{"id":46,"date":"2013-09-30T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-10-10T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:41:39","slug":"cheltenham-festival-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2013\/09\/30\/cheltenham-festival-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham festival from the inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Webster (year 3) tells us about interning at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and other summer placements:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>In May 2013, I did a volunteer placement at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. I, along with several others, arrived a few days before it started to help the production team set up the festival. The placement was very hands-on, rather than being office-based, and I found myself working in a variety of areas. In the days leading up to the festival, I helped set up the site and stage areas. During the festival, I assumed many roles including stage manager of the free stage, artist liaison (pandering to artists before and after they perform), and I occasionally ran the Festival\u2019s silent cinema. I also stewarded in one of the two large arenas for a few days, which enabled me to see some superb music.<\/p>\n

Most memorable experiences?\u00a0<\/b><\/em> I got free seats to watch one of my favourite fusion guitarists, Mike Stern, perform at the festival \u2013 I managed to catch him sound checking beforehand too. Furthermore, I watched my [current] favourite band, Roller Trio, perform a joint set with Polar Bear, another exceptional modern jazz group, and I met and chatted to the band afterwards. I watched the singer Gregory Porter do an intimate, late-night jam session at a ritzy hotel; I had to endure exhaustion and overpriced drinks until the early hours of the morning, but it was worthwhile. I met Gregory Porter that night too. I saw a host of other artists, but these moments are favourites of mine.<\/p>\n

What have you<\/b> done since?<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>In August, I completed a three-week placement at the Groundlings Theatre, a growing arts venue located near Portsmouth harbour. I helped the Artistic Director organise the Victorian Festival of Christmas, a three-day festival that will take place at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. I learnt about the methodology of large-scale event organisation and people management, but it was office-based and less hands-on than Cheltenham. This was my first Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five job; it was a culture shock.<\/p>\n

In mid-September, I volunteered for the International Musicians Seminar, a residential chamber-music seminar and concert series that attracts professional musicians from around the world. I was the stage manager and provided office support (e.g. overseeing the music library) during my week there. The seminars took place at a privately owned estate in a very secluded and picturesque part of Cornwall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Webster (year 3) tells us about interning at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and other summer placements: In May 2013, I did a volunteer placement at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. I, along with several others, arrived a few days before it started to help the production team set up the festival. The placement was very hands-on, rather than being office-based, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6494,146328,307208,522395],"tags":[520092,520828,520990,520597,460885,520323],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-jazz","category-undergraduate","category-work-experience-2","tag-cheltenham-jazz-festival","tag-groundlings-theatre","tag-international-musicians-seminar","tag-mike-stern","tag-volunteering","tag-work-experience","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}