Sep 20
A selection of photographers of the utterly brilliant and friendly backstage crew, Hannah, Mike, Stewart and loads of others not forgetting John Rawling, Richard, Jill, Paul and apologies for anyone I've missed!
We had a great time and hopefully made some good friends along the way.
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Jez, Tim, Dubber & Simon
Sep 20
Festival organiser Mike Gordon relaxes at the piano with jazz musicians and friends late into the night after the second day.
Sep 20
The author and poet Michael Rosen teamed up with the The Homemade Orchestra for a spoken word musical collaboration on Sunday afternoon. The hall was full with lots of families enjoying themselves. I really liked the performance, partly because my kids love the Rosen books and partly because I enjoy the spoken word/music mix; Polar Bear, Dreadlockalien, John Cooper Clarke and others.
Here are some photos of Michael and the orchestra on stage. Afterwards a bunch of young people visited us at the stagedoor where we conducted interviews to get some reaction to the performance.
Sep 18
It's beginning to get late at the Scarborough Jazz Festival. It's only the first day and I haven't really heard that much music yet. This is not because I'm disinterested but that there is so much material coming into us here at what we've called the Stagedoor that we are running just to keep up to date to make sure we capture and then upload the videos, photos, interviews, reviews and everything else inbetween.
But what I really wanted to say was that I think Tim, Dubber, Simon and I have been bowled over by the friendliness and sense of camaraderie we've encountered with other people working with and for the organisers Mike and Marian. The staff at Scarborough Spa Hall, Stuart, John and Hannah have gone out of their way to make sure we get backstage and speak to the musicians; William Ellis and Mike Jackson, outstanding photographers have been wonderful by allowing us to put their photos on this site and some of the bands have provided us with their music.
We hope we are providing you with a sense of what the festival is like and that you get a sense that music is not all about protecting what you've got and just about making money. It is about shared experiences, collaborations based on trust and mutual understanding, about a love of music, about Music As Culture.
Sep 18
I managed to get backstage after the Kyle Eastwood Band had finished. Tim managed to grab a couple of minutes with Kyle while I snapped a few photographs of the band and Kyle coming off stage and talking to a few people. Luckily for me, William Ellis was around to take some proper photographs and record Kyle's appearance at the Scarborough Festival.
