Smiodair at All Of The Above, Widcombe Social Club ,Bath.

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2026

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HOORAY! After too long a wait (I’ve been so very busy and the time has flown by this year) I’m excited to announce the next AOTA gig - and the perfect precursor to January’s Bath Jazz Weekend - the multi-talented, multi-European quartet
SMIODAIR
featuring saxophonist Robin Fincker (from Paris), bassist Simon Jermyn (from Dublin and Berlin) and, from the jazziest town in Britain*, trumpeter Laura Jurd and Dave Smith (drums) -  four superb exponents of the improviser’s art, on a national tour, playing music that ranges from thunderingly enjoyable grooves to exquisite sonic soundscapes.
* Yes, of course Frome, now home to more incredible jazz talents than you can shake a drumstick at.

Widcombe Social Club
Sunday 29 November
Doors 7.00pm - Band on Stage 8.00pm
TICKETS £18 - £16 (WSC members) BUY ONLINE HERE
https://ticketscandy.com/e/aota-presents-smiodair-21350

Playing for AOTA, for the first time ‘in the round’, in an acoustic set that will allow the audience to get as close as possible to their collective sound, the quartet will feature their own original music that weaves mysteriously between composition and improvisation.

Smiodair is an international group with roots that go back over twenty years. Drummer Dave Smith and saxophonist Robin Fincker first played together at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, going on to co-found the Loop Collective in London in 2005 — a venue, festival and record label that became a hub for the UK and European creative music scene. Bassist Simon Jermyn came into the fold through a collaboration between Dublin’s Bottlenote Collective and the Loop Collective in 2006, before a decade in New York and a move to Berlin that took his playing to new places.  For their UK tour in November 2026, the trio expands to a quartet with the addition of trumpeter Laura Jurd — one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British jazz.

The word Smiodair — from the Irish for fragments or small pieces — captures something true about musicians whose paths have diverged and reconnected across London, Paris, Dublin, New York, Berlin and, as ever, Frome.*

Here’s the ticket link again.  Looking forward to seeing you there.
https://ticketscandy.com/e/aota-presents-smiodair-21350
Nod Knowles
for All Of The Above (AOTA) and the Bath Jazz Weekend

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