Last Saturday saw the final Jazz Promenade of the season, and thankfully the weather turned out to be [relatively] kind, although it was threatening. The morning and afternoon brought consistent showers, which sent worried shivers through the set-up team, contemplating with horror a return to last year's quagmire-car parks, sodden lawns and slippery steps.
The sodden sweet peas may have looked pretty, but picnic brollies were an essential upon arrival:
As usual, though, we confirmed the weather in its better behaviour by putting up more and more tents!
By about 7.30pm, just in time for the music, you wouldn't have known it was the same day from the photographs.
The 'macintosh'-clad audience was treated first to some wonderfully intimate Flamenco in the cloister where
Eclipse held a capacity audience entranced by their beguiling Spanish dance. By the end of their set, there wasn't a cloud in the sky over the Casita, which provided a complete contrast with revved up Cuban rhythms from the masterful
Mojito, encouraging much revelry. A fuller report will no doubt follow with photographs from the team at Iford Arts.
From our perspective, as the venue itself, we were particularly pleased that each of the bands expressed themselves very happy with the space in which they performed; this really is as important as anything to us - happy musicians = happy audiences!
Well done to Iford Arts and their volunteers on organising another great night and a fantastic season of events.
(Performance photos to follow.)
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