June Round-Up

June saw the last in a 3-year run of charity gigs at the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny featuring The Dolphin Quintet.  Organised by Dorothy Bayliss, these concerts have been raising money for the Tri-Charity fund which supports Great Ormond Street Hospital, Diabetes UK and DELTA.

Last year's concert was recorded and produced as a live CD which is for sale on my WEBSITE.  All proceeds go to the Tri-Charity fund.

Our finale concert was a great success, and I'll be performing in Herefordshire next month with the Dave Price trio, supporting the same cause.

Jazz in the Nave

Sunday 21st August

8pm  £8

St Nicholas Church, Grosmont, Monmouthshire NP7 8EP

Taste of London,
complete with rain coat!

From Thursday 16th- Sunday 19th June, the Taste of London food festival took over a small segment of Regent's Park.  The excellent live performance and teaching agency Sound Generation put on a program of music, featuring a scaled-down version of my vocal group, which featured Emma Smith and Robin Phillips.  It was great fun apart from the mud and the rain, and the cold wind and, oh yes, the rain!
Note to self: Do not wear a dress with flip flops at an outdoor gig in England, regardless of the time of year!



I did a bit of traveling in June - taking a first-class Virgin trains journey to Bangor for a gig in Menai Bridge.  it was brilliant fun and I'm looking forward to the return leg to their sister venue in Wrexham in November.

The month's events finished with a roasting hot gig at the Princess of Wales.  Imagine this... no blinds or curtains on the windows so the band, especially the poor drummer, were in direct sunlight the whole gig, and a day so hot that pianist Kate Williams found it nearly impossible to open her sun-baked car afterwards to pack away the gear.  I was questioned over my decision to sing Autumn Leaves and another song that referenced autumn, so decided to finish the set with Cole Porter's Too Darn Hot.  And it was!