Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival 2013

The Elizabethan family home, Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire, will be hosting the seventh Jazz & Blues weekend from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th July 2013 with live music, picnics in the grounds and children's entertainment. The festival is organised by its sax-playing owner Simon Cunliffe-Lister and jazz singer Saffron Byass.

Line-up

Jazz legend Kenny Ball, who died in March this year, was to play on Saturday with his Jazzmen. The show will go on; Kenny's Jazzmen will perform celebrating his life and work, with vocalist Keith Ball, Kenny's son, stepping into his father's shoes as the frontman to put on a musical, swinging show, aptly celebrating the great life of Kenny Ball.

Held over three days, with performances both inside the Elizabethan Hall and outside in the Hall's grounds, the Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues festival presents a varied line up of funk, traditional jazz, hard blues, dreamy vocals and everything in between.

Friday Evening: Octopus, Cherry-Lee Mewis, Harri Watts Band, Cadenas Vivaz.

Saturday: The Lemon Monkeys (Matt Smith and Carlos Olmos), The Potter Ensemble, Gwyneth Herbert, A celebration of Kenny Ball performed by his Jazzmen and son Keith Ball, Simon McBride, Lucy Marshall, The Alligators.

Sunday: Rob Law Quartet with Thom Whitworth, Trudy Kerr Quartet, 24 Pesos, Ben Beattie's Jazz Essentials plus Simon Cunliffe-Lister.

On Friday and Saturday evening the Wolds Top beer tent will play host to the Beverley Arts Trust's late night sessions of folk, jazz and rhythm 'n' blues.

Tickets

The early bird offer has ended. Tickets are priced as follows:
Weekend Ticket £60.
Saturday Day Ticket £45.
Saturday Evening Ticket £35.
Sunday Day Ticket £35.
Friday Evening Ticket £30.
Children under 12 have free entry provided they are with an adult.
Concessions: £2 off the prices shown for season ticket holders, OAPs, and children 12-15 years old.(Families need only buy 1 child ticket - under 12s FREE)

To buy tickets click here.

Facilities

There will be a bar serving local beer and chilled wines. At the tea tent and food lawn, festival goers can indulge in home-baked treats, barbecued local meats, freshly prepared curries, and salads grown in the neighbouring walled garden. In the beer tent award winning Wold Top beer is on tap, brewed just five miles away from the festival site. The Burton Agnes shops, ice-cream parlour and cafe will be open throughout the Festival. Art and crafts will be on sale in the Crafts tent and children's entertainment will be provided in the grounds. Guests are invited to bring picnics.

Children

The festival has a Children's Corner with play area; 15 acres of gardens to explore including a walled garden with maze, jungle garden and giant games; and a woodland walk with forest creatures to find. We will have face painters and a children’s entertainer during the weekend.

Opening hours

The festival runs from 6pm-11pm Friday, 11am-10pm Saturday, and 11am-6pm Sunday.

Camping

A campsite in the field adjacent to the Hall offers welcome hot showers and views of the Yorkshire Wolds for those wishing to pitch a tent for a night or the whole weekend. Early bird camping voucher valid from Friday 3pm until Monday noon is priced at £35 (full price £40). One voucher required per tent, caravan or campervan) and each camper must have a wekeend festival ticket.

Hall

Festival tickets also entitle festivalgoers entry to the Hall and its gardens, and award-winning local produce is on sale throughout the three-day festival, including the famous Wold Top beer.

More information will be here when available.

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