Brick Lane Jazz Festival teams up with Sounds Queer to bring you the London Queer Jazz scene at Juju’s on Saturday 17th December!
Join us for a colorful Xmas party featuring live performances and DJ sets by some of the best queeratives from the capital.
There will be hosting from Drag Barbs and Sounds Queer DJs In between acts. Lineup:
✦ BARBS OPENING NUMBER 8:00 – 8:15 PM
✦ BESSI LIVE 8:15 PM Bessi is a songwriter & music producer from Brighton, UK. She grew up playing jazz guitar and writing from a young age, discovering her love of jazz vocalists such as Billie Holiday & Ella Fitzgerald. Bessi produced Electronic music through her previous project Sea Bed, which saw her gain support from Radio 1 & Radio 6 Music & playing the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury.
✦ GEO JORDAN LIVE – 9:15 PM Geo Jordan is an eclectic electronic artist, producer, Grammy Nominated writer and multi-instrumentalist. His self-produced solo project explores themes of the human experience. With pop oriented synthesis, lush vocals, quirky lyricism, catchy guitar riffs and complex rhythms creating a futurist fusion of electronic music brimming with eclectic influence.
✦ TINA EDWARDS DJ SET – 10:00 – 1:00AM One of the most curious and respected selectors in the U.K., Tina Edwards joins the dots between Jazz and club culture. Tina brings together a broad range of sounds; think contemporary and uncovered gems; large-scale jazz, funk, disco, a spectrum of house music and even left-field pop.
Sounds Queer is a queer live music platform spanning genre, expression and identity, championing diverse voices and sounds from the LGBTQIA+ community. More information here: https://www.soundsqueer.co.uk/