Welsh jazz harpist and composer Amanda Whiting. brings her Christmas Special to Hootananny Brixton for a festive evening of live jazz, with the harp front and centre...🎄🪉

Amanda’s got form when it comes to Christmas. On her 2024 album A Christmas Cwtch (a cwtch is a Welsh cuddle), she gives familiar festive tunes a jazz twist, from Vince Guaraldi’s “Skating” from A Charlie Brown Christmas to Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”. She brings her classical roots and a love of jazz harp pioneers Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane to the way she plays, finding room for a little swing even in the snowiest tunes.