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Mostly Jazz 2011 kicks off today!

1 July 2011

The second Mostly Jazz festival kicks off today! We hope you can join us for  what promises to be a sunny weekend of jazz, funk and soul from the likes of Booker T, Matthew Herbert Big Band, The Cinematic Orchestra, Dele Sosimi, Pigbag, Gilles Peterson and many many more!

We are stopping online and Ticketsellers sales at 10am this morning. From then on you can buy tickets on the door or through our outlets. Info on door prices and outlets here.

We hope to see you over the weekend!

Festival extras

24 June 2011

There’s only a week to go until the second Mostly Jazz Festival! As well as music from Booker T, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Matthew Herbert Big Band, Dele Sosimi, Pigbag and Brandt Brauer Frick (and many many more!) there will be loads of other things to do while you are at the festival. There will be question & answer sessions with Matthew Herbert, Pigbag and Dele Sosimi, film screenings, spoken word performance and kids entertainment.

We’ve carefully selected our caterers to bring you the best selection of fine festival food. You’ll be able to choose from freshly smoked fish, organic roast pig, tasty falafels, poached rabbit and cajun fish. To accompany your meal and the music Purity Brewery are providing their range of fine ales, lagers and ciders. Yum :)

Full line up announced

5 April 2011

The full line up for 2011′s Mostly Jazz Festival is now up! We are also very excited that this year the festival will take place over three days from 1-3 July.

This year’s headline acts include Booker T, Matthew Herbert Big Band and The Cinematic Orchestra with DJ sets and after-parties from Gilles Peterson and Craig Charles’ Funk & Soul Club. This year we have also teamed up again with Birmingham’s finest promoters Leftfoot, Birmingham Jazz & Yardbird to bring you this stellar line up. Check out the full festival line up here.

Please keep an eye on the blog for updates. You can also follow us @mostly_jazz and  on Facebook.