Lancaster Jazz Festival presents Live Music All Dayer

Lancaster Jazz Festival presents free live music all dayer with bars and street food open all day.

Performers:
Off the Rails Creative Jazz Orchestra and Elbow Room, who exist to provide a supportive space for women playing jazz, join forces to present a set of tunes by female composers.  Both bands have enjoyed workshops, collaborations, and shared a stage with incredible musicians, including Jilly Jarman, Annie Whitehead, Emma Johnson, Emma Rawicz, and Alina Bzhezhinska.  They will be playing tunes they've picked up along the way and originals from band members, including Elbow Room's MD Trish Ferrarin.

Archipelago are a genre-defying trio of adventurous musicians, formed out of the north-east of England's creative musical underground.  Their sound is a dreamlike collision of otherworldly atmospheres, heartfelt song-writing, and energetic off-kilter rhythms.  They morph between instruments and effects, creating the illusion of a much larger ensemble, before peeling back to their raw, improvisational trio form.

Flo/ra is a modern instrumental jazz band.  The music explores complex feelings on gender, belonging, and neurodivergence, taking inspiration from repetitive chant music.  The project draws on a wide range of musical influences, including modern and spiritual jazz, world and folk music, chamber music, and drum and bass, to create a unique twist on the conventional jazz quintet sound.

Benjamin Luhis is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer from Nottingham.  As an artist he is particularly interested in the sonics of sound: how tone, timbre and duration elicit deeper emotional connections to music and the collective experience.  His music is a blending of worlds and ideas and is an exploration of alt-r&b, jazz, broken beat, and EDM.  The music explores awareness and wellbeing, and what it means to sit within different spaces and understand yourself as a person and as a creative.  It is a celebration continuing conversations and musical dialogues with audiences and musicians.

Sonedo is the genre-bending project of half-Japanese, half-Scottish keyboardist and producer Sean Edo Morrison.  This powerhouse live band forges a fresh blend of jazz, UK rap, and dance music, with the group weaving a tapestry of jazz improvisation with sharp lyricism and seriously modern grooves.  Taking cues from artists like Ezra Collective, corto.alto, Venna and Knucks, the group delivers a high-energy, collaborative sound that feels both deeply musical and distinctly UK.  Winners of the prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Development Award from Help Musicians, Sonedo is now gearing up to release their debut album.

Plantfood are a blood-pumping jazz force summoning an onslaught of electronic and acoustic sounds with very broad influences, ranging from heavy hitters like The Prodigy to the spiritual explorations of John Coltrane.  The six-piece collective traverses a multitude of styles and guides audiences through the extremes of the mosh pit to serene meditations, drawing excitement from their music's 'ability to resonate with others no matter the age or background'.  This collective came up through and formed within the inspiring Leeds Jazz scene.  They have quickly become a defining sound in that city's vibrant and exciting jazz community.