Live music and festival researcher and practitioner
Walking to the Barbican Centre – one of the main EFG London Jazz Festival venues – I keep a keen eye out for signs of festival.
Outside the venue, a stone’s throw from the theatre stage door, is a grey BBC outside broadcast van. Whilst perhaps not an obvious sign of festival, it nevertheless indicates that something out of the ordinary is happening inside (the Jazz Voices concert later on will be broadcast live on Radio 3).
Continue reading The Signs of Festival (cont) – Emma Webster
Tomorrow (Friday 13th November) sees the start of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2015 (LJF), the biggest music festival in the UK’s biggest city. I will be attending a variety of LJF events as part of a new project, The Impact of Festivals, led by Professor George McKay of the University of East Anglia (UEA). In anticipation of what I hope will be an exciting ten days, today’s blog post considers the signs of festival – how we know a festival is on its way before it begins. Continue reading The Signs of Festival – Emma Webster
