Part of the Barnfield Music Festival 2015

Composer/bandleader Mike Westbrook is back at the Barnfield this summer with an even bigger band and a brand new jazz entertainment. A Bigger Show has been described as a Jazz/Rock Oratorio. Kate Westbrook’s scenario uses the image of the fairground to examine, with irony, humour and high drama , the lot of Humankind in the age of the World-Wide-Web. The 22 piece ensemble involves 3 vocalists/actors, acoustic brass and saxophones, electronics and a double rhythm section.

Kate is joined by fellow vocalists Martine Waltier and Billy Bottle, while MikeWestbrook&Company brings established Jazz musician together with lesser know artists, Pop and Rock musicians, Classical players and talented young musicians in a new kind of big band – the Uncommon Orchestra. Featured soloists include saxophonists Roz Harding, Lou Gare, Alan Wakeman, Dave  Holdsworth on sousaphone and pocket trumpet, plus the popular rhythm team of Marcus Vergette on bass, and Coach York on drums.

“Britain’s most innovative Big Band leader” The Wire

Kate Westbrook & Martine Waltier voice Billy Bottle voice & bass guitar

Roz Harding,Sarah Dean, Alan Wakeman, Lou Gare, Gary Bayley, Ian Wellens saxophones

MikeBrewer & Sam Massey trumpets Dave Holdsworth Sousaphone & trumpet

Andy Dore, Stewart Stunnell, Joe Carnell, Ken Cassidy trombones Marcus Vergette bass

JesseMolins & Matthew North guitars Theo Goss & Coach York drums Mike Westbrook piano
Supported by Airshaft Trust www.westbrookjazz.co.uk

£12.00 (£10.00 Students/Child)

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk