Late November

An oblique reference to a very fine Sandy Denny song from 1971 (Is that really 37 years ago?) as well as the fact that this blog hasn't been updated for a while, so it is a Late November message.


Since the last update I have taken pictures at the Rodewald Suite of Liverpool's grand Philharmonic Hall of both Preston Reed and Stefan Grossman, both of whom I met through the Southport Arts Centre Project I've been working on for the last two years. Both Preston and Stefan are not only great guitarists, but also very knowledgeable and interesting people to chat to, most enjoyable!


Recent shoots at the aforementioned Arts Centre have included mesmerising dance from Anima, pictured here, legendary drummer Billy Cobham and an animated Stu Luckley.


My last posting resulted in an apology (well two actually) from a true gentleman, Sean McGhee, Editor of Rock'n'Reel magazine, who (surpisingly) fell on his sword about photo credit errors. Thank you Sean, I appreciate it. Did I say what a great magazine it is? Latest issue contains two of my photos of Seth Lakeman.


The exhibition at the Cafe D'Art in Formby village has been retained for a few months longer than anticipated and witnessed another Hampton Attic Band gig; Long May They Run, as Neil Young would say.


Many thanks for checking in.

Exhibition August

Well you've probably noticed the promised content update hasn't happened, I've given up making excuses, by the time the pictures get up there they'll be out of date. Some of them have already been published in the very fine Rock and Reel Magazine, although not always credited to me unfortunately, but as of last month the majority have so I'm getting more and more optimistic! The latest instalment of the Southport Arts Centre project( Many thanks to John Sprackland and all at Southport Arts Centre) is now hanging in the Theatre Bar in the form of eleven new framed prints, including pictures of Julie Fowlis, Peter Rowan, Ashley Hutchings and Preston Reed, pictured here.

One exhibition is hardly enough to give birth to the term "Exhibition August" I hear you cry, and I would agree with you, so I need to announce the current exhibition at the Cafe D'Art in Chapel Lane, Formby, Liverpool, where a dozen images, including Ian Hunter (pictured) are on display until the end of September 2008.

This bijou venue has also recently seen a performance of The Hampton Attic Band, the latest vehicle for my musical creativity, and a very enjoyable gig it was too! The Brouhaha Street Festival came to Southport again in late July, so I've included a couple of images here for your delectation. Thanks for checking in!

June Is Busting Out All Over

No more excuses. It's June already and no new content! All will be resolved soon. Still taking plenty of pictures, including Preston Reed, Fairport Convention,Tannahill Weavers, Bacalao, John Etheridge and John Williams, seen here. Thanks for taking an interest.

Valentines Day again!

Winter's almost done and my promises of new content have not been fulfilled. My apologies to all, my only excuse is that I've been taking lots of pictures and will have new material posted as soon as I sort out some website hosting issues. New images will include Julie Fowlis, Martins Taylor and Simpson, The Albion Band, Peter Rowan, Bellowhead, The British Blues Quintet(provided they agree), Dervish, Brass Monkey, Badly Drawn Boy, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and many more too numerous to mention. Here as a taster is Miller Anderson from the aforementioned British Blues Quintet.

Winter Draws On

It's actually very pleasant, sunny and crisp, so why I'm inside updating this I don't know. I saw Manu Chao with Radio Bemba at the recent Manchester Apollo gig. I was just there as a punter rather than on photography duties, but I quite liked this pocket digital photo of a very fine band, so I thought I'd include it here.

Southport Arts Centre Project continues, albeit hampered by the recent cancellation of JD Souther concert and Kekele concert within a month! Photographs of the wonderful Bellowhead and equally wonderful Dochas to be added to galleries soon!

Thanks for checking in.

Summer at last

The summer as been disappointing with most photographic activity staying indoors (see Martin Taylor, & Martin Simpson ) but the last weekend in July blessed the Brouhaha Street festival in Southport with some sunshine in the sky and on the ground with Ballet Enteradanzas. More pictures to be added to the galleries soon.

Southport Arts Centre July 2007

The first batch of exhibits are now hanging in The Southport Arts Centre Studio Bar. Fifteen framed images, captured by Barry Jones, featuring performers from the Autumn 2006-Spring 2007 season, including Fairport Convention's Simon Nicol, Walter Trout, Stefan Grossman, Wendell Holmes and Cara Dillon amongst others. The photographs are part of an ongoing project to occupy vacant wall space within the Arts Centre with images of popular perfomers from events held in, or associated with, the popular Lord Street location.

Despite the summer full of rain, Wychwood Music Festival 2007 was again an oasis of sun(!)and lots of interesting photo opportunites, including, once again, the delightful Eliza Carthy. Images will be added to the galleries soon.

The Southport Arts Centre exhibition which finished in November 2006 was very successful, and since then Barry has been taking photographs at the Arts Centre for potential future displays in the Arts Centre bars. New website content, now available in 2006 galleries on the website, includes work from that project. Also included are images from Wychwood 2006, Liverpool's Mathew Street Festival 2006 and some photographs from a new foray into the world of dance. Thanks for visiting the site.

Exhibition News

www.barryjonesphotography.com is a platform to display the work of Liverpool(UK) based photo-journalist Barry Jones . The subject matter is generally music-related covering Folk, World and Americana type music. Following a succesful exhibition of images during June and July at Bluecoat Books in Chester, September sees the start of "PERFORMANCE", an exhibition of images of musicians by Barry Jones at Southport Arts Centre. Entrance to the exhibition is free and will run until 5 November 2006

Thank you for visiting the website, please call again.

One of the things that I do. Summer 2005 with Mult. Inst. Jimmy Barrett(banjo)
Photo courtesy Jenny Valentine.

One of the places where I go.