Music Day 2025 Your Entertainers
Bands, Groups and Vocalists
One Foot in the Groove
Owen Engeham - keyboard, John Arrol - guitar & Peter Bland vocals & percussion
‘One Foot in the Groove, a trio of musicians of a certain age who love performing tunes from their youth, for audiences who also recall the good musictimes!!
These days it’s getting harder and harder to remember the many rock and roll, blues, country and R&B numbers that we love to play!!
We really enjoy playing in Dalwood, and are looking forward to it immensely!!
Ali and the Swing Cats.
Richard Llewelyn, Alison Foyle, Al Faulkingham & Mike Sayer
"We play songs from The Great American Songbook - the hits from the 1920/40s to early 1950s. Our style can be described as 'smooth jazz meets gypsy jazz'. We'll entertain you with stories about how some of the songs were written, tales about the composers and world events at the time".
We want you to have fun! ‘
La Vie en Rose
David Jones, Rebecca Willson, Nick White, Yann Mahdjoub, Laurie Light
These Exeter based musicians have wide-ranging individual backgrounds in classical music, traditional jazz, rock, blues, country, ragtime and roots, all drawn together by the shared pleasure of playing gypsy jazz and hot swing.
Performing to acclaim at festivals such as Dart Music Festival, Upton Jazz, Bude Jazz, Jazz Jurassica, numerous arts centres including Bridport, TCAT, Ilminster and Bridgwater, jazz clubs and private events and for three years running at The Royal Albert Hall's 'Verdi Italian Kitchen' for their prestigious Valentine's Day event.
They have built a reputation for their mix of ‘Hotclub’ favourites, jazz standards, soulful ballads, Latin swing, the occasional film theme or classical score! Toe-tapping rhythms and virtuoso melody lines combine in a performance with all the verve and joy that makes this music so irresistible.
“We loved having you - absolutely brilliant performance!” Jazz Jurassica
“A great performance. We hope to have you to play again soon!” Tiverton Community Arts Theatre
“…this is a rare treat. This lot are magnificent.” Danny Gladstone, ‘The Glad’, London SE1.
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Alan West
Alan West is regarded as having one of the finest country music voices to come out of the UK. With a repertoire that features interpretations of familiar country, Americana & folk classics and an introduction to not so familiar songs
and indeed songwriters, he has moved audiences across the world. This weekend he’s joined by Adam Sweet on guitar and Nick Bayes on electric bass.
Expect an intimate, relaxed, unique and engaging performance from a master of his craft.
"If you are true to the music, the music will be true to you, and Alan West is very much the embodiment of that for me" – Bob Harris OBE, BBC Radio 2
“Alan West is a UK Treasure. His masterful interpretation of both classic and original Americana songs, together with his easy-going stage demeanour, gives the impression of a laid back, front porch musical presentation, but with the professionalism that very few can carry off so effortlessly.”
Jurassix
Jurassix
Our journey began back in 2011, when the founding members of Jurassix were all singing in local choirs. Us boys tried singing a few sea shanties and realised we had a real appreciation of shanty music. We tried a few "turn up and sing" events and discovered that people liked listening to our brand of shanty singing so Jurassix was born. Choosing a name was easy....., we all live on the Jurassic Coast, there was originally six of us, we are all of a certain age, so that’s how Jurassix became the name of our shanty band.
Saxminster
Saxminster is a band of some twenty local saxophonists who play under the direction of our Musical Director, Alison Davies. We have been in existence for about 16 years and have built up a repertoire exceeding 120 pieces most of which have been arranged by our lead soprano saxophone player, Jon Garvey. At the Dalwood Music Day we will be playing a lovely variety of pieces tending towards the “Big Band” spectrum and hope that all will be delighted with our performance
Poisson Groove
Phil Wilson, Liz Nabb Martin Henning
We play our own rather jazzy-funky version of traditional French and Breton music, great stuff to get up and dance to. We've been baffling audiences throughout the country for more than 20 years. If you are lucky Liz might blow you away with her biniou (Breton bagpipes)!
Poisson Groove is a Devon based band that plays Breton and French-inspired dance music, both original and traditional.
It was formed several years ago by musicians meeting at the French/Breton dance club, d’Accord Exeter, but it now travels far to play for concert audiences, dance clubs & private celebrations.
They’ve performed at 5 Sidmouth Folk Weeks, thePentrefest Festival, the Bal de Bath & the Fete Du Cloitre (Brittany) amongst many other festivals.