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Brecon mayor hopes to rescue jazz festival
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 19 December 2008
The mayor of Brecon has said he is in talks with “two well known organisations” about them taking over the town’s annual jazz festival.
As previously reported, the future of the Brecon Jazz Festival has been thrown into doubt after the company who produced it went into liquidation, citing bad weather and resulting poor ticket sales and a decline in sponsorship and broadcast revenues as reasons for their financial woes.
The Welsh town is keen not to lose its annual music event, and Mayor Martin Weale says he is talking to two companies about taking over the event. He has also told reporters the festival’s existing sponsor is still interested in being involved.
Weale: “I am in talks with two different but well-known organisations. Both are established in this arena. The organisers of an event next summer would be entirely new and separate from the company which is sadly being wound up at the moment. I am very hopeful that something will happen in 2009”.
“In fact, I’d be disappointed if we didn’t have a jazz festival in Brecon next year. The scope of it is something I’m not in a position to comment about at the moment”.
