Recent Posts

• Ministers have come to the rescue. Artists must seize this chance – up to a point Lord Copper
• Congratulations to Oliver Dowden on the £1.5 billion rescue package for the arts and culture
• Stress Testing
• Recipients Announced For 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards
• Dowden does not want to let anyone down – cue laughter
• “The world looks to British theatre. So let’s get it back on track…”
• The All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group urge Arts Council England to reinstate National Lottery Projects Grants
• All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2020 – Nominations Announced
• After the war the arts came back stronger?
• Reinstatement of Arts Council national lottery grants to help jazz musicians and volunteer jazz promoters.
• Your Chance To Perform – A Chance To Help Jazz Musicians And Promoters
• The Guardian leader on culture was looking at music through rose tinted spectacles Monday 23rd March 2020
• Does Jazz Get The Money Due To It – Jazzwise March 2020
• The Observer Autumn Culture Preview needs to broaden its outlook
• 2019 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards Nominations Announced
• Rebirth of the cool – Streaming helps jazz reach new audiences – up to a point Lord Copper
• Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2019
• Debbie Dickinson 17 May 1957 – 1 March 2019
• Ubuntu Music – End of year report – Top marks and a gold star.
• 2018 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards Nominations Announced
• Arts Council England funding of National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for jazz 2014/2022
• How music streaming saved the music industry?
• Rhythm and Reaction – The Age of Jazz in Britain – Two Temple Place – 27th January to 22nd April 2018
• Response to the Industrial Strategy – Creative Industries Sector Deal
• Arts Council England – The Next Ten Years – The Conversation, Discussing a future strategy for arts, museums, libraries 2020 to 2030
• “Opera is many things to me. Elitist is not one of them” – please debate
• Jazz FM Awards 2018 – Nominees Announced
• Arts Council England funding of National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for jazz 2014/2018
• Jazz Education Awards announced
• MusicTank announces that it is to receive the assets of JazzUK as part of that charity’s formal closure.
• JazzUK hands over the baton to MusicTank
• “Opera is often derided as elitist”
• Arts Council England’s funding decisions are based on the bounded rationality of the past
• The Arts Council funds the arts in England for four years without coherent art form policies
• Jazz Heritage Wales Annual Review 2016
• All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group
• Will Michael Jazz Education Awards 2016
• Response to the Culture White Paper
• John Evans 1934 – 2015
• An Unholy Row – Jazz in Britain and its Audience 1945 – 1960. Dave Gelly. Published by Equinox
• Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights
• A review of The Knowledge. Jazz by John Fordham
• National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain at Southwark Cathedral July 1st 2015
• Arts Council England’s “Ambition for Excellence Fund” and a twenty five year vision
• Congratulations to the National Youth Jazz Orchestra celebrating fifty years
• Arts Council England – A policy for the support of jazz in England – Published 1996
• Jazz In Issue 29 Oct-Dec 1993 Arts Council Review of Jazz
• Public investment in jazz – or the lack of it
• My latest enquiries at the Arts Council
• Welcome to chrishodgkins.co.uk!