Jazz in the Bar with Debs Hancock and Dave Hobbs
wall2wall Jazz Festival
Date/Time
- Friday 30th August 2019
- 8.15pm
Venue
- Melville Centre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny NP7 5UD
Website
Tickets
- Free for theatre ticket holders
- £5.00 (on the door) others
Festival Quick Links
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Monday 26th August
- John-paul Gard Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Tuesday 27th August
- Lady Nade Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Wednesday 28th August
- Jazz for Little’uns: 12 noon – Melville Centre
- The Sicknote Steve Bluegrass Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Thursday 29th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- Festival Dinner featuring Ian Shaw: 7pm for 7.30pm – The Angel Hotel
Friday 30th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- John Law’s Re-Creations: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz in the Bar with Debs Hancock and Dave Hobbs: 8.15pm – Melville Centre
- Nick Kacal’s Guerillasound Quartet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Saturday 31st August
- Youth big band workshop: Morning – Melville Centre
- Dennis Rollins and his Youth Workshop Band: 12.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Film – Born to be Blue: 2.15pm – Melville Theatre
- The Goodyear Bop Septet: 4.45pm – Melville Theatre
- CHUBE featuring Dennis Rollins: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Sarah Gillespie Sextet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Throughout the day, enjoy jazz vinyls in the bar during theatre intervals with Nick Steel – The Windup Merchant
Sunday 1st September
- Gospel singing workshop: 12noon – Dance Blast, Melville Centre
- Tango jazz workshop: 12noon – Melville Centre
- Tango Jazz: 2pm – Melville Theatre
- Renewal Choir: 4.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz improvisation workshop: 7pm – Melville Centre
- Claire Victoria Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Our ‘Jazz Through the Ages’ exhibition will be displayed Saturday the 31st August and Sunday 1st September at the Melville Centre
We love jazz singer Debs Hancock because she’s one of us here in Abergavenny, helping to promote and direct the events that make BMJ one of the leading jazz clubs in the UK.
But she’s more than that. Her smoky, velvet, sophisticated tones have graced stages at jazz festivals in Cheltenham, Swansea, and Fishguard and reached wider audiences on radio with such presenters as Jamie Owen, John Hellings, and Rhys Phillips.
Debs is devoted to the legacies of the great jazz divas, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Dinah Washington. The Great American Songbook is her book.
She performs with the best accompanying musicians in Wales and is no stranger to versatility: this season she’s a member of Welsh National Opera’s community chorus, singing in works by Beethoven and Dallapiccola.
David Hobbs is a well-known face on the South Wales jazz circuit. His musical journey started in earnest in the early 1980s, as a classical guitar performer and teacher, although he also made some incursions into the rock and punk rock guitar world in the 1970s.
Since having taken up the jazz guitar in the late ‘80s, he has accompanied many instrumentalists and vocalists, often in a duo or trio setting.
A multi-instrumentalist, David is also known for his role as a double bassist and bass guitarist, having played bass with a wide range of South Wales jazz bands. More recently, David has also been wielding the tenor sax”
Take it away, Debs and David!