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The New Foxtrot Serenaders is a seven-piece British Dance Band featuring popular songs and dance music from the 1920s to the 1940s. Playing at a 100th birthday party in Birthday Honours week
By appointment? That's not a corgi. Our repertoire also includes early songs - for example 'Look Down, Look Down that Lonesome Road' from 1865 and some ragtime numbers - and also later songs albeit in the earlier jazz style. Our theme tune has become a medley of Radio Signature tunes taken from popular radio shows of the 1930s and 40s, finishing with Here's to the Next Time. The music conjures up memories of great singers and songwriters such as Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and many more.
Our friends at the Colchester Headgate Theatre (concert on 22nd December) have posted this animation presumably reflecting how smooth and sophisticated we are
'As soon as the New Foxtrot Serenaders struck up their overture, it was clear that the music for the whole evening was in good hands - what a great bunch of musicians they are, both as accompanist and in their own right' - review from our return visit to the Wallington Operatic show. We have featured on wireless radio programmes across the country, with national coverage on BBC Radio 2, and locally for Southern Counties, Yorkshire Radio, Northern Broadcasting, Radios Oxford, Berkshire and Kent, Saga Radio, and on Angel Radio on the run up to Christmas 2007. See the Radio Events section on our Concerts page. Being a hip band we have our entry on MySpace.com.
In addition to playing at dances and functions (and appearing on national radio) we also put on concert performances in London and the South East of England (and we can be tempted to go further afield - for example we have entertained on the Queen Mary 2 on a weekend cruise to Guernsey which included top musicians such as Jamie Cullum, Acker Bilk, Madeline Bell and Stacey Kent). We started 2008 playing in the Queen's Room of the QE2 before she sailed with the Queen Victoria out of Southampton on her last world cruise. Support our concert in aid of St. Catherine's Hospice at the Chequer Mead Theatre on Friday 20th June 2008. Back to Bradbourne House on Thursday June 26th 2008, again by kind invitation of the East Malling Research Station Music Club. Brighton Dome's summer organ spectaculars have become an annual treat for lovers of light music. We will join with Simon Gledhill, one of the world's leading theatre organists, at 3pm on Sunday 29th June 2008 to whisk you back to the golden era of the roaring 20s and swinging 30s. Listen to the exciting Stevenage Ladies Choir in combined concert with us with an American theme, 7:30pm Saturday 5th July 2008 at St. Mary's Church, Hitchin. Another new venue for us is the Thame Players Theatre on Saturday 20th September 2008, but we will have old friends Bill and Angela Rennells helping with compèring. Our lunchtime concert at Croydon's Fairfield Halls on Tuesday 28th October 2008 is in the Ashcroft Theatre. If the audience is a similar size to previous years the theatre should look pretty full. Our 13th annual visit to the Barn Theatre, Oxted, is on Friday 13th February 2008. We will bring our luck rabbit's foot (well not that lucky for the rabbit, he should have taken Flanagan and Allen's advice and run off). More details of concerts including recent performances (with pictures!) on our Concerts page.
See our selection of CDs on our the recordings page. New for 2006 is Nice Work If You Can Get It, and our seasonal offering A White Christmas... Get those farthings together ready to order some today.
If you want more details of the New Foxtrot
Serenaders, or to make an enquiry about our availability or to
purchase a recording, email us
©The New Foxtrot Serenaders 2002-2007. This page last edited: 08/05/2008 18:56:30 +0100
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