If youre into Bass, youll need to show your face! International artists from the bass playing world will descend upon the Life Café in Manchester on Sunday 20th November for a full day of low-down bass madness. This new exciting entry in the bass world has been designed to provide an all-day national event created by bassists for bassists. Bass Day UK will provide a great opportunity for bassists to come together and develop a community networking forum on a national, European and worldwide basis.
World-class artists performing and on-hand for chats on technique and bass subjects will include: Joe Zawinuls bassist Linley Marthe; New Yorks Janek Gwizdala with drummer Gary Husband; Italian bass giant Lorenzo Feliciati; Jon Reshard & Trip Wamsley from the US; Jan-Olof Strandberg from Finland; Californian solo bass singer-songwriter John Lester together with some of our own lads from Blighty solo bassist Steve Lawson, hailed as one of the most influential bassists in the world and Manchesters very own jubilant spirit and leading bassist Stevie Williams with Iain Dixon on saxophone. All ticket holders will be entered into a fantastic prize draw on the day to win a Carlsbro bass amp and Oldfield fusion fretless bass worth £610 courtesy of Dawsons Music and a three month full-time Bass Course worth £1795 at Guitar-X. Plus, special Bass Day UK discount available on all Elites Bass strings! Bass Day UKs partners and sponsors include: European Bass Day; Warwick; Guitar-X; Overwater; Shuker Basses; Windmill Basses; Carlsbro; Dawsons Music; Bass Tech UK; Bass World.co.uk; Eden; The Bass Centre House of Guitars and Elite Strings, and the Manchester Jazz Festival. Pre book tickets at £10 or £13 on the door. For further information and to book tickets go to: - http://www.bassday.co.uk
There's loads of us going, it should be a great day, Janek Gwizdla's been online saying how good it'll be, and there's plenty of bassworld.co.uk members going.
Well... that sounds reassuring. I might try and get some friends interested, but tbh... not many bass players I know are as passionate about bass playing as I am... they just play! What kind of stuff goes on there? Is it a pretty full day? How many people go in general?