Inner City Music present Chetham's Big Band – one of the UK's most loved big bands presenting a magical evening of great tunes performed by some of the city's most talented young musicians.
Chetham’s Big Band was formed in 1990 and has since enjoyed much success on the national jazz scene and laid the foundation for the schools current broad-based and highly successful Jazz Programme.  
The Big Band has broadcast on Jazz FM and won the prize for professionalism in the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition. It has also won the Junior Section of the BBC Radio 2 Big Band of the Year Competition in 1996, 2000 and 2005, and in 2001 was runner up in the Senior Section. The Big Band has broadcast for the BBC from London's Golders Green Hippodrome and Birmingham's Pebble Mill Studios, as well as having been awarded the Gold Award at the Boosey and Hawkes National Concert Band Festival on numerous occasions.
Chetham's Big Bands and Jazz Ensembles have worked with such eminent jazz musicians as Don Lusher, Bobby Shew, Mark Nightingale, Jiggs Wigham, Tim Garland, Frank Mantooth, Pete King, Bob Mintzer, Malcolm Creese, Jim Hart, Paul Clarvis, Alan Barnes, Kenny Baker and John Escreet.
Expect a great night of brilliant music from this incredibly talented group of musicians.
This concert will begin at 7.30pm.