Chris Blair

Originally from Central Scotland, Chris is an experienced bass player having been gigging and recording professionally for over 15 years. A music graduate of Newcastle Performance Academy with a B.Mus (Hons) in Jazz, Popular and Commercial Music he has spent the majority of the his professional career performing with leading function bands and theatre companies all over the UK. For the past 6 years Chris has also been acting bass player for Motown artist Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. Since he started playing with Martha in Dec 2012 he has been touring all over the UK & Europe playing some of the most prestigious venues (London Palladium – part of the Royal Variety Show, S.S.E Hydro - Glasgow, The Jazz Café – London, The Cavern Club – Liverpool, The Assembly Rooms – part of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and many more…), festivals (Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Festival No.6, Tramlines Festival, Black is Black Festival Madrid, and many more…..), TV shows (BBC’s The One Show) and also sharing stages with some of the biggest names in the industry (Brian Wilson – Beach Boys, Mary Wilson – The Supremes, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot, Seasick Steve, Ocean Colour Scene and many more). Bands or artists that he regularly plays with include - Covers In Arms - Wedding/Party Band Rockaoke - Rockaoke are the UK’s original, best and only specialist live karaoke band Revelry Trio - Wedding /Party Band Smooth Groove - Wedding/Party Band The Electrics - Wedding/Party Band The Drive Athletes In Paris Theatre Productions/Shows 2008 - present High School Musical My Son Pinocchio All Shook Up Peter Pan Seussical The Musical Annie Dracula The Musical The Wiz Beauty And The Beast Cinderella And The Birkenstocks Crazy For You 9 to 5 Footloose Sound & Rig - Schecter Diamond Series Custom-4 D'Addario ECB82 XL Flat Wound Chromes - Medium D’Addario EXP Nickel Round Wound - Regular Light Top/Medium Bottom Boss TU-3 EBS MultiComp SE Zoom B3n MXR Bass Octave Deluxe Ampeg PF 800 Ampeg PF-410HLF Instagram - chrisblairbass