Leeds Jazz Festival 2023 - first names announced.
Thursday, February 02, 2023
The first names have been announced for Leeds Jazz Festival, which will take place at various venues around the city from 25th - 30th May 2023. Press release attached.
We have received the following press release;
Leeds Jazz Festival returns from 25th - 30th May 2023
Celebrating Jazz+ across the city
Leeds Jazz Festival returns for its second year from 25 - 30 May 2023, following the inaugural festival between 1st and 12th June 2022. The event aims to unite and celebrate the musicians, venues, promoters, audiences and organisations who are part of the Leeds Jazz tapestry - whilst showcasing the best of local, national and international music.
The first events announced for the 2023 festival include Rokia Koné at Howard Assembly Room, World Island presents: Headlined and Curated by Gilles Peterson as part of
Belgrave Music Hall’s 10 year anniversary celebrations, Soft Machine at City Varieties, Mica Millar at The Wardrobe, Matt Anderson Quartet at HEART, PYJÆN at Brudenell Social Club, Vipertime Album Launch and Hyde Park Jazz Club presents John Cage’s Indeterminacy at Hyde Park Book Club, Snazzback at The Domino, DJ Lubi & Sunday Joint Presents: Grifton Forbes Amos at The HiFi Club and a film screening of Shove It: The Xero Slingsby Story at SevenArts.
Tickets for the first events are on sale now, with further details available through the Leeds Jazz Festival website. Follow @leedsjazzfest on social media, for the latest updates and announcements as the programme develops.
The Festival Coordinator, Ash Doherty says;
“We’re delighted to announce the initial events as part of Leeds Jazz Festival 2023! More events will be announced over the coming months, featuring a full array of partners and some exciting festival developments and new partnerships, representing the wide diversity of Jazz in the city; from trad jazz and contemporary jazz through
free and experimental jazz, to the DIY, punky, spiky end of the jazz sphere and the music forms influenced by jazz such as hip hop, R&B and electronic music. You can expect to see the return of a certain free, outdoor stage in the city centre too”.
Leeds Jazz Festival is produced by a city-wide network of partners, representing venues, programmers, musicians and more, coordinated by Music:Leeds and supported by Split Design, arts@leeds, Leeds City Council, LeedsBID, Leeds 2023 and bcausam. We look forward to welcoming you back to Leeds this May for some fantastic events in the second city of jazz in the UK.
https://www.leedsjazzfestival.com/
About Music:Leeds
Music:Leeds act as a single, centralised point of contact that will coordinate activity to support, promote, develop and grow music-based activity within the city and wider region, across any level, medium, genre or pathway. We established Launchpad in 2019, an emerging talent development program that offers opportunities and support for emerging artists, musicians, producers, bands, composers and music professionals throughout the Yorkshire region. In 2020, as we began to work across a wider area, we launched Music Local to support and develop place-based music support systems and infrastructures, tailored to the needs of individual music communities beyond it’s hometown.
About LEEDS 2023
LEEDS 2023’s ambition is to deliver a transformational year of creative experiences connecting and benefiting people now and into the future. The planned programme will celebrate and transform the City’s identity locally, nationally and internationally – creating a lasting legacy of economic and social impact.
LEEDS 2023 is run by the Leeds Culture Trust, an independent charity set up in 2019 by Leeds City Council as part of its Culture Strategy and as a response to the cancellation of the UK’s participation in the European Capital of Culture competition.
Leeds City Council recognises in a number of its key strategies the difference culture and creativity can make to a city and its citizens, and is the principal funder of LEEDS 2023.
http://www.leeds2023.co.uk
LEEDS 2023 is supported by Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players for making this possible.