Sheffield Jazz is looking for more trustees to join us. We are also looking for volunteers who can help with distributing our leaflets and posters and/or by manning the door and selling raffle tickets at Crookes Social Club when we have gigs there. The key requirements for becoming a trustee are to like jazz and be willing and able to give a few hours…
If you want to grab a meal before a gig at Crookes Social Club, here are some places which are recommended on Tripadvisor: Casanova (Italian): http://www.casanova-sheffield.co.uk/ Phone: 0114 2666684 Indian Chef: www.indian-chef-sheffield.co.uk/ Phone 0114 266 6052 No Name Bistro (TYO): www.facebook.com/NO-NAME-Sheffield-1695321363841840/?ref=py_c Phone 01142661520 Also The Ball pub (http://www.ball-sheffield.co.uk/ ) does decent and reasonable pub grub. Phone: 0114 2661211.
Would you or your business be interested in sponsoring one of these gigs? The benefits to you would be some reserved seats, a chance for you and your party to meet with the artists, and, if you wish, acknowledgement in our leaflets and website and on the evening. Sheffield Jazz and its audiences would benefit through being able to organise…
We will all have different views about what the appropriate level of overall funding for the Arts should be but the paltry proportion which Jazz receives (which is totally disproportionate to relative audience sizes) and its concentration on London is a scandal. From information compiled by Chris Hodgkins in 2019: Audience sizes According to the Arts Council about 3.4 million…