First weekend in October 2025. We'd also love to know what you thought of this year's amazing festival. So, if you could please complete our 2024 questionnaire to help us gain understanding about our wonderful visitors and to refine how we organise the festival weekend in 2025, that would be fantastic!! Click on the link to send your feedback.....and enter a prize draw!!!
Many thanks in advance.
We've now reached 5,000 followers across our social media network. Thank you all for following and supporting us! Who's joing us in October for this year's Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
?
The Korgis
music has been described as 'timeless', and perhaps that's what makes it seem just as fresh today, as when they first hit the charts in 1979, with 'If I Had You'. Runaway hit 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' charted in the UK, USA, Ireland, Australia, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and hit the No1 spot in France and Spain, and has been covered by numerous artists, including Zucherro and Yazz. Catch The Korgis at this year's Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
Oct
3rd-6th. It will astound you!
Delighted to welcome STAN the BAND
for the first time to this year's 18th Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
Oct 3rd-6th. STAN the BAND is a legendary guitar 4 piece from Newcastle upon Tyne playing good-time boogie-rock that feels like it's one part shipyard sweat, one part bar-room philosophy and one part melodic know-how. The band have released several albums and have supported a diverse range of artists from Brian May to Big Country, The Christians and The Zombies. The band
are currently promoting their new album Love. Catch them at this year's festival for a fun gig.
Delighted to announce The Terraplanes Blues Band
are heading to the Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
for their first gigs in Scotland on Oct 3rd & 4th. Winners of the Emerging Blues Act Of The Year in 2023 at the national UK Blues Awards, The Terraplanes are a musical group from Bristol with a fine blend of finger pickin' country blues and high energy raw r'n'b. Delivering howling blues harmonica and screaming slide guitar, The Terraplanes are a rhythm & blues band that take
you back to the golden era of the blues. "These boys are phenomenal, a joy to watch!" - Blues Matters Magazine. A must see at this year's Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
Oct 3rd-6th.
Delighted to announce London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher
will play this year's festival. Sam is a talented saxophonist who graduated in 2011 with a first class honours degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has received widespread acclaim for the two albums released under his own name. The Sam Braysher trio at Callander will include two of Scotland’s finest musicians, double bassist Andrew Robb and drummer Alyn Cosker. Andrew was awarded 1st
Prize at the European Society of Bassists Jazz Competition in 2018 and is a former BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Alyn is a band leader and composer in his own right and the resident drummer for the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
Oct 3rd-6th.
Happy to announce all five Callander pubs are back onboard for this year's festival. We couldn't do it without your support. The atmosphere last year in the Dalgair House Hotel
, The Waverley
, The Crown, Callander
, MacNabs
and the Riverside Inn Callander
was probably the best ever, so here's for a repeat from Oct 3rd-6th at this year's 18th Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
.
We would not be able to put on our festival every year if we did not get support from many different areas. So a massive thank you to our 2024 sponsors.... so far!! Deanston Distillery
Wood Leisure
Callander Drinks Company
Trossachs Vinyl
FirstBase Accountants
& The Grail. If you would like to be part of our festival sponsor group this year, please get in touch.
Delighted to have been nominated by the UK Blues Federation
in the Top 20 UK Blues Festival Of The Year category alongside some of the UK's other major Blues Festivals. A great acknowledgement to our volunteers, venues, performers and sponsors that make the festival happen every year, along with our amazing supporters. This ones for you!!
We are pleased to confirm six more of the very best talented acts in the UK are booked to perform at this year's Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
(3-6 Oct). Kyla Brox
, Jimmy Regal and the Royals
, Sam Braysher
, Big Wolf Band
, Greig Taylor Band
and Sean Taylor Songs.
Kyla Brox has been described as “the finest female blues singer of her generation”. Winner of the UK Blues Challenge 2018 and the European Blues Challenge 2019, voted Best Female Vocalist in the 2019 European Blues Awards and semi-finalist in the International Blues Challenge 2019 and 2020, Kyla is without doubt at the very top of the UK Blues scene.
Jimmy Regal and the Royals is one of the UK's most exciting and original blues bands. With their latest album topping UK and international charts, Jimmy Regal and the Royals stand out from the crowd with a powerful sound that translates to stellar live performances.
London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has received widespread acclaim for the two albums released under his own name, both of which feature renowned international collaborators. Sam's trio at Callander will include two of Scotland’s finest musicians, award-winning double bassist Andrew Robb and Alyn Cosker, drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
The Greig Taylor Band is a gifted group of very talented musicians well-known for their electrifying powerhouse sound over a funky riff. The Greig Taylor Band's music is a cross-section of old and new blues, funk, and soul with Greig's amazing voice uplifting, rocking and powerfully raw and always packing a punch.
The Big Wolf Band incorporate hard edged blues rock with dynamic highs, lows and a high energy filled set that incorporates everything you want to see from a live band. Birmingham's Big Wolf Band are one of the UK’s best blues rock outfits and have wowed festival audiences up and down the country.
Sean Taylor is an international touring troubadour and was recently nominated for the 2023 UK blues acoustic artist of the year award. His songs are best described as roots; influenced by blues, Americana, jazz, spoken word and folk music. As well as a prolific songwriter Sean is also a multi-instrumentalist.
Kyla Brox has been described as “the finest female blues singer of her generation”. Winner of the UK Blues Challenge 2018 and the European Blues Challenge 2019, voted Best Female Vocalist in the 2019 European Blues Awards and semi-finalist in the International Blues Challenge 2019 and 2020, Kyla is without doubt at the very top of the UK Blues scene.
Jimmy Regal and the Royals is one of the UK's most exciting and original blues bands. With their latest album topping UK and international charts, Jimmy Regal and the Royals stand out from the crowd with a powerful sound that translates to stellar live performances.
London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has received widespread acclaim for the two albums released under his own name, both of which feature renowned international collaborators. Sam's trio at Callander will include two of Scotland’s finest musicians, award-winning double bassist Andrew Robb and Alyn Cosker, drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
The Greig Taylor Band is a gifted group of very talented musicians well-known for their electrifying powerhouse sound over a funky riff. The Greig Taylor Band's music is a cross-section of old and new blues, funk, and soul with Greig's amazing voice uplifting, rocking and powerfully raw and always packing a punch.
The Big Wolf Band incorporate hard edged blues rock with dynamic highs, lows and a high energy filled set that incorporates everything you want to see from a live band. Birmingham's Big Wolf Band are one of the UK’s best blues rock outfits and have wowed festival audiences up and down the country.
Sean Taylor is an international touring troubadour and was recently nominated for the 2023 UK blues acoustic artist of the year award. His songs are best described as roots; influenced by blues, Americana, jazz, spoken word and folk music. As well as a prolific songwriter Sean is also a multi-instrumentalist.
