Description | Price |
Background music for Party, Reception, Dinner etc. Typically 2 x 45 minute sessions with 10 minute break | £150 |
Saxophone Quartet - from light classical to swing - to be negotiated | £395 |
Wind & Words - Recital of Poetry with Clarinet - 55 mins Themes incl. Travel; Weather; Love; WW1; Xmas | £125 |
I play music of the 1920's to the 1960's on Sax and Clarinet accompanied by high quality backing tracks.
My programmes include music by Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Ray Noble, and George Shearing, presented as discreet background music for dinners, weddings, corporate events, garden parties, functions etc..
For larger events, my saxophone quartet, River City Saxes playing Classical to Swing, can also be available; or for something quite different, Wind & Words - a recital of Poetry and Clarinet on a theme (Travel, Weather, Love, Xmas, Countries of Europe, World War I, 2nd World War)
Based in Twickenham, Middlesex
You Make Me Feel So Young
Georgia
Fly Me to the Moon
Cheek to Cheek
World on a String
Nightingale Sang
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Manhattan
Come Fly with Me
Sweet Lorraine
Girl from Ipanema
Summertime
Autumn Leaves
My Funny Valentine
Don’t Get Around Much
Desafinado
Blue Skies
Honeysuckle Rose
Very Thought of You, The
Let There be Love
Oh, Lady be Good
Too Marvellous for Words
Alfie
Tenderly
Pennies from Heaven
All the Things You Are
Way You Look Tonight, The
Blue Moon
Misty
A Train, Take the
Foggy Day, A
On the Sunny Side of the Street
For Sentimental Reasons
As Time Goes By
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
Chatanooga Choo Choo
You Go To My Head
Wave
Sway
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Too Marvellous for Words
Do Nothing ’til you hear from Me
Somewhere Over a Rainbow
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
In a Mellow Tone
All of Me
I Only Have Eyes for You
Moonglow
Nearness of You, The
What a Difference a Day Made
Button Up Your Overcoat
It’s All Right with Me
Almost Like Being in Love
Lady is a Tramp, The
Car parking adjacent to venue
1 x 13 amp power socket next to performance area
Self contained using Bose L1 PA System
I always aim to arrive 1 hour prior to start.
Set up time 30 minutes using Bose Compact PA system with small footprint to suit smaller venues, or 40 minutes for bigger system in larger venues. Quality backing tracks are used throughout.
Equipment is PAT tested and I have Public Liability Insurance cover.
Background music of 1920's to 1950's - typically 2 x 45 minute sets with short break optionally with prerecorded music.
Sets of different lengths by arrangement with client
Royal Ascot Golf Club, BEN Charity Event
Elvetham Hotel, Hartley Whintney - Wedding
Royal Star & Garter Home
Eynsham Hall, Witney - Wedding
British Legion Dinner, Windelsham
Caroline Gardens Chapel, Peckham - Wedding
de Vere Beaumont Hotel, Old Windsor - Engagement Party
The Mary Feilding Guild, Highgate N6
The Sinatra Society (London)
Gainsford Trust, Inns of Court
WI’s of Godstone, West Horsley, Limpsfield, Holmwood, Epsom & Ewell
Moorlands Lodge, Hindhead
FBHP, Pheasantry Café, Bushy Park
Northcutts Garden Centre, Cranleigh
SK - Age UK
Galsworthy House, Kingston
Sunrise Senior Living at Purley, Virginia Water, Sonning, Banstead, Bagshot, Weybridge, Guildford, and Beaconsfield
Signature Care Homes at Coombe Hill Kingston, Cliveden Manor, Rosebery Manor Epsom
Gracewell of Bookham, Leatherhead
Lee House, Wimbledon
Moor House, Staines
Coxhill Manor, Chobham