J.A.M. String Collective + James Gow

An intriguing double-bill featuring the restlessly creative James Gow on tenor guitar, and the brilliantly inventive J.A.M. String Collective.

First up, multi-instrumentalist James Gow, perhaps best known to St George’s audiences as cellist with JOW and Eleven Magpies. 2026 sees the launching of his new solo project featuring the four-stringed tenor guitar. Expect beauty, wit and invention: magic plucked from the mundane. “Somehow doing so much with so little” (Jazz Stroud)

Next up, contemporary string trio J.A.M. String Collective – “Simultaneously beautiful, brash and starkly fragile.” (Jazzwise) – performing tracks from their acclaimed debut album She Looks Up at the Trees – music that occupies a fluid space between jazz and contemporary string sound worlds, with improvisatory elements running throughout. They will also play a new composition by Oleta Haffner entitled Elemental Suite – expansive cinematic group improvisations, punctuated by a rich percussive palette and looped beats.