Author: Peter Bacon

Our second gig for 2024 takes us to Bolehill Manor Club in Tamworth. It’s on Monday 8 April and Bolehall Manor is in Amington Road, Tamworth B77 3LH. Doors open at 7.20pm with the band taking the stand at 8pm.

We’ll be playing a wide range of jazz from the last 50 years or more, from ballads of the Great American Songbook to funkier numbers, plus a little blues.

Jazz At The Manor happens on the second Monday of the month and usually features nationally-known bands on tour, so New Vintage are thrilled to have been chosen for this, their next gig.

We were delighted to be playing for a full house at the Kings Bromley Jazz Club’s inaugural meeting on Wednesday, but the Tamworth gig is a little further from our home patch so we’d love to see as many of you there as can make it.

Tickets on the door are £12 – cash only – there is a licensed bar and free parking.

New Vintage were due to play as previously advertised at In The City in Lichfield on Sunday 24 September but, despite agreeing both September gigs, last Sunday the restaurant’s new owners told us we’d just played our last session there.

Apologies to anyone who has booked and was hoping to hear us on the 24th.

If there is anyone out there with a restaurant who would like a modestly-priced five-piece playing background music as an added attraction to their ambience and menu, please get in touch.

New Vintage did a few very successful sessions at the lovely XO Lounge in Streetly (just alongside Sutton Park) last summer, and we’re back there again on Saturday afternoon, 26 August.

The setting is a cool patio area and there are delicious cocktails, beers and fine wines on offer for jazz fans to enjoy while we play.

More info about the XO Lounge. You can book a table to ensure a good spot.

New Vintage will be playing for Sunday lunch diners at In The City, Lichfield, between 12 noon and 3pm on Sunday 9 July and Sunday 23 July.

To book a table, click on this link

This evening New Vintage will be celebrating the man without whom we wouldn’t have met and wouldn’t now be playing together: Brian Pretty.

The long-time champion of live music in Lichfield and especially jazz, who died earlier this year, was instrumental in starting the first community big band, called Blast Off, under the direction of Nick Dewhurst. It was in this band that four of New Vintage first got to know each other.

Brian’s Big Bash – A Tribute To Brian Pretty is at the Guildhall in Lichfield this evening from 7.30pm. Headlining the event are King Pleasure And The Biscuit Boys, and also performing are ASpire, the newly established community big band that is carrying on the tradition of Blast Off.

More details here

Some or all of us will be at In The City (best known as McKenzie’s) in Lichfield city centre in the coming weeks. The dates, all Sundays, are 14 May, 28 May, 18 June and 25 June. We play background jazz for dining between 12 noon and 3pm. We hope to announce July dates in due course…

For more details and to book go to In The City