Jazz North East: Women Make Music

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Jazz North East Present Women Make Music

A concert and workshop series for 2015 dedicated to contemporary Women in Jazz and Free Improvisational Composition.

Jazz North East has a strong reputation for booking and promoting progressive, contemporary Jazz music. The Women Make Music concert and Workshop series is no exception to this and aims to explore the dynamic range of contemporary Jazz styles with new compositions and group combinations directed by a female leads, this includes new groupings being put together specifically for this project with the intention to highlight the creative role of women in jazz.

Established in 1966 as the UK’s first ever grant-supported jazz promoter, Jazz North East has consistently brought the best of national and international artists to the North East of England. But what marks the organization out is a refusal to play it safe in the programming, with a dedication to offering the whole diverse and developing range of jazz.

With the valuable PRS Women Make Music funding support Jazz North East has the opportunity to stage a programme of varied styles in which to bring female Jazz instrumentalists and vocalists out of the margins. The programme runs over the first half of the year 2015 including International Women’s Day on the 8th March.

By incorporating both workshops and concerts the aim is to highlight female musicians, performers and composers as role models through both performance and instruction, with female lead performances also affirming that support for new music is available to women from organizations such as PRSF.