Sunday 6th June 2021
Due to social distancing we will have two sittings! The show an hour long commencing at 5pm and 7pm.
Friends Meeting House
Ship Street
Brighton BN1 1AF
Click here for tickets (takes you to the fringe festival website)
About the concert
We had been planning to put on this concert in May 2020 as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. Sadly as you can imagine this concert was cancelled. Now we have a date we’ve been gearing up to polish up the set and get it ready to be heard! My partner Matt wrote the lovely arrangements for it, for me to sing as part of a 9 piece ensemble. We recorded some of them before lockdown and made some videos for them to give a taste of what we have in mind –
Our Performers –
Terry Pack – double bass
Terry started playing professionally aged 16 in 1974. Recorded four albums with The Enid between 1976 and 79. Played pop, rock, blues and jazz sessions and gigs between 1979 and 1998. Lived in Italy 1993-1998. Returned to UK in 1999, and focused on jazz. Many recording credits. Four albums as leader. Founded Trees in 2015.
www.treesensemble.org
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Buster Birch – drums
Buster Birch has an honours degree in music from the University of London and a post-graduate diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed at virtually every major concert hall and jazz club in London as well as major international festivals and toured in over 30 countries and played on more than 30 CDs. He has worked with many of the UK’s finest jazz musicians as well as The Royal Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and deputised on West End shows. He is the drummer for ARQ (Alison Rayner Quintet), winners of the Parliamentary Award for “Best UK Jazz Ensemble 2018”. He is director of The Original UK Jazz Summer School and The Online UK Jazz School and he is co-founder and lead tutor for the award-winning BYMT Jazz School for children. Since 2018 he has published 24 books on jazz improvisation. He has his own critically acclaimed show “Buster plays Buster” featuring his own jazz quartet playing live to screenings of classic Buster Keaton movies for which he has arranged and scored all of the music.
www.busterbirch.co.uk/
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Sheraine Lynsdale-Nock – violin
Sheraine had a misspent youth improvising pop music on her violin when she ought to have been practising her scales. Fortunately this has come in really handy and she now has a varied musical life playing in orchestras to teaching to running her function group: South Downs Strings.
www.southdownsstrings.com
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Charlotte Glasson – violin
Charlotte Glasson is a multi instrumentalist, band leader and session player, playing all the saxophones, flutes, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and viola, penny whistle, melodica, percussion, and even the saw in Lost and Found Orchestra. As a session musician Charlotte has worked with Oasis, The Divine Comedy, John Martyn, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and many more.
www.charlotteglasson.com
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Bimbi Urquhart – viola
Alexandra Urquhart trained classically as a viola player at Trinity College of Music and then the Royal College of Music. She has performed and toured with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as playing for a year in Chile with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago. She played on the album ‘Bad Blood’ by Bastille, as well as playing as part of their string quartet at Glastonbury and on the festival circuit. She has recorded as solo viola with singer/songwriter Ben Rusch for his album Architects of Time, as well as playing on Tango Siempre’s album ‘Malandras del Tango’. She is a member of one of London’s finest string quartets, Titanium Strings.
www.titaniumstrings.com
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Joe Giddey – cello
Joe Giddey is a freelance cellist who plays with many varied ensembles, working with orchestras, quartets, string ensembles, bands and recording sessions for film and television.
Orchestral work includes BBC Concert Orchestra, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Opera Holland Park, and New English Concert Orchestra and St Martin in the Fields Consort Orchestra. Joe has recorded for film work and theatre work, including ‘Gospel of Us’ with the National Theatre, ‘Backbeat’ West End show, string quartet music for Warner Bros and recently recording for Sony Playstation game music and the ‘Last Reef’ film in 3D.
Joe is also involved with many chamber ensembles, including the Montpellier Cello Quartet. They have in recent years embarked on a partnership with jazz vocalist Claire Martin OBE in a sound fusion of jazz-chamber music written for the ensemble by internationally renowned musicians and composers, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Mark Anthony Turnage, Joe Stilgoe and Django Bates.
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Tim Wade – trombone
Tim has worked around the world from America to Australia – playing trombone with latin bands in Puerto Rico, hosepipe at the Sydney Opera House and opera at Snape Maltings. Tim is performer with the Stomp show Lost and Found Orchestra. After studying with Phil Wilson at Berklee College of Music in Boston USA, went to postgraduate jazz studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
www.tim-wade.co.uk
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Matthew Wall – guitar / arranger
Matthew has been a professional gigging jazz guitarist for many years in the South of England. He has accompanied many great singers and soloists on the Brighton jazz scene. He started arranging for fun, then arranged for three part harmony group ‘Three Little Birds’, and has been working on the Ela with Strings project for the last year.
www.youtube.com/seamothboy
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Ela Southgate – vocals
Ela’s childhood was filled with beautiful music with an accomplished jazz pianist father. She loved the melancholy and rich chord sequences of jazz from the off, making her dad devise child-finger-friendly versions of songs such as Round Midnight for her to learn and play on the piano. She was also drawn to the visual arts and gained a first class degree, which was split down the middle, half music, half fine art! Later she did the dedicated jazz diploma at Chichester college in 2003 where she studied piano and guitar as well as voice. She has been gigging on the Brighton scene ever since. Singing with the rich variety of bands from duos to big bands and often with partner Matthew Wall.
Below is an article written last year before the pandemic (dates of the original performance on there you’ll see!) by the Jim Burlong for Sussex Jazz Magazine…