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"“I Just wanted to say on behalf of myself and Kelly how thankful we are for you coming along and performing at our wedding at The Orangery on 23 august 2018. You are a fantastic sax player and a wonderful man. We felt honoured to have you there, and lots of our guests commented on how amazing you was as a performer, how you added a touch of class to proceedings & commenting on what a great guy you were in general (A class act performer!!). Your biggest fan of the day (our young niece Freya) was having a wonderful time along with everyone else from our families to our friends in what was truly a wonderful day & a day we will never forget, and we cannot thank you enough for being apart of it!!”"

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"As a wedding planner, I have worked with many bands over the years, but Benga Party Band is by far one of the best . They are professional, and talented, and their energy on stage is unbeatable. They were able to accommodate all of the couple's requests and made their special day even more memorable. cant wait to work with them again ! Emma"

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"Rating star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5-5 star rating Gigsalad Verified Review Tim C. • September 25, 2023 What A Great Time! Freddy G was amazing! My Sister absolutely adored him coming to the facility to see her. And what a surprise! He is such an all around entertainer and extremely interactive with the crowd. I would definitely recommend him for you show large or small. "

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"Outstanding I don’t know where to begin. As far as Toastmaster duties go: helping us run the event and making announcements, Mark and Jane were superb. They got along with our guests superbly and their experience showed very well. I’m very glad I took their advice at several points throughout the day! There was so much more to it than that though. The surprise singing performance was the highlight of what several guests said was the best wedding they’d been to. You can see Marks singing voice on his social media pages, but the way he interacted with the crowd and got them buzzing needs to be seen! In the build up to the event, Mark helped me prepare my speech and offered to do the same for all other speakers. Having someone so involved and proactive in something that means so much to you is invaluable."

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"We wanted to thank you again ! Your music was the highlight of the night and set up a beautiful ambiance everyone love it! we appreciate your talent and wanted to thank you."

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"HayLee was just amazing!! We asked for a mellow and classy atmosphere at our ceremony and drinks reception and an upbeat vibe for our evening reception. From the get go, these two woman were brilliant, checking in with us at intervals before the wedding and also taking time to discuss with us which songs from his varied set list we would like played on our day which was really important to us. Hayley and Lee learnt a couple of songs for our Wedding outside of their usual genre and performed them amazingly. We cannot recommend HayLee enough for your wedding/event, 2 absolutely professional, elegant and talented ladies who are brilliant at what they do and getting the party going. Best wedding duo!! "

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"We hired Irina to perform at our 4th of July party and we couldn't be happier with our choice! She did a solo-piano performance for about an hour and everyone was blown away by her talent! She engaged with the audience and introduced every piece. I highly recommend hiring Irina for your event if you are looking for a top-notch performance! "

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"Beautiful played music, very humble and great personality "

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"The performance was outstanding and the communication was excellent and fast"

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"Serendipity is what you’re aiming for in Edinburgh: a happy discovery out of the blue. Yes, it sounds like a paradox, like “expect the unexpected”. But up here, you must not just expect it, but welcome it. So if you hear, for instance (in a genu-ine example from a few years ago), of a 15-minute musical about a stewardess called The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly playing in a minor venue towards the bottom of the Royal Mile, well, it’s not much time or money, so you’ve nothing to lose by taking a punt on it. And if you’re staggering across the Royal Mile in the small hours and meet a crowd of drunken loud¬mouths, wait for a couple of minutes before writing them off: it could be comedian Arthur Smith’s legendary Alternative Walking Tour. This event, though, is now in semi-retirement following an incident in 2000 when the reeling mob was mistaken for a bunch of nocturnal anti-Ann Widdecombe protesters (no, honestly), which led to the arrest of comic Simon Munnery for assaulting a police offi¬cer . . . “assaulting” in the sense of getting in the way of the cop’s body- charge. (Munnery’s tried and acquittal were amusing, too, but took place outside Festival season.) The true Edinburgh expe-rience is being knocked side-ways by a show, trying to explain it to others and real-ising that there’s no way you can do so and still sound remotely compos mentis, such as the piece about 10 years ago which consisted of a Hungarian woman in a sealed Perspex tank, per¬forming a dance routine whose duration and moves were limited by the available air in the box. If I were to say that last week I was affected beyond words by a Polish theatre company singing the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh in the strange polyphonic harmonies of southern Albania, you’d no doubt wonder whether I’ve been getting enough sleep lately. Yet Chronicles: A Lamenta-tion by the Piesn Kozla com-pany is a remarkable piece admirable and impressive, though hardly shattering. And then, walking away from the venue a few min¬utes after it was over, I had to stop in my tracks: I was fighting back tears, for no reason I could identify. Somehow the piece had bypassed the conscious areas of my mind and tapped into the well of basic emotion. Harrowing stuff. But the main discovery of the month so far is altogether more joy-ous: a bunch of Ukrainian paper-tearing clowns: Around 1990, Italian “ori¬gami impressionist” Ennio Marchetto was the hit of the Fringe, performing a series of mime impersonations while wearing amazingly intricate costumes he had constructed out of card¬board. Marchetto returns this weekend for the first time in several years, but he may find his thunder already stolen by the Mim-I- Richi company and their show Paper World. Not that their show is as painstakingly designed . . . dean me, no. They sim¬ply tear loads of plain paper up and play with it. And I mean loads: possibly around an acre of the stuff per show. You walk into the theatre, see a huge paper backdrop and think, “Ah, that’ll be the climax of the show.” Not a bit of it: it’s already in shreds after half an hour, and the fun keeps coming. Mim-I-Richi’s discovery is a simple one: tear paper, crumple it up, and you can pretend it’s just about any-thing: a football, a baby, a maneating monster, what¬ever. It’s the same sort of aesthetic which has informed many of designer Julian Crouch’s projects in the UK with Improbable Theatre, but more endear¬ingly ramshackle. Also like Improbable, Mim-I-Richi relishes the spontaneous and unexpected; it’s that shared delight in the moment which is at the heart of the best clowning. The players go to great lengths to involve the audience in their show, and are happy to take ideas and run with them, even when the “idea” is an uncontroRa- ble little boy in the front row who won’t stop flinging balls of paper back at them. For this isn’t enforced audience participation of the “let’s pretend we’re having fun” kind. The four perform-ers manage to get hundreds of people in the Pod Deco’s main space all pratting about gleefully like kids in a playground; they create an atmosphere of free play that is intensely liberating, and make sure that every single person in the house is car¬ried along. All that without a single word of dialogue. People by the hundred are discovering Mim-I-Richi up here, but that doesn’t make the joy of serendipity any less when you find them yourself."

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"Thank you for everything, you were amazing."

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"Our wedding felt even more special thanks to Leon. His music touched everyone’s hearts and created memories we’ll cherish forever."

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"Went to wedding last week and this duo turned up, great voice and piano playing, would highly recommend Easy Covers voice and piano duo. Great afternoon had by all."

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"Mr.Harmon arrived ahead of time, set up and player amazingly well. He went above and beyond our expectations. He played his sax with such talent and truly blessed our soul in music and singing. I will definitely recommend him and will use him again. He was life to the party and we say thank you Mr Harmon."

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"I advertised on here a few weeks back looking for a saxophonist and had quite a few reply’s and suggestions. I went with someone who completely fitted the bill for what we were looking for and man did they not disappoint. We corresponded a lot over the weeks and I couldn’t wait for the day. So yesterday was a ridiculously hot day as we know but this guy gave a top notch performance. So I would like to say a huge thank you to Thomas Ray Hinks for yesterday and would also recommend him to anybody who is looking for a saxophonist. Superb. Hope we get to cross paths again Note: This review was provided via a Facebook post so did not have an associated rating. The client has now booked me again for another corporate event this summer."

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