Martin Mayes + George Burt (NFOJAiM 2025)

Martin Mayes + George Burt
The Literary and Philosophical Society (Private Members Library) 
Saturday 4th October 2025
Doors: 5.30pm (Music Starts: 5.45pm - 7.15pm)

Tickets are priced at £6 with an optional £2 festival donation available (+ Booking Fee)

George Burt 5.45pm - 6.15pm

Martin Mayes 6.30pm - 7.15pm

Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music

This concert is presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with The Literary and Philosophical Society, Jazz North East and Andy Hamilton / British Society of Aesthetics

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George Burt
George Burt (Solo Guitar) 

George Burt is a guitarist and composer based in Scotland. Early experience includes playing in folk groups, ceilidh bands, pit bands, and mainstream and modern jazz groups. 

He ran a series of improvisation workshops in the 1990s, and this led to the formation of the George Burt/Raymond MacDonald Quartet. The group was described by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as “the leading partnership on the modern/free scene in Scotland, making impressive international associations.” These included Harry Beckett, Keith Tippett and Lol Coxhill. 

As a founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, he commissioned Barry Guy to compose a new piece for the group, and co-ordinated performances by GIO and Lol Coxhill and Fred Frith. 

He has performed with Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, Julie Tippetts and Mat Maneri, as well as his two favourite guitarists, Susan Alcorn and Bill Wells

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https://georgeburt.bandcamp.com/ 


Martin Mayes
Martin Mayes (Solo: Horns / Conch / Bells)

Horn, alphorn, creator of projects for concerts, events and workshops 
The City of London Festival described him as an “Architect of the musical imagination”. 

Born in Scotland, Martin Mayes studied music at the University of York, England and began his career in London in the rather contrasting worlds of the rarified experimental music scene and the down-to-earth world of street theatre and community arts, developing an eclectic and multi- disciplinary approach to music. 

He has lived in Turin, Italy since 1982. 

Over the years Martin has created projects that deal with many aspects of life. He uses music to tell stories and explores the musical potential of spaces and objects using improvisation to bring out the unusual, bizarre and irregular aspects of sound and music. 

Amongst a most colourful career he has played in projects with CECIL TAYLOR – the American pianist and one of the creators of free jazz, with DAVID JACKSON – saxophonist and one-time member of the prog rock group Van de Graaf Generator – and with Mongolia’s leading traditional singer TSERENDAVAA. 

Martin Mayes
(The Wind) 

Martin Mayes solo performances grow out of an idea around a short melody or a poem. Using the horn, the alphorn and the conch together with a mix of bells (especially animal bells) and other noise makers plus a few texts and poems. 

This will be Martin’s first solo performances after a three-month abstention from blow-ing the horn due to an operation on the oesophagus, as such he has decided to create the solo performance at Newcastle around the idea of the wind. 

We hope that you can join us in the intimate surroundings of the acoustic Members Library of the Lit and Phil to hear some of Martin Mayes exceptional music.



The Literary and Philosophical Society
The Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE
0191 232 0192 / library@litandphil.org.uk
www.litandphil.org.uk


The Literary and Philosophical Society

Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.

Accessibility: The Loftus Room and Joseph Swan Room at The Lit and Phil are partly accessible. There is a lift at the venue entrance for wheelchair users to access the building and performance space, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building.

The festival has permissions for visiting wheelchair users to access toilets located on the ground floor in Sleeperz Hotel which is just a few doors down (16 ft) to the right of the Lit and Phil as you exit the building.

Accessible toilets are also available at 5 Quarter Cafe Bar to the left as you exit the building.

The Private Members Library is not a wheelchair accessible space and is preceded by a small number of stairs.

Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Central Station which is located less than 300 ft from the venue (approximately 2 minutes walk).

There is limited street parking, the closest car park is at Central Station
(Charges may apply).