Buxton International Festival has announced its 2025 jazz line-up – and the popular Jazz Weekender tickets have gone on sale, granting access to all jazz events during the festival’s opening weekend, 10-13 July inclusive, for a discounted price of £175.
On Thursday, 10 July, both Belgian vocalist Ineza and her quartet, and violin virtuoso Graham Clark and his quartet will star.
On Friday, 11 July, the Emily Masser Quartet, featuring Alex Clarke, will be on stage between 12noon-1.30pm; Trio JDM will perform between 2.30-4pm; Baiana, featuring Snowboy, will be on stage between 8-9.30pm; and Butcher’s Brew will play jazz, funk, blue note and Latin from 10.30pm to late.
On Saturday, 12 July, Alan Barnes presents ‘A Celebration of Art Pepper’s Centenary’ between 1-3.30pm; the Dean Stockdale Quartet with strings presents ‘100 Years of Oscar Peterson’, plus special guests Alan Barnes, Mark Armstrong and Emily Masser, at the Pavilion Arts Centre, between 7-9.30pm; and the Emma Rawicz Quartet will perform at the Palace from 10pm to late.
On Sunday, 13 July, Dodeka will perform 1-2.30pm; Xhosa Cole Quartet presents Freemonk at the Palace, 4-6pm; Georgina Jackson’s ‘Sass and Brass’ with her Mighty Mini Big Band will be on stage from 8-9.30pm.
Support for Derbyshire Makes
A PLACE PARTNERSHIP award of £780,000 from Arts Council England has been secured by Derbyshire County Council to support Derbyshire Makes, a major new programme of countywide cultural activity.
This three-year programme will celebrate making in all its forms and shine a spotlight on the county’s extraordinary creative and cultural industries.
Inspired by the county’s significant manufacturing heritage, its unique landscape and the artists, craftspeople, designers and manufacturers who call Derbyshire their home, Derbyshire Makes will explore innovation, creativity, design, craft, skills and manufacturing.
It will provide hands-on making opportunities for residents, creative projects for local schoolchildren and volunteering opportunities, as well as paid opportunities for local artists and creative businesses.
Activities will include walks, talks, exhibitions, events, markets, hands-on workshops, a major digital commission, an annual festival and so much more. Touring activity will take place on the Museum of Making’s Makory mobile bus.
Coun Barry Lewis, leader of Derbyshire County Council, said: “Derbyshire has a proud history of making, from textiles produced at Arkwright’s cotton mills in Cromford – the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution – to sweet treats such as our famous Bakewell pudding; pottery thrown at Denby; and even design innovation at global engineering giants Rolls-Royce and Toyota.
“Making, creativity and culture helps to bring communities together, animate high streets, boost the local economy including tourism, safeguard traditional skills and crafts and support local creative businesses.”
Derbyshire-based agencies Local and Arts Derbyshire will deliver this ambitious programme on the council’s behalf. Arts Derbyshire will coordinate a programme of free, hands-on making activities across six community hubs in Bolsover, Swadlincote, Glossop, Chesterfield, Heanor and Matlock/Cromford/Wirksworth. Local, which is based in Glossop, will stage an annual four-week spring festival.
In addition to the £780,000 award from Arts Council England, funding was ring-fenced for Derbyshire Makes from Covid Recovery funding.
More details will be announced later, including how to get involved.