Jazz in Ward Park, Bangor (Part 2)

Every Sunday afternoon during the summer months a different musical group put on a free 2 hour concert in Ward Park in Bangor, just 2 minutes’ walk from my home. Last Sunday I had been crossing the park from my brother’s home when the concert was about to begin and although I had been in causality nearly all night with my sister in law, I thought I would stop and listen and ended up videoing a few of the songs.  You will see and hear one of them at the end of this post.

This is the bandstand where this Jazz group were playing and although a bit windy I thoroughly enjoyed the very relaxing music.  I thought I would take a close up of each band member and then I realised that Emilie, the Jazz vocalist nearly always stood in front of the drummer.  

These five people came together today for this event although they frequently play at Berts Jazz Bar at The Merchant Hotel in Belfast.  

This is Steve Davis on drums.

This is Scott Flanigan and as you can see he is a Jazz pianist as well as a Composer and Educator.  His web site is www.scottflanigan.com

This is Dave Howle, a very talented Saxophone player.

This is Nick Scot who for most of the time I could not see as Dave stood in front of him however I loved the way he played the Double Bass.

Lastly a beautiful young woman called Emilie who lives in Dublin and was the Jazz Vocalist with this group that day.  Her web site is www.emilieconway.ie

So photographing the drummer became a real challenge for me.  The pianist certainly made a lot of faces as he immerced himself in the music.  However the drummer fascinated me when I did get glimpses of him and that is why there are a lot of shots of him in this post.  You will see on the video what I mean and how difficult it was to get ANY shots of him so I was pleased with these ones.

These 2 shots were taken at the interval and when I spoke with the group.  As you can see quite a few people had gone to get an ice cream from the van.

  

I would have loved to have stayed for the second half however with only having 2 hours sleep I thought it best to return home and have a kip rather than fall asleep in my deck chair as I found the music so relaxing!!

As I left for home, This was a parting shots from behind half of the crowd.

CLICK HERE if the video does not appear below and sit back, relax and enjoy it.
Apologies to Emilie as the video on her went out of focus.

I have 2 more song clips, one of which I will publish tomorrow and the last one on Saturday.

I hope you enjoyed this post and tomorrow I will show you the fences I photographed on my way through the park to my home.

Thanks for you visit today and also to all who leave comments.