Hi everyone, just keeping you up to date of our whereabouts as you requested when you originally signed up to our newsletter at a live gig! The Jake Leg Jug Band forthcoming tour dates for July are listed first then you will find my own personal dates for The Hit Parade Heroes, The Lonnie Donegan Story and The Story of Skiffle among other projects listed below.

JAKE LEG JUG BAND – TOUR DATES – JULY 2024

WED 03 JUL 2024    AMERSHAM JAZZ CLUB (HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS)
8.00pm, 3 x 40 min sets. @ Royal British Legion. www.amershamjazzclub.co.uk

​THU 04 JUL 2024     PUMP HOUSE JAZZ CLUB (WATFORD)
8.00pm, 3 x 45 min sets. @ The Pump House Theatre. www.pumphouse.info 

​FRI 05 JUL 2024       FISHERY WHARF CAFE (BOXMOOR, HERTFORDSHIRE)
8.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets. www.fisherywharfcafe.co.uk 

​SUN 07 JUL 2024      OLD BARN HALL JAZZ CLUB (GREAT BOOKHAM, SURREY)
1.00pm, 3 x 50 min sets  www.thejazzguide.co.uk/venues/listing/old-barn-hall

​SUN 14 JUL 2024      SOLIHULL JAZZ (WEST MIDLANDS)
12.30pm, 2 x 60 min sets. @ Broomfields Hall. www.jazzamatazz.org.uk

​SUN 14 JUL 2024      THE VAULTS (UTTOXETER, STAFFORDSHIRE)
5.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets. www.facebook.com/thevaultsuttoxeter

​THU 25 JUL 2024      BIRMINGHAM JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL (WEST MIDLANDS)
11.00am, 2 x 50 min sets. @ The Exchange. www.birminghamjazzfestival.com

​THU 25 JUL 2024      BIRMINGHAM JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL (WEST MIDLANDS)
5.30pm, 2 x 50 min sets. @ Lee Longlands. www.birminghamjazzfestival.com

​THU 25 JUL 2024      BIRMINGHAM JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL (WEST MIDLANDS)
9.15pm, 2 x 50 min sets. @ The Night Owl (Digbeth). www.birminghamjazzfestival.com

​FRI 26 JUL 2024      TEWKESBURY LIVE FESTIVAL (GLOUCESTERSHIRE)
6.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets. @ The Anchor. www.tewkesburylive.co.uk

WARREN JAMES – TOUR DATES – JULY 2024

Wed 3 – Marlybone, Private Engagement – Silk Street Music @ 4pm to 7pm

Wed 3 – High Wycombe, Amersham Jazz – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 8pm

Thur 4 – Watford, Pump House Arts Centre – Jake Leg Jug Band

Fri 5 – Bedford, Private Engagement – Silk Street Music @ 10am to 1pm

Fri 5 – Boxmoore, Fishery Wharf Cafe – Jake Leg Jug Band

Sat 6 – Darlington, Jazz Club – Lonnie Donegan Story @ 12pm – Special Guest: Joe Moretti

Sun 7 – Surrey, Old Barn Jazz Club, Bookham – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 12 noon

Sat 13 – Bristol, The Old Duke – The Hit Parade Heroes @ 9pm

Sun 14 – Solihull, Jazzamatazz, Broonfield Hall – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 12 noon

Sun 14 – Uttoxeter, The Vaults of Uttoxeter – The Jake Leg Jug Band @ 5pm

Mon 15 – Hastings, Private Engagement – Silk Street Music 11am to 2pm

Tue 16 – Hampton in Arden, Fentham Hall – Lonnie Donegan Story

Sat 20 – Doveholes, Jazz Club – Lonnie Donegan Story – Special Guest: Phil Shotton

Sun 21 – Coventry, Jazzamatazz – Warren James Skiffle Group @ 12 noon – Guest TBC

Mon 22 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival – Great Bridge Library – The Hit Parade Heroes @ 7:30pm

Tues 23 – Mablethorpe, Tower Tavern – Appearing with Andy Eastwood’s THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Wed 24 – Birningham Jazz & Blues Festival – Earlsdon Village @ 7:30pm – The Hit Parade Heroes – Special Guest: Simon Smith

Thur 25 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival, The Exchange, Centenary Sq – The Jake Leg Jug Band @ 11am

Thur 25 – Nottingham,  Rhythm Club – Jazzaholics @ 8pm

Fri 26 – Tewkesbury, The Anchor – The Jake Leg Jug Band @ 8pm

Sat 27 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival – Coventry CBS Arena @ 12:30pm – The Warren James Skiffle Group

Sat 27 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival – The Brasshouse, Broad Steet @ 5pm – The Warren James Skiffle Group

Sun 28 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival – Haden Hill House @ 2pm – The Warren James Skiffle Group – Guest: Simon Smith

Sun 28 – Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival – The Station, Sutton Coldfield @ 7pm – The Warren James Skiffle Group – Guest: Simon Smith

Wed 31 – Pershore Jazz Club – Lonnie Donegan Story – Special Guest: Alex Clarke

June gig update for The Jake Leg Jug Band and Warren James’ Hit Parade heroes / The Lonnie Donegan Story and Baby Jools and The Jazzaholics.

So far The Jake Leg Jug Band have 97 dates from January to the end of 2024 – those dates are rising!

FRI 31 MAY 2024      PEBBLES TAVERN (WATCHET, SOMERSET)
8.30pm,  2 x 45 min sets. www.facebook.com/pebblestavern

​SUN 02 JUN 2024      VINTAGE NOSTALGIA FESTIVAL (WILTSHIRE) 
2.00pm, @ The bus top bar, 2 x 45 min sets. www.vintagenostalgiafestival.co.uk

​THU 06 JUN 2024      KELMARSH HALL & GARDENS (NORTHAMPTON) 
6.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets. www.kelmarsh.com

​SAT 08 JUN 2024      BERKHAMSTED JAZZ (HERTFORDSHIRE) 
8.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets  @ Berkhamsted Civic Centre. www.bjazz.org

​SAT 15 JUN 2024      YORK HOUSE CENTRE (STONEY STRATFORD, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE) 
8.30pm, 2 x 45 min sets  www.york-house.org.uk

​SAT 22 JUN 2024      THE JAZZ CENTRE UK (SOUTHEND-ON-SEA) 
2.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets  @ Beecroft Art Gallery. www.thejazzcentreuk.co.uk

​SAT 29 JUN 2024      DALWOOD MUSIC DAY (AXMINSTER, DEVON)
3.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets @ Dalwood Village Hall. Tickets: t.mackenney111@btinternet.com

​Warren James’ dates include this Sunday, 2 June – Hit Parade Heroes at 6:30pm at SNOBS Bar at 200 Broad Street, Birmingham – events previously held at the O Bar on Broad Street, but have now moved…. other dates include The Lonnie Donegan Story and Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics, all listed below

Sat 1 – Gloucester, St Oswald’s Village – The Hit Parade Heroes – Special Guest: Liam Ward
Sun 2 – Birmingham, Snobs Bar, 200 Broad Street – The Hit Parade Heroes @ 6:30pm
Wed 5 – Uttoxeter – Wedding – 2pm
Wed 5 – Sutton Coldfield Jazz Club – Jazzaholics 8pm
Thur 6 – Chaddesley Corbett, The Swan – Jazzaholics
Fri 7 – Tipton, Horseley Tavern – The Hit Parade Heroes
Sat 8 – Birkhamstead, Jazz Club – Jake Leg Jug Band
Sun 9 – LANZAROTE
Mon 10 – LANZAROTE
Tues 11 – LANZAROTE
Wed 12 – LANZAROTE
Thur 13 – LANZAROTE
Sat 15 – Stoney Stratford, York House Centre – Jake Leg Jug Band
Sun 16 – Uttoxeter, The Horse & Dove – The Hit Parade Heroes with Mike Owen and Barry Meek @ 1pm
Sun 16 – Uttoxeter, The Vaults of Uttoxeter – The Hit Parade Heroes with Mike Owen and Barry Meek @ 4pm
Sat 22 – Southend, Jazz Centre – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 2pm
Sat 22 – Shipston on Stour, Townsend Hall – Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics @ 8pm
Sat 29 – Louth, Jazz Club – Jazzaholics
Sun 30 – Worcester, Chestnut Tree – Warren James R ‘n’ R duo @ 6pm Special Guest: Duncan Wilc

It would appear that the Jake Leg Jug Band gospel shows have been fantastically received with very enthusiastic crowds and more and more venues being added, many of them at churches around the country

Our new CD release, Some Glad Morning, is selling remarkably already – you can get yours here if you haven’t already https://www.thejakelegjugband.com/discography

This week I will be performing with The Jake Leg Jug Band in Carlisle this week

Thursday 23 May at CARLISLE JAZZ CLUB – 8.30pm – to be held at Carlisle Rugby Club. http://www.carlislejazzclub.co.uk​

Then on Friday 24th May I am performing this special event – The Lonnie Donegan Story at New Oscott Village, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B23 5LD – I will be joined by New Orleans drumming legend, Baby Jools… West End musical bassist, Jim Swinnerton… and my pal from the Jake Leg Jug Band, Liam Ward will join us on Harmonica.

Doors open at 7pm – tickets are £9 and the venue has a full bar and dance floor… If you are near or in Sutton Coldfield then please come along and join us, you’ll have a great night hearing about the man who launched British pop music and brought American folk and blues music to our shores in the mid 50s.

BOOK YOUR TICKET NOW on 0121 377 5000

Sunday 26th – I shall be performing at Stafford Jazz Club with Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics

Tuesday 28th – I’m on electric guitar duties with The Liam Ward Band at Bletchley Blues Club

Summer kicked in and it has popped off again, so everyone in the Jake Leg Jug Band and my own bands wish you a bright, warm and happy time at all of those live gigs taking place around the UK… Keep supporting live music folks – you’ll miss it of it went (again).

Best wishes,

Warren James – www.WarrenJamesGuitar.com
The Lonnie Donegan Story
The Jake Leg Jug Band
Hit Parade Heroes
Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics
The Johnny Cash Songbook

You are receiving this because you signed up to our newsletter at a live gig and requested updates, this is thems!

I have a nice busy month ahead of me with concert in all four corners of the job centre.

I’ll be as far south as Cornwall and as far north as Edinburgh and travelling east and west for Filey and Manchester.

Also, I will support to the folk rock band Merry Hell at Filey Folk Festival

Last month, we performed our final Walk on Back to Happiness concert at Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, Southampton.

That show will now become The Hit Parade Heores details here

But a great time was had at the concert and a short snippet can be found here

The rest of this months concert dates will be as follows

Wed 1 – Sutton Coldfield Jazz Club – Jake Leg Jug Band

Thur 2 – York, Dringhouses Jazz Club – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 12 noon

Fri 3 – Saltburn, Arts Centre – Jake Leg Jug Band

Sat 4 – Filey Folk Fest, The Everon Centre – Warren James & Duncan Wilcox Supporting Merry Hell

Sun 5 – Filey, Methodist Church – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 1pm

Sun 5 – Filey, Folk Festival, Yorkshire – Jake Leg Jug Band @ 7pm

Mon 6 – Milverton, Street Fayre – Jake Leg Jug Band

Wed 8 – Bristol, Old Duke – Jake Leg Jug Band

Fri 10 – Newbold Verdon, Baptist Church – Jake Leg Jug Band

Sat 11 – Bude, Methodist Church – Jake Leg Jug Band

Sun 12 – Marchington Woodlands, St John The Baptist Church – The Jake Leg Jug Band

Thur 16 – Didsbury, Jazz Club – Jake Leg Jug Band

Fri 17 – Edinburgh, Jazz & Jive Club – Jake Leg Jug Band

Thur 23 – Carlisle Jazz Club – Jake Leg Jug Band

Fri 24 – Sutton Coldfield, New Oscott Village – Lonnie Donegan Story

Sun 26 – Stafford, Jazz Society – Jazzaholics

Tues 28 – Bletchley, Blues Club – The Liam Ward Band

Fri 31 – Somerset, Watchet – Jake Leg Jug Band

All details can be found at www.WarrenJamesGuitar.com

EXCITING NEWS EVERYONE – our 9th studio album SOME GLAD MORNING is out to purchase on GREEN BULLET RECORDS

Simply click here to order your copy

The album launch will take place this coming Sunday, 5th May, at Filey Methodist Church at 2pm.

With a busy month ahead of us, we look forward to seeing you as we travel and perform around a good proportion of the UK.

LIVE DATES MAY 2024

WED 01 MAY 2024

SUTTON COLDFIELD TRAD JAZZ CLUB (WEST MIDLANDS)

8.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets @ Boldmere Sports & Social Club

www.facebook.com/SuttonColdfieldTradJazzClub

THU 02 MAY 2024

DRINGHOUSES JAZZ CLUB (NORTH YORKSHIRE)

1.00pm, 3 x 40 min sets @ Dringhouses Sports Club

FRI 03 MAY 2024

SALTBURN ARTS (NORTH YORKSHIRE)

7.30pm, 2 x 45 min sets @ Saltburn Community Theatre.

www.saltburnarts.co.uk/music

SUN 05 MAY 2024

FILEY METHODIST CHURCH (NORTH YORKSHIRE)

2.00pm. 2 x 45 min sets. Album launch.

www.fileymethodistchurch.org.uk

GOSPEL CONCERT

SUN 05 MAY 2024

FILEY FOLK FESTIVAL (NORTH YORKSHIRE)

7.30pm. 2 x 45 min sets @ The Evron Centre

www.fileyevroncentre.co.uk

MON 06 MAY 2024

MILVERTON STREET FAIR (SOMERSET)

12.30pm, 2 x 45 min sets.

www.milverton.org.uk

WED 08 MAY 2024

THE OLD DUKE (BRISTOL)

9.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets.

www.theoldduke.co.uk

FRI 10 MAY 2024

NEWBOLD VERDON BAPTIST CHURCH (LEICESTER)

7.30pm, 2 x 45 min sets.

www.facebook.com/NewboldVerdonBaptistChurch

GOSPEL CONCERT

For information and tickets please email: nvbaptistevent@btinternet.com

SAT 11 MAY 2024

BUDE METHODIST CHURCH (CORNWALL) 

7.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets.

www.budeandholsworthymethodists.org.uk

GOSPEL CONCERT

SUN 12 MAY 2024

ST JOHN’S CHURCH (MARCHINGTON WOODLANDS, STAFFS) 

7.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets.

www.marchingtonwoodlandschurch.co.uk 

GOSPEL CONCERT

THU 16 MAY 2024

DIDSBURY JAZZ CLUB (MANCHESTER)

8.00pm 2 x 60 min sets. @ Didsbury Cricket Club.

www.jazznorthwest.co.uk/didsbury.htm

FRI 17 MAY 2024

EDINBURGH JAZZ ‘N’ JIVE CLUB (SCOTLAND)

8.00pm, 3 x 45 min sets @ Heriot’s Rugby Club.

www.edinburghjazz.com

THU 23 MAY 2024

CARLISLE JAZZ CLUB (CUMBRIA)

8.30pm, 2 x 60 min sets @ Carlisle Rugby Club.

www.carlislejazzclub.co.uk

FRI 31 MAY 2024

PEBBLES TAVERN (WATCHET, SOMERSET)

8.30pm,  2 x 45 min sets.

www.facebook.com/pebblestavern

You can find all dates online at www.thejakelegjugband.com also on our WhatsApp Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaaKc2B3QxRtdtB1T50f

Greetings everyone – of course, you already know that you are receiving this email because you joined The Jake Leg Jug Band mailing list at a live gig.

We are delighted to announce the launch of  our new WhatsApp channel for the Jake Leg Jug Band.

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Greetings everyone – of course, you already know that you are receiving this email because you joined The Jake Leg Jug Band mailing list at a live gig.

We are delighted to announce the launch of  our new WhatsApp channel for the Jake Leg Jug Band.

A new, easy, and very secure way of receiving our updates.

Using the device that you have WHATSAPP on (usually your phone), simply click the link below and select FOLLOW in the channel, and that should be it.

CLICK HERE FOR THE JAKE LEG CHANNEL

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Most people have WhatsApp these days, so it makes perfect sense to just get an update via the channel.

Please join us at the link above…

I’m delighted to announce my gigs for this month with The Jake Leg Jug Band, The Hit Parade Heroes, The Lonnie Donegan Story and Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics – plug a guest appearance with The Liam Ward Blues Band… All details can be found at www.WarrenJamesGuitar.com

I know what you’re thinking… Why didn’t I just send The Jake Leg Jug Band’s April update on Monday 1st April?… Well, I just knew that you wouldn’t believe me!

Having completed the first quarter of 2024 so quickly, we now move into the next and with it comes brighter nights and hopefully finer weather that will see some lovely outdoor performances as well as some exciting new ventures for the band.

Our gospel album “Some Glad Morning” (album number 9) will be released within the next month and it will also be available at all of our shows, especially the dedicated gospel shows that we are doing throughout the year in a number of UK churches.

See our dates listed below for the month ahead

APRIL 2024

SAT 06 APR 2024      DARLINGTON NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLUB (COUNTY DURHAM)
12.30pm, 2 x 60 min sets. @ St Augustine’s Parish Hall. www.darlingtonjazz.co.uk

​THU 11 APR 2024      ST ANDREW’S CHURCH (WIVELISCOMBE, SOMERSET)  
7.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets. www.wiveychurches.org.uk/locations/st-andrews GOSPEL CONCERT

​FRI 12 APR 2024       ELLIEB JAZZ WEEKEND (STREET, SOMERSET)
Time TBC, 2 x 60 min sets. @ The Wessex Hotel. www.elliebjazz.co.uk

​SAT 13 APR 2024      CALSTOCK ARTS (CORNWALL)
8.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets. www.calstockarts.org

​SUN 14 APR 2024      THE CONCORDE CLUB (SOUTHAMPTON)
1.00pm, 2 x 60 min sets. www.theconcordeclub.com

​SAT 20 APR 2024      THE BRITANNIA (LONDON)
9.00pm, 2 x 45 min sets. www.britannia.smokd.co.uk

​SUN 28 APR 2024      OLD BARN HALL JAZZ CLUB (GREAT BOOKHAM, SURREY)
1.00pm, 3 x 50 min sets  www.thejazzguide.co.uk/venues/listing/old-barn-hall

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Hello roots music fans everywhere, be you a fan of jazz, blues, folk, country or good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll. May I start by congratulating you all on keeping live music ALIVE and booming everywhere you go and thank you for being YOU… The people who leave the house, who come out and who enjoy sharing the great atmosphere of live sound.

March is now here, almost a quarter of the way through the year, which is not a bad thing at this time of year because it’s sunshine and warmth are just on the horizon.

This month I am on the road with The Jake Leg Jug Band, with Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics and with The Lonnie Donegan Story, as well as concerts with the 50s nostalgia show The Hit Parade Heroes and The Story of Skiffle.

MY EXCITING NEWS THIS MONTH is that The Lonnie Donegan Story is now officially confirmed to appear at THE GREAT BRITISH R&B FESTIVAL – and why not? He was the king of roots music in the UK.

1 – He had one of the first jazz bands on the British trad scene in 1950 – The Tony Donegan Jazz Band.
2 – He was a founder member of the legendary Ken Colyer Jazzmen.
3 – He was a founder member of The Chris Barber Jazz Band.
4 – He was among the first to perform with blues legends, Lonnie Johnson, 5 – Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee and Josh White.
6 – He commercialised blues music, he commercialised folk music and is the sole reason that many jazz banjo players, blues guitarists and and rock stars ever made it in the music business at all.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO LONNIE

I have The Story of Skiffle concert, the follow up to the Lonnie Story, appearing at Bude Jazz Festival this year and I am delighted to announce that another major Jazz Festival along with a major Folk Festival are ready to accept the show for 2025

So what can I say?

The next 2 years are going to be epic, especially when you consider next years tour of Denmark with Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics!

It is most certainly a great time to be doing what I do and I thank you all for your support because without you I’m just a sad lonely guitarist with a banjo at my side.

THIS MONTHS TOUR DATES FOR ME ARE AS FOLLOWS

MARCH 2024

Sat 2 – Kingston Upon Thames, Ram Jam Records – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Sun 3 – Willingham, Jazz Club, Cambs – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Sat 9 – Camden, The Green Not – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Sun 10 – Birmingham, The O Bar – with The Hit Parade Heroes – 6pm
Fri 15 – Caterham Surrey & South London Blues Club – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Sat 16 – Congleton Unplugged – with The Jake Leg Jug Band – 2pm
Sun 17 – Stafford, Jazz Society – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Wed 20 – Amersham, Jazz Club, High Wycombe – The Warren James Skiffle Group
Fri 22 – Northamton, Ravensthorpe Village Hall – with Baby Jools & The Jazzaholics
Sat 23 – London, Candlemaker – with The Jake Leg Jug Band
Sun 24 – Halesowen Jazz Club, Cricket Club – with The Lonnie Donegan Story
Fri 29 – Nantwich, Nantwich Jazz and Blues – with The Hit Parade Heroes
Sat 30 – Tipton, Horseley Tavern – with The Hit Parade Heroes
Sun 31 – Worcester, Chestnut Tree – The Warren James R’n’R duo