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TWO VIDEOS OF THE BAND IN ACTION
DURING APRIL 2025
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Oh Lady be Good and Blue Bossa v2
The A Train is a band taking its repertoire from a range of jazz standards, songs from the musicals and The Great American songbook. This wide spread of material means the band appeals across most age groups, as its repertoire is accessible to and recognised by most listeners.
Band Members
From left to right:
Colin Meehan, Steve Deeks, Les Pepper, Olivier Saurin, Don Sault, Peter Harris
The Band playing at our December 2024 Meeting at the Laura Trott Leisure Centre.
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The members have come together over a number of years since eight different u3as, along the A10 corridor, signed an agreement to share access to their groups, thus opening up Cheshunt’s Musicians United group to a wider potential market of musicians. While still encouraging and helping players to improve their performance, the band has been able to play at a variety of public bookings including festivals, pubs and other venues. On the first Tuesday of each month, it opens the monthly “Open Mic” sessions at The Brown Bear in Braughing with an hour long performance.
While most of the band's players are fairly local to Cheshunt, others travel from as far away as Friern Barnet and Duxford and the band welcomes potential new players to its rehearsals between 10am and 12 noon on Mondays at St. Clement’s church hall in Turnford.
Do please check, before coming along for a rehearsal, you haven’t chosen one of the very few weeks in the year when we don’t rehearse!
AT THE BROOKFIELD CENTRE for u3a DAY - 20th September 2023
Here is a quick snippet of the Band playing Broadway
A FEW VIDEOS OF THE BAND IN ACTION
- Oh Lady be Good - Performed April 2025
- Blue Bossa v2 - Performed April 2025
- Beautiful love
- Beautiful Love at Buntingford
- Bernie's Tune
- All of me
- Cute A Train
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 2022 SEASON
Changes of personnel have occurred since that time in 2018 but we now have a band of 9 musicians able to play in the band.
The band members are:
- Alto and Baritone Sax Flute and Vocals - Olivier Saurin
- Alto Sax - Les Pepper
- Tenor Sax - Peter Harris
- Clarinet - Margaret Burleigh
- Guitar and Vocals - Errol Lawrence
- Guitar - Don Sault
- Keyboards - Paul Davies
- Bass - Colin Meehan
- Drums - Steve Deeks