Mostly Jazz Festival 2011 - 1-3rd July Birmingham Mosley Park

Tim has passed on word of an off the beat event that brings a welcome vision of summer into the room on this dull spring's sort of here monday morning.

Press release below

The Mostly Jazz Festival 2011 will be taking place on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd July in Birmingham's Moseley Park.

The event will be headlined by Booker T and Matthew Herbert and The

Cinematic Orchestra. Other performances will include Pigbag, Brass

Roots, Hidden Orchestra, and Milestones playing Miles Davis' Kind of

Blue in full.

BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles will be returning to the festival to

compere for the second year on Sunday 3rd July. He'll be bringing his

Funk & Soul Club and some of his favourite acts, including Smoove &

Turrell and Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson will be at the festival on Friday 1st

July, introducing a range of the acts he's championed of late, such as

Alice Russell and Brandt Brauer Frick.

full info at

http://mostlyjazz.co.uk/