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The Herald Scotland
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025 wraps with packed shows
With more than 200 musicians taking part in over 35 performances, the festival offered a wide range of events, including free jam sessions, one-off collaborations, a children's music workshop, and a book reading. Brian Jackson (Image: knkography) This year saw an increase in audience size compared to 2023. A number of shows sold out, including performances by New Orleans musician Jon Cleary, jazz fusion group Mammal Hands, Scottish jazz group Rose Room, and two concerts by trumpeter Colin Steele. Read more: Rapist Zubair Syed jailed for Turnberry Hotel attack 'Why you can't fix public services by cutting the people who deliver them' A Michelin Star restaurant chef's tip for the 'best kitchen gadget you can have' The festival has supported the music industry's gender equality initiative, Keychange, since 2017, and this year, 75 per cent of performances included female artists. Jill Rodger, director of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, said: "The 39th Glasgow Jazz Festival has been one to remember – from packed venues to incredible performances, the energy brought by both artists and audiences has been wonderful. (Image: Campbell Skinner) "Our commitment to inclusivity, giving young and emerging talent a platform, and celebrating all genres of jazz, are at the heart of what we do. "I want to personally thank everyone who played a part in making this festival such a success. "We're already looking forward to what's in store for our very special 40th edition. "See you next year, Glasgow." The Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025 was supported by Creative Scotland and the Glasgow 850 Festivals Fund. The festival is set to return for its 40th edition in June 2026. For more information, visit
Glasgow Times
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Sold-out shows and big energy at Glasgow Jazz 2025
The event, running from June 19 to 22, showcased a dynamic mix of legendary performers, rising stars, album launches, and community events across Glasgow. With more than 200 musicians taking part in over 35 performances, the festival saw an increase in audience size compared to 2023, with several shows selling out. Brian Jackson (Image: knkography) The festival offered a wide range of events, including free jam sessions, one-off collaborations, a children's music workshop, and a book reading. The festival has supported the music industry's gender equality initiative, Keychange, since 2017, and this year, 75 per cent of performances included female artists. Read more: 'We blew it' - Bernardo admits to shock Portugal Euro U21s defeat Glasgow man violently raped 'much younger' woman, causing injury Paesano news, interviews and updates on the pizzeria chain Jill Rodger, director of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, said: "The 39th Glasgow Jazz Festival has been one to remember – from packed venues to incredible performances, the energy brought by both artists and audiences has been wonderful. "Our commitment to inclusivity, giving young and emerging talent a platform, and celebrating all genres of jazz, are at the heart of what we do. (Image: Campbell Skinner) "I want to personally thank everyone who played a part in making this festival such a success. "We're already looking forward to what's in store for our very special 40th edition. "See you next year, Glasgow." The Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025 was supported by Creative Scotland and the Glasgow 850 Festivals Fund. The festival is set to return for its 40th edition in June 2026. For more information, visit
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Junior Achievement raises $15,500 through BizTown Bowl
Bowlers raised more than $15,000 for Junior Achievement of Oklahoma this week. The 15th Annual JA BizTown Bowl attracted 30 sponsored bowling teams Wednesday and Thursday, said Brian Jackson, Senior Donor Relations Manager with Junior Achievement of Oklahoma. 'On the bowling side, it's really for fun,' Jackson said. 'We don't keep score on that. The important score was surpassing our goal of $15,000.' Jackson said bowlers and corporate sponsors raised $15,500. He said Kirshner Trust sponsored teacher teams from Irving, Cherokee and Tony Goetz Elementary Schools on Wednesday and a team of Muskogee Public school administrators Thursday. Groups also competed in a Dress the Pin Contest, which featured art with bowling pins. Golden Rule Industries did a black and white tribute to the 1950s hit 'I Love Lucy.' Three pins showed a scene featuring Lucy, Ethel and their boss during the candy assembly line scene. 'The real winner, of course, is the kids,' Jackson said. Junior Achievement uses volunteers to visit schools and teach about entrepreneurship and money management, Jackson said. Forty businesses and organizations provide 100 classroom volunteers for JA in a Day school events, he said.
The Guardian
20-04-2025
- General
- The Guardian
How we let our babies down in 1974
UK parents, listen up: you're letting your babies down. So warn husband-and-wife team Brian Jackson, director of the Child Minding Research and Development Unit, and child psychologist Sonia Jackson, writing in the Observer Magazine on 22 September 1974. They kick off a three-part series on child development with a stern rebuke: we are failing our little nippers in the 'vital' preschool years, a time 'when so much of a child's intellectual development is won or lost'. Every bairn is a genius in nappies and we must recognise 'the mind-dizzying potentiality of our children'. That potential, the Jacksons argue, is being thwarted, owing to 'the immediate world into which the baby is born'. Babies may be programmed to learn, 'but in our society, and this is not a problem confined to poor or poorly educated families,' we are letting them down. There are, they decry, 'three cardinal ways in which early growth is delayed or restricted'. Top of the list, here in the UK, is 'Boring the baby.' Not so in 'many African or Asian villages', which may be 'much more dangerous' than in the UK, but at least they do not hold their infants back with 'the trappings of affluence' such as 'cots and prams'. Far worse is the way we make our babies sleep. This is a 'deadly restriction' and one that UK parents ignore. Why? Because a sleeping baby 'means a free adult'. The result? 'Every day, millions of babies spend endless, empty hours lying on their backs, unable to move their heads to vary their view – so they sleep for lack of alternatives.' The third cardinal offence is 'clocking them on', which is to say, treating a baby as an object, not a person, albeit a 'delicate, precious and loved' object. Squealers are wheeled about in 'trendy prams' or sport 'a prima donna's wardrobe'. The result? 'Babies in Britain are often worse off than in many of those poorer parts of the globe about which we think with pity.'
