Contact us

Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival
c/o Kaos Production
Suite 241
91 Mayflower Street
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 1SB


Festival Directors:
Dan Thompson
dan@barbicanjazzandbluesfestival.com
T: 07768 726899

Katie Thompson
katie@barbicanjazzandbluesfestival.com

Festival Project Manager:
Greta Viviani
greta@barbicanjazzandbluesfestival.com

Find us on Facebook here


Find us on MySpace here: www.myspace.com/barbicanjazzandblues

Press & Downloads

Here's where you'll find our Digital Brochure, our Business Pack, our logo, imagery and press releases to download.

Click on each link, chose right-click (Cmd+click on a Mac) and select Save As... to save to your desktop.

Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival 2011 programme (PDF, 8.09Mb)

You can download and print off your own Festival poster. (you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read and print this, and the business plan below)

Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival A3 poster as PDF (1.42mb)

Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival logo (high-resolution: 760k)

Press release about Festival Village and Market (uploaded March 4, 2011)
Download it here (50k)

Press release about Sponsors and Venues (uploaded March 4, 2011)
Download it here (51k)

General press release about 2011 Festival, including news of headline acts, Stroller tickets, Jazz Village and Swing Sunday (uploaded Feb 11)

Download general press release here as Word document (66k)

Or you can download a zipped folder of print-resolution images (mostly taken by Festival photographer Rob Ditcher), that also includes our logo and the poster below, as well as captions.

Download Zipped folder of Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival imagery here (73 mb)

Our Business Pack shows the way to work with the Festival to market your brand or company.

You can advertise with the Festival, you can be an Official Festival Venue or Official Accommodation Provider, you can raise your brand's profile with sponsorship or you can become a Festival Friend.

DOWNLOAD OUR BUSINESS PACK HERE (894k)

We've unveiled our business plan until 2012, with the vision:

“To become one of the UK’s most vibrant, accessible, charismatic and exciting city music festivals within the next five years, attracting national and international tourism to its rich mix of excellent artistes within Plymouth’s historic quayside quarter and to support A Vision for Plymouth as one of Europe’s finest, most vibrant waterfront cities, offering an outstanding quality of life for all its citizens”

Download a PDF version of the plan by clicking here (2.12mb)

Our Equality Opportunities and Equality & Diversity Policies are available for viewing by clicking here

Shop

Visit our Amazon e-shop by clicking here.

Or you can buy music from artistes featured at past and present Festivals right here:

Advertise

 "Many thanks for the work that has been generated from our advert in this year's event programme. We have had 5 hires from 1 client...Nice one !!!"
- a happy 2009 advertiser

We've got great opportunities to advertise your brand, service or business through the Festival.

In particular, our full-colour brochure offers great rates, distribution and impact.

We print up 20,000 full colour brochures which are distributed throughout the South West, the UK and overseas in the run-up to the Festival. The brochure is also distributed freely throughout the Festival itself.

For advertising in the full-colour A5 landscape Official Festival Brochure, the following rates apply:

Full page (3 columns): £POA
One column: £POA
Half column: £POA
Brochure back page: £POA


Advert sizes:
Full page advert: 194mm wide x 128mm high
One column advert: 62mm wide x 128mm high
Half column advert: 62mm wide x 64mm high

Adverts need to be provided in the following formats:

Either JPEG – must be 300dpi and sized to the dimensions of chosen advert.

Or a high-resolution PDF (300dpi) and sized to the dimensions of chosen advert.

Fonts must be embedded into the PDF.



If you'd like to take up the limited advertising spaces in this excellent piece of print, you'll need to contact our sales team.

Email: sylvia@barbicanjazzandbluesfestival.com for more details

Gallery

You can see pictures of past Festivals online - click here to visit our gallery





Enjoy a video of the first Festival below:
Barbican Jazz and Blues Festival 2008

Events

Jazz Parade
Workshops
Swing Sunday

Venues

The Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival is spread across a network of venues in the historic quayside Barbican area of Plymouth.

We'll be unveiling our Official Festival Venues 2010 very soon and they will be hosting Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival events.

Of course, there will be events in other Barbican venues during the Festival too – so do check these out as well.

If you are interested in being an Offical Festival Venue in the future, please contact us (in the Contact Us section)



The B-bar: an intimate bar in the Barbican Theatre, serving Thai noodles and drinks. Also doubling as Festival HQ.
ADDRESS: Castle Street, The Barbican, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ


TELEPHONE: 01752 242021
WEBSITE: www.b-bar.co.uk

The Barbican Theatre: Plymouth's fringe theatre
ADDRESS: Castle Street, The Barbican, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ
TELEPHONE: 01752 267131
WEBSITE: www.barbicantheatre.co.uk

Line-up

Look down the line-up to see where and when the music's happening during the Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival 2011 (all acts subject to change).


CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL VERSION OF OUR FESTIVAL PROGRAMME AS A PDF (suitable for print/8.09Mb)