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July 10th - 17th 2010 Twenty five years, a ‘milestone’ that we in Wigan are proud to have reached!
Looking back to 1985 it
was the popularity of jazz and big band music generated locally by the Wigan
Youth Jazz Orchestra, along with the formation of Wigan Jazz Club that
set the seed in our minds for an International Jazz Festival in Wigan.
Initially planned over an after-work drink in a local pub and taking
less than six months to arrange, the first festival was staged in July
1986. Celebrity concert No.1 at the first festival featured the amazing Paquito D’Rivera Quintet who entertained a sell out Mill at the Pier
audience and resulted in people jumping and dancing in the aisles. That
concert well and truly set the scene and the standard for all to follow,
since which time some of the greatest names in jazz have appeared at the
festival. These have included to name a few Art Blakey, Horace Silver,
Michael Brecker, Maynard Ferguson, Bobby Shew, Kenny Baker and James
Morrison...Read
more  Dr Ian Darrington MBE Director of the Wigan international Jazz Festival (1986 - 2010) |
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