Jools Holland and his 20-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra play the Princess Theatre, with special guest Pauline Black and guest vocalists Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall and Sumudu Jayatilaka.
Jools Holland brings his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra to the Princess Theatre on Sunday 27 June 2027. It's a big band on stage — twenty musicians in total — and the night is built around the blues and jazz that Holland has played his whole life. He's a former Squeeze keyboardist who's gone on to record with Eric Clapton, the late George Harrison, Luther Vandross, Sting, BB King and Paul Weller. He learned to play the piano fluently by the age of eight and grew into one of the country's most proficient jazz and blues pianists, a following that earned him an OBE in 2003 for services to the British music industry.
Most of us know him as the presenter of Later with Jools Holland, and he's regarded as much as an authority on music as a performer. The orchestra is known for exuberant live shows, and for this date he's bringing along special guest Pauline Black of The Selecter, with guest vocalists Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall and Sumudu Jayatilaka. With that many voices and a twenty-piece band behind them, there's a lot of ground to cover across the set.
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The evening is split into three parts. Support is on stage from 7.30pm to 7.55pm, followed by an interval from 7.55pm to 8.15pm, and then Jools Holland takes over from 8.15pm to 10.15pm. Tickets start from £74.10, and the show runs at the Princess Theatre on Torbay Road, Torquay, TQ2 5EZ.
