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The 1961
National Jazz and Blues Festival

Richmond Athletic Grounds
Richmond. Surrey. UK.
26th -27th August 1961

Apparently Giorgio Gomelsky filmed Chris Barber’s band at this , the first Richmond Jazz Festival .

The early festivals.

You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below, but otherwise information is fairly limited.
 
  1961
1962
1963
1964

Festivals 65-83

Most of these have fairly complete documentation .

 
Richmond 1965
Windsor 1966
 Windsor 1967
Sunbury 1968
Plumpton 1969
Plumpton 1970
Reading 1971
Reading 1972
Reading 1973
Reading 1974
 



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