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

RECENT TESTIMONIALS 
2023 ... quote ... from a lovely Care Home resident with Alzheimer's in Kesgrave:-
"TODAY I FOUND MYSELF SINGING LOTS OF SONGS I'D FORGOTTEN I KNEW"
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2023 ... a comment by Sir Humphrey Burton CBE [music television presenter, broadcaster, director, producer, impresario, lecturer and biographer of musicians] at  a "Charity 1940's Outdoor Tea Party"  in Suffolk:-
"KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING, NICK ... DON'T CHANGE A THING!"
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2023 ... email from a local Care Home Entertainments Manager ... "THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN YESTERDAY AT SUCH SHORT NOTICE. THE RESIDENTS LOVED SEEING YOU AS ALWAYS; PLAYING THE PIANO AND HEARING YOUR WONDERFUL STORIES"
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2023 ... a quote [with his enthusiastic permission] from an elderly resident at Allonsfield House Care Home ... when asked  by an entering member of staff asking 'How was that?' at the end of my session ...  "BLOODY MARVELLOUS!"
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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 needed ..... 

THIS WEBSITE IS UPDATED AFTER EVERY EVENT/BOOKING

.... with many bookings still to come for 2024 ... TBC=to be confirmed

                                       2023

Dec 13th Wed from 12.30pm  Christmas Lunch        at The Wentworth Hotel 

                                                            ... Booking Essential ... 01728 452312 ...
Dec 14th ... not available ...
Dec 15th Fri 2.30pm  [Nearly] Christmas time at  Garrett House  Aldeburgh


Dec 19th Tue/2.30pm Christmas Party  Allonsfield Ho.  Campsea Ashe


Dec 21st Thu/2.30pm   Christmas with Music    Woodbridge Lodge  W/b


Dec 22nd Fri/2.30pm  Christmas Music/Tea!!   Alice Grange  Kesgrave


CHRISTMAS DAY 10AM ORFORD CHURCH WITH  GUY MARSHALL


Dec 28th Thur/2.30pm  New Year[ish] piano   Grove Court  Woodbridge


                        2024 [July-December! .. still being sorted!!]

Jan 1st  Mon/6.30pm New Year's Day Dinner [Residents only] Wentworth Hotel

                         Residential booking essential    01728 452312

Jan 18th Thur/6.30pm   Tea Party + piano    Grove Court  Woodbridge 


Jan 23rd Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe TBC


Jan 26th Fri 2.30pm  Tea-time w/ Music    at Garrett House Aldeburgh


Jan 31st Wed/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b 
February 1st ... not available

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


Feb 22nd Thur/2.30pm  Piano/Singalong/Tea Alice Grange  Kesgrave


Feb 23rd Fri 2.30pm  Sing-a-long with Tea Garrett House    Aldeburgh 


Feb 28th Wed/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b 


Feb 29th Thur/6.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge


Mar 4th Mon/1.30pm        New Horizons Lunch Club         Melton CC


Mar 20th Wed/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b 



Mar 21st Thur/6.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge


Mar 26th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe TBC


Mar 29th Fri 2.30pm  Tea-time w/ Music    at Garrett House Aldeburgh


Apr 18th Thur/6.30pm   Tea Party + piano  Grove Court  Woodbridge


Apr 23rd Tue/2.30pm Teatime Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe TBC

Apr 25th Thur/2.30pm  Singalong/Tea Alice Grange  Kesgrave 


Apr 26th Thur/2.30pm  Singalong/Tea Garrett House, Aldeburgh 


Apr 29th Mon/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b 



May 22nd Wed/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b  


May 23rd Thur/6.30pm   Tea Party + piano Grove Court  Woodbridge


May 28th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe TBC


May 31st Fri 2.30pm  Sing-a-long with Tea Garrett House  Aldeburgh 


Jun 19th Wed/2.30pm  Cup-of-Tea with Music Woodbridge Lodge W/b


Jun 25th Tue/2.30pm Tea, Cake and Music Allonsfield Ho. Campsea Ashe TBC


Jun 28th Fri 2.30pm  Sing-a-long with Tea Garrett House    Aldeburgh 

... second half of 2024 to follow ... + additions to the 1st half!! ...

       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 ....... or just for the pleasure of soirées musicales/thés dansants 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.glemhamhall.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 huge variety of tunes which can be played (... repetitions by request only) 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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