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Pete Allen Newsletter November 2023  Welcome to November’s newsletter. If you know of anyone who would like to receive the newsletter please ask them to drop me line at allenpete886@gmail.com I will add them to the list. I am also working on the marketing of the gig at the Pizza Express on the 4th December 2023  – details below…

An excellent article in June’s edition of Jazzwise by Andy Robson. NYJO are celebrating fifty years. They used to say life begins at forty but in this case,  life roars ahead at fifty. Congratulations to Bill Ashton, Nigel Tully, Jack Fallow, Mark Armstrong and the rest of the NYJO team.

Saturday 9th August Snails Deli at 6-8 Beulah Rd, Cardiff CF14 6LX.  Phone: 029 2280 0385 Showtime 7pm Featuring: Keith Little (piano), Glen Manby (alto sax) Ashley John Long (double bass) with Chris Hodgkins (trumpet) Sunday 10th August Crug Room, Castle Hotel, Castle Square, Brecon LD3 9DB Phone: 01874 624611 Showtime 7pm Featuring: James Chadwick (guitar)  with Chris Hodgkins (trumpet) ‘JAZZ STORIES’ in words & sound: from the Cardiff music scene…

Joshua Reynolds when he returned from his painter’s apprenticeship in Rome picked up a copy of Samuel Johnson’s biography of Richard Savage and read it “while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney-piece. It seized his attention so strongly, that, not being able to lay down the book until he had finished,…

The leader article, “Ministers have come to the rescue. Artists must seize this chance” in the Guardian on the 2nd June (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/06/the-guardian-view-on-15bn-for-the-arts-the-shows-will-go-on) sounds reasonable till you analyse the Arts Council’s 10 year strategy “Lets Create”. “Let’s Create” reads as if written by people remote from the practical issues  which the arts face every day and…

Pete Allen Newsletter February 2024 Welcome to the Pete Allen Newsletter.  Pete Allen’s gigs Special guests Thomas ‘Spats’ Langham and Trevor Whiting are appearing with the Pete Allen Band in Newbury and in Sidmouth. Sunday 4th February – The Bacon Arms, Oxford Street, Newbury, RG14 1JB. 2.30 pm to 5 pm.  Admission is £17.50 at the…