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Programme schedule relating to Teignmouth Jazz Festival, held 13-15 November 1998, which featured a performance by Jen Wilson and Sally White.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's performance at the Taunton Blues Festival, an event organised by students of Somerset College of Arts and Technology, with all proceeds donated to St Margaret's Hospice, Taunton.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's performance at the Llangollen International Jazz Festival, 15-16 May 1987.

Material relating to the Soundzwild Kilvey Music Festival, held at Swansea Eastside, Kilvey, Swansea, 14-15 August 1999.

Letter and booking agreement relating to Jen Wilson's performance at a Jazz Poetry & Blues event, part of the Welsh Academy's first Cardiff Bay Literature Festival, 2000.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in Black History Month, especially their involvement with Channel 4's Black History Map of Britain website, launched 1 October 2000 for Black History Month, including festival programme; press release; poster and flyer; exhibition texts; printouts and press cuttings; correspondence; and enquiry sheets. Together with material relating to Butetown History & Arts Centre's celebration of Black History Month 1999, 2001 and 2004, and postcards and press cutting relating to Butetown's mixed-race history.

The events marking Black History Month October 2006 coincided with celebrations to mark Women in Jazz's 20th anniversary, which were highlighted by a gala evening featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine - for which see Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events.

Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.

Material relating to a performance by the Jenny Wilson Trio at a Swansea Jazzland event held at St James' Club, Swansea, 25 October 2000.

Material relating to Bessie & Billie, a play in words and music performed by Joanne Bell and Cynthia Utterbach as part of Black History Month. The play, which re-enacted the lives and work of legendary jazz/blues singers Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday through the medium of dialogue and music, was first conceived as an improvised performance by Joanne Bell and Cynthia Utterbach in a Hamburg swing club. The parts of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday were taken respectively by Bell and Utterbach.

Material relating to a concert performance by Wilson & Morgan's Café Society Ensemble at the Chattery Café, Swansea, 21 April 2001.

Press cutting relating to a concert performance by the Jen Wilson Quartet titled Lady Sings The Blues at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, [29 September] 2001.

Material relating to the Val Feld Memorial Lecture and Dinner, held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 25 October 2002, at which Women in Jazz performed; together with obituary notices and tributes to Val Feld and the order of her memorial service.

Material relating to the Welsh-American abolitionist Jessie Donaldson, including information booklets, exhibition panel texts, etc relating to the multi-media presentation on Jessie Donaldson by Jen Wilson and other members of Women in Jazz as part of Black History Month, October 2002; photocopied texts from printed sources and printouts from online sources relating to the life and work of Jessie Donaldson; correspondence, including mainly emails between Jen Wilson and Patricia Donaldson-Mills, whose husband was a descendant of Francis Donaldson's family line; Heineken/Donaldson family tree (text faint); and enquiry sheets.

Programme schedule relating to a performance by The Old Pros duo, comprising Jen Wilson and poet Penny Windsor, at the Cardiff Literature Festival 1988.

Material relating to events marking the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, including details relating to individual events such as the multi-media performance Free at Last?; flyers; exhibition panel texts; calendar of events; enquiry sheets; correspondence; guide to resources produced by the Heritage Lottery Fund; and printouts from online sources relating to the history of slavery. Also including material relating to slavery and abolition not directly related to the bicentenary celebrations.

Material relating to a concert performance by Wilson & Morgan's Café Society Ensemble at Mumbles Rugby Club, 24 May 2002.

Letter of confirmation from Jen Wilson relating to a proposed Roots Trio concert to be held at the University of Glamorgan in June 2003.

Material relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at Swansea's Grand Theatre, 2 November 2002.

Material relating to a musical performance/workshop titled Before Freedom, which depicted the life of Willis, a freed slave who took up residence in Swansea, including school resource packs; completed student and teacher evaluation forms; posters and flyers; list of bookings; material relating to specific performance bookings; photographic prints; enquiry sheets; and application for grant aid to fund the project. The show, performed by members of Women in Jazz and others, toured schools, museums, theatres and other venues as part of the events commemorating the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

The events marking Black History Month October 2006 coincided with celebrations to mark Women in Jazz's 20th anniversary, highlighted by a gala evening featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine and a performance of Before Freedom - for which see Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events. See also Black History Month.

Material relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at an International Women's Day event held at the Chattery Cafe, Swansea, 7 March 2003.
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