Month: November 2018
The first tickets are now on sale for the 24th Manchester Jazz Festival, as the city’s longest running music festival returns with a new look. mjf 2019 heads back to the city from May 23 – 27. Along with a change of date, the main festival hub will now run the length of St Ann’s […]
We are pleased to announce the first performance project of mjf 2019 NORTHERN is a new jazz project developed by Maja Bugge in collaboration with field recordist Hervé Perez and video artist Adam York Gregory. During 2018 -19 the artists will undertake residencies in Lancaster, Barrow and Manchester exploring the sonic and visual identity of […]
Manchester jazz festival has been awarded GMCA Culture and Social Impact fund portfolio status for the period 2018 – 2020 . The GMCA Culture and Social Impact fund will allow us to build on mjf introduces, the strand of our work that champions emerging talent. As mjf introduces celebrates its landmark 10th anniversary, we now […]
mjf is the first UK jazz festival to be named a Keychange Associate, pledging a 50/50 gender balance in all our programming. For 23 years, manchester jazz festival has championed and been firm advocates of women in music through the festival programme and our special projects. We are proud to say we have consistently offered […]