The Sunday night Grand Finale concert at the school of music was an appropriate way to wind up the highly successful 2008 Woollaston Nelson Jazzfest. “Nobody wanted to leave”, said the Jazzfest organiser , Rowena Richards-Orange. “The last 5 days have been truly special and Sunday night’s concert delivered another dose of fine music and [...]

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Concert Tickets
Countdown with less than two weeks left before the Jazzfest commences, with concert tickets flying out the door. And if you are looking for that Christmas stocking filler, a concert ticket or two should do the trick, available from Everyman Records, On Cue (Nelson Tourism) or checkout www.nelsonjazzfest.co.nz.
Unforgettable – Celebration of [...]

Hello Jazz Lovers … Check out the jam packed programme with over 70 events over 5 days -  7 ticketed concerts, 5 park events, 4 master classes and more than 50 venue and street performances. Programmes from Nelson Mail, Nelson City Council, participating venues and advertisers, On Cue (Nelson Tourism), Everyman Records, Good Vibrations Music, [...]

The Boat House was jumping and pumping for the final concert of the Woollaston Nelson Jazzfest 2007. This event was sold out several days ago and promised to be a fitting conclusion to the festival. Just like the previous concerts, the Grand Finale concert held the audience spellbound, says the organiser Rowena Richards-Orange.
Jan Preston opened [...]

The programme for the 2007 Woollaston Nelson Jazzfest is to be launched at The Boathouse on Monday 13th Nov, along with an exciting new website.  Press, sponsors, supporters and friends are invited to join the celebrations between 5 – 7pm, with music by The Gabor Trio and wine by Woollaston Estates accompanied by nibbles.
Now in [...]

First update on the 2007 Nelson Jazz Festival. The 16th annual Nelson Jazz Festival is to be held from the 2nd of January until the 6th January, 2007.

Rain did not deter more than 500 people from enjoying the second Jazz in the Park concert in Richmond yesterday. Nelson Jazz Club president Tony Bowater said Nelson secondary school bands Goove On and Funktron gave the event a well-received younger element.
The club’s own band, The Big Band, which had been rehearsing for the [...]

More than 5000 people grooved to cool beats at Nelson’s Fairfield Park as the 15th annual Jazz in the Park kicked off this year’s summer jazz festival. Nelson Jazz Club president Tony Bowater said yesterday’s free event was an outstanding way to begin the festival. Canterbury violinist Fiona Pears and former Dunedin saxophonist Craig [...]

Nelson’s annual jazz festival will fill the city and its surrounds with music for six days from next Monday. The festival kicks off as usual with four hours of Jazz in the Park at Fairfield Park.
Then, while some of the bands take Jazz in the Park to Richmond, Motueka and Takaka, others will keep up [...]

Franchise features the talents of Trudi Wilson (singer, keyboards, songwriter). Trudi started out in Nelson, before moving on with Billy T James’s band “Hawaiki”. She was invited to Australia with them on tour, returning to settle in Christchurch where she became a well known performer around that city. Trudi has recently returned to Nelson with [...]

Ruby Page will be performing for the 2006 Nelson Jazz Festival at The Boathouse on Thursday 5 January at 8pm. She will be backed by a great Nelson line-up: Garbor Tolnay (keyboards), Andrew Leachman (saxophone), Chris Cowles (bass) and Chris Pierson (drums). It is now six years ago that singer Ruby Page sung her [...]

Breez’n was formed in Nelson almost 3 years ago by the current lineup so they could enjoy playing some jazz and take a break from their normal style of music. Ivan, Ken, Warren and Jack all play in pop music or classic rock & roll bands, Aroha has spent most of her time as a [...]