Author Archives: Richard

Presenting the Yorkshire Gypsy Jazz Collective! Featuring some of the region’s hottest gypsy jazz and swing players, playing music inspired from legendry musicians Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli of the “Quintette du Hot Club de France”. Expect fiery solos, foot-stomping rhythms, burning ballads and even some Latin inspired piece. The collective remains in the spirit […]

The Budapest Café Orchestra  plays gypsy and  folk-flavoured music from all around the world delivering traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian traditional gypsy and folk music in their own fresh and surprising way with jazz nuances and their own unique arrangements. Established by award-winning British composer, violinist and teacher Christian Garrick in 2009 the Orchestra […]

Raised in Scunthorpe, now London-based, Sumudu has been a natural performer from a young age, singing, playing guitar and piano and writing songs. She made her TV debut on BBC’s Pebble Mill at One at the age of 15, performing her own composition, accompanied by Snake on sax and flute… Their next meeting was when […]

Sax On Sunday Snake welcomes back Tom and Melissa and he is looking forward to having to keep up with these very talented youngsters, playing more modern material than usual.

Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award- winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound. Nominated three times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) met while studying at Leeds College of Music and released their debut album […]