At the 606
On Friday 18th October, we’ll be at our favourite London venue, the 606 Club with special guest vocalist Brendan Reilly who’s recently worked with artists as diverse a Basement Jaxx, Florence and the Machine and Duffy.
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Festival of Steve
On Friday 13th September, Stefan will be playing bass and even a little guitar alongside the legendary Jack Bruce at the www.festivalofsteve.co.uk, a charity event to commemorate the late Steve O’Rourke, Pink Floyd’s manager.
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Pizza Express Jazz Club
On Wednesday 21st August, we’ll be playing at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho as part of the Shades of Soul organized Jazz Funk Festival.
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The Beauty and the Beast
Austria is not a country known for churning out heaps of funky, jazzy, souley type of musicians and one of it’s nine provinces names Salzburg with the province capital with the same name possibly even less so. As it happens, this is were I was born?When I was a little whipper snapper I slowly started to understand that this town was known for it classical music heritage and apparently world famous classical music festivals – birthplace of the infamous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (who really knew how to write a good tune or two:-) and Herbert von Karajan, a conductor with some international notoriety…
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Friday 2nd August
We’ll be back at our favourite London venue, the 606 Club with special guest, the London based composer, arranger, pianist and singer Atar Shafighian.
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At the 606
On Friday 2nd August, we’ll be back at our favourite London venue, the 606 Club with special guest, the London based composer, arranger, pianist and singer Atar Shafighian and Quentin Collins on trumpet.
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You too can be on the new Funkestra record!
So, for all those of you who would like to end up on the next Funkestra record, just record yourself singing ‘We gonna make it sound like Zawinul’ (in tempo at 98 bpm) and send us the sound file. The idea is that we get this huge chanting ‘Joe Zawinul appreciation choir’ with many, many different voices singing the line. High voices, low voices, silly voices, tiny voices, perfect voices, imperfect voices, old voices, young voices?all are welcome.
Read storySunday 21st July
Come down to The Boaters Inn in Kingston for a drink and 2 sets of funky delights!
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Jazz at Boaters
Come down to The Boaters Inn in Kingston on Sunday 21st July for a drink and free music with 2 sets of funky delights starting at about 8pm.
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We’re really excited to be playing at this years Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival. This year?s festival is going to be the biggest and best yet , and not just because we’re playing!
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At the Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival
We’re really excited to be playing at this years Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival, on Friday July 19th! This year?s festival is going to be the biggest and best yet , and not just because we’re playing!
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We return to our ?local? the Farncombe Cavern for a fun and relaxed evening.
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