Thursday 2nd June 2022
Doors: 7pm
Happy Hour: 7-9pm
Gig: 9pm-12am
Free Entry

Table bookings:
- Latest booking: 8:45pm
- Tables held no later than 9pm

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- 0161 273 5495, 10am-5pm Monday-Friday
- 0161 831 7002, after 5pm Monday-Saturday
- Or leave a message outside of these times and we’ll get back to you.

Multi-instrumentalist composer, arranger and educator Neil Yates studied music at Salford University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

He stepped out into the professional music business in 1991, as a London-based jazz trumpeter working most notably for the BBC Big Band and Johnny Dankworth Orchestra. He moved on to higher profile session musician work in 1994, performing and recording with The Brand New Heavies, Supergrass, Black Grape, Lighthouse Family, Alison Moyet, Will Young, Raw Stylus, Suggs, Matt Bianco and Robbie Williams.

To address his own creative urges in 1999 Neil moved out of London and travelled the festivals of UK and Ireland for a year in a caravan, eventually settling in a North Wales beauty spot to write and record his award winning first solo jazz album "New Origins" and second album "Five Countries",  released on Edition Records November 2011. He also became much involved in Celtic music, performing, writing and arranging for traditional music legends Michael McGoldrick and Kate Rusby. 

On this Occasion Neil joins the Bim Williams trio for a night of burning hard-bop, be-bop, swing and Great American songbook tunes, plus original compositions from each of the band’s members.

Line Up:
Neil Yates // Trumpet
Bim Williams // Guitar
Asaph Tal // Double Bass
George Grundy // Drums

Note, this is not the band performing tonight. This video is to show Neil Yates (trumpet), who is performing.