Congleton Jazz and Blues Festival

CONGLETON JAZZ AND BLUES 2022

FREE entry all weekend Saturday and Sunday, August 27/28

Bank Holiday Weekend.

We have 21 venues and 70 gigs over two days, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th August, every kind of Jazz from Ragtime and Traditional, all the way to some of the coolest modern interpretations, and Blues all the way from the Country Blues of the Mississippi Delta through to Chicago and onto modern interpretations of Blues and Blues Rock.

Here is our programme schedule, more detailed information available in next few days.

And we would like to thank our sponsors, they help make all of this happen!

Looking back here are some of the projects we worked on during the various lockdowns.

Virtual Congleton Unplugged 2021

You can watch the shows again here.........

We are very grateful to have had three great artistes for you to watch in our virtual festival, we will keep the links available to these shows for a while longer so you can watch again with Heidi Browne, Robbie Cavanagh and all Sunjay.

We will also keep the links up for the shows recorded last summer's CJAB and the documentary film made by Callum Hilditch-Crimes, see below;

Link to Heidi's set

Link to Robbie's set

Link to Sunjay's set

Congleton Jazz and Blues 2020 Videos

CJAB 2020 Virtual festival, the links to the Virtual Festival and the documentary charting the early days to current of the festival are here for you to look peruse at your leisure. The documentary is 51 minutes long or you can view it in bite size chunks;

CJAB 2020 Virtual festival (1 Hour 16 mins);

The Alex Clarke Quartet

Robin Pierce solo

Jim Kirkpatrick and Heavyweather

CJAB Documentary;

Full documentary (51 mins)

CJAB 2020 VFEST

Full Documentary