Newcastle Arts Centre- Music Programme for May 2025.

Friday, May 02, 2025

Newcastle Arts Centre has announced its jazz and folk programme for May 2025. Details attached.

Music for May…

Tuesday Jam – 1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Presented by Newcastle Arts Centre and The Black Swan Bar & Venue
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm – 10:30pm, in the Black Swan Bar
Free admission
Our house trio extend a warm welcome and invite all jazz instrumentalists and singers to join them and jam together. All listeners welcome too.
Tuesday 6th May
Alan Law (keys), Paul Grainger (bass), John Hirst (drums)
Tuesday 20th May
Stu Collingwood (keys), Paul Grainger (bass), Bailey Rudd (drums)

THURS 8TH MAY
This will be our last Folk Club for a little while, so get yourself down for some beautiful Folky-ness, and to see…
CHRIS CLEVERLEY weaves a tapestry from the hazy psychedelia of the 60s folk revival and the soulful oblivion of the 90s Pacific Northwest…
Doors:
7pm
Floors Spots: 7:30pm
Headline:
8:30pm
In The Black Swan
£10 adv / £12 otd
Cleverley delivers boundary-shattering ‘Dream-Folk’ that sits on the cutting edge of acoustic music. A true guitar-man, his breathtaking fingerstyle technique dances above lush ambient soundscapes, drawing comparisons ranging from Lo-fi American greats, Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens, to UK guitar royalty John Martyn & Nic Jones…
https://newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk/product/the-f-word-chris-cleverley/

A night for your diaries..
SAT 17TH MAY
In the Black Swan Bar & Venue:
We’re thrilled to be hosting
BELLAVANA
7:30pm-10pm , Free admission!
A latin five piece, who will have us Salsa and Samba-ing into the night!
Bellavana is a Latin band that predominantly plays old-school Cuban/Puerto Rican salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and bolero, all with an improvisory Latin Jazz component.
Led by Belinda Voshtina, charismatic vocalist and graduate from the Sage Jazz Course. You may have caught them playing the local party bar scene, but for this gig they bring a set with Jazz at its core, and that will welcome its audience to the dancefloor.
Beyond this, the Black Swan Bar & Venue will be open 6pm-11pm for refreshments and chill.

Bold Big Band are back!
TUES 27TH MAY
In the Black Swan
£10 adv / £12 otd
Everyone’s favourite big band is thrilled to return to the Black Swan!
Their full 18-piece jazz orchestra will perform a variety of classic jazz tunes, popular video game music, and the best vocal charts over the course of the evening. Bold Big Band have lots to offer for anyone and everyone, and they’re sure to put a swing in your step.
https://newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk/product/bold-big-band-may-2025/

Newcastle Arts Centre
67 Westgate Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1SG

0191 261 5618

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