mjf @ First Street: Moore & Fairhall

mjf @ First Street (HOME Stage)

First Street, HOME Stage

1.45pm – 2.30pm & 3.15pm – 4pm / Moore & Fairhall

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Moore & Fairhall

Olivia Moore violin / Adam Fairhall accordion

Moore & Fairhall bring together Indian ragas, American folk, and jazz from all eras, resulting in music that is lyrical, passionate and highly rhythmic. Adam and Olivia met when they were selected for Edition VI of Serious’ prestigious ‘Take Five’ Artist Development Scheme, and this duo is the result of their shared interest in a jazz approach to folk and world traditions. Since late 2020, Olivia has returned to her Indian Music Studies with her guru Kala Ramnath both in India and over Zoom and in this duo, she finds a way to express this side of her playing. Over the past several years Adam has been working intensely on his accordion playing to get closer to the folk and roots music which has always informed his approach. The result is an accordion style that incorporates ostinato bass lines, innovative rhythmic bellow techniques and free-flowing melodic improvisation. Although they are a new duo, they have performed already to a packed and appreciative audience at Manchester’s Matt & Phred’s Jazz Club and at the Cloudwater Brewery in Piccadilly. It is their aim for the audience to feel energised, invigorated and inspired from their performance.

Date: sunday 21 may

Time: 1:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Price: Free

mjf @ First Street: Aaron Wood & James Girling and Gary Washington Quartet

mjf @ First Street (HOME Stage)

First Street, HOME Stage

12.30pm – 1.10pm & 2.10pm – 3pm / Aaron Wood & James Girling
4.30pm – 5.15pm & 6.45pm – 7.30pm / Gary Washington Quartet

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Aaron Wood & James Girling

James Girling nylon-string guitar / Aaron Wood trumpet, flugelhorn

Jazz North alumni having formerly co-led Artephis, in-demand trumpeter/producer Aaron Wood and award-winning classical guitarist/improviser James Girling share a 7-year history of close collaboration together. Emerging from the pandemic newly reconnected in an acoustic pairing, influences span Black American Music, Brazilian, flamenco and classical styles; their enticing arrangements and intimate compositions are imbued with empathic sensitivity and swing. They handpick a gamut of material, as likely to be drawn from cult film scores of Herbie Hancock and Jobim as from a Puccini opera or Romantic piano concerto, co-imagined anew. As improvisers and composers, in this setting Wood and Girling find modern-day inspiration in trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire and Laura Jurd, and nylon-string guitarists Nelson Veras and Fabiano do Nascimento. Together they have been described by Jazzwise as “Rising stars” and by The Jazz Mann as “both seriously talented writers [and] highly fluent soloists”. Music they have written together has been awarded the Sir John Manduell Prize, selected as a BBC Introducing highlight of the year and praised by Jamie Cullum on Radio 2: “made me move, made me think, gave me all the feels.”

Gary Washington Quartet

Gary Washington cello / Andrzej Baranek keyboard / Dave Tompkins double bass / Griffith Rees drums

Gary is a cellist and composer who writes music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, leads a band that plays original music, and has carved out a unique identity with his solo playing and beatboxing as The Urban Cellist. He is native to the USA and New Orleans is his musical home in the states. As such, the heritage of New Orleans has a huge influence on his playing, even though he is now based in the UK, between London and Manchester.

Date: saturday 20 may

Time: 12:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Price: Free

mjf @ First Street: Good Habits

mjf @ First Street (HOME Stage)

First Street, HOME Stage

7.30pm – 8.30pm / Good Habits

Tickets: FREE entry to all events

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Good Habits

Bonnie Schwarz cello / Peter Shaw accordion

Good Habits are an alternative-folk band forged on the other side of the globe. Bonnie and Pete, met as music students in Manchester and wanted to travel with music and tour to New Zealand – where they became stranded due to covid and toured full-time for 2+ years. Their music is a meeting of folk and jazz, as their eclectic musical backgrounds and unique instrumental combination fuse together into narrative-led songwriting, tune arranging, and improvisation. Whilst leaning into jazz exploration, their individual style combines influences of Klezmer and other Eastern European traditions to explore the spaces shared by folk and jazz.

Date: friday 19 may

Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Price: Free