Jazz for Kids: engage the Children - London Jazz Festival
Roundtable - 16th November at Southbank Centre, London, UK
This roundtable discussion, kindly organized by Serious/the EFG London Jazz Festival, was the starting point of this project aiming at coming up with a methodology for producing and presenting jazz concerts for children and young people.
After a short introduction by Nina Torske, coordinator of this activity, the attending artists shared their direct experiences in this sector and other attenders, including club managers, festival organizers, promoters, reflected upon them and commented, adding interesting suggestions, asking questions and expressing doubts – all this with the aim of raising the profile and get more people involved to work for kids in a professional way. The artists involved in the discussion were Supersonics (Petter Frost Fadnes - sax, Chris Sharkey - guitar and Ståle Birkeland – drums), Adriano Adewale and Juliet Kelly.
A second session of this activity will be organized at Vossa Jazz (Norway) in March 2015.
More updated information about this upcoming event will be released soon.
Download the full report here: link
