We then carried our kit through to the next room – a big event hall which was laid out beautifully by the organisers Planet Pursuits Event Management who had even brought in a classic biplane earlier that morning to complete the look:

I think you can see we had some fun and so did the RAF, we were particularly chuffed (excuse the pun) by the compliments paid to us by many of the American guests as we were after all playing their music…

x J&C

The weather is glorious and it is wedding season again so we’ve also played at some beautiful occasions recently and met some lovely people.  These shots were taken of me (Jeanie) and Paul playing in the stunning 17th Century Hintlesham Hall Hotel.

Another client was lucky with the weather for their staff BBQ in Tunbridge Wells where we played as a quartet in the garden.   They emailed to say “We really enjoyed the music, thank you very much for a superb evening!”

Dates in the diary now include another RAF function and a do for “Rock School“…

Jazz on dude! xJ&C

There will be more photographs of this colourful evening posted soon on http://helpingelsewhere.com/

Here’s a video of us performing ‘But Not for Me’ while organiser Helen Hitchcock and her father commence the dancing:

Thank you Helen for a wonderful evening and all the very best with your fundraising efforts

Love from J&C x

Back soon to take you on a ‘Slow Boat to China’! x J&C

Chris noticed there was a photography studio set up next to the entrance doing free portraits so we got our pic taken for a laugh – Lakis kept saying, “How does my hair look – does it look ok?!”  I told him he looked beautiful.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps?

Here’s a clip of us swinging on the stage:

And doing a touch of the Big Brovaz:

Jeanie and the band can include her original songs at your event on request – check them out at JeanieBarton.com

New! Christmas Repertoire!
I’ve got my Love to Keep Me Warm
White Christmas
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
Good King Wenceslas
Jingle Bells
Winter Wonderland

But remember we always learn special requests so you only have to ask…

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Along with myself (Jeanie), pianist Paul Weinreb and drummer Cripsin Taylor piled themselves and their kit into my motor and we shared the driving – all 5 hours there and back!  Still we didn’t want to be stuck in traffic sweating out of our faces so thankfully we gave ourselves more than 6 hours to do it in.  The fantastic Selwyn Charles joined us on double bass as he has a head start on us, being based in Northhampton.

Here’s a shot of the awards poduim:

Harrogate International Centre Queen's Conference Hall

We were based in the back right hand corner of the hall; Paul and I played a duo set as guests arrived and then later as a quartet we did 3 sets after the speeches, during the dinner…

This was the view from where we played:

All the diners we played to...

What we especially loved was the ‘Stars in their Eyes’ style twinkly black out cloth surrounding most of the room – below you can see us swinging ‘Fly me to the Moon’ the Sinatra classic, which seemed very appropriate for the setting:

This video is also now on our videos page.

Well, we had a great blow and everyone seemed to enjoy the evening…  We finished ‘around midnight’ (haha) – happily the client had arranged for us to stay in the Holiday Inn which was just next to the centre, so we packed up all our kit and scuttled off back down the goods lift to curl up for a well needed rest.

We woke to a glorious sunny morning – looking out from the 9th floor of the hotel was quite lovely:

an Autumn morn in Harrogate

It certainly was pretty, and a nice change from north london.  We had a slap up breakfast and then got back on the road.

Thanks to all at Iheem, The  Harrogate International Centre and the Holiday Inn for looking after us so well – I hope we can come north again soon!