I love to use music and singing in my cabaret work but I also play as a ‘serious’ musician, and just for fun.

I currently play a mandolin with Manchester Klezmorim, and since 2018 I have been playing mandolin (now an octave mandolin) and traditional flute – and occasionally singing – with Manchester’s Shir Chadash (שיר חדש) at Jackson’s Row synagogue in Manchester, Sha’arei Shalom in Whitefield, Southport Reform Shul and Manchester Limmud.
“We’re a tefilah band that thinks we’re a rock band” (David Hoffman).

I have also sung with Jim Cartwright’s Cartwright Choir, played piccolo fife for Rivington Morris and traditional flute and tin whistle with the Bolton-based folk collective, Th’Accidentals.

Before 2016 you may have heard me in my regular busking spots around the Manchester area playing a tenor saxophone, an instrument I’ve also played in such diverse events as a burlesque night and a church service.

Here’s quick and unrehearsed, impromptu mandolin version of Spootiskerry