Sam Emony (the pseudonym for Neil Hughes) describes his novel The Old Familiar Places as “a love letter to the music that moves me the most”. Ahead of the launch at Ronnie Scott’s (details […]
Buxton International Festival has just announced: “Buxton International Festival will present Wynton Marsalis in, for him what is, the most intimate of settings, the turn of the century Opera House. To close […]
Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Laurence Cottle & Ian Thomas (Palace Hotel Buxton, 9 July 2022. Live review by Charles Rees) The Impossible Gentlemen‘s performance at Buxton Festival was their first live show […]
Seven additional performers/bands have been announced for the 2022 Buxton Festival. Under the direction of Neil Hughes, it will be the first Buxton Festival to include jazz concerts. We also have the […]
The Buxton International Festival, founded in 1979, has a worldwide reputation for its opera productions, literary events and a particular and special ‘festive’ atmosphere, writes Charles Rees. Now, for the first time, […]
Neil Hughes is familiar to the jazz community as a promoter. He started The Cinnamon Club in Altrincham (South Manchester) in January 2003. The club puts on around 80 gigs a year […]
