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 [...]

Tuesday 3rd January: Washborne Gardens, Richmond
The Big Band, GrooveOn, Franchise, FunkTron, Edwina Thorne & The Moonlighters
Wednesday 4th January: Deck’s Reserve, Motueka
Edwina Thorne & The Moonlighters
Thursday 5th January: The Village Green, Takaka
Edwina Thorne & The Moonlighters

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 [...]

Composed of Christchurch’s most sought after and respected jazz musicians – all of whom have performed professionally overseas – The Oval Office is a fresh, innovative and very hard grooving funk band. These boys draw their inspiration from artists such as James Brown, Parliament, Maceo Parker, Stevie Wonder, the JBs, Al Green and Bob Marley. [...]