Good Tuesday bloggers. And as I write, a nice bright sunny morning.
First a bit of the not nice news.
As I have been hinting these past few months in this blog, Hedsor Jazz at a £10 entry fee hasn’t been paying its way. Even with an attendance of 20 people per week (and often we have had less paying entrants) we have been loosing money every week.
So sadly, from October we are putting our entry fee up to £12 per week. Yes, it does mean coinage, as we do only take cash at the door and it will be inconvenient, but we didn’t want to increase our charge to £15 (easier to handle notes!) for a weekly event. If there are 2 of you, we thought the increase would be just too much. Even at £12 per week, if we only get 20 paying attendees, we wont make enough money to pay our way, but it will go some way in helping us keep going.
We don’t intend to drop the quality of the music, I think what we get at Hedsor is amazing.
We still aim to have quality names like Bruce Adams and Art Themen (both together at Hedsor Jazz on October 16th) amongst our guest list, and unless we can have a really interesting smaller band (like Alan Barnes and Dave Newton as in August) we intend to have a Quintet to provide the music (usually 2 at the front and 3 at the back!!). If you are a Jazz Angel (a monthly subscriber) you may want to adjust your gift to compensate. We hope you wont, but we realise that you can, and may need to in these difficult (especially for those of us on a pension) times.
So having got that bit of unpleasantness off my chest (of drawers?) look who we have coming this Thursday, September 25th. On reeds multifarious, Sue Greenway from Oxfordshire, and on trumpet, ex Chris Barber, Pete Rudeforth. They are the 2 at the front, and included in the 3 at the back we will have on keyboard our musical director Ken McCarthy. We look forward then to a truly great evening, provided to us by well known and experienced musicians.
If you haven’t been recently why not give us another try. 8pm till 10.30pm with a ½ hour break for conversation at 9.30pm. Free car parking, club bar prices.
For our first £12 evening on October 2nd we will have two favourites of ours at the front, Stuart Henderson on trumpet and Alam Nathoo on reeds.
Sadly (for more than one reason) I was unable to attend Hedsor Jazz last week, but Tracy (the lady near the front who takes your money) I have a couple of photos from the night. I am told by our musical director that it was one of the best nights we have had this year! I’m literally gutted that I wasn’t there!
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| Stuart Barker |
You will note that Matt Hill appears to be much younger than the picture of him in last weeks blog! Two trumpet players with the same name! The one above is the one we had!!
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