YOU CAN ALSO FIND AN AUTO-ENQUIRY/REPLY FORM ON PAGE 4 TO GET IN TOUCH!

A FEW [2024] COMMENTS! .......
2024 (July) ... a received email - from a stranger! "Dear Nick   I just thought I would pass on from my mother, who attended the Lunch Club today, that she found your playing "... the most wonderful experience of my life..."!!! I thought you would like to hear that from a 90 year old, once-professional pianist! She couldn't praise you highly enough ... So thank you for giving so much pleasure ...." from KE & RW                                                                                       *****************************
2024 ... a [loud  and vocal] quote [with his enthusiastic permission] from Brian,  an senior resident at Allonsfield House Care Home, Campsea Ashe ... when, at the end of the entertainment the assembled residents were asked, by an entering member of staff,  'How was that?' ...  "BLOODY MARVELLOUS!"  [... a bit of an overstatement however ...!] 
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 2024 ... email from a Wentworth Hotel resident ... following a dinner  ... 
 "Dear Nick, We so appreciate playing through dinner and your allowing me to join in with a couple of numbers [at The Wentworth Hotel, Aldeburgh 01728 452312] - Thank you so much. It adds a little something special for us both if I can sing,  and I do so enjoy singing to your playing. We got some lovely feedback at breakfast the next  morning and it opened the door for far more conversations and meeting of people - a real ice-breaker. See you next year!" R.T.
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2024 ... quote ... from a lovely Care Home resident with Alzheimer's in Campsea Ashe:-
"TODAY I FOUND MYSELF SINGING LOTS OF SONGS I'D FORGOTTEN I KNEW"
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2024 ... a comment by Sir Humphrey Burton CBE [music television presenter, broadcaster, director, producer, impresario, lecturer and biographer of musicians and more] at  a recent "Charity 1940's Tea Party"  at Theberton, Suffolk:-     "KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING; NICK ... DON'T CHANGE A THING!"
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I PROVIDE MY OWN DIGITAL PIANO!! 

...... some Private functions are  NOT listed by request ......
I prefer to  provide my own Digital Concert Piano ... that way I can be located anywhere at any  time [...indoors or outdoors...] and make a guaranteed, top-quality, full grand-piano sound.
I have long power leads [65m +] ... or access to a generator if really remote! ..... 

THIS WEBSITE IS UPDATED AFTER EVERY EVENT/BOOKING

.... with many bookings still to come for 2025 ... TBC=to be confirmed


                                      2024


Dec 17th Tue/2.30pm Christmas Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe


Dec 19th Thur/2.30pm  Christmas + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge 


Dec 25th Wed/10am  Christmas Day with Guy Marshall Orford Church    [organs!]


Dec 27th Fri/2.30pm  Aprés Christmas Doldrum-Relief!   Garrett House

                                            2025
Jan 1st Wed/from 6.30pm onwards  New Year's Day Dinner  The Wentworth Hotel
                                      [... this is a 'special' for New Year Residents only ... Booking essential ...]


Jan 15th TueWed/2.30pm Tea ++ Music    Woodbridge Lodge


Jan 21st Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe


Jan 16th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge

Jan 31st Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburgh 


Feb 3rd Mon/1.30pm   New Horizons Lunch Club     St Audry's Sports Club 


Feb 18th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe


Feb 20th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge


Feb 28th Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburgh


Mar 18th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe 


Mar 19th Wed/2.30pm         Musical Teatime at Woodbridge Lodge


Mar 20th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge


Mar 28th Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburgh


Apr 6th  Sun/2-4.30pm Tea, Pvt Birthday Tea Party The Swan Southwold


Apr 15th Tue/2.30pm      Cake & Music & Tea      Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe


Apr 17th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge

Apr 25th Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburgh 


May 20th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe


May 15th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge

May 30th Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburgh 


Jun 17th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ash


Jun 18th Wed/2.30pm           Cake and Music  ... Woodbridge Lodge


Jun 19th Thur/2.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge

Jun 27th Fri/2.30pm     Singalong/Tea    Garrett House, Aldeburg                

JUST FOUND ON FACEBOOK! [2024].... "Pianist, Nick Raison, is one of our most popular and regular entertainers at Garrett House, monthly, since 2010. A highly experienced solo performer and accompanist. Nick's repertoire is mainly from 'The Great American Songbook' era from the 1920's but he also has a huge variety of 'gems' which can be played ... and two particular favourites that our residents often request and love to sing to are' Daisy Daisy' and 'Over The Rainbow".
Nick has a delightful rapport with our residents and when they see any chairs being moved, they immediately ask if it's to make room for the lovely Mr Raison's piano."

       I AM SOMETIMES ABLE TO FIT IN 2 DIFFERENT EVENTS IN A DAY ... SO PLEASE ASK ...

      [IT DEPENDS ON TIMES & DISTANCES] EVEN IF IT LOOKS LIKE I'M ALREADY BOOKED
                                              ... up to 3.5hrs playing in a day ...

 

COCKTAIL  PIANIST...FOR... 

Wedding Receptions, Drinks Parties, Dinners, Banquets, Care Homes, Cocktail Parties, Birthdays, Residential Homes, Funerals/Wakes,  Conferences/ Business/Corporate Functions, Tea Parties, Public Functions, Private Parties, Private Hotel Parties/Meals  Church Services ....... or just for the pleasure of soirées musicales/thé dansant and the music of a Golden Era for composers and lyricists.  

Perfect, too, for your sitting-room or dining room or ballroom perhaps? Recently I have performed in a passageway and a summer-house/posh-garden-shed and in various Livery Halls in the City and among the beach-huts at Southwold and on a lake island!

I HAVE A HIGH-QUALITY DIGITAL PIANO WITH A REAL CONCERT GRAND TONE. EXCELLENT FOR INDOORS, HALL, MARQUEE,OPEN-AIR, ETC.           POWERFUL OR quiet 

For more information, cost etc ...
Please email [info@nickraison.co.uk] & I will reply with a simple 'What-I-charge' document ... with no follow-up contact ... unless requested!
(It would be useful for you to first check my availability on this website):-
Email info@nickraison.co.uk 
or Google "nick raison" and follow various links.

RECOMMENDATIONS .... WITH WHOM I SOMETIMES WORK :-

http://www.thecrownatwoodbridge.co.uk

http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk

www.thorpeness.co.uk

www.thedrapers.co.uk

http://www.wentworth-aldeburgh.com

www.eastongrange.co.uk

www.skinnershall.com

www.butleypriory.co.uk

www.mrtimsaxophone

www.garretthouse.co.uk

www.efhl.co.uk/locations/suffolk-woodbridge

www.uffordpark.co.uk

www.hintleshamhall.co.uk

...AND MANY MORE LINKS BY GOOGLING "nick raison" (with the inverted commas) ....

.... and click on 'IMAGES' too!


... see 'Navigation' at top of this page

Every listing marked  ... "TBC"   ... means "To Be Confirmed" Many Residential Homes enjoy visitors during my performances but .....
contact the venue first, please!          

  http// WWW.NICKRAISON.CO.UK   NICK RAISON is a highly experienced solo performer and accompanist with a repertoire mainly from “The Great American Songbook” era from the 1920, 30's, 40's's ... and slowing down just BEFORE Rock 'n Roll/Skiffle etc. You are pretty unlikely to hear anything from today's Top 40! He has a wide-ranging repertoire (... repetitions by request only) playing for up to 5 hours at a time. His style is 'free and easy' with a hint of "Charlie Kunz", "Hutch" [without the voice!] and "Carroll Gibbons". For Cocktail Piano Music and Ambient Music he plays  working around a song-list of about 750+ song titles. The total repertoire extends well beyond this.  If specific songs are requested for special occasions (eg bride's entrance, birthdays, wakes etc) these can often be included … with enough warning .  He plays at about 100+ widely varied 'gigs' per year.  www.nickraison.co.uk 

TUXEDO JAZZ     

  http://www.nickraison.co.uk

CLICK THE LINK HERE  V  FOR A 1m 10s 
AUDIO/VIDEO CLIP!                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBTXQZMjUgU

and EASTON GRANGE      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1Xdl6gSlw

A Garden Wedding ... pianist in the distance!
Miranda Raison ... at a rehearsal
Photograph above .... actress daughter Miranda Raison at Buckingham Palace
.... just after a Garden Wedding ceremony ... with OUTDOOR PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT [see Right/distant corner for outdoor pianist!]

               Photo:-  www.winstonsanders.co.uk

 
  NICK RAISON ... at the Piano

to be found ...  on-stage + gardens + tents + churches
   + fields + roof-tops + boudoirs + hallways + clubs + dining-rooms + gardens + trailers +
marquees +  concert halls + sitting-rooms + pubs
+ passages + streets + cellars + riverboats + front parlours + balconies + town squares + hotels + galleries etc + beaches etc
[.... these are all genuine locations where I have played ...]

 

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