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Coastival - Yorkshire Comes to the Seaside

13-15 February 2009
93 events over 3 days in 36 venues in Scarborough!

Firstly... All that Jazz Hot on the heels of another fabulous Jazz Festival in Scarborough, we're proud to announce the Coastival jazz line-up featuring Clare Teal, Snake Davis and the Bourbon Y Tequila Salsa Orchestra for a Valentines day mini-jazz festival..

Working in collaboration with the organisers of the internationally renowned Scarborough Jazz Festival, Coastival is sure to have jazz fans from Yorkshire and beyond heading back to the coast to enjoy some of the region's finest jazz talent in the Jazz Festival's seafront venue.

The mini jazz festival will be held at Scarborough's Spa complex on Saturday 14th February 2009.

Clare Teal hails from a tiny village near Skipton in Yorkshire, but that's not the only Yorkshire link - her breakthrough album, Don't Talk, an exquisite record of tender jazz that perfectly exemplified just what a talent she was acclaimed by Michael Parkinson, who gave her heavy rotation on his Radio 2 programme, and invited her to perform on his ITV chat show. Since then Clare hasn't looked back having built an enthusiastic following for her enchanting vocal style, most recently being awarded Jazz Vocalist Of The Year 2007 at the British Jazz Awards. February 2008 saw her latest album release, Get Happy.

Snake Davis has been based in Yorkshire since the age of sixteen and is well established as one of the UK's leading saxophonists. He is in demand from the biggest names on the British Popular music scene, as well as visiting artists from overseas. In recent years he has been extremely busy and in the public eye. As resident saxophonist on "Tonight With Jonathon Ross" he played with the likes of, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Chaka Khan and many more. He has been seen regularly on TV with the Eurythmics, M-People and B*Witched and presented a Saxophone "Masterclass" programme for ITV. He played all featured Saxophone and Flute parts - on record and tour - for Lisa Stansfield and M-People. 'Burden of Paradise' is the new project featuring Snake Davis and Helen Watson.

The Bourbon Y Tequila Salsa Orchestra are an exciting Yorkshire based nine piece band offering a unique blend of Salsa and Jazz - in other words bringing you the very best from North and South America! Bourbon Y Tequila play mainly original tunes with a dash of Salsa classics thrown in for good measure and their sets are rapidly earning them an impressive reputation with audiences around the UK and Europe.

There's also a special screening of 'Round Midnight' featuring real-life sax legend Dexter Gordon on the same day. Plus, there'll be some other jazz goodies announced nearer the time - oh, we're spoiling you! Check out the Coastival website for links to the headline act's website: wwwcoastival.com

Julie Wray - the talented Scarborough saxophonist - will lead her Quartet in the Spa Grand Hall at 1.30pm and Burden of Paradise will play at 3pm ( tickets £8); the film Round Midnight will show at the Spa Theatre at 5pm (free) and the Bourbon Y Tequilla Salsa Orchestra and Clare Teal and Trio will play at the Grand Hall at 7pm (£12).

A ticket covering all four events costs just £15 and can be purchased on the Coastival website.

Book your tickets now and sign up to the Coastival mailing list to keep you informed of more events on:

www.coastival.com