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Colin Smith

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Professional pianist. Music for every occasion. Happy to learn any requests for your special day. Hundreds of satisfied customers.
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Pianist
Bristol
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I am a professional pianist who has had lots of experience of playing for parties, corporate events, civil ceremonies and wedding receptions. I have a versatile repertoire ranging from Jazz to well know pop and rock standards along with a few classical pieces. I am also very happy to play or learn your favourite song or piece of music for your special wedding day, party or event. I began playing the piano when I was 4 years old and attended the London College of Music when I was a teenager. I became a professional musician at 16 making an appearance on national televison with Aled Jones. I have also played for various big bands, rock bands and Jazz duos. My recorded sessions include three albums with a rock band called " Circus" and the theme music for "The Big Breakfast" . I have also composed music for the storyboard of the TV series "Shaun the Sheep". More recently I composed music for a live theatre show called "The Provok'd Wife" I currently play for an improvised comedy show called "Instant Wit “ and a nine piece pop soul band called "The Regz" . I also accompany a jazz singer called "Fiona Battersby". As a solo pianist I enjoy playing background music as well as being able to entertain people for your event , party or wedding. I have played hundreds of weddings at hotels , churches, marquees and civil ceremony wedding venues. I aim to make the communication process as smooth as possible to ensure that you have the most appropriate piano music for your event or special day. If you've got any questions please get in touch and I will reply as soon as possible. I understand that it is important to make booking live music for your event an easy and enjoyable process.

Colin's Reviews

From customers:

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David N
1 year ago

Dear Colin David Newman and I write to thank you for your beautiful and moving participance in the memorial service for Yvonne Glovers memorial on Tuesday 17th January . We were empowered by your personal playing of the music we picked for our mother. Thank you an kind regards David and Darcy Newman

Colin's Song list

This is part of my repertoire which can be suitable for all occasions such as weddings services, wedding parties, civil ceremonies, parties and life events such as funerals and wakes.
Jazz
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
All of me
All the things you are
Almost like being in love
Anything goes
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Blue moon
Blue skies
Cantaloupe Island
Cheek to cheek
Cry me a river
Desafinado
Every time we say goodbye
Georgia on my mind
God bless the child
How high the moon
I put a spell on you
I’m in the mood for love
I’ve got rhythm
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
It’s only a paper moon
Let there be love
Love for sale
Loving that man of mine
Lullaby a bird land
Misty
Mas -que - nada
Moon river
My baby just cares for me
My funny valentine
My Way
Nature boy
New York New York
Night and day
On green dolphin street
Round midnight
Satin doll
Sky lark
Spread a little happiness
Summertime
Sway
Stanger in paradise
The Girl from Ipanema
The inn crowd
The lady is a tramp
Take 5
The nearness of you
The shadow of your smile
The way you look tonight.
They can’t take that away from me
When I fall in love
1950's
All I have to do is dream - The Everly brothers
Blue suede shoes - Elvis Presley
Blueberry hill - Fats Domino
Don’t be cruel - Elvis Presley
Great balls of fire - Gerry lee Lewis
Hound dog - Elvis Presley
Jail house rock - Elvis Presley
Johnny be good - Chuck Berry
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Return to sender - Elvis Presley
Tequila - The Champs
1960's
A day in the life - The Beatles
A hard day’s night - The Beatles
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
All by Loving - The Beatles
All you need is love - The Beatles
And I Love her - The Beatles
Anyone that had a heart - Dionne Warwick
Black bird - The Beatles
Black magic women - Fleetwood Mac
Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
California dreaming - The Mamas and Papas
Can’t help myself - The Four Tops
Come together - The Beatles
Day tripper - The Beatles
Daydream believer - The Monkeys
Don’t let me down - The Beatles
Doo wah diddy - Manfred Mann
Drive my car - The Beatles
Eleanor rigby - The Beatles
For your love - The Yardbirds
Green onions – Booker T and the mg’s
Happy just to dance with you - The Beatles
Harvest for the world - The Isley Brothers
Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Heartful of soul - The Yardbirds
Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
Help - The Beatles
Here comes the sun - The Beatles
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hold on I’m coming - Sam and Dave
House of the rising sun - The Animals
I can’t get no satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
I feel good - James Brown
I want to hold your hand - The Beatles
I’m a believer - The Monkeys
Light my fire - The Doors
Love me do - The Beatles
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - The Beatles
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
My girl - The Temptations
Need your love so bad - Fleetwood Mac
Norwegian wood - The Beatles
Ob La di, ob la da - The Beatles
Paperback writer - The Beatles
Penny lane - The Beatles
People are strange - The Doors
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
Riders on the storm - The Doors
Say a little prayer for me - Aretha Franklin
Scarborough fair - Simon and Garfunkel
She Loves you - The Beatles
She’s not there - The Zombies
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Something - The Beatles
Soul man - Sam and Dave
Sound of silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Substitute - The Who
Tainted love - Gloria Jones
Tears of a clown - Smokey Robinson
The last time - The Rolling Stones
The long and winding road - The Beatles
Ticket to ride - The Beatles
Twist and Shout - The Top Notes
Yellow submarine - The Beatles
Yesterday - The Beatles
You keep me hanging on - The Supremes
1970’s
A message to you Rudi - The Specials
Ain’t no sunshine - Bill Withers
As - Stevie Wonder
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Boogie nights - Heatwave
Bridge over troubled waters - Simon and Garfunkel
Brown sugar - The Rolling Stones
Buffalo solider - Bob Marley
Can’t stand losing you - The Police
Candle in the wind - Elton John
Cars - Gary Numan
Chiquita - Abba
Crocodile rock - Elton John
Dancing Queen - Abba
Denis - Blondie
Does your mother know - Abba
Don’t stop - Fleetwood Mac
Don’t you worry about a thing - Stevie Wonder
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
First cut is the deepest - Cat Stevens
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba
Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac
Hanging on the telephone - Blondie
Heart of glass - Blondie
Hero’s - David Bowie
Higher ground - Stevie Wonder
Honesty - Billy Joel
Honky tonk women - The Rolling Stones
Hotel California - The Eagles
How deep is your love - The Bee Gees
I feel love - Donna Summer
I fought the law - The Clash
I have a dream - Abba
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
I wish - Stevie Wonder
Isn’t she lovely - Stevie Wonder
Jamming - Bob Marley
Just the way you are - Billy Joel
Killer Queen - Queen
Knowing me Knowing you - Abba
Kooks - David Bowie
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
London calling - The Clash
Lost in music - Sister Sledge
Love Train - The O Jays
Lovely day - Bill Withers
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Mamma Mia - Abba
Message in a bottle - The Police
Money Money Money - Abba
Moon shadow - Cat Stevens
Morning has broken - Cat Stevens
No more hero’s - The Stranglers
No women no cry - Bob Marley
Oh, What a night - Frankie Vali
One Love - Bob Marley
One way or another - Blondie
Piano man - Billy Joel
Pick up the pieces - The Average white band
Picture this - Blondie
Pinball wizard - The Who
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Rocket man - Elton John
Roxanne - The Police
S O S - Abba
Sailing - Rod Stewart
Saturday night fever - The Bee Gees
Saturday nights alright for fighting - Elton John
Say you love me - Fleetwood Mac
September - Earth Wind and Fire
She’s always a woman to me - Billy Joel
Since you’ve been gone - Rainbow
Sir duke - Stevie Wonder
So lonely - The Police
Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
Squeeze box - The Who
Star Man - David Bowie
Staying Alive - The Bee Gees
Stuck in the middle with you - Stealers wheel
Sunday girl - Blondie
Super trouper - Abba
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Teenage kicks - The Undertones
Thank you for the music - Abba
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
The chain - Fleetwood Mac
The name of the game - Abba
The Man with the child in his eyes - Kate Bush
The winner takes all - Abba
Thinking of you - Sister Sledge
Tiny dancer - Elton John
Too much to young - The Specials
Voulez Vous - Abba
Walking on the moon - The Police
Waterloo - Abba
We are family - Sister Sledge
We are the champions - Queen
What’s Going on - Marvin Gaye
Wild world - Cat Stevens
Won’t get fooled again - The Who
Wuthering heights - Kate Bush
You make loving fun - Fleetwood Mac
You wear it well - Rod Stewart
Young hearts, young free - Candi Stanton
Your so vain - Carly Simon
Your song - Elton John
Ziggy stardust - David Bowie
1980's
A town called Malice - The Jam
Africa - Toto
Against all odds - Phil Collins
Ain’t nobody - Chaka Khan
All night long - Lionel Ritchie
Atomic - Blondie
Baby Jane - Rod Stewart
Baggy trousers - Madness
Beat it - Michael Jackson
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Blue Monday - New order
Broken wings - Mr Mr
Call me - Blondie
Carless whisper - George Michael
Celebration - Kool and the Gang
Club tropicana - Wham
Come on Eileen - Dexy’s midnight runners
Dancing with tears in my eyes - Ultravox
Don’t go - Yazoo
Don’t stop believing - Journey
Don’t you want me - The Human league
Down under - Men at work
Englishmen in New York - Sting
Eternal flame - The Bangles
Every breath you take - The Police
Every little thing she does is magic - The Police
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears
Fame - Irene Cara
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Free Falling - Tom Petty
Get down on it - Kool and the Gang
Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
Girls on film - Duran Duran
Gold - Spandau Ballet
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
Head over heels - Tears for Fears
Heaven knows I’m miserable now - The Smiths
Hello - Lionel Ritchie
Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
I Wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston
I want to break free - Queen
I want to know what love is - Foreigner
I won’t let the sun go down on me - Nick Kershaw
I’m still standing - Elton John
Jump - Eddie Van Halen
Karma Chameleon - Boy George
Kids in America - Kim Wild
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Like a virgin - Madonna
Living on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Mad world - Tears for Fears
Master blaster - Stevie Wonder
Material girl - Madonna
Must be love - Madness
Never goanna give you up - Rick Astley
Only you - Yazoo
Our house - Madness
Pale shelter - Tears for Fears
Pride - U2
Purple rain - Prince
Radio Ga Ga - Queen
Rio - Duran Duran
Run to you - Bryan Adams
Smooth operator - Sade
Still haven’t found what I’m looking - U2
Still rock n roll to me - Billy Joel
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
Sweet child of mine - Guns and Roses
Sweet dreams - Eurhythmics
Tainted love - Soft Cell
Take my breath away - Berlin
Take on me - A ha
Tell her about it - Billy Joel
The boys of summer - Don Henley
The living years - Mike and the Mechanics
The one I love - R E M
The power of love - Huey Lewis and the News
The tide is high - Blondie
The time of my life - Bill Medley – Jennifer Warnes
The way it is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper
Together in electric dreams - Phil Oakey – Giorgio Moroder
True - Spandau Ballet
Uptown girl - Billy Joel
Wake me up before you go go - Wham
What’s love got to do with it - Tina Turner
With or without you - U2
Women in love - Barbra Streisand
Wouldn’t it be good - Nik Kershaw
You’re the best thing - The Style Council
Your love is king - Sade
1990’s
Alright - Super grass
Angels - Robbie Williams
Common people - Pulp
Country house - Blur
Designer life - Manic street preachers
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Don’t look back in anger - Oasis
Everybody hurts - R E M
Get what you give - The new radicals
Losing my religion - R E M
Love is all around
Man on the moon - R E M
Midnight at the oasis - The Brand-new Heavies
Park life - Blur
She’s electric - Oasis
Shiny happy people - R E M
Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
There’s no other way - Blur
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
When you say nothing at all - Ronan Keating
Why does it always rain down here - Travis
Wonderwall - Oasis
2000, s
A Thousand years - Christina Perry
All of me - John Legend
American Boy - Estelle
Bet you look good on the dance floor - The Artic monkeys
Clocks - Cold play
Crazy - Gnalres Barclay
Hey ya - Out kast
Make you feel my love - Adele
One day like this - Elbow
Perfect - Ed Sheeran
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Sex on fire - Kings of leon
Skater boy - Avril Lavigne
Someone like you - Adele
The Scientist - Cold play
Valerie - Amy Winehouse / Mark Ronson
Viva la viva - Cold play
Yellow - Cold play
Musicals
All I ask of you - Phantom of the opera
Any dream will do - Joseph
Beauty school drop out - Grease
City of stars - La La land
Close every door to me - Joseph
Consider yourself - Oliver
Do re mi - The Sound of music
Don’t cry for me Argentina - Evita
Edelweiss - The sound of music
Food glorious food - Oliver
Freddy my love - Grease
Grease is the word - Grease
Grease lightning - Grease
Hopelessly devoted to you - Grease
I don’t know how to love him - Jesus Christ Superstar
I dreamed a dream - Les Miserable
I still believe - Miss Saigon
Joseph coat - Joseph
Look at me I’m Sandra dee - Grease
Master of the house - Les Miserable
Memories - Cats
My favourite things - The Sound of music
Rain drops keep falling on my head - Butch Cassidy
Sandy - Grease
Singing in the rain - Singing in the rain
So long farewell - The Sound of music
Tell me more - Grease
The Boyfriend - The Boyfriend
The phantom of the opera - Phantom of the opera
There are worse things I could do - Grease
Where is love - Oliver
Who will buy - Oliver
You’re the one that I want - Grease
Classical
Adagio in G minor - Albinoni
Air from water music suite no 1 in F - George Frederic Handel
Air on a G string - J S Bach
Arioso - J S Bach
Arrival of the queen of sheba - George Frederic Handel
Ave Maria - Franz Schubert
Claire de lune - Claude Debussy
Fur Elise - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Gymnopedi no 1 – Eric Satie
Jesu Joy of man’s desiring - J S Bach
Music from the royal fireworks - George Frederic Handel
Nimrod from enigma variations - Edward Elgar
Nocturne - Opus 55 no 1 - Frederic Chopin
Pathetique sonanta no 8 – (2nd half) - Ludwig van Beethoven
Prelude no 2 - George Gershwin
Sarabande - George Frederic Handel
Sheep may safely graze - J S Bach
Sleepers wake - J S Bach
Spring - Antonio Vivaldi
The Trumpet voluntary - Jeramiah Clarke
The water music Suit in D (Hornpipe) - George Frederic Handel
The wedding march - Richard Wagner ( exit )
The wedding march - Felix Mendelson ( Entrance )
Time to say goodbye - Andera Bocelli’s
Toccata and fugue in D minor - J S Bach
Toccata from Symphony no 5 – Charles Marie Widor
Trumpet tune in D major – Henry Purcell
Film themes
As time goes by( Theme from Casablanca) - Herman Hupfeld
Back to the future - Alan Silvestri
Cavatina (Theme from the deer hunter - Stanley Myers
Chariots of fire - Vangelis
ET - John Williams
Ghost busters - Ray parker Junior
Forest Gump - Alan Silvestri
Jean de floret - Jean Claude Petit & Giuseppe Verdi
Sentimental walk(from the film Diva) Vladimir Cosma
Star wars (main theme) - John Williams
The good the bad and the ugly - Ennio Morricone
The Mission - Ennio Morricone
The Piano - Michael Nyman
The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini

Colin's Prices

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Standard Prices
Performance durationPrice
Short performance (up to 15 min)£225
Up to 1 hour£225
Up to 2 hours£225
Up to 3 hours£250
Packages
Wedding ceremony
This includes music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.
£250

Add-ons

Skype Consultation and 3 New Songs Learned
+£37.50
Musicianship
Genres:
Jazz, Pop, Acoustic, Funk, Disco, Covers, Christmas, Contemporary Christian, Traditional church music, Classical, Classical crossover, 1930s era music, 1940s era music, 1950s era music, 1960s era music, 1970s era music, 1980s era music, 1990s era music, Blues, Cabaret, Latin jazz, Jazz fusion, Swing, Modern jazz, Gospel
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Event types:
Wedding, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve, Virtual event
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Other skills:
Instrumental teaching, Theory teaching, Composition teaching, Community music worker
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