Bandstand Sessions: Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion

Northumberland Jazz Festival 2025 is proud to takeover Hexham Bandstand Sessions on Sunday 25 May with an exciting performance from Zoë Gilby and Andy Champion.

Winner of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards Jazz Vocalist Of The Year, Zoë has teamed up with her husband, the innovative and powerful double bassist Andy Champion for a voice and double bass duo.

This exceptional pairing create an electrifying soundscape in this beautifully integrated music. Breathing fresh life into the familiar as well as heading off to the unchartered. The well-honed duo know each other by heart. Their approach is bold, hypnotic and mesmerizing. Interacting and infiltrating one another’s sound. Removing the boundaries, exploring space and time with just voice and double bass. 

Inspired by the legendary Sheila Jordan, this exciting project has been taking audiences by storm throughout the UK and Europe and highlights her ingenuity in interpreting a lyric.