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Jazz Service

Featuring festival stars. The Very Reverend Geoffrey Marshall, Dean of Brecon, will lead the service, with Preacher Canon Brendan O'Malley. There will be a full Cathedral Choir conducted by the Director of Music, Mark Duthie. 

Jazz Parade

Please join us to fill the streets of Brecon with music and a great party atmosphere. The cavalcade is free. There will be a collection for Usk House Hospice, our charity partner.

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama & Brecon Jazz International Jazz School Performance

A showcase performance by the participants of RWCMD/Brecon Jazz Summer School to celebrate the launch of this new collaboration, investing in the international jazz talent of the future. 

Matthew Halsall

Colour Yes

A second performance from this sensational young jazz star.A gifted trumpeter with a beautiful, expressive tone, Halsall’s music draws on his love of the transcendental spiritual and modal jazz of Alice and John Coltrane. He has won himself fans from Gilles Peterson to Mojo and BBC Music Magazine. Halsall’s music is thoughtful, elegiac and explorative. But while imbued with a sense of history, the young trumpeter and DJ nevertheless brings a contemporary bounce to his beautiful music.

Acker Bilk

Brecon Jazz is pleased to welcome the great master of the clarinet, Acker Bilk. Known for his bowler hat and stripy waistcoat as well as his wonderful hits, the jazz veteran has been performing for sixty years and is still very much recognized for his unique style of clarinet playing.

Guitar Effects Workshop

UK Youth Music Workshop 3

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

Roland Chadwick, Nik Linnik, Amrit Sond Trio

Roland Chadwick and Nik Linnik present their unique brand of acoustic-shred, inspired by the legendary McLaughlin/Di Meola/De Luca guitar trio.

Bombay Baja

One of Europe’s leading Indian brass bands, creating their own unique style by combining popular Indian melodies together with the powerful rhythms of the Dhol. Based on traditional brass bands from the Indian sub-continent called Band Baja’s, they’re guaranteed to create a carnival atmosphere everywhere they go.

Keith & Julie Tippett

Couple In Spirit

Keith and Julie are acknowledged as two of the most distinctive and innovative musicians in jazz and improvised music. They have been working together in large ensembles, and have also won acclaim from the world of contemporary classical music. As they enter their fortieth year of marriage and making music together they present a concert of spontaneous composition.

Electric Drumming Sessions – Teen Workshop

UK Youth Music Workshop 4

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