{"id":59901,"date":"2026-03-20T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=59901"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:56:31","slug":"theres-a-real-jazz-renaissance-in-sheffield-first-kelham-jazz-festival-to-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/theres-a-real-jazz-renaissance-in-sheffield-first-kelham-jazz-festival-to-take-place\/","title":{"rendered":"“There’s a real jazz renaissance in Sheffield” – First Kelham Jazz Festival to take place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomorrow for the first time Kelham Jazz Festival hopes to celebrate live jazz and bring together bold new talent and established artists in the multi-venue event.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival will be showcasing 90% Northern artists and take place from 3pm-3am on Saturday 21 March<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent Roach, musician and educator as well as a founding member of band Montuno is an active supporter of Footprints Jazz Collective and will be performing as well as putting on a workshop tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201dThere\u2019s a real jazz renaissance in Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny kind of music that generates positive energy is great, audiences are progressive, tolerant and resistant to racism and misogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The festival is supported by Footprints Jazz Collective which supports upcoming artists in Sheffield by giving them mentorship, rehearsal space as well as opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dI\u2019ve been a supporter and collaborating with footprints for a few years now. I thought it was a great idea for Sheffield and am more than happy to contribute and support it,” Kent said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The venues include Peddler, Yellow Arch Studios, Tool Makers Brewery, Alder, Neepsend Social, Shakespeares, Church, Factory Floor and The Harlequin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent added: \u201cSupporting live music it\u2019s important, with venues closing down anything generating interest I support 100%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dThe timing for Sheffield to have a festival like this couldn\u2019t be better. All venues are independent and locally owned, it’s great to see support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luke Una<\/em> and TC & The Groove<\/em> Family will be headlining the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops will also be taking place alongside performing live music and people of all ability are encouraged to join in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Hannigan is putting on an Improvisation Workshop and aims to give a safe space to female and LGBT performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent will be putting on a Percussion Workshop that focuses on Afro-Cuban Brazilian Latin Jazz percussion. Drums will be provided although people are also welcome to bring their own and tips and techniques will be shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelham Island is also surrounded by a large number of cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars to supply food and drinks throughout the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If successful there\u2019s hopes this festival will become a regular event for Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets will be available to buy on the day at the box office where pre-bought tickets can also be collected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow for the first time Kelham Jazz Festival hopes to celebrate live jazz and bring together bold new talent and established artists in the multi-venue event.\u00a0 The festival will be showcasing 90% Northern artists and take place from 3pm-3am on Saturday 21 March Kent Roach, musician and educator as well as a founding member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":59902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1122,132,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-music","category-top-stories","category-top-story-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59915,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901\/revisions\/59915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}