Evening of jazz classics at Andrew Logan Museum

Hannah Lockerman and her band return to the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Berriew on Friday, May 20 for an evening of jazz classics.

This presentation is the first in a quartet of spring/summer evenings presenting jazz at the Berriew museum. RADA trained Lockerman and her band will pay homage to the Queens of Jazz and perform a repertoire of contemporary classics made famous by Billie Holliday, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles.

The Hannah Lockerman Band comprises Roy Johnson (Shrewsbury Big Band, West Coastin' Jazz Group, Ludlow Jazz Quartet and the Dragon Band), the tenor saxophonist whose group played at the museum earlier in the year. Hannah is additionally backed by line-up of drums, bass, and piano.

“Hannah enthralled audiences when she and her band played in October,” said Michael Davis, chair of the board. “We are delighted she is able to return.”

The Hannah Lockerman Band will play shortly after doors open at 8pm.  Tickets are £15 and can be bought from the museum, Andrew Logan website (http://andrew-logan.myshopify.com/collections/tickets-for-events), or in person at R. H. Bunners, Montgomery.

The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture opened in Berriew in 1991 and celebrates an auspicious 25-year silver anniversary in 2016.  The museum is open 12 – 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays throughout June, July, August and September and by arrangement.  Entry is only £3 or £1.50 for concessions and family tickets available.  For more information contact the museum on Tel: 01686 640 689.

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Editor's Notes:

1. Born in Witney, Oxfordshire in 1945, Andrew Logan qualified in architecture in the late 1960s and has worked across the fields of sculpture, stage design, drama, opera, parades, festivals and interior design. To him, “Art can be discovered anywhere.” Logan crosses cultures and embodies artistic fantasy in a unique and unprecedented way. His work is the art of popular poetry and metropolitan glamour. From his early fame amongst London’s fashionable crowd, he has become an influential artist of international stature, with exhibitions as far afield as Los Angeles (USA), Monterrey (Mexico), St Petersburg (Russia) and Mumbai (India).

2. Hannah Lockerman was born into a musical family, both parents have been musicians and teachers over a time span of 40 years. With their support and encouragement she sung and played multiple instruments from a young age.
Professional performance began in Theatre. After studying at RADA Hannah toured nationally with the RSC, including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Barbican Theatre and London's West End, during which time her musical and singing abilities were frequently utilised by theatre directors.
The jazz legends of the past have been of greatest musical inspiration since young childhood. Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Peggy Lee. Today Hannah is also heavily influenced by Madeleine Peyroux, Stacey Kent, Diana Krall and Amy Winehouse.

3. Roy Johnson was trained at the Royal College of Music with Professor P Dixon.  After leaving the Army, he taught in Dudley and then joined cruise liners, playing in settings as diverse as Bahrain and with Bonnie Tyler.  He has been teaching locally for 40 years and plays Saxophone with the Shrewsbury Big Band, the West Coastin' Jazz Group, the Ludlow Jazz Quartet and the infamous Dragon Band.

For more information, contact Anne-Marie Pope on 07813 885 906 or the Museum direct on 01686 640 689, almos@andrewloganmuseum.org