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Marc Cecil’s Rhythm Connections 1

Community Drum Circle

Come and join the Rhythm Connections Community Drum Circle. This is a friendly family event where no previous musical experience is required and non-musicians and enthusiasts will have the chance to be part of a large scale musical event creating in-the-moment rhythmical music together.

Scott Hamilton, Rossano Sportiello, Dave Green, Steve Brown Quartet

Scott Hamilton, the treasured American saxophonist, and Italy’s top pianist Sportiello join forces with Britain’s top rhythm section, Dave Green and Steve Brown. The quartet are firm favourites on the British jazz scene and are true international jazz stars. Their unique individual qualities combine to produce an engaging performance. 

Sponsored by Friends of Brecon Jazz

Robert Castelli Boom Quartet

Since his performances at London’s Pizza Express in 2009, the response from critics and audiences alike has been overwhelming for the NY drummer. His band includes the cream of the UK Jazz scene who perform with energy to produce this musically interesting and exciting live performance. 

Marc Cecil’s Rhythm Connections 2

Community Drum Circle

Come and join the Rhythm Connections Community Drum Circle. This is a friendly family event where no previous musical experience is required and non-musicians and enthusiasts will have the chance to be part of a large-scale musical event creating in-the-moment rhythmical music together.

Rock Riffs Guitar Workshop

UK Youth Music Workshop 1

A series of electric and acoustic sessions for teens, by teens. Get hands-on and develop essential music-making skills. 

Supported by Roland (Education UK) Ltd

Kairos 4tet

Kairos Moments

A second performance from this exciting young quartet. Adam Waldmann’s Kairos 4tet has certainly been turning heads with its gimmick-free alignment to the true qualities of acoustic jazz.Kairos Moment, the compelling debut album, mixes wistful, delicate tunes with busting vigour, generous melodic improvisation and ferocious grooves. Jazzwise Magazine cites Waldmann as one of their ‘favourite discoveries of 2009’.

John Crampton

A One-man Blues explosion!

‘You can practically fry eggs on the man as he radiates energy into the room. His gravel-gargling voice is a perfect compliment to his 1930s National steel guitar, banjo, harmonica and footboard. The sound he produces has astonishing depth.’ Bill Grainger.

Beat Matching Workshop

UK Youth Music Workshop 2

A series of electric and acoustic sessions for teens, by teens. Get hands-on and develop essential music-making skills. 

Supported by Roland (Education UK) Ltd

Tribute to Tubby Hayes

Marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of British jazz legend Tubby Hayes, tenor saxophonists Simon Spillett and Dave Bishop have put together a tribute concert, which not only reunites much of this music for the first time in over forty years, but also brings together a suitably stellar cast of today’s British jazz heavyweights to what promises to be a truly roof-raising performance. 

Sponsored by Friends of Brecon Jazz

Brass Jaw

This feisty four piece are truly unique in sound and direction. Energetic in their approach, Brass Jaw’s concerts are characterised by the band’s trademark momentum, drive and charisma, and their notoriety for providing a unique and engaging live music experience has grown rapidly.