OCT 25 Deirdre Cartwright’s PICNIC at Ronnie’s Scott’s BOOK
NOV 2 ARQ at Lauderdale House BOOK
DEC 2 Electric Landladies C* party at Walthamstow Trades Club.
Early Bird tickets are on sale NOW. Save 33% before Sept 30th 2023 BOOK
We also have a great second Blow the Fuse programmed season for Lauderdale House. After the success of the Spring season with nearly every gig sold out it can only be downhill from here (haha).
No, not at all! We’ve booked some wonderful bands and with the superb team at Lauderdale House we’re hoping it will be as splendid and popular as our first season was.
OCT 5 Andrew McCormack Trio with special guest Denys Baptiste
Denys Baptiste Saxophones • Andrew McCormack Piano • Joe Downard Bass • Rod Youngs Drums
OCT 19 Ed Jones Quartet
Ed Jones Tenor/Sop Saxophones • Ross Stanley Piano • Riaan Vosloo Bass• Tim Giles Drums
NOV 2 ARQ | Alison Rayner Quintet
Diane McLoughlin Saxophones/Clarinet • Deirdre Cartwright Guitar • Steve Lodder Piano • Alison Rayner bass Buster Birch Drums
NOV 16 ORENDA London Jazz Festival
Josephine Davies Saxophones, Composer • Brigitte Beraha Voice • Alcyona Mick Piano
NOV 30 Barb Jungr My Marquee
Barb Jungr • Jenny Carr Piano • Dudley Phillips Bass • Jonathan Lee Drums
Award-winning musicians Deirdre and Alison have run their own jazz club for over 30 years and will carry forward ‘Jazz in the House’ in the spirit of Brian Blain and his tireless support for musicians and live music.
#jazzinthehouse
Blow the Fuse ‘On Air’
In 2020 – 2021, we were awarded funding by the Arts Council of England to produce a series of online concerts recorded exclusively by Blow the Fuse from the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston plus archive film footage and interviews. We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported us through these extraordinary times and to all of you who became a BTF Patron through donations. Your support was crucial and helped us to produce TEN shows in all. A very steep but rewarding learning curve.
All shows can now be viewed anytime on our You Tube channel HERE
Carol Grimes • Deirdre Cartwright • Liane Carroll • Annie Whitehead
D’n’A present vintage Guest Stars • Martha & Eve + The DaDa Dandies
Back to the 70s • The Casimir Connection + Add3io • Ian Shaw • ARQ
Please join our club by clicking here and receive links to the shows. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and look on our fb page for more updates. See you at a LIVE gig soon!
Many thanks to the Arts Council Of England for their support….
We’ve won the 2020 award for ‘Services to Jazz’ at the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards.
Thanks to everyone involved, it meant a lot to us, we’re really honoured.
Tomorrow the Moon, supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund began in January 2020. We have finally been able to stage our last two events of this season this Autumn 2022 with Alex Clarke and ARQ + Balledestre.
We were delighted to have received funding to record the latest ARQ album ‘Short Stories’ and for a national tour promoting the album.
and to the equally wonderful people working at the PRSF for the Women Make music fund.
Thank you to all our supporters and watch this space for more news…
In May 2019, Blow the Fuse celebrated 30 years. Started in 1989 by musicians and composers Deirdre Cartwright and Alison Rayner who were members of the internationally acclaimed jazz group The Guest Stars, BTF have played a crucial role in raising awareness about women jazz musicians and importantly giving them support, a space and opportunity to perform in times which have sometimes been very challenging.