by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Birmingham-based Hot Club of France devotees, Playing Django, have recently settled in to a new Monday night venue, De La Vies in Harborne after 15 years at La Bastile in the city centre and the Dark Horse at Moseley. Catch them at the following times and...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Formed in 2013 by singer/harmonica player Ricky Cool, the In Crowd mix rhythm and blues with Jamaican genres such as blue beat, ska and reggae. This is no nostalgia trip: the music is as relevant and exciting as ever, with sharp showmanship to the fore in...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Song stylist Roy Forbes’ vocal style is, as Jazz UK expressed it, ‘infused with the warmth of his own personality.’ His smooth treatment of the Great American Songbook has seen him acclaimed at festivals as far apart as Milan, Marbella and St. Lucia as well as in his...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Roy Forbes is renowned as a smoothly dynamic singer of the Great American Songbook, but, as Covid struck, he decided to visit the origins of this music in the blues of T-Bone Walker, Gatemouth Brown, Bobby Bland, Albert Collins and Freddy King. So he got together a...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Formed 15 years ago by Sarah, one of the finest voices on the scene, and songwriter Nick Lyndon, the Sarah Warren Band is steeped in the bluesy country rock that never goes away. In 2022 the band re-formed, with only Sarah and Nick remaining, and the new band is...
