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Marsden Jazz Festival will always celebrate and showcase the highest quality and cutting edge music. But in doing so, we also have an incredible opportunity to influence the space around the music, bringing together the communities we represent, helping people understand each other, and nurturing allyship

Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in our audience survey at the end of last year!

Your feedback is helping us to look holistically at the festival and to continue to grow as a more diverse and inclusive festival for all.

We are so proud to be one of the first music festivals to sign up to the Black Lives in Music initiative and are working closely with the organisation to widen opportunities for black musicians at our festival.

Chronotope: Music in a Different Time and Place is a brand new commission from Marsden Jazz Festival which has been specially created in summer 2020 in response to the unprecedented global pandemic of Covid-19.

The festival is committed to protecting our artists, staff, volunteers and local community, and as such we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s Marsden Jazz Festival.

We have moved into a new decade, and so for International Women’s Day 2020 we thought we would look back over the incredible female artists who have featured at the festival over the last ten years.