Saxophonist
Sarah Tobias
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Sarah Tobias playing saxophone at the opening of The Sound Bank last night - @thesoundbank_uk
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Sarah in action
About Sarah
Saxophones, Flute, and Clarinet.
Session Musician, Recordings and Events.
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Saxophonist
London
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Sarah
9 verified reviews
Satisfaction
5.0
Professionalism
5.0
Communication
5.0
Punctuality
5.0
Sarah's Reviews
From Encore customers:
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Chantel A
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Faye C
1 year ago
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Anna L
1 year ago
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Lorraine M
1 year ago
From other customers:
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Live R
9 years ago
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Remote C
8 years ago
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Lightning fast responses
Average response time under 2 hours
10 gigs
Experienced: 10 bookings through Encore
Saved the day!
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8th Anniversary
This act has been working with Encore for over 8 years
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Sarah's Song list
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
007
007 instrumental
1999
A Little Love
A Night To Remember
A Rita
Abide With Me
Achy Breaky Heart
Action
Adella
Africa
Africa - Toto
After Dark Riddim
Ain't No Stopping Us Now
Ain't Nobody
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
All My Life
All Night Long
All Of Me
All Through The Night
All You Need Is Love
Altogether Now
Always And Forever
Always On My Mind
Always There
American Boy
Amigo
And The Beat Goes On The Whispers
An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb
Angela (Theme From Taxi)
Another Night
Ansa Riddim
Anyone Who Had a Heart
As Time Goes By
Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)
Asteroid
Asteroid
Babies
Baby I Don’t Know (Changes)
Baby Love
Bachata En Fukuoka
Baddest Of Them All
Baker Street
Bam Bam
Bamboleo
Bangarang
Bawling
Behold
Believer
Bella Ciao
Betcha by Golly Wow
Better Off Alone
Better You, Better Me
Bilirubina
Black Cow
Black Pride
Blessed
Blessed Are the Meek
Blinding Lights
Body Groove
Bole Chudiyan
Boogie Oogie Oogie
Borderline
Brazil
Break Up To Make Up
Breakfast in bed
Bring Me Sunshine
Burundanga
Cachita
Can We Talk - Tevin Campbell
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Candy Shop
Cardiac Riddim
Careless Whisper
Caught You in A Lie
Caution
Chega De Saudade
Chiquitita
Christmas Wrapping
Chucucha
Chura Liya Hai Tumne
Clocks
Closer Than Close
Cloud
Club Tropicana
Columbus Riddim
Come Back Darling
Come Closer
Come On Eileen
Common People
Concrete Jungle
Conqueror
Controversy
Cool Down The Pace
Coptic Serenade
Cotton Swab Riddim
Could It Be I’m Falling In Love
Country Blues
Country Living
Cranes In The Sky
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Crickets Sing For Ana Maria
Cunla
Cupid
Cure And The Cause- Fish Go Deep
Dance Monkey
Dancing Mood
Dancing Queen
Danny Boy
Dark Streets of London
Dat
Daughter Of Zion
Deacon Blues
Deadly Weapon
December 1963 Oh What A Night
Deck The Halls
Desafinado
Diamonds Are Forever
Didn’t I Blow Your Mind
Dil Diyan Gallan
Dilemma Nelly and Kelly
Dim the Light
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Do For Love Riddim
Do The Hustle
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Don’t Play That Song
Down By The River
Dream Dream Dream
Dreamland
Drogba (Joanna)
Drop Leaf
Drop It Like It's Hot
Duduke
Dum Maro Dum
Easy
Easy Lover
El Cuarto De Tula
El Preso
Endless Love
Essence
Eternal Light
Everybody Dance
Everybody Wants Something (Instrumental)
Everything I Own
Everywhere
Family-Popcaan
Fancy Make Up
Far East Riddim
Fig Tree
Finally
Flame Against the Wind
Follow Me
For You
For Your Eyes Only
Forever - Gyakie ft Omah Lay
Forever In Love - Kenny G
Forever and Ever
Forget Me Nots
Freed From Desire
Friday
From Russia With Love
From the Heart
Frozen Soul
Gabriel
Geno
Get Busy
Get Ready, Rocksteady
Ghetto Child
Gimme Hope Joanna
Ginger
Girl Like Me
Girl She’s In Love
Give It Up
Give Me The Night
Give Me The Reason
Go Crazy
God Is Standing By
God Made Me Phunky
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
Green Fields of France
Green Light
Guantanamera
Guns of Navarone
Gypsy Woman
Haitian Divorce
Hang On to Your Love
Happy Birthday
Hark the Herald
Harvest For The World
Have You Ever
Heads High
Heatwave
Heaven Sent
Hello
Help Me Make It Through the Night
Here I Come
He ’s the Greatest Dancer
Higher
Hold Yuh
Holiday
Hooray Hooray It's a Holiday
Hot Hot Hot
Hotel California
How Great Thou Art
How Will I Know
Hurt So Good
Hypnotize
I Am Blessed
I Am I Said
I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun
I Can’t Resist Your Tenderness
I Can t Help Myself Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
I Do-Willy Paul and Alaine
I Don't Care
I Feel Good
I Got 5 On It
I Got You Babe
I Just Called To Say I Love You
I Know What You Want Mariah and Busta
I Predict A Riot
I Ran
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I Wanna Feel
I Wanna Wake Up With You
I Want To Love You Baby Riddim
I Want You Back
I Was Born A Winner
I Will Bless The Lord
I Will Follow
I Will Survive
I’m Coming Out
I'm Corrupt
I'm In Love With A Dreadlocks
I'm In The mood For Love
I'm Still Waiting
I'm the One for You
If I Can't Have You
If I Gave My Heart To You
Im Nin Alu
In A Special Way
In Loving You
In My Heart
In Orbit
In The Sweet Bye and Bye
In Your Hands
Incredible
Indian Love Call
Irish Rover
Is This love
Island Music
Isn’t She Lovely
Israelites
It Is Well With My Soul
I’ll Fly Away
I’m Still In Love
I’ve Got 5 On It
I’ve Seen That Face Before
Jack
Jambalaya
Jambo Bwana - Hakuna Matata
James Bond
James Bond Iggy Pop
James Bond Ska
James Bond Theme
Jammin
Jerusalema
Jingle Bells
Josie
Joy Ride Riddim
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Just An Illusion
Just Don’t Wanna Be Lonely
Just Gets Better
Just The Two Of Us
Just The Way You Are
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Khamoshiyan
Kingston Town
Kiss
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Kung Fu Fighting
La Bamba
La Cucaracha
La La La Means
La Ventanita
Ladeira De Preguice
Lambada
Latin goes Ska
Let Him Try
Let It Be
Let Me Be Your Fantasy
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Let me go girl riddim< hold you
Let's Stay Together
Lioness on the rise
Lip Up Fatty
Liquidator
Lithium
Live And Let Die
Livin' On A Prayer
Loneliness
Long Day Short Night
Long Live Love
Looking Out My Back Door
Looking Up To You
Lord I'm Ready
Lorraine
Los Charcos
Love Bump
Love Has Found Its Way
Love I Can Feel
Love Is Overdue
Love Like Blood
Love Me Forever
Love Me Tonight
Love That A Woman Should Give To A Man
Love The Way It Should Be
Love You To Want Me
Lovely Day
Loving Pauper
Main Squeeze/They Gonna Talk
Man With The Red Face
Many Rivers To Cross
Mas Que Nada
Me No Pop I
Message To You Rudy
Minha Saudades
Mona Lisa
Money Money Money
Money in My Pocket
Moonraker
Morena Ven
Morning Dance
Morning Sun
Movie Star
Mr Benn
Mr Brightside
Mulberry Bush
Mull of Kintyre
Murder She Wrote
My Boy Lollipop
My Eyes Adored You
My Friend the Wind
My God Is Real
My Love Is True
My Way
Natural Mystic
Nearer My God To Thee
Never Gonna Give You Up
Never Too Much
Nice And Easy
Night of the Living Baseheads
No No No
No Diggity
No Letting Go
No Limit
No Scrubs
Nobody Does It Better
Now And Forever
Number One
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Dia Se Zangou
Oboe
Oh Lori
Oh What a Night December 1963
Oil In My Lamp
Old Days Instrumental
On Her Majestys Secret Service
On The Outside
One Dance
One Dance - Drake
One Day (Vandaag) Bakermat
One Kiss
One Love
One More Step
One Step Beyond
Only You (Club Mix)
Our Reggae Music
Overjoyed
Paddy on the Railway
Panana
Pan in A minor
Papas Got A Brand new Pigbag
Paper Nut
Paradise in Your Eyes
Pass The Kutchie
Passion Love
Passionfruit
Peace At the Table
Peg
Pegame Tu Vicio
Pehla Nasha
Perfidia
Pink Panther
Play That Funky Music
Pont Des Arts
Pour The Milk
Portsmouth
Promised Land
Promises
Prophecy
Punany Riddim Instrumental
Push Comes To Shove
Push The Feelin On/Friday
Raabta
Rain From The Skies
Rastafari Taught Me
Rastaman Chant
Reach Out, I'll Be There (Single Version / Mono)
Real Love (Hip-Hop Club Mix)
Real Rock
Rebelión
Red Red Wine
Reggae Panther
Regret
Regulate
Remind them lord
Rhythm Of The Night
Right Here
Right Time
Ring My Bell
Rise
Risin To The Top
Rivers Of Babylon
Rock On riddim
Rock Steady
Rock The Rhythm
Rock With Me Baby
Rock With You
Rockaway
Rockfort Rock
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Roda
Rodeo Drive
Rum Shaker
Salisbury Hill
Sally Mclennane
Samba de Janeiro
Sarah -Frankie Paul
Satisfy My Soul
Satta Massagana
Saturday Night
Save Me -Jubel
Saving All My Love For You
Saxobeat
Sea Of Love
Second Class
See Emily Play
Selfish Love
Senorita
Senorita Zindagi
September
Sexual Healing
Shape Of You
Sharing The Night
She's Royal
Shot In The Dark
Show Me love
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Si Te Vas / Que Tengo Que Hacer (Remix)
Silhouette
Silly Games
Simi- Duduke
Skyfall
Sleigh Bells
Slide and Go Thru
Smile Jamaica
Smile Like you Mean it
Smiling Face
Smooth Operator
So Amazing
So Danco Samba
Sobre las Olas
Solidarity Forever
Solo
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Song 2
Song For My Father
Sonho Meu
Soul Rebel
Spain
Square Biz
Stacey’s Mum
Stalag 17
Stand By Me
Stardust
Stereotype
Stick By Me
Still Go a Dance
Stoned Out Of My Mind
Stop In The Name Of Love
Stranger On The Shore
Stream Of Life
Streams of Whisky
Street Life
Stronger Every Day
Sumer Is Icumen In
Summer Samba
Sun And Moon
Suumo Hewo
Sweep Over My Soul
Sweet For My Sweet
Sweet Love
Sweet Lovin
Sweet Mother
Swing Easy
Take 5
Take 5 Reggae
Teddy Bear
Tenement Yard
Tequila
That’s Amore
That's The Way Love Goes
That's What Friends Are For
The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)
The Living Daylights
The Loco-Motion
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Message
The Moment -Kenny G
The Night
The Old Days (Instrumental)
The Selecter
The Way You Make Me Feel
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
There's No Other Way
There's a Ghost In My House
Things We Do For Love
Thinking of You
Third Eye
This Girl's In Love With You
This World is Not My Home
Those Guys
Three Lions
Three Little Birds
Thunderball
Tico Tico
Tidldy Wop Tidldy Dil
Titanium
Toast
Together in Electric Dreams
Top Of The World
Toxic
Travessia
Tribute To Jackie Mittoo
True
Tum Hi Ho Aashiqui
Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai
Tune In
Tup a Tup
Turn Me On
Turn Me On
Twenty Five Miles
Twice My Age
Twistin The Night Away
Two Can Play That Game
Uptown Top Rankin/I’m Still In Love
Vacilon
Vandaag (One Day)
Venus In Furs
View To A K•ll
Visa
Volvere
Wa Ma Mo Ye
Walk On By
Wall Street
Wannabe
Watch This Sound
Water
Wave
We Have All The Time In The World
Weak SWV
Wear You To the Ball
What Have You Done For Me lately
What Is Love
What You Won’t Do For Love - Tupac
What a Feeling
What's Love Got To Do With It
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
When The Saints Go Marching In
Where Did Our Love Go
Who Can It Be Now
Wide Awake In A Dream
Wifey
Wild World
Will You
Willow Tree
Winner
Wolves And Leopards
Woman
Woman I Like Your Style
Work
Would I Lie To You
Would You Like To Rock It With Me
YMCA
You Bring The Sun Out
You Can Get It If You Really Want
You Can’ t hide Your Love
You Had Your Chance
You Know What's Up
You Make Me Feel Mighty Real
You Make Me So Very Happy
You Must Be the Girl
You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)
You To Me Are Everything
You'll Never Get To Heaven
You'll Never Walk Alone
Your Latest Trick
Your World And Mine
You’ll Never Walk Alone
Your Love Is king
You’re No Good
You’re The One For Me
Zimbabwe
Zindagi
Zion In A Vision
Sarah's Prices
Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.
Standard Prices
| Performance duration | Price | |
| Short performance (up to 15 min) | £125 | |
| Up to 1 hour | £225 | |
| Up to 2 hours | £300 | |
| Up to 3 hours | £350 |
Packages
Recording Session
I can record sax/flute/clarinet on your track and send you the files for mixing.
£100
Dinner
2 x 45 min performances as dinner is being served.
£300
Drinks reception
Two performances of up to 45 minutes each during your drinks reception
£300
Add-ons
Play music between sax sets
+£30
Customer questions
What do your clients love most about your performances?
I know lots of tunes and also can improvise if I am playing something new. I like to get involved with the crowd if appropriate. I love meeting people and am easy to get along with.
Which venues have you performed at in the past?
The Jazz Cafe, The O2, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, The Roundhouse, The Scala, Hammersmith Apollo etc.....all kinds of special events and ceremonies...in art galleries, in street bands, in shop windows, on boats, cruise ships, and buses, on a steam-powered merry-go-round, in the middle of a lake, etc
Which artists have you been most influenced by?
Working with so many top artists and musicians who are a great influence, hard work ethic and the desire to make the world a better place and bring people together with music.
What is the most high profile gig you've performed?
I played sax and flute with the legendary Big Youth and Daddy U-Roy at Rototom Sunsplash which was the biggest crowd I ever played to, flying straight from a lovely gig in Liverpool the night before and no sleep. Yeah!
What if my timings change after I've booked you?
If there's any changes to timings after booking just let me know and we can readjust
Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?
Yes, I can play some music before and between sets.
How much time do you need to set up?
At least half an hour before performance time to make sure everything is working..
Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?
Yes choose any songs you would like from the list, and I know lots more too, feel free to ask.
I can also play along with any tracks chosen by you or the DJ.
Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?
I have a microphone.
You will need speakers for the music to go through. Or I can bring my portable speaker for small events.
I can bring my tracks on laptop.
Or, if you have a DJ I can play along with their tracks. Or I can play along with your Spotify etc playlist.
Can you learn song requests before the event?
I can learn song requests before the event.
Musicianship
Genres:
Reggae, 1960s era music, 1970s era music, 1980s era music, Hip Hop, Motown, Ambient, Deep house, Drum 'n' Bass, Dubstep, EDM, Garage, House, Jungle, Electronic, Breakbeat, Electro-Swing, Electronica, IDM, Ibiza club, Industrial, Techno, Triphop, 1990s era music, 1950s era music, 1940s era music, 1930s era music, 1920s era music, Folk, Bluegrass, Ceilidh, Country, Folk rock, Irish rock, Rockabilly, Traditional English folk, Traditional Irish folk, Traditional Scottish folk, Welsh folk, Baroque, Classical crossover, Fanfare, Film / TV music, Medieval music, Musical theatre, Opera, Christmas, Contemporary Christian, Traditional church music, Jazz, Blues, Cabaret, Dixieland, Gypsy jazz, Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Modern jazz, Postmodern jukebox jazz, Ragtime, Swing, Gospel, Avant garde, Easy listening, Experimental, Light music, Marching, Noise music, Originals, Rock, Alternative rock, Britpop, Classic rock, Glam rock, Hard rock, Hardcore, Heavy metal, Indie, Pop rock, Post rock, Power rock, Progressive rock, Punk rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Synth rock, World music, African music, Afrobeat, Arabic, Argentinian, Armenian, Asian music, Australian music, Balkan, Bavarian oompah, Bollywood, Bossa nova, Brazilian music, Calypso, Caribbean music, Choro, Cuban music, Cumbia, Flamenco, French music, German music, Greek music, Hawaiian music, Indian music, Italian music, Jewish music, Klezmer, Latin, Mariachi, Merengue, Polish music, Polka, Polynesian music, Russian music, Salsa, Samba, Scottish music, Ska, Skiffle, Spanish music, Tango, Pop, Acoustic, Ambient pop, Americana, Covers, Disco, Funk, Funk rock, Karaoke, R&B, Soul, Top 40, Tribute, Vintage, Contemporary classical, Early music, Classical, Renaissance, Military, Barbershop
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Event types:
Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Hotel / Restaurant event, Wedding, Recording session, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Theatre / Show, Cruise, Burns night, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve, Virtual event
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Other skills:
Composer, Arranger, Musical comedy
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