tracey Quintet
Well Versed Workshop
Ian Shaw
The Kansas Smitty's Big Four
Georgina Jackson
Pete Long And The Jazz Repertory Company
Elliot Galvin Trio
Katie Beard 'Jump 'N' Jazz'
Joe Stilgoe
Liane Carrol
Pee Wee Ellis
Brotherhood of Breath and the music of Chris McGregor
The Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea.
Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, BN435EG