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29/08/2024

Exciting news! The new '40th Swanage Blues 2024' festival wristbands have just arrived 🙂
Update on bands and venues to be released soon.
From Simon & Toni Darrington

04/08/2024

Just a quick update to let you know that the 40th Swanage Blues Festival will go ahead 3rd - 6th October in memory of Steve. We are currently reaching out to both the venues and artists to help make this a celebration that Steve would have loved.

04/01/2024

Advance poster - please share - thank you.

16/12/2023

21/11/2023

Sounds good to me!

🚨 Coming your way this very Friday! 🚨

We have our in house awesome DJ Paul Angel taking you through all things vinyl From jazz to funk.

We hope you can come and say hello, enjoy a drink or two and enjoy the vibes!

See you there 🍻

19/10/2023

The last gig guide was in March 2020, just before Covid hit. Maybe when times get better we can start again. Try the guides to counties on Facebook.

08/09/2023

🎼🎹🎷🎸 Swanage Jazz Machine 🎼🎹🎷🎸at The Grand Hotel Swanage
Sunday 10th September 2023, 2pm-4pm
Come and join us for an afternoon of live jazz music in the comfortable surroundings of the hotel Lounge with spectacular views over the bay. Prebook Sunday Lunch before hand or sit back and relax with a refreshing beverage from our bar.

05/08/2023

Please share.

13/07/2023

Just one of our 15 festival venues! Buy one £15 support wristband, includes admission to this and the other 14 venues as well!
The Centre acoustic concert hall - 7 & 8 October
Saturday:
Jonathan Townsend * Big Nose Thomas * Pete Harris & Jon Vaughan * Vince Lee & Sophie Lord * Dave Ferra & Katie Bradley * Spikedrivers
Sunday:
Rhythm Travellers with Robert Hokum * Ben White & Thomas Lucas * Rich Miller * Zoe Schwarz & Rob Koral * Blues Dharma * Staffell & Stewart
Swanage Blues Festival 5-8 October 2023
50 great gigs * 30 great acts * 15 indoor venues * open mic and jam sessions - All for only £15 support wristband!
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27/02/2023

All the shows at all the venues!

27/02/2023

A great article by Andrew Smith about the Swanage Blues Festival.

For the first time in its 22 year history., the Swanage Blues Festival is finally to collaborate with The Mowlem.

29/01/2023

06/01/2023

Pre-Order support wristbands and programmes now at https://www.swanage-blues.org/default.aspx?p=wristbands for
the 37th Swanage Blues Festival on 2-5 March 2023.
60 gigs, 30 acts, 14 venues. [Picture: Red Lion Swanage Dorset]

05/01/2023

Great news! Let's all congratulate Elmo, committee, staff and members for making this happen and for their ongoing support for Live Music and Swanage Blues Festivals!

We have some great news!
Looks like we will be here for a while more

01/01/2023

13/12/2022

Here are the posters for The Globe Inn Swanage this December!

13/12/2022

13/12/2022

Join us for an Artist’s discussion with Tony Kerins, in the theatre at The Mowlem

6 – 7pm Thursday 15th December - free entry!

Join Tony with his friends Julie Gadenne and David George for an illustrated discussion about drawing in the dark, performing in a place where everybody knows you and the purpose of all this fooling about. Chaired by Tim Edgar.

12/12/2022

DECEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
The 37th Swanage Blues Festival 2-5 March 2023
NEW CENTRAL VENUE
We are delighted to announce that the Showbar and Taproom at the The Mowlem Theatre, located in the heart of Swanage, overlooking the bay, has joined Swanage Blues Festival! The venue has utterly magnificent views, lots of space, a disabled toilet and lift. We thank the trustees, management and staff of The Mowlem Theatre for all their efforts to create such a tremendous asset for the community, and to enable us to include The Showbar on our support wristband trail for the 37th Swanage Blues Festival in March 2023.
A Mowlem Theatre spokesperson said: "We are over the moon to announce we will be a part of the Swanage Blues Festival in 2023! We want to thank Steve and Nico for giving us this opportunity to be part of such a fantastic weekend!"
Please support this new venue by sampling their wares and seeing some of the four bands who will be playing there (details later). Success with the Showbar may well lead to us securing the Theatre itself in the future (approx 380 capacity).
The Centre acoustic concert venue has another tremendous programme, thanks to Mark Stasiuk of Bletchley Blues Club and Festival - he's such an asset to the festival and we all appreciate him very much.
We are sourcing other small places to add to the variety and demand for playing opportunities, with hopefully news of another new, very exclusive venue joining in from 2023..... watch this space!
ARTISTS
I'm currently compiling the jigsaw of talent that is a Swanage Blues Festival, so full details are not yet available. There'll be some of the regulars you love plus new names on the bill. Thomas Heppell and Isobel Thatcher Duo will be having their own slots as a result of their excellent contributions at Open Mic and Jam Sessions over the years. Jaycee Sarah and Rod will be offering some dancing sessions - a SBF first. You may have already seen them at a festival or if you are a Facebook fan on the public groups: 'Blues In Bournemouth' or 'Shots from The Swanage Blues Festival'. Well worth a look.
Andy Bradshaw is back by public demand hosting the open mic sessions at the Red Lion. Pete Harris, Robin Bibi, Jon Walsh & Ray Drury, Chicago 9 Rhythm n Blues Band and The Fabulous Duck Brothers are back too. This list is not exhaustive, more to come of course.
WRISTBANDS AND PROGRAMMES
You will be able to place your orders for these in January. We had previously considered raising the cost of wristbands to £15 for the weekend back in 2022, but were worried about affordability to all. However, with ever increasing costs, we would now like to ask those of you who are able, to pay £15 per wristband from the March 2023 onwards. If you're struggling, continue to pop £10 in as before. This will ensure we can keep covering the basic costs of running the festival in its current form.
Any enquiries to me in confidence via the enquiry form on the website please. You can use that for anything you want to say about the last festival too.
Steve Darrington, festival organiser

08/12/2022

Please share, thank you.

03/12/2022

Open on 3 December at 11 for unique gifts and produce 🎄for 9 days