Between the Sound

This self taught musician and tasteful guitarist was born in Trinidad and raised in the UK.

He went on to amass an abundance of credentials playing for a who’s who list of legendary artists including The Bee Gees, Steve Winwood, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Al Green, Ray Charles, Billy Preston, Tina Turner and Whitney Houston to name but a few. Indeed phew!

Playing rock to pop, jazz and soul to calypso, he is equally at home on stage, live in the studio and even on our movie screens, he continues to remain an in demand and favourite session player and an enlightened practicing Buddhist being.

CEO of Carnival Village Trust, director of the Tabernacle W11 community and entertainment venue and manager of award winning steel pan band Mangrove.

Raised in west London and a Ladbroke Grove local he entered the world of carnival early on playing steel pan and later drums performing and touring with the likes of Finlay Quay, Hinda Hicks and Simon Webbe.

Community and carnival driven led him into pivotal roles directing annual Notting Hill carnivals, steel pan bands and a growing list of musical projects and events. ever evolving in uniting the community through music and creativity

Originally from Singapore having studied Anthropology at Princeton University she had stints working at McKinsey and left a career in the film industry to become a reluctant entrepreneur.

Co-founder of The Hearth, a women’s space in Queen’s Park London which believes in supporting women on their personal journeys; nurturing women so they can live, work and feel better. Affirming that when women are restored to their power, they go on to give back in their chosen communities. 

Currently she is going through a mid-life ‘A-HA’ moment where seemingly random passions and life experiences are finally starting to come together and make sense.

A musician, teacher, filmmaker and foster carer. Uk born with Jamaican roots, his love of drums began by playing in reggae and soul bands and later moving onto steel pan bands. As a session drummer he has played for the likes of Janet Kay & Victor Romero Evans, Noel McCoy, Imaani, Kevin Leo, Lazy Hammock & Laura Matthews.

Having studied a masters in film production his projects range from documentaries to music videos, corporate to community projects.

Fostering for 14 years supporting children between the ages of 5-14 years led to creating his short film Be-Longing going on to win awards including Canada Shorts Film Festival and Hollywood Just 4 Shorts.

A musician, teacher, filmmaker and foster carer. Uk born with Jamaican roots, his love of drums began by playing in reggae and soul bands and later moving onto steel pan bands. As a session drummer he has played for the likes of Janet Kay & Victor Romero Evans, Noel McCoy, Imaani, Kevin Leo, Lazy Hammock & Laura Matthews.

Having studied a masters in film production his projects range from documentaries to music videos, corporate to community projects.

Fostering for 14 years supporting children between the ages of 5-14 years led to creating his short film Be-Longing going on to win awards including Canada Shorts Film Festival and Hollywood Just 4 Shorts.

New York born and raised he carved his craft in music and acting on both east and west coasts of America immersed amongst the best in show business. Studying theatre at the HB Studio in NYC and the California Institute for the Arts known as CalArts his theatre credits include 5 Guys Named Mo, 125th Street, as well as playing Paul Laurence Dunbar in Crowned with Fame at the legendary Shakespearean Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon. 

Touring as a bass guitarist included performing for jazz organist Charles Earland, Mississippi John L Watson, Charles & Eddie and the Hugh Harris band touring with Sinead O Connor. 

Known as the King of Kilburn he has steadfastly supported live music up and down that vibrant London strip and for two decades masterminded legendary gigs with his own Blues of Cain band accompanied by some of the heaviest musical cats in the business playing soul, blues, ska and funk hard enough to whip necks and turn heads enough to catch the attention of sisters Chaka Khan and Taka Boom who would rock up along with Nina Hendryx from singing group La Belle and also Carl " Kung Fu Fighting" Douglas. 

He also happens to be a master frisbee champion.

Finnish and female, this drummer and educator based in the UK is co-founder of the non-profit organisations Girls Rock London and Rock Donna as well as an active performer and creator with credits including Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Clean Bandit and Drumathon Live 2020.

Within lockdown life she managed to release 2 songs with Brian May of legendary British band Queen and went on to create a 12 episode YouTube series named Drumming through the Decades covering the evolution of the drum kit, rhythms and genres, highlighting female identifying drummers &. musicians.

A champion shining a deserved light on female musicians through educational platforms, she moves consistently towards reducing gender gaps and inequalities within the drum and music industry.

A native Aussie from our shared city of Sydney she packed her bags for NYC to pursue a dream of being a jazz singer. Seven pop albums later with appearances on Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon, SNL and Good Morning America as well as performances with music industry greats such as Sting, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Billy Joel it’s fair to say her foot is firmly in the door.

Ever the creative spirit she began seeing her music as images and started drawing each of her songs into available pieces of art creating her project ‘Natchie’.

With a retail store in Chelsea Market and partnerships with numerous brands she continues to draw, paint, sculpt, write, perform and sing her dreams.

This man has been involved in dance music, clubs & festivals since a lucky break landed him a DJ residency in New York in the mid 1980s. From programming venues to building his own, in the form of the super successful Cargo in East London, to working with brands at over 100 festivals to launching his own dance festival in Croatia. 

Things have since calmed down just a bit, with a move into running restaurants & cafes in south London yet he still finds time to do radio shows on Mi Soul, SOAS & Netil radio, plus promoting a new series of exciting live gigs in churches called Altar_Native.

This internationally-acclaimed jazz clarinettist, at age 38 is certainly at the top of his game. Nominated for Jazz Clarinettist of the Year at the British Jazz Awards 2019 and with his last album Profoundly Blue, was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year.

In 2018 he was invited to perform with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at London’s famous Barbican Centre, playing the music from the Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. He then went on to perform in New York at the gala concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Lincoln Centre, and was amongst guests including the great Tony Bennett.

With his own band, he toured the globe performing recorded material from his Profoundly Blue album celebrating the music of jazz clarinet legend Edmond Hall, with sell-out concerts at Ronnie Scott’s in London and Dizzy’s Club in New York being amongst the highlights of these 200 plus shows.

He has come to the attention of a wider audience thanks to regular appearances on BBC Radio 2 with the Clare Teal show, BBC Radio 3 on Alyn Shipton’s Jazz Record Request and BBC Radio 6 featured on Cerys Matthews show, in her words claiming he ‘touches the other world that all musicians aspire to’.

With an ability to engage with his audience both on and off-stage, along with an unrivalled feel for the music he plays and combined with his virtuosic technique, it has lead to wide critical acclaim, including as Time Out declaring him as “London’s most charismatic reedsman”.

His latest album Now Is Spring released in early 2020 as his first all original offering, sees him breaking new ground and pushing jazz forward once again, whilst keeping the role of the clarinet at the forefront.