Description | Price |
solo accordion/vocals for one hour set in central London , Monday to Thursday finishing at 5 at the latest. | £250 |
My name is Fifi la Mer, I am a Parisian accordionist singer and with my musician friends on clarinet, tenor saxophone or guitar we would love to entertain you by taking you to Paris through music.
We perform acoustically or amplified according to your requirements, instrumental and vocal songs ideal for listening and dancing to.
We can lead a wedding procession while playing from the church to the reception venue through a village, a town or a city or walk around the tables as we play for that "Je ne sais quoi" feeling sometime interacting with guests or not interact and create a lovely elegant mood.
We are available to hire for all your functions including weddings, parties and more.
Our huge repertoire includes classic jazz, "Musette" (Parisian folk), "Chansons Realistes "(made famous by Edith Piaf), Chansons Francaise (French songs originally sung by Nougarro, Gainsbourg), French film music , Gypsy Jazz, Prohibition era jazz and 70s French pop.
We have performed at music venues such as Ronnie Scott's as a quintet, St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Wilton Music Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the National Theatre, Ignite as the royal Albert Hall. over 800 times |atthe brasserie Zedel as a quartet, We have also played on the Orient Express, at the West Sussex Game Fair, and on boats, the Belle Vallee on the River Seine, Paris. We played at" La vie en Bleu " Bugatti " racing weekend event, for the London city festival, the bloomsbury festival, the Royal Ascot to name a few events. I regularly play at "le Manoir aux Quat Saisons" ( Raymond Blanc) We have played in most of the Park lane Hotels: Grosvenor house, 4 seasons, The Dorchester, The Lanesborough....
We are touring the country as a duo performing our fabulous show " Let us take you to Paris " performing in theatres all over the country and Scotland.
I am appearing in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge and in the latest Nawest advertising campagn.
We' d love to play for you :-)
Line up:
Solo:
- Fifi la Mer on Vocals (French and English) and accordion playing acoustically
As a duo with Fifi and:
- Olly or Alex on clarinet
or
- Simon Picton
playing acoustically or amplified to requirements.
Other line ups:
· accordion & clarinet duo - "Viva Italia"
· accordion trio or quartet - " Oh La La !"
Based in North London
Sample repertoire:
· La vie en rose
· La complainte de la Butte
· Les amants d’un jour
· La java bleue
· Pigalle
· Domino
· But not for me
· Elle frequentait la rue pigalle
· J’ai la memoire qui flanche
· All of me
· Blue moon
· I love Paris
· O sole mio
· L’accordeonist
· Autumn leaves
· Besame mucho
Sous le ciel de Paris
· Mon amant de la st Jean
· My baby just cares for me
· Sympathique (Citroen Advert)
· On the sunny side of the street
· Padam
· Je te veux
· The theme music for the Moulin rouge
Minor swing
Nuage
Swing 39
Dark eyes
Cancan
Under the bridges of Paris
Sous le ciel de Paris
Molly Malone
We have a big repertoire of Italian tunes too.
A safe place to put our bags if you d like us to stroll acoustically or a power point, an ordinary electrical socket to plug in if you d like us to be amplified.
Ronnie Scott's jazz club
We are ready as we arrive as we play acoustically.
We can be amplified if preferred. It would take us 20 minutes to set up.
Brasserie Zedel
Penguin ( Rachel Khoo book Launch)
Raymond Blanc ( Manoir aux quat saisons)
French horse racing and Breeding committee
Brasserie Zedel
London fashion week@ Somerset House
Bugatti la vie en Bleue
Grosvenor Hotel
Dorchester
Mandarin Oriental
Orient express....
and many, many wonderful parties and weddings