Coastival arts festival in Scarborough has revealed the headliners for their next event. Popular British acid jazz band the Brand New Heavies will headline at the Spa Grand Hall on Friday 14^th February at 8pm as a centrepiece to Coastival 2014. 

Top-name jazz will be provided for a Scarborough Jazz Day at the Spa Grand Hall on Saturday 15^th February. Kate Peters and the Heavy Horns will take the afternoon session from 2.30 to 5pm before Coastival favourite Clare Teal and the Community Band take to the stage at 8pm.

Coastival promises something completely different on Sunday 16^th February with the Musicport “Lock in Dance Show”, a unique mix of folk and hip-hop, set in a traditional English pub and featuring the Demon Barbers, at 2.30pm at the Spa Grand Hall.

The Brand New Heavies are described as “a British music institution whose unique mix of jazz, funk and soul has lit up the dance scene for well over two decades”. The band began in the 1980s and has had a string of successful albums and singles ever since.

They will be supported by Nubiyan Twist, a 10-piece outfit that “fuses elements of Brazilian, West African and Caribbean music with sound system culture and jazz-inspired improvisation”.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 20^th September. For Brand New Heavies they will be £20; for the jazz afternoon session £10, for the jazz evening session £15 and for the Lock-in Dance Show, £15. A limited number of weekend tickets, taking in all those concerts, will be available for £50 – a potential saving of £10.

Organisers Create are pleased with the music line-up.

Director Wendy Holroyd said: “Coastival is gaining a great reputation for bringing high quality, diverse performers to the Yorkshire coast and attracting audiences from across the country to enjoy it.

“Our programme for 2014 takes that a step further by blending the Brand New Heavies and Nubiyan Twist with fantastic jazz from Clare Teal and something new and ground-breaking from the Lock-in Dance Show.

“With lots more music, as well as dance, theatre, art, activities for children and of course Orpheus, Coastival 2014 is shaping up beautifully!”

Orpheus the Mariner will be a huge performance on 14^th and 15^th February featuring giant puppets and a record attempt for the largest puppet in the world. It is being put together by Lee Threadgold and Dawn Dyson-Threadgold of Animated Objects Theatre Company. The rest of the programme is still being put together but will also include dance, theatre and activities for young people.

 â— A one-day Coastival this February attracted thousands of visitors to provide an out-of-season boost to the town. Visitors to Coastival’s A Different View on 16^th February were up on a similar one-day festival last year. In total, there were 9,536 attendances for the 60 events staged during the day, bringing an estimated economic boost of around £150,000 to the town. The day included headline act music icon Boy George, playing a DJ set at the Spa.