The Next Stage

28/08/2024

Unfortunately, due to very poor advance ticket sales, the venue has decided to cancel the Burt Bacharach concert at Epic Studios, Norwich on 8 September 2024.
I am very disappointed, as I'm sure you are. Once I know when and where we will be staging this concert again, I will let you know.
Nigel

12/07/2024

Unfortunately, I have had to cancel tomorrow's Next Stage gig at St Ives Corn Exchange - Songs, Satire and Salsa - because of very low ticket sales.

02/07/2024

Come along to the Epic Studio, Norwich on Sunday 8 September at 7pm to hear the beautiful music and songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David played by the Nigel Bennett Orchestra, supported by Shakey Breaks The Ice, a jazz trio playing an eclectic mix of jazz, cafe, gypsy and klezmer.
Tickets £25+booking fee from www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzyfaction-ltd

20/06/2024

The Nest Stage presents an evening of Songs, Satire and Salsa! at the St Ives Corn Exchange on Saturday 13 July, starting at 7:30pm. Cambridge's premier salsa band, Viva La Tradicion, will get you into the Latin groove with a great evening of salsa music. They will be supported by the beautiful songs of Ellie Walker and the quirky, sideways look at life of Vince Taylor.

Tickets £15 (+ booking fee) from:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzyfaction-ltd

The Next Stage gives public performance experience to musicians and groups

20/06/2024

The Nest Stage presents an evening of Songs, Satire and Salsa! at the St Ives Corn Exchange on Saturday 13 July, starting at 7:30pm. Cambridge's premier salsa band, Viva La Tradicion, will get you into the Latin groove with a great evening of salsa music. They will be supported by the beautiful songs of Ellie Walker and the quirky, sideways look at life of Vince Taylor.

Tickets £15 (+ booking fee) from:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzyfaction-ltd

17/01/2024

Anyone who had a heart will struggle to walk on by when a special evening of music celebrating the songwriting genius of Burt Bacharach takes place on Saturday 17 February 2024 at The Maltings, Ely, starting at 7:30pm.

The concert, which will mark a year since the musician’s death, will be a celebration of Bacharach’s partnership with lyricist Hal David.

The Nigel Bennett Orchestra will take the audience on a journey through the outstanding songbook of the pair, which added a cool and jazzy flair to the music of the 60s and 70s with tunes made famous by Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Sandy Shaw, Aretha Franklin, Gene Pitney, and the Walker Brothers, to name just a few.

The group is a new musical project lead by local composer and trumpet player Nigel Bennett, who has pulled together some of the best musicians in East Anglia especially for this concert.

Burt Bacharach’s music is not just beautiful to listen to, it’s a real treat to play. He didn’t stick to the emerging conventions of what pop music should sound like, and there really hasn’t been a songwriter before or since who managed to turn such odd chords and time signatures into radio-friendly music.

Also, as the concert is over Valentines weekend, we get to hear some of the gorgeous lyrics of Hal David, who certainly knew how to capture romance in his words.

The concert will feature Chloe Grimes, Kerry Maltby and Tom Huttlestone on vocals.

The Nigel Bennett Orchestra is being supported in the first half by ‘Shakey Breaks The Ice’, a jazz trio featuring Trevor Barlow (clarinet and saxophone), Bert Stilly (accordion), and Hugh Boyde (guitar). They will be playing an eclectic mix of jazz, cafe, gypsy and klezmer.

Tickets are £16 +booking fee, and are only available at:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzyfaction-ltd

17/06/2023

The first Next Stage gig held on Saturday 10 June 2023 at St Andrews Street Baptist Church in Cambridge was a huge success. I'd like to thank the two bands who performed that evening - 440.JAZZ and the Cambridge Groove Orchestra - for a fabulous evening of music ranging from after dinner jazz to full throttle big band swing. The church is still reverberating from the drum break in 'Sing, Sing, Sing' !!
I'd also like to thank the 100+ audience for coming along to support these two local bands. It was a real boost to the bands have such an appreciative audience.
Keep your eyes and ears open for details of the next concert in the Next Stage concert series.

29/05/2023

Hi everyone. If you're interested you can listen to my radio interview this morning on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Natlalie Malcolm show. I was on at 11:15am for a good ten minutes and I plugged the gig as hard as possible! It will be available from about 2:30pm on BBC Sounds at this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09rr2yl/episodes/guide

27/05/2023

You may like to know that I’m lined up for a radio interview on Monday at approx 11:10am on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to talk about The Next Stage and the CGO gig on 10 June 2023 at St Andrews St Baptist Church, Cambridge. Tune in if you can.

26/05/2023

Plans are falling into place for the Next Stage gig on Saturday 10 June 2023. The venue is St Andrews Street Baptist Church, St Andrews Street, Cambridge, starting at 7:30pm. It promises to be a very exciting event.
Tickets (£15/£12 incl booking fee) are available from

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21/04/2023

The Next Stage presents The Cambridge Groove Orchestra, supported by 440.JAZZ, in an evening of Big Band jazz and swing at St Andrews Street Baptist Church, St Andrews St, Cambridge on Saturday 10 June, starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are £15 (£12 concessions) incl. booking fee, available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzyfaction-ltd

Formed in 2017, the Cambridge Grove Orchestra (CGO) is a full Big Band line-up, playing a wide range of music from the swing and dance band eras of the 1940s and 50s through to more modern and original arrangements of well-known numbers.

Four For Nothing Jazz (440.JAZZ) is a Cambridge based group formed in 2014 with an original line-up of saxophone, piano, bass and vocals. Now with added drums and guitar, they specialise in jazz standards.

13/02/2023

The general opinion was that 'JFL Nebula Nights' was a pretty awful name, sounding a bit like a dodgy nightclub where people like me might hang out! So the name has changed to 'The Next Stage' which describes far more aptly what I'm doing now, which is helping aspiring jazz acts, singer/songwriters and other music performers to get to the next stage in their careers.

Watch this space for further details! Or check out the website:

The Next Stage is an event to encourage and help new performers to get to the next stage on their music career. We are looking to give singer-songwriters, jazz groups and singers, and other music ensembles the chance to perform in totally safe performance venues in their locality and surrounding are...