http://www.raaj.info Wed, 07 May 2008 07:47:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are pleased to announce our band line up for 2008. On Thursday night we welcome back old favourites the 'Old Thumper' Jazz Bands, along with the Jive Aces, a firm favourite returning from last year. You may recognise Friday's line up. It is the Dave Shepherd Dixielanders and ... http://www.raaj.info/2008/04/15/music-programme-2008/ The Real Ale and Jazz festival has been and gone for its 20th year. Hard to believe we've been going so long. On Thursday evening record numbers came through the gate to enjoy one of the few sunny summer's evenings we have had and listen to Richard Leach and the ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/27/festival-review-2007/ Just to confirm that the festival is on tonight (Saturday 21st) and that we will offer the full music programme as planned. The bands are on route so we hope we can offer you a fun filled evening of ale and jazz. We've mopped up the site and ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/21/saturday-night-jazz/ Tonight's festival is on. Both bands are already on route to the venue so the live music programme will run as scheduled this evening. The ground under foot is still soft so we advise wellies or sturdy footware. We look forward to seeing you this evening. http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/21/saturdays-festival-is-on/ The Glastonbury spirit came to Reading last night as over 800 people enjoyed the festival despite the weather and were entertained by a local band filling in with some live music. Saturday's festival will go ahead as planned. http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/21/real-ale-and-rain/ It's been quite a day but the festival is going ahead tonight in modified form. We are sorry that there are no bands playing this evening as they have been unable to travel in the deluge. However we have dried out the site as best we can and are open ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/20/let-it-rain-let-it-rain/ We're excited and we hope you are. So it may not be the weather we ordered but it won't dampen our spirits. I'm not sure we can expect much better this summer but don't worry we have plenty of room in the big tent, so why not escape ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/16/its-festival-week/ It's July, summer really is just around the corner. To help get in the summer mood we've updated our site with details of the bands performing at this year's festival, and the details of the beer you can sample. You can find out more information about the ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/07/03/bring-on-summer/ We are pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival 2007. We're pretty excited to have made it to our 20th year. We hope that you'll come and join us to share in the fun. Whether you have been a regular ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/06/03/tickets-are-now-on-sale/ The dates for the festival this year are: 19, 20 and 21 July 2007. It is our 20th Anniversary. We hope that old friends and new alike will come and join us to share in the memories, sample some great beer and discover some of our favourite bands from previous years. Here ... http://www.raaj.info/2007/03/27/postcard-from-2006/