Indigo Jazz Voices and Little Big Band Return to The Globe, Newcastle

Indigo Jazz Voices return to The Globe in Newcastle on Thursday 8 October 2026, sharing the upstairs stage with the Little Big Band. The event starts at 7.45pm and admission is £5, payable in cash on the door. Rather than a single vocalist fronting an instrumental group, the concert brings together five singers with a piano trio and two horn players, giving the evening a particularly varied jazz line-up.

The singers are Carrie McCullock, Jen Errington, Jenny Lingham, Miriam McCormick and Paul Close. Each brings an individual approach to interpreting songs, so the set can move between different voices and styles without losing the feel of a shared performance. The programme is advertised to include jazz standards, swing, blues and bossa nova, with improvisation built into the arrangements. That variety gives listeners several musical directions to follow across the night, from the rhythmic lift of swing to the gentler pace of a bossa nova number.

Alan Law is on piano, Paul Grainger plays double bass and Rob Walker is on drums. David Grey adds trombone and Olly Styles plays tenor saxophone. Those players make the instrumental side of the concert much more than background accompaniment: the horns can answer the singers’ lines, while the piano trio has room to develop the tunes and support improvised passages. This is the Little Big Band pairing named for the October date, rather than an unspecified backing group.

Indigo Jazz Voices began with singing classes led by Lindsay Hannon at the Sage Blue Jazz Voices programme. The singers subsequently formed their own group and have been performing at The Globe since February 2015. That long connection with the Newcastle venue helps explain why this is a recurring, close-to-home showcase for the singers rather than a one-off visiting production. Hearing five distinct voices within one evening is also an opportunity to notice how familiar standards change when a different musician takes the lead.

The performance is advertised for upstairs at The Globe, with £5 cash admission on the door. There is no separate advance-ticket price stated on the official listing, so plan for the advertised door arrangement. For any last-minute updates to access, start time or the line-up, check The Globe’s official Indigo Jazz Voices event page before setting off.