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Material relating to a series of multi-cultural arts projects which took place in schools in Denbighshire over a period of two years.

Material relating to the blues and poetry band The Salubrious Rhythm Company, of which Jen Wilson was a member, including posters and flyers; playlists, poetry and song lyrics; press cuttings; and correspondence, largely between band members.

Material relating to the 6th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, held at Leeds College of Music, 10-11 April 2000, including conference flyer; minutes of the Jazz Archives meeting held at LCM, 11 April 2000; and correspondence, from which it appears that Jen Wilson had been invited to the Jazz Archives meeting and to give a presentation (titled The Devil's Music in Wales: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939) at this conference but was forced to withdraw after her funding application to the Arts Council of Wales was rejected.

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 Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales and others, 2000-2002.

Material relating to a Jazz Lecture Evening held at Butetown History & Arts Centre Gallery, Cardiff, 31 March 2000, at which Jen Wilson gave a multi-media presentation on the history of British jazz women, including poster; newsletter; and correspondence.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's publication African-American Music in Swansea 1850-2001, which was funded by the Swansea Citizenship Millennium Award of 2001, including draft texts of proposed publication and research notes; together with material relating to the Millennium Awards scheme and to Jen Wilson's successful bid for funding.

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.

Correspondence relating to talk titled Historical Memories, presented by Jen Wilson to the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) South Wales (Pontarddulais and Hendy Branch) at the Mechanics' Institute, Pontarddulais, 30 March 2000.

Material relating to the Let Paul Robeson Sing exhibition, which celebrated the life of African American singer and actor Paul Robeson, including programmes of events; posters; press cuttings; reviews; correspondence; and printed invitation from the Paul Robeson Wales Trust to the launch, 1 November 2001, of Breaking Chains, Making Links, 'a new book of responses to the life of Paul Robeson'.

The Let Paul Robeson Sing exhibition was a component of the Roots exhibition and festival, for which see Roots exhibition and festival.

Material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater's three-part radio play The Devil's Music (2001), a work based on stories from the Women's Jazz Archive, particularly that of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and for which Jen Wilson acted as music/history consultant. Material includes scripts, cast list, recording schedule, agreements and correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson, Alan Plater and the BBC.

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

Material relating to the 7th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference held at Leeds College of Music, April 2001, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk titled The Devil's Music in Wales: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939 as perceived by the Welsh media, including draft and fair copies of conference paper; abstracts of papers to be presented; conference schedule and flyer; details relating to LCM summer schools and other academic courses; LCM prospectus for 2001-2; correspondence; and Jazz Archive news-sheet.

Material relating to Chard Festival's Hotbed Symposium for Women in Music, held 27-30 May 2001, at which Jen Wilson and musician Enid Luff presented a talk titled There! But not heard ...., including rough talk notes; festival schedules and flyer; participators' profiles; and correspondence.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Redefining the Sixties Myth: Letters Home to Swansea', contributed to Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003), including annotated draft texts of article; photocopied contents page of Changing Times; and correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from Honno Press.

General material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater, largely comprising email correspondence between Jen Wilson and Alan Plater and his wife Shirley Rubenstein.

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 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 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 Cardiff's bid to be European Capital of Culture 2008, which includes an offer made to Women in Jazz towards the costs of developing a Women's Festival of Jazz to celebrate Cardiff's centenary celebrations in 2005.