The Mostly Jazz Festival

July 3rd & 4th

Mostly Jazz Festivalis the UK’s newest jazz festival and the only, open air, one site festival, exclusively dedicated to contemporary jazz, funk and soul.

Celebrating the dynamic grooves, innovation and excitement of the modern jazz movement; Mostly Jazz is about showcasing the diversity of contemporary jazz in all it’s forms. From avant-garde, free and modern jazz through to vocal, song based jazz, jazz-fusion and future jazz it’s also about considering jazz’s influence and relationship to other black music art-forms such as latin music, funk and soul.

For the inaugural year they have invited pioneering artists such as the Sun Ra Arkestra and Courtney Pine to perform alongside leaders of the new wave of British talent such as Polar Bear, Led Bib and Portico Quartet.

Set in the lush surroundings of Moseley Park, Birmingham’s eleven-acre woodland glade only two miles from the city centre. Just check the line-up:

SATURDAY 3RD JULY
Main Stage
Sun Ra Arkestra
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro
James Taylor Quartet
Polar Bear
Led Bib
Sister Henry & The Prescriptions

Yardbird Stage
Lizzy Parks
The Fantastics!
Nick Pride & The Pimptones
The Getup
Groove Cartel

SUNDAY 4TH JULY
Main Stage
Courtney Pine
Portico Quartet
Cymande All-Stars
Gary Potter Trio
Bright Size Gypsies
Andy Hamilton & The Blue Notes
Steve Ajao

Birmingham Jazz Stage
Sara Colman
Moon Unit
Chris Bowden Trio
MC3
Beebe