Click to vote for these bands in competition: Frisky Holler, Kalakuta, New Cut Gang

All 3 rooms in CONTINUAL use - acoustic musicians, bands, poets, declaimers and the fabulous LA Donne  theatrical dance outfit. Click for line-up on poster.

A whole host of people were there - of course the calibre of musician on the shortlist meant that there was a plethora of talent present. The evening began with wine and pizza (and continued with wine and wine). About half of the club had been emptied of its tables, leaving room for mingling and chatting - a great atmosphere. More

Final on 23rd at the famous 12 Bar Club on Denmark Street, Soho

131 people confirmed for the Jazz and Poetry awards night this Monday, award nominees, TV/radio presenters, press, jazz musicians and poets, writers, critics,  publishers, others

We will be announcing winners for the Best Jazz Vocalist and Jazz Instrumentalist and Best New Poet. Both awards' winners were decided by their peers.

We'll take the musician/s with the highest number of votes in the first 3 competition gigs and invite them to play in the final at the 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street on Thursday, August 23. The winning musician/s will be decided on this night.

With David Studdert, Ct Poet, New Cut Gang, Miss Scarlett, Lil & The Lets, The Penneyballads, Happy Slaves.

London New Music Award 2010 Competition on Thursday, August 19.  More gigs here

Miss Scarlett, Lil & The Letz, The Penneyballads, David Studdert

Pizza Express, Soho, and Global Music Foundation are working on getting a group of jazz musicians together to form a judging panel. More info here.

London is the music capital of Europe. This city has the record labels, the musicians and the audience for great music.

The best new musicians are usually discovered by Artists and Repertoire (A&R). These are the people working in a record label that are responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. They are are expected to understand the current tastes of the market and to be able to find artists that will be commercially successful.

In short, they are at the leading edge of new music.

The award will go to the best band as recognised by A & R professionals.

We are looking to form a panel of A &R people to nominate bands they believe will break through in the marketplace. Please get in touch if you would like to be considered.

The London Awards for best Jazz Vocalist and Jazz Instrumentalist 2010, two awards recognising exciting and innovative jazz performances by a singer and a player, will be hosted at the Pizza Express on Dean Street, Soho. The Global Music Foundation will help organise the award.

We're planning on bringing together leading jazz artists to nominate and vote on the best jazz singers and players working in the country. The awards will go to the best musicians as recognised by their peers. Names of the judges and the nominations will appear on the London Jazz Awards page over the next few months.

The venue is a leading jazz club in the country, appreciated by both jazz musician's and audiences: "With live jazz seven nights a week it is a showcase for new talent: Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum, Diana Krall, Brad Mehldau, Amy Winehouse, Danilo Perez, Stacey Kent, Avishai Cohen, Acoustic Alchemy, Peter Cincotti, Peter White and Rokia Traoré have all appeared and dazzled audiences."

The GMF, a non-profit organisation founded by professional musicians, aims to encourage people everywhere to enjoy and learn about music from various genres and countries. The Foundation organises seminars, jazz courses, world music courses, workshops and performances around the world.

Both managed by Bugbear productions.

Large basement room with bar and house PA.

.. idea is to feature the best young jazz artists around. Best place to do this is London.

We're looking for the next jazz artist on the edge of a big career. Produced by Sarah Loader.

http://www.freedombarsoho.com/index.html

Vauxhall venue in the Off West End / Soho list. http://www.bar-code.co.uk/flash.html

Kit is an iron-lunged, piano-wielding songstress with a big heart and a list of grievances.

She is currently in the process of completing her live band, trying to get a nice independent record deal, and playing around with the e-piano function on her Yamaha. myspace

Thanks to Alice French and Jemma West for arranging it all, and Nolia for the venue, the Thomas Becket pub on the Old Kent Road.

Arranged by Alice French and Jemma West.

Originally the brainchild of crooning minstrel Gregory Griffin; a californian transplanted to the blasted wastes of Manor House, Lofty Heights have since evolved into a band of mid-20's misfits peddling Colin Meloy style indie pop that plunges you into a strange world of lonesome ancient mariners and the perils of sharing the washing-up. Having honed their skills on pretty much any stage/floor/warehouse you can think of in the East London area, Lofty Heights' live shows are a whirling dervish of surf melodies, mustaches, charangos and absurd in-jokes. Pretty cool, huh? myspace

Thee Single Spy write songs about drowning towns, lyrical Christian campfire traditions and the smoking of herbal anxiety medications. Once the spirit of older, cracklier times and rhymes, they now play rock music.

www.myspace.com/theesinglespy

Orlando is a songwriter, poet and actor. For the last two years he's been working on a raft of songs about love and salvation in supermarkets, the lost and found on the underground, and beautiful morons everywhere. Collaborating with Michael; a film composer and classical pianist, Dan; a cellist and Masters student at the Royal College, and Bob on bass, he has created a manic-depressive orchestra that goes from intimate to epic. www.myspace.com/orlandoseale

The Anti-Rhythm Bandwagon are ready to cause a storm with their undeniably infectious folk/blues/rock foot-stomping show. With influence and comparisons drawn from Artists such as John Martyn, Radiohead, The Doves, The Band & Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, they take the listener on an aural journey from their native Scotland, to Country central Nashville & back to the Blues depths of New Orleans in a single song see 'White Van'. myspace

The Folk influenced observational tales of Sandy And The Bells never completely let's go of the indie music culture of it's surrounding London Town. Although avoiding a distinctly LDN vocal imprint, the band's roots are less explicit, leaving the listener to be drawn in by the lyrical content and at it's best, the audience is encapsulated by a voice laced with innocence matched with equally emotionally enriched instrumentation. myspace

Nutyas Surya Gumilang, who goes by the initials NSG, first discovered he had a talent for music through the compositions he produced playing "Music," a cult music-creation suite available on the original Sony PlayStation. His debut album, Working Class Superstar, released on July 24 and available from iTunes, is a beautifully produced multi-genre album that effortlessly skips from hip-hop to acoustic rock to dance music; moreover, not a single one of its 10 tracks could be categorized as filler material, and several of the songs are outstanding. http://www.nsg-music.co.uk

Belle is a dynamic young performer/singer songwriter who moves seamlessly through trip hop, soul and jazz. She has performed at festivals and venues across London including the Royal Court Theatre Bar, Jazz Cafe, Walthamstow festival, Oh bar, Purple Turtle, The Underbelly amongst others. Currently working on an ep with a producer from Universal and a live album and racking up some gigs, she is finding time to work with young homeless people in Newham on arts and community activities. She is also running the extremely successful night (of which she is a resident artist) Spotlight sessions with Music is Life. myspace

Kit Richardson is an iron-lunged, piano-wielding songstress with a big heart and a list of grievances.

She is currently in the process of completing her live band, trying to get a nice independent record deal, and playing around with the e-piano function on her Yamaha. myspace

London Fringe Music Award night to be held at the famous St Thomas a Beckett pub, Old Kent Road, SE1, where David Bowie wrote Ziggy Stardust in an upstairs room. more

TanoG Trio will tune into tracks that take off from some of the raw sounds of the 60s smoothly moving into 70s funk groove. @ Nolia's Gallery, The Thomas a Beckett 320 Old Kent Road, SE1 5UE London.

"Nolia is the proud owner of two Art Galleries, the St Thomas a Beckett and Nolias Gallery. A stylish Malaysian woman with 61 years of REAL living, she is instantly recognizable and succinct in her 4ft 11". She defies her age by displaying the boundless energy that most people can only dream of.

She is a mother figure for lots of young artists who are starting out, injecting them with life, and introducing them to the zest she bears by the moundful. I have my suspition that the secret of this energy lies is in her spicy cooking. Garlic, Chillie and Ginger are her blueprint for clean blood flow. Her dinner parties are filled with delicious food, entertainment, laughter and honest family sharing.

As well as having three children of her own and two grand children she has the gift of song. At the St Thomas gallery she hosted a live music and art event for the London Bridge Festival. After she introduced the first act, there was a technical hitch. So, in true Nolia style, 'If one wants a job done, one must be able to do it oneself', she sang Summer Time acapella, with as much feeling and flare as the songs' songstress, Billy Holiday.

It seems that her hard work, genuine love, care for detail and time for people are what makes her clock tick louder and brighter than most. A magnetic heart beat and an inspiration!" written by Helena Biggs, performance artist and creator.

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Tsivi Shalett is a London based Israeli pianist, composer and arranger; her music swings from classical to Latin-jazz. Tsivi has performed in many venues in London (including the Jazz Cafe and Charlie Wright) and will perform a solo set including a few songs in Hebrew.

Bluesy vocalist and guitarist Belle Greenwood, gifted with a distinctive, velvety voice, will perform a collection of original new songs.

Ilaria Mare's singing has a lyrical and evocative quality. It is "expressive and luscious and gently floats between her mother-tongue Italian and English".

Celebrated composer and singer songwriter Amelia Robinson, from New York, will perform a set of original quirky music. Her voice "exposes simple yet deeply passionate melodies while fingers evoke a twinkling light-hearted resonance of her instrument, the piano".