The Hornets
“My friends and family all said how fantastic the Hornets were and that they’ve never heard or seen anything like them before!” - Marquee wedding in Somerset
- Unique, mini brass band, playing classic covers in their own inimitable style, as well as traditional jazz favourites
- Lively music for dancing or more mellow background music – you decide!
- Five-piece band, featuring trumpet, sax, trombone, sousaphone and drums, but...
- …can reduce to a four-piece (without either trombone or sax) or, for background/strolling music, even a three-piece (without drums)…
- Unamplified means their set-up takes a matter of minutes and they can move location easily if required
- Standard fees based on 3 x 30 minute or 2 x 45 minute sets (maximum 4 hours onsite)
- Recent performances range from Danesfield House, Bucks to the Royal Opera House, London WC1 to major festivals including Wilderness, Oxfordshire and the Edinburgh Festival
Repertoire Includes
contemporary classics including:
- AC/DC - Back in black
- A-Ha - Take on me
- Bill Withers - Just the two of us
- Coolio - Gangsta's paradise
- Daft Punk - Get lucky
- Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
- Eliza Doolittle - Skinny genes
- Kings of Leon - Sex on fire
- Pharrell Williams - Happy
- Prince - Kiss
- Spandau Ballet - Gold
- Specials - Ghost town
jazz/brass band favourites including:
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Blackbird special
- Django Rheinhardt - Sweet Sue, just you
- Fats Domino - I'm walkin'
- George Gershwin - Lady be good
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - War
- Louis Armstrong - I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you
- Nina Simone - Exactly like you
- Rebirth Brass Band - Do whatcha wanna
- Rebirth Brass Band - Feel like funkin' it up
- Standard - Careless love
- Standard - Tiger rag
- Theme from "Treme"
- traditional - I found a new baby
- traditional - Just a closer walk
- Youngblood Brass Band - Brooklyn
...And many more
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