Proposed concert themes for 2018’s Party include:

A Tribute to Mike Durham

Frank Teschemacher and Friends

Sidney Bechet with Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians

Jack Pettis

Fats Waller on Film

Jean Goldkette after Bix

Americans in Paris

Benny Goodman’s Orchestra in 1935

The New Orleans Owls

Tiny Parham

What would Buddy Bolden’s band have sounded like?

A Coon-Sanders Nighthawks radio broadcast

Chicago Clarinets

Enrico Tomasso’s tribute to Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington in the 1930s

The Mound City Blue Blowers

A history of Hot Drumming

Red Nichols And His Five Pennies

Fletcher Henderson’s band in 1926 and 1928

The Gene Krupa Trio

The Nichols-Duffee Chick Webb Orchestra

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A Welcome Concert and jam session will take place in the Victory Pub on the evening of Thursday 1st November featuring  an all-star band:

Duke Heitger (Trumpet, USA)

Dan Levinson (Reeds, USA)

Matthias Seuffert (Reeds, Germany)

Adrian Fry (Trombone, UK)

Martin Litton (Piano, UK)

Henri Lemaire (Guitar, France)

Malcolm Sked (Bass, UK)

Nick Ward (Drums, UK)