The Walsall Jazz Orchestra have become one of the leading big bands in the area, taking in some of the most talented musicians and producing concerts that blend advanced music-making skills with an audience friendly style.
Singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie was in good form when she led her talented quartet through a concert of her own songs at the Lichfield Arts Blues and Jazz Festival.
With a career playing in a number of genres, with some seriously heavyweight musicians, the leading jazz and experimental saxophonist and flute player Theo Travis led his talented ensemble through a set of original music and choice covers.
With a set list that ranged from African High Life music to space jazz, the leading trombonist and composer Annie Whitehead led her talented quartet through an exciting afternoon of music when she appeared at the Lichfield Arts Blues and Jazz Festival.
A stage filled with guitars and a room full of people meant that jazz musician Remi Harris’s gig at Lichfield’s George Hotel was a very special evening for music fans.
The acclaimed singer and multi-instrumental Miranda Sykes cast a musical spell over an attentive audience when she appeared at Lichfield Guildhall as part of her Borrowed Places tour.
A near-capacity Easter Sunday crowd saw one of the sharpest blues outfits on the national circuit when the Climax Blues Band performed at Lichfield Guildhall as part of their 50th anniversary tour.
Lichfield Cathedral was filled with talented local musicians when Lichfield Cathedral Chorus, four classical singers, and The Darwin Ensemble Chamber Orchestra convened to perform Antonin Dvorak’s Stabat Mater.
Seven of the best known musicians on the British live instrumental and folk music circuit convened to play at Lichfield Guildhall as part of their Eccentric Orbits tour.
In the 12 years since winning Young Musician of the Year, Nicola Benedetti has built up an impressive career playing some of the most technically demanding concertos with some of the best orchestras in the world, so this was a rare opportunity to hear her playing solo with the Gariel Stradivarius.
Sometimes when a musician has been a leading figure in popular culture it is easy to over-look the range of their output, how many stylistic bases they covered, the ease with which they jumped from genre to genre, until it is shown in a different light – and that was the case with this concert.
The fast-rising folk-rock band False Lights launched their latest album Harmonograph when they played at Lichfield Guildhall as part of their latest tour.
