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Our Festival season starts with a series of great Transaction Charge gigs from the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival featuring the cream of Scottish jazz alongside The Queen's Hall charges a £1 transaction Festival Theatre fee on all telephone, online and postal European greats and legends of American rock music. After a few days to catch our breath, we purchases using our ticketing system. St Leonard’s Street Leonard’s St segue into the beauty, intensity and brilliance of a Clerk Street Clerk wonderful series of morning concerts brought to us Booking Fees by the Edinburgh International Festival. Our brilliant For certain performances, the ticket price is technical team then reconfigure the space so that listed as being "+ booking fee". This is because each Festival day ends with our own Fringe gigs the event's promoter is selling tickets through Melville Drive featuring red-hot live music made in Scotland. a variety of different outlets (eg Ticketmaster, Ticketweb, etc) and each of those may charge Come to think of it, you won’t have any time to catch the sun….. a different fee. Please note that the booking The Queen’s Hall fee is charged on each ticket on all transaction 85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG types (ie postal, telephone, internet, in person). www.thequeenshall.net • 0131 668 2019 We are obliged to show these charges as separate fees and apologise for any confusion that this causes. Credit/Debit Card Fees If you pay by debit card, there will be a 50p fee per transaction. If you pay by credit card, there will be a 50p charge per ticket. Postage Your tickets can be posted to you up to seven days in advance of the event for a cost of 80p. Starting Times For the majority of events at The Queen's Adrian Harris Hall, the time listed in this brochure is when Chief Executive, The Queen's Hall the artist will begin the performance. When we don't have that information (eg for touring artists with variable schedules) we will list the 'Doors Open' time instead. Please contact us or check our website on the afternoon of the concert for a confirmed schedule. 2 Hello! Lazy summer days, clear blue skies, the sun on your back and some great live music – it can only be Edinburgh at Festival time! I know, we can’t guarantee clear blue skies… or the sun on your back…. but we can promise you great music that Keeping in touch with will lift your spirits whatever the weather. You won’t The Queen’s Hall even notice the rain! 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We're very likeable. www.facebook.com/queenshall * Edinburgh International Festival Bookings Adrian Harris Online: www.eif.co.uk Chief Executive, The Queen's Hall Telephone: 0131 473 2000 In person: Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE A transaction fee of £3 will be added to all bookings 3 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Marcin Wasilewski Trio Brian Kellock Quartet Fri 15 July, 8pm Sat 16 July, 8pm (Photographer: Marco Borggreve) Marco (Photographer: Richmond) Eric (Photographer: Current stars of the ECM label, and for good Pianist, Brian Kellock puts his dream band reason. They have all the attributes of the together to play swinging jazz in the style of classic ECM sound: lyrical music packed with the Oscar Peterson Trio - piano, guitar, bass lovely melodies; pushy propulsive acoustic - with Danish guitar star, Jacob Fischer and drumming; sometimes bright and positive; special guest from New York, Ken Peplowski, sometimes wistful, melancholic; but always the doyen of swinging clarinet and tenor assertive and attractive, with exemplary saxophone. One of the best jazz bassists of musicianship. They are one of the great our time, another New Yorker and Kellock European jazz piano trios. Pianist Wasilewski favourite, John Webber, completes the is joined by long term collaborators bassist stellar line up. A real Festival one-off! Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz. Tickets £20 tables, £16 all other seats plus 50p booking fee per ticket (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via Tickets £22.50 tables, £18.50 all other telephone, post or online) seats plus 50p booking fee per ticket (+ Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or online) Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com 4 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Magnus Öström Band Ryan Quigley Band Sun 17 July, 8pm Thu 21 July, 8pm Former EST drummer Magnus Öström is Swinging 60’s soul and R’n’B, from Ray now a major player in European Jazz in Charles to Wilson Pickett, and marking the his own right. His band is one of the most 75th Birthday of Otis Redding. Ryan Quigley distinctive and invigorating on the current is the trumpeter and arranger who is first scene - an intoxicating mix of jazz, brooding call for the stars, from Robbie Williams to post-rock and electronica, and sweeping Tom Jones, and he’s put together a special cinematic soundscapes. It makes you realise Band to play the great songs from the how much Öström was central to the EST era of Stax and Atlantic Records, with The sound. “What utterly beautiful and compelling Commitments’ lead singer, Andrew Strong, music this is...The playing is immaculate, powering his way through the classics, the compositions truly inspired, the and featuring the easy groove of New York arrangements magical” (BBC Radio 3) drummer and vocalist, Bryan Carter. Time to Try A Little Tenderness. Tickets £22.50 tables, £18.50 all other seats plus 50p booking fee per ticket (+ Tickets £20 tables, £16 all other seats plus £1 transaction fee for entire booking if 50p booking fee per ticket (+ £1 transaction purchased via telephone, post or online) fee for entire booking if purchased via Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com telephone, post or online) Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com 5 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Warren Haynes Todd Gordon sings Tony Bennett Fri 22 July, 8pm Sun 24 July, 8pm (Photographer: Danny Clinch) Danny (Photographer: Grammy winning, legendary figure in Tony Bennett’s joyous and carefully crafted American rock and one of the finest guitar performances resonate with audiences players in the world, Haynes spent 25 years worldwide who enjoy hearing classic songs with the Allman Brothers Band, romping from a classic era. Sharing Mr Bennett’s through their classic catalogue while love for this material is Todd Gordon, one of adding new gems; toured with members Britain’s finest jazz and swing singers. After of the Grateful Dead and rearranged Todd met the legendary crooner, he received Jerry Garcia standards for orchestra. Now the go-ahead from the Bennett family to he delivers gorgeous, rich and personal produce a show devoted to the songs Tony tunes encompassing beautiful acoustic Bennett is passionate about. arrangements, a rootsy/Americana soundscape and honeyed vocals that cut Making this show extra special is Todd’s straight through to the soul. Plus special guest, Carol Kidd, who will be performing guests. some of her favourites from the Bennett repertoire. Join them for a wonderful celebration of song, including The Good Life, Tickets £27.50 tables,/centre gallery, Maybe This Time and, of course, I Left My £25 all other seats plus 50p booking fee Heart in San Francisco. per ticket (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or Tickets £25 tables, £20 all other seats plus 50p online) booking fee per ticket (+ £1 transaction fee for Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or online) Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.com 6 The Queen's Hall Edinburgh International Festival The Chair plus special Australian Chamber guests Orchestra Fri 5 August, 8pm Sat 6 August, 11am (Photographer: Gary Heery) Gary (Photographer: The Chair on-stage is an experience that Richard Tognetti: director/violin will have even the most reserved audience Alice Coote: mezzo soprano beating a path to the dance floor.