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Poster relating to a performance by Wilson's Brew, featuring Jen Wilson, at a Swansea Jazz Society event held at the Duke of York public house, Swansea.

Playlist relating to a performance by the DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band at Swansea University's Open Day, 22 June 1996.

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.

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.

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 an International Women's Day event held at the Chattery Cafe, Swansea, 7 March 2003.
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Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in a series of events organised by Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council.

Flyer for a Wales Assembly of Women (Cardiff and Glamorgan group) celebration dinner held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, 6 May 2004, at which Women in Jazz performed.

Enquiry sheet and playlist relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at Singleton Park, Swansea, 30 May 2004.

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.

Material relating to a performance by DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band at the televised Stars and Stripes in Swansea event held in Singleton Park, Swansea, 6 July 1996.

Material relating to a Welsh Women's Archive half day conference and celebration dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, at which Jen Wilson provided musical entertainment.

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

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

Material relating to the Val Feld Memorial Lecture and Dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 24 October 2003, at which Women in Jazz performed. The material includes the full text of the lecture, delivered by Anna Coote.

Photographic print relating to the Swansea Jazz Ensemble's participation at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival.

Material relating to a concert performance at the Queen's Hotel, Swansea, 12 September 2004.