The Cocktail Hour Jazz Piano Trio played at The Brooklands Hotel, next to Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey, as part of their winter Wedding Fair where would-be-weds checked out Surrey’s premier wedding venue as well as meeting other suppliers of wedding essentials: clothing, flowers, events managers, stationary, wedding gift list organisers and more! https://facebook.com/events/s/surrey-wedding-show/2800348673317137/?ti=icl
For over 30 out of the last 48 hours, The Cocktail Hour Vocal & Piano Trio has been driving, and ferrying to a truly memorable corporate gig on the Isle Of Man. The party theme? Peaky Blinders! The event celebrated 120 years of the existence of law firm Appleby. The Law Partner who booked us …
It’s always a fun gig when the bride or groom are in the music industry too. Last night at an intimate Hotel wedding in Chislehurst, the bride was a contemporary student at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama with our long-time piano-playing colleague, Paul Eldridge (posing in the photo). She and her chief bridesmaid, both …
The Cocktail Hour took to the stage in the fashionable East London performance venue Shoreditch Town Hall along with the Shirt Tail Stompers for another Swing Dance extravaganza. We played songs from the Count Basie Big Band repertoire and other popular hits from from that era. Swingin’!
The circumstances surrounding us playing for for this 10-year wedding anniversary party are truly bizarre. Travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 to London in July, I struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger, and soon the conversation turned to music. It turned out that this gentleman, as well as being a successful businessman, was also …
