23 March, 2012 - 25 March, 2012
The Sage, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Tyneside hosts the annual Gateshead Jazz Festival, a weekend feast for jazz-lovers. The festival attracts an eclectic array of performers to Tyneside. In 2011 festival featured Debbie Harry, Soweto Kinch, Cleveland Watkiss and Adam Fairhall.

Evening gigs take place at the Sage, Gateshead, a landmark building deigned by Lord Foster on a waterfront site, which boasts several performance spaces, a Music Education Centre, four bars, a café and brassserie.

Over the weekend there is also a full programme of workshops, conversations and improvisation sessions and masterclasses with many of Britain's leading jazz performers.

The line-up for Gateshead Jazz 2013 is yet to be announced.

 

 

 

http://www.thesagegateshead.org

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