Cafe Mondiale is an instrumental duo based in the Cambridge area, featuring Hugh Boyde on mandolin and Bert Santilly on accordion. We started playing together regularly in 1999 and have played a huge range of concerts and events since then, always delighting audiences with the sparkle and romance of the mandolin and accordion sound.

The repertoire is an intriguing mixture of mainly French, Italian and South American cafe and dance music (plus whatever else we feel like on the night!), all blended together by this unusual and refreshing combination of instruments.

The last CD "World Tour" was described as "a superb collection of global melodies and rhythms" (Accordion Pro, 2003).


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