 For the first time in the Festival’s history the Glasgow Jazz Festival has been shortlisted for a Jazz FM Award! The festival has been nominated in the Live Experience of the Year category at the 2016 Jazz FM awards. Taylor McFerrin’s performance at The Rio Club on the final night of last year’s Festival has been nominated for the prestigious award. The public will vote for the winner via the Awards websitehttp://www.jazzfmawards.com/ Jill Rodger, Director of Glasgow Jazz Festival, said: “We knew Taylor’s performance at The Rio Club on the final night of last year’s festival was outstanding, one of those unforgettable nights of entertainment that takes your breath away, but it is absolutely brilliant to know that the festival’s audiences thought the same. It would be fantastic if fans of the festival could go to the Awards website and vote!” Jonathan Arendt, the CEO of Jazz FM, said: “We are delighted to announce this year’s Jazz FM Awards nominees celebrating the extraordinary work from established international Grammy-winning superstars to up and coming homegrown talent, this is sure to be our biggest and best year yet” The good news doesn’t stop there; a new big name act has also been announced for the 2016 Glasgow Jazz Festival! As part of their European tour, Vintage Trouble will be performing as part of 2016 Glasgow Jazz Festival, in association with Regular Music, in the Old Fruitmarket on Saturday 25th June. (Tickets go on sale on Friday 26th February at 9am and can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.co.uk ) Comprised of Ty Taylor (vocals), Nalle Colt (guitar), Richard Danielson (drums) and Rick Barrio Dill (bass), the star-studded band released their first album in August last year, 1 Hopeful Road , to widespread critical acclaim. During 2015 Vintage Trouble took to the road supporting AC/DC across Australia, Europe and the USA, in amongst a host of sold out headline shows (including London’s Koko), festival appearances (including British Summer Time at Hyde Park) and opening for Paloma Faith at London’s O2 Arena. Described as the band who plays music that has a little bit of everything and being like ‘James Brown singing lead for Lez Zeppelin’, Vintage Trouble are a very exciting early announcement for the festival’s 30th Year Line-Up. Follow the release of their debut album, The Bomb Shelter Sessions in 2011, Vintage Trouble were soon selling out headline shows worldwide, opening for The Rolling Stones and touring with The Who, and performing on shows like “Later…with Jools Holland,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Conan” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”– all before they had even signed to a major label. |
