Jazz star Chelsea to play in her home town

WARRINGTON’S up-and-coming jazz saxophone star Chelsea Carmichael is to perform in her home town next month.
The 22-year-old former Culcheth High School pupil is bringing her six-piece band Yesa Sikyi to the Village Club in Wigshaw Lane, Culcheth on Sunday, August 2.
That’s just six days before Chelsea will start rehearsals for a TV appearance with the Guy Barker Big Band at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
It will also be just two days before she appears, with Yesa Sikyi at the Manchester Jazz Festival.
Yesa Sikyi is made up of students from London’s Trinity Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where Chelsea is studying jazz saxophone.
She co-leads the band with trumpet student Lily Carassik, from Lancaster.
At Culcheth, the band will be mainly playing popular standards, interspersed with a few originals from their first album, which is to be released shortly.
Last time Chelsea played in Culcheth was probably when she was a member of the Culcheth High School Swing Band.
But since then she has played with the highly regarded Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra and with her own quartet at this year’s London Jazz Festival.
In addition to that she has been signed for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra – and manages to fit in numerous gigs around the London scene in addition to her studies at Trinity.
But she has wanted to play in her home village for some time.
The doors will open at 6.30pm on August 2 with the concert starting at 7pm.