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The Al Fresco Trad Jazz Band brings the iconic Dixieland sound to life.

March 23, 2012
The Southampton based Al Fresco Trad Jazz Band brings the iconic Dixieland sound to life.

Trad Jazz is an ideal style of music to add a celebratory atmosphere to a wedding reception party, especially outdoors, and as their name implies, The Al Fresco Trad Jazz Band are ideally suited to such an occasion. Their lively, swaggering renditions of all the well-known classics of the genre performed in authentic New Orleans [...]

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Trad Jazz is perfect for summer wedding and party celebrations

February 22, 2012
Trad Jazz is perfect for summer wedding and party celebrations

The Mississippi Delta, where French and British cultures blend with African and Creole, is acknowledged as the birthplace of what has become known as Trad Jazz. An amalgam of blues and gospel hymns with European dance-tunes and song models, this idiosyncratic style of musical delivery appears to emerge in the popular marching church bands, especially [...]

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Let the majestic romance of Scotland inspire your party theme

January 24, 2012
No Scottish-themed wedding or anniversary celebration would be complete without a rousing ceilidh as the finale to the day’s proceedings.

You don’t have to be Scottish to appreciate Scotland (although it probably helps). The breathtaking natural beauty of the landscape, both lowland and highland, combined with the historical mystique of a powerful, colourful, unique and indomitable culture, lends the territory north of the border an unparallelled attraction steeped in nostalgia and tradition. Such a romantic [...]

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A country ‘n’ western band gives your party a Wild West flavour

January 17, 2012
A country 'n' western band gives your party a Wild West flavour

If you’re looking for a light-hearted, amusing theme to build your wedding reception party or themed anniversary party around, the American Wild West can be a surefire winner. After all the formalities of the earlier part of the day are done and dusted, everybody can finally let their hair down, kick off those Jimmy Choos [...]

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The Mancini String Quartet – light classical with a contemporary edge

January 10, 2012
The Mancini String Quartet – light classical with a contemporary edge

Superb technical ability combines with sensitive musicality and an unrivalled repertoire to produce a fashionable presentation of light classical music at its finest. A highly-trained group of young Guildhall graduates forms the central pool of this lively ensemble, who constantly seek to expand their repertoire to include the most up-to-date and unusual musical genres and [...]

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Create a classical ambience at your wedding with a string quartet

January 9, 2012
Create a classical ambience at your wedding with a string quartet

A string quartet is an ideal alternative to a church organ to accompany the key elements of a traditional wedding ceremony, such as the bridal procession and the recessional march. The sumptuous sonorities of the combined tones of twin violins, viola and ’cello create a rich, dynamic, almost orchestral texture. However, modern string quartets (especially [...]

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Bath News : Rainbow Steel Band make a Christmas appearance on TV at Holburne Museum

December 19, 2011
Twelve Drummers Drumming – The Rainbow Steel Band, Holburne Museum, Bath, Friday 23rd December

Twelve Drummers Drumming – The Rainbow Steel Band, Holburne Museum, Bath, Friday 23rd December ‘On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me…..twelve drummers drumming, etc’. And so it shall come to pass; on Friday, 23rd December, between around 6.00 and 6.30, the irrepressible Rainbow Steel Band will attempt to inject some [...]

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