Name: Ben Shankland Trio
Start: 2025-09-03T20:00:00+01:00
Location: The Lescar, 303 Sharrow Vale Rd, S11 8ZF Sheffield, United Kingdom

We’re really excited to welcome to The Lescar a piano trio featuring three wonderful award winning musicians, led by the winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2023, Ben Shankland.
With a clear reverence for the jazz tradition and lineage, marked by an unmistakable personality in every phrase, this trio’s music is driven by melody and lyricism, with a nuanced take on rhythm and texture, and a playfulness that’s always present.
Joining Ben are Ewan Hastie (bass), winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2022, and Jonathan Silk (drums), a really great drummer based in Birmingham who you may well have seen at The Lescar previously with the bands FORJ, Young Pilgrims and Home/Lands.
A musician making waves on the UK jazz scene, and currently based in Berlin, Ben’s playing is both lyrical and purposeful, balanced and thoughtful, and he has featured at jazz festivals including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham, as well as collaborating with Harben Kay and Lucy-Anne Daniels, and opening for international renowned artists Pablo Held and Jason Rebello.
‘Shankland’s playing combines lyricism with drive and precision, as well as a penchant for melody’ - The Scotsman
"What a Career Ahead of Him” Claire Martin OBE, Vocalist, about Ewan Hastie.
Bassist Ewan Hastie won BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022, and in 2023 was voted for the “Best Instrumentalist Award” in the Scottish Jazz Awards. In a relatively short time he has performed with an array of artists including the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Jean Toussaint, Denys Baptiste, Iain Ballamy, Fergus McCreadie, Pete Johnstone, Brian Kellock, and Nikki Yeoh, and at venues including Ronnie Scotts, 606 Jazz club, The Vortex and The Queen Elizabeth Hall.
On drums, Jonathan Silk is a composer and bandleader based in Birmingham and has released two acclaimed albums with his own big band and string orchestra as well as working with world-renowned composers Vince Mendoza and Maria Schneider and a host of other nationally and internationally renowned musicians. He was awarded BBC Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year in 2014. You may have seen him previously at The Lescar in bands including FORJ, Young Pilgrims, and Home/Lands.
Join us for these three remarkable new voices from the flourishing Scottish jazz scene, a brillant line-up in the classic jazz piano tradition.
Here’s some music:

TICKETS: £10 or £7 for students.
Pay on the door, or alternatively get advance tickets by emailing [email protected] or messaging the Jazz at The Lescar.
Doors 8pm, music 8.30pm.