Set up by local musicians Kate Luxmoore and Lekan Babalola, the Birchfield Jazz Festival is a celebratory weekend of free live music based at St Mary’s Church in Handsworth Birmingham in the month of July.

Following a successful launch in 2017, a follow-up in 2018, the festival returns in 2019, and hopes to become a permanent fixture for many years to come.

The festival runs workshops with young people in local schools and at Grosvenor Road Studios who are then able to perform as part of the festival programme.