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Chris Hodgkins dates in August 2025
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…
Ministers have come to the rescue. Artists must seize this chance – up to a point Lord Copper
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…
More information on the review of Arts Council England and a survey questionnaire on the ACE grants application form + comment and Darren Henley’s article in the Stage
More information on the review of Arts Council England and a survey questionnaire on the ACE grants application form + comment and Darren Henley’s article in the Stage I would be grateful if you could participate in this survey. Your feedback will help The All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group submission to the Arts Council England Review. This…
An Unholy Row – Jazz in Britain and its Audience 1945 – 1960. Dave Gelly. Published by Equinox
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,…
Review of Arts Council England – Further Information – Extended Deadline
Review of Arts Council England – Further Information – Extended Deadline You cannot make this stuff up. It has just been announced that the DCMS review into the Arts Council has just extended their deadline. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought this review was being run by the Arts Council. What…
The National Youth Jazz Collective in partnership with the “Salute to Humphrey Lyttelton” band launch Create Your Tune
A key strand in the “Salute To Humphrey Lyttelton Tour” that took place from the 18th of November to the 5th of December 2021 is “Create Your Tune”. The National Youth Jazz Collective (NYJC) in partnership with the “Salute To Humphrey Lyttelton“ band are launching the scheme. This scheme is for people of any age…

