Tickets for Jazz in Martinborough are now on sale. This year you can buy them through Dash! tickets at www.dashtickets.co.nz.
“It is great to be working with Dash! tickets for JIM (Jazz in Martinborough) for 2014,” says publicist Lee Quayle. “We have worked with our friends at the Martinborough Wine Centre over the last three years, for which we are truly grateful, but now the festival is bigger than we can cope locally; hence the move to Dash! tickets for 2014.”
The size of the festival means that more information is needed on sales for marketing and promotion purposes. Dash! will give weekly reports on sales, wider coverage of the ticketed events and up-to-the-minute information.
The festival runs from Thursday 4 September to Sunday 7 September. The ticketed events this year are during the evenings of the festival from the Thursday to the Saturday and for the Sunday afternoon show.
The festival will start as usual on the Thursday evening at The Village Café, this year with a group of relative newcomers to jazz. Wellington based Shake-‘Em-On-Downers promise to get you swinging and singing with their selection of modern and classical standards.
Friday night will see the much-anticipated return of the band that started it all in 2011 the Dixie Street Jazz Band. This Aussie ensemble rocked, rolled, swung and schmoozed the crowds at our inaugural festival back in 2011 and are back again for more.
A Tribute to Peggy Lee will feature on the Saturday evening performance. Rodger Fox is returning to Jazz in Martinborough with the hugely successful show celebrating the life and music of legendary vocalist, actress, songwriter and lyricist Peggy Lee. This performance features long-term collaborator the swinging and sultry Erna Ferry.
The final performance of the festival will be The Royal New Zealand Air Force Swing Band on the Sunday afternoon. This band brings us the big band sound from the 30s – think Glen Miller and Benny Goodman – through to the more modern treatments of swing associated with Frank Sinatra and now Michael Buble. Featuring vocalist Stephanie Paris, this concert will close the festival with some memorable music.
There is also a new website. Professional web designer, and erstwhile jazz musician Sam Cooke of Kahutara, has revamped the Jazz in Martinborough website giving it a fresh new look and some more workability.
JIM are grateful to our very much unsung hero of the past few years, graphic designer Fiona Tricker who reluctantly took over the website design but, following Sam’s offer, decided to make the changes. Fiona has done all the artwork and print materials, including some of the materials for the first JIM, and continues to provide an excellent design service for posters, advertising, marketing, signage, etc.
