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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 […]

We are excited to announce the three artists who have made it through the latest round of our mjf hothouse programme. Natalie Blooms, Jemma Freese and Helen Pillinger have all secured places on the scheme, which helps musicians develop as artists. mjf hothouse is all about working with artists on an individual basis to understand […]

Still to come at #mjf2018: Yazz Ahmed’s Electric Dreams Wednesday 25 July, Salon Perdu, Albert Square, Manchester, 8pm.  British-Bahraini singer Yazz brings her latest project to mjf 2018 on Wednesday 25 July. Using electronics, sound design, live looping and sampling, she creates free-flowing, live improvisations that explore contemporary jazz from a personal angle. Tickets and information […]

At manchester jazz festival, we know that music sounds fantastic. So we’re really pleased to announce hearing specialists Amplifon will be heading down to this year’s festival on Saturday 21 July. Amplifon’s mission is to empower people to rediscover all the textures and emotions of sound. Whether it’s protecting your hearing as an artist or […]

Each week we will be posting exclusive 60 second interviews with our 2018 Festival bands and artists. This week we are in conversation with Agbeko, to find out when Agbeko are playing mjf 2018 click here.  Name: Jamie Stockbridge Name of the Band: Agbeko Where are you/the band from? Manchester ————————————————————————————————- How did you get into music? […]

Each week we will be posting exclusive 60 second interviews with our 2018 Festival bands and artists. This week we are in conversation with Sara Colman, to find out when Sara Colman is playing mjf 2018 click here.  Name: Sara Colman Name of the Band (if you’re in a band): The Sara Colman Band Where are you/the […]

Each week we will be posting exclusive 60 second interviews with our 2018 Festival bands and artists. This week we are in conversation with Yazz Ahmed, to find out when Yazz Ahmed is playing mjf 2018 click here.  Name:  Yazz Ahmed Name of the Band (if you’re in a band): Yazz Ahmed’s Electric Dreams Where are you/the […]