Saturday, 4th July 7.30pm

The Mandolinquents

This concert is the Yatton Music Society’s AGM concert at St Mary’s Church and will start at 7.30 pm after the AGM in the Chapter House. Tickets are available on the door for both members and non members of the society. The ticket price for non members is £16, YMS members and students £10, accompanied children under 18 free. YMS members who attend this concert and also renew or register their annual membership will receive a discount on their membership fee.

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The Mandolinquents feature everything from hot swing and ragtime instrumentals from mandolin orchestra of the 1930s Irvin Berlin, Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky to lively reels and beautiful traditional Iris airs to Chinese and Brazilian folk tunes. All this played with infectious fun, off-beat humour and stunning virtuosity on mandolin, mandocello, mandobass and classical guitar with the occasional burst of song or fiddle.

Simon Mayor: (mandolin, violin, guitar, vocals ‘One of the world’s great mandolinists’ (BBC Radio 3), as well as a fine fiddle player, guitarist, composer and wit, Simon’s many-faceted career has taken in two nights at Wembley Arena as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra, his own series on BBC Radio 2, and an album in the Classic FM Top Ten chart.

Hilary James: (voice, mandobass, guitar) ‘One of Britain’s finest voices’, Hilary has recorded six solo albums, including collections of Scottish, English and Irish folksongs; traditional blues and
forays into French chansons, Berlioz and Irving Berlin. She has featured on Radio 4 (Woman’s Hour), Radio 3 (In Tune), Radio 2 (top ten playlist) and Classic FM.

Richard Collins: (banjo, guitar, mandolin… and banjo jokes!) One of the hottest and subtlest 5 string banjo players around, three time UK banjo champion, Richard Collins first picked up a guitar at the age of nine and within a couple of years was stunningly adept on a number of stringed instruments including the mandolin, guitar and bass. Richard is also In much demand as a session musician; he’s a regular face on the West End stage and at the National Theatre.

Gerald Garcia: (guitar): Gerald is equally at home at the Wigmore Hall or Glastonbury Pop Festival. One of the world’s finest guitarists, he’s toured with the likes of John Williams and Paco Peña,he has appeared with such diverse talents as Michel Legrand, Barbara Streisand, Larry Coryell and Wayne Shorter, he has six solo albums out on the Naxos label.