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Classical / Popular
Rachel - ID539
Styles Classical / Popular • Celtic
Counties Cumbria • Greater Manchester • Lancashire • Merseyside
Biography
Rachael is a full time contemporary harpist based in the North West available for any kind of wedding, function or other booking. Rachael specialises in music for street theatre, large scale performance projects, creative session playing and performing nationwide with various bands.
She has played at a huge variety of venues, from the beautiful Albert Hall in London and Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool to festivals such as Green Man, The Big Chill, Bestival, Shambala and Glastonbury. She has toured all over Europe with several bands and some incredible live shows.
Recent outdoor projects include playing for the Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony in Liverpool for an audience of 60,000, devising music for a large pyrotechnics show at the Stourbridge Festival of Glass and performing in the middle of a field full of raining fireworks, and performing and improvising in a moving cherry picker 40 feet in the air for audiences of more than 100,000 with the spectacular La Machine spider show both in Liverpool in 2008 and Japan in 2009. This year has also seen Rachael performing with the world-famous La Symphonie Mechanique (mechanical orchestra) in France and collaborating with the brilliant Nitin Sawhney in Italy for Aftershock Project.
As the harpist for the Matthew Halsall Sextet, Rachael holds a monthly residency at Manchester's Matt and Phred's jazz club, has recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music at Maida Vale Studios and frequently performs in London at venues such as the Jazz Café and Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club. Rachael's own music with her band Rachael and the Red Socks, has been described by Sir Paul McCartney as having 'beautiful melodies, lovely folky vibe... great feel'.
Rachael trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Music and has studied with some extremely interesting and inspiring musicians such as jazz harpist Park Stickney, ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh, a virtuoso on the kora (African harp).
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Classical
Air on a G String – Handel
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Carmen Suite No 1, Intermezzo – Bizet
Fireworks Music (last movement) – Handel
Hallelujah Chorus – Handel
Jupiter (I Vow To Thee My Country) – Holst
Prelude 1 – Bach
Prelude – Rachael Gladwin
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Trumpet Tune – Purcell
Water Music (Air) - Handel
Wedding March – Mendelssohn
Popular
A Million Love Songs – Take That
A Whole New World – from the film ‘Aladdin’
All I Need – Air
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
Both Sides, Now – Joni Mitchell
Don’t Know Why – Nora Jones
Dream a Little Dream of Me – Mamas and Papas
Everything I Do – Brian Adams
Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles
Here, There and Everywhere – The Beatles
Hey Jude – The Beatles
How Deep Is Your Love – The Bee Gees
I Feel the Same – Bonnie Raitt
Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack
Kiss The Girl – from the film ‘The Little Mermaid’
Love Me Do – The Beatles
Moon River – Johnny Mercer
My Heart Will Go On – from the film ‘Titanic’
Norwegian Wood – The Beatles
Refuge of the Roads – Joni Mitchell
The Closest Thing to Crazy – Katie Mellua
When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole
When You Look Me In The Eyes – Jonas Brothers
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
Woodstock – Joni Mitchell
You Raise Me Up – Westlife
You’re Still The One – Shania Twain
Traditional/Folk
All Through The Night
Amazing Grace
Arran Boat Song
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