This supremely talented musician will be appearing at the Barbican Theatre with his Delta Blues Trio - blending the roots of jazz with a new direction. He plays trumpet, he sings, he raps - and he's a great performer too.
He will be performing in The Barbican Theatre on Friday 8 May. See below for a biography and a list of his plaudits and achievements.
Abram will be part of a programme of exciting free and ticketed jazz and blues gigs taking place in a network of venues around the Barbican – Plymouth’s historic quayside quarter – from May 1 to 10th, taking in the May Day Bank Holiday weekend.
“We are putting on bands that are big on performance,” said Festival director Katie Thompson. “We want to appeal to aficionados, and people who don’t even know they like jazz and blues. We want to be populist and excellent at the same time, so that people have a taste of how vibrant and exciting blues and jazz can be.”
Other Festival acts
The Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival will also be featuring:

 Hang-drum playing chillout kings Portico Quartet
 Boogie-woogie pianist Diz ‘Honeybear’ Watson
 Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths Speakeasy, featuring Seth Lakeman’s dad
 Blues-rock-chick Bex Marshall
 Soul-jazz floozy Mama Tokus
 Plymouth-based jazz singer Louise Parker
 Armada Jazz celebrating 25 years in the business

Swing Sunday
New for this year is Swing Sunday – when it is hoped that swing and lindy hop dancers from all over the region will converge on The Barbican for some open-air moves.
“Swing is a big part of jazz, so we want to see swing dancers turning the Barbican into a giant Hop for our Festival,” said Katie (herself, a beginner Lindy Hop dancer). “We’ll be contacting swing and lindy hop dancers from across the UK to tell them about Swing Sunday, and we hope they’ll dress in their finest gear to look and move good for Swing Sunday,” she said.

Swing bands and performers are being programmed throughout the day, in the area surrounding Plymouth’s Mayflower Steps – from where the Pilgrim Fathers set out for the New World in 1620.
Now the Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival is importing US art-forms blues and jazz to sound around this historic point of disembarkation. Everyone will be doing the Mayflower Step by the time Swing Sunday ends!

Festival details
The Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival started out in 2008 and is the opener to the Plymouth Summer Festival – an umbrella event running from May to September.