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Dai Cula, Black RAT, Blackwood Miners’ Institute
***** Black RAT Productions have always had a knack for creating comedy gold and with Dai Cula, their latest touring...
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Shirley Smart Trio at Abergavenny
**** Cellist Shirley Smart has helped extend the number of unusual instruments that find a home in jazz, but she...
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Sarah Meek & the BMJ Collective at Abergavenny
Jazz singing is the art that often beguiles with the idea that complexity is easy to deliver by substituting manner...
News/ Newyddion
Black Mountain Jazz virtual festival at Abergavenny
Lockdown has seen many UK jazz musicians struggling. But in Monmouthshire they’ve been paid their full fee at a ‘virtual’...
Music
Tommaso Starace Quartet at Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny
Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in...
Music
Tristan, Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny
A healthy musical culture is one that never leaves its historical achievements behind as though they counted for nothing. At...
Visiting Theatre
Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny
There’s a sense in which the current Brecon Jazz Festival and Black Mountain Jazz’s Wall2Wall festival at Abergavenny are remnants...
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Wendy Kirkland Quartet: Black Mountain Jazz Club
Chris Byars, the New York saxophonist, composer and band leader, was displaying the jazz musician’s hard-nosed realism when he opined...
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Jeremy Hardy tour comes to Abergavenny
Following a sellout tour last year, Jeremy Hardy hits the road in 2018 with his new show, which sees him...
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Matteo Marfoglia: Creating Omertà, Roots, NDCWales
Matteo Marfoglia Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal...