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I am a peripatetic music teacher, working in primary and secondary schools in the Cambridge area. I had taught and performed on guitar and violin for many years before falling in love with the sound of the mandolin and deciding to take it up seriously. I now own a very fine mandolin made by Richard Bartram and play it regularly with Cafe Mondiale, as well as teaching the instrument and running Moonlight Mandolins, an amateur mandolin ensemble. My other great love is acoustic jazz guitar, which I play with Shakey Breaks the Ice. |
Bert Santilly
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have played the accordion for more years than I care to remember and am well
known in the accordion world as a teacher and performer. Apart from my work with Cafe Mondiale, I play as a solo musician; as a member of Simply Jazz, a quintet in which I double vibraphone, and as part of the Bungalow Boogaloo Band - a ceilidh band which has featured on Radio 4. Apart from the 3 CDs that Hugh and I have recorded together, my other recordings to date include "Reeling off the Tracks" and "Mosaic" with the Bungalow Boogaloo Band. I have also guested on "The Clock that Laughs" with The Usual Suspects - see above - and Batanai Marimba, a Zimbabwean group playing the music of Southern Africa. I have run a number of successful jazz accordion workshops as well as more generic workshops around the country involving disabled and able-bodied musicians working together. |
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