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Applications now open for Help Musicians’ prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award
Applications now open for Help Musicians’ prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award Today, 5 September 2022, Help Musicians open applications for its prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, offering financial support towards a musical activity and business advice to a jazz musician or band at a tipping point in their career. Now in its 32nd year, it is awarded…
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Pete Allen Jazz Band gigs for October 2023
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Memorial concert for Pete Locke and Alun Jones – Saturday 17th September 2022 at the Prince William Suite of Penarth Conservative Club, 15 Stanwell Road, Penarth at 8 pm
Keith Little is pleased to announce a very special evening of jazz to celebrate the lives of two of the greatest characters on the jazz scene in Cardiff – Pete Locke and Alun Jones, who passed away during the lockdowns. There will be music from The Riverside Jazzband and the Keith Little Hot Six on…

