Concerts

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DateJan 23 2012, 1:00 PM
TitleRagtime Parlour encore!
LocationSt Peter's Church, Kensington Park Road, W11 2NN
ArtistPatricia Hammond, Nick Ball, Matt Redman, Simon Marsh, Dickie Evans

Patricia Hammond (mezzo-soprano) Nick Ball (percussion) Matt Redman (banjo) Simon Marsh (sax) Dickie Evans (Sousaphone) play 1910/20s tea-dance, exoticism and sentimental ballads including:

 

Love's Old Sweet Song
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
Smilin' Through
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
Marble Halls
Beautiful Dreamer
I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Red Pepper Rag
Oh Johnny Oh
In The Gloaming
Aeroplane Rag of 1912

 

Patricia Hammond is a classically-trained singer who, despite her teachers’ earnest entreaties, has insisted on singing popular and parlour songs from the 1880s to the 1920s from the age of nine. In recent years she has been dragged as far forward as the 1950s due to the ever-shifting nature of Nostalgia. A CD of some of her favourites is soon to be hitting the shops, and features all four of the musicians here today. See www.patriciahammond.com for more details.

Nicholas David Ball, percussionist, arranger, singer and specialist in early jazz and Brazilian Ragtime as well as a myriad of later styles. He created “Albert Ball’s Flying Aces,” a band of WWI aviators playing 1920s jazz and pop songs. In collaboration with Matthew Redman he completed twelve new arrangements for the CD “Our Lovely Day” on Imperial Music, to be released later this year. Nick is also a very talented artist.

Richard “Dickie” Evans is from the Lake District and is heir to a long tradition of northern British brass band music. A classical orchestral and chamber tuba player, in recent years his distinctive and stylish Sousaphone has been in increasing demand with early jazz ensembles.
 
Simon 'Zeppo' Marsh was only 11 when he first played for the Wiltshire Youth Jazz Orchestra, and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Simon is equally at home behind a saxophone, clarinet or flute, is a teacher and arranger and also leads the Simon Marsh Octet.
 
Matthew Redman, expert in all things plucked including Lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and guitars nylon, steel, electric and acoustic. Recently he formed the RMS Lusitania Ragtime Orchestra and embarked on an exploration of hundreds of different rags. He plays early music, classical, jazz of all kinds, modern music, and various ethnic styles as well. In collaboration with Nick Ball, he arranged the songs for Patricia Hammond’s forthcoming album “Our Lovely Day.”
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