Midhurst is getting ready to turn up the volume as the Midhurst Jazz, Food and Blues Festival returns from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026, bringing four days of jazz, blues, funk and live music to the town.
The festival has already been warming up throughout the year with a series of events and jam sessions, including sessions at The Wheatsheaf in September and October. But it is in November that things really get going.
The main festival opens on Thursday evening with Paul Higgs’ Shades of Miles and the Simon Bates Funk Explosion. On Friday, the programme includes The Cinelli Brothers and acclaimed blues harmonica player and singer Errol Linton. Saturday brings another packed programme, with the David Higgins Quartet – Take the Coltrane, the Vince Dunn Orchestra with Jim Mullen, Simply Billy Joel: A New York State of Mind, Simply Dan and DJ Craig Williams among the acts taking to the stage.
Then Sunday brings the festival to a suitably big finish with the Brit Funk Association, Ronnie Scott’s Blues Explosion and British jazz legend Courtney Pine closing out the weekend.
And that’s only part of the story. Alongside the headline acts, the Festival Fringe will spill out across Midhurst, with jam sessions, workshops, masterclasses, a festival tea party and free performances taking place at multiple venues around the town.
More acts and events are still to be announced, making this very much a festival to keep an eye on as November approaches.
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