Ben Crosland's "all Star Band" Plays The Ray Davies Songbook at Stoke-By-Nayland Hotel

"I never wanted to be a star, just a highly respected musician like John Etheridge" - Sting

“Travis’ tenor sax borders on the superhuman in its passion and flow of ideas” - BBC Music Magazine

It is such a pleasure to welcome back the supreme guitarist and saxophonist, John Etheridge and Theo Travis, who front this great band. The music will be that of Ray Davies. Ray Davies’ songs are rooted in the blues, music hall, popular song, variety and musical theatre – the perfect vehicles for jazz interpretation.

John is an incredible guitarist whose playing is lyrical, restrained and over the top, simple and complex. His amazing history is too long for this note, just see the About page on his website. John has been a stalwart friend of the club....

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"I never wanted to be a star, just a highly respected musician like John Etheridge" - Sting

“Travis’ tenor sax borders on the superhuman in its passion and flow of ideas” - BBC Music Magazine

It is such a pleasure to welcome back the supreme guitarist and saxophonist, John Etheridge and Theo Travis, who front this great band. The music will be that of Ray Davies. Ray Davies’ songs are rooted in the blues, music hall, popular song, variety and musical theatre – the perfect vehicles for jazz interpretation.

John is an incredible guitarist whose playing is lyrical, restrained and over the top, simple and complex. His amazing history is too long for this note, just see the About page on his website. John has been a stalwart friend of the club.

Theo was last here with his own band and that was a wow gig. Theo Travis plays saxophone, flute and duduk and is a prolific composer and music producer. He was born in Birmingham but moved to London where he soon established himself as one of the finest tenor sax player

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