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About Dan Phelps

I can play any style or genre of music you choose, to provide the ideal background music for your event.

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Pontypridd

Public liability insurance of £10 million

With 15 years experience as a professional event pianist, performing for weddings & private parties etc. all over the UK, I will provide the perfect music for your event. I'm often praised for my friendliness, professionalism and efficiency & I look forward to personalising your event with music.

Dan Phelps

5 out of 5

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Satisfaction

5.0

Professionalism

5.0

Communication

5.0

Punctuality

5.0

Dan Phelps' Reviews

5 out of 5

It was an absolute pleasure having Dan play at my 60th birthday celebration. The communication beforehand was excellent and we were able to choose so many favourite pieces from his extensive repertoire. On the day, his playing was exceptional and added so much to the atmosphere of the day.

Reply from Dan Phelps

1 year ago

Thank you for your kind review, Mairwen. It was a pleasure and it was lovely to meet you. Best wishes. Dan

Dan was absolutely wonderful! He played beautifully for 3 hours on my wedding day during the ceremony and the following drinks reception. He incorporated songs I asked for from his extensive repertoire, and he even learned 2 songs that I wanted during the ceremony. He was excellent at correspondence and generally a delight to deal with, I couldn't recommend him more!

We booked Dan to play for our guests arrival on our wedding day and he did such a brilliant job. He set a beautiful atmosphere with his piano playing. In the run up to the wedding Dan was always responsive, flexible, accommodating and professional. I would definitely recommend Dan for any event.

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Dan Phelps' Song list

Popular/Modern

1960s - Present

A Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles)

A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)

All My Loving (The Beatles)

All of Me (John Legend)

Always on My Mind (Elvis Presley)

Angels (Robbie Williams)

Bad Day (Daniel Powter)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)

Can't Help Falling in Love with You (Elvis Presley)

Can’t Take My Eyes off You (Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons)

Candle in the Wind (Elton John)

Cannon Ball (Damien Rice)

Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)

Dancing Queen (Abba)

Desperado (The Eagles)

Don’t Dream It’s Over (Crowded House)

Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)

English Rose (The Jam)

Ferry Cross the Mersey (Gerry and the Pacemakers)

Fields of Gold (Sting)

Friday I’m in Love (The Cure)

From Me to You (The Beatles)

Galway Girl (Steve Earle)

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

Heal the World (Michael Jackson)

Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)

Hero (Enrique Iglesias)

Hey Jude (The Beatles)

Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles)

How Deep is Your Love (Bee Gees)

How Would You Feel (Ed Sheeran)

I Swear (All-4-One)

I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)

I Won't Give Up (Jason Mraz)

Imagine (John Lennon)

In My Life (The Beatles)

In These Arms (Bon Jovi)

It's a Hard Life (Queen)

Just the Way You Are (Amazing) (Bruno Mars)

Lazybones (Jonathan King)

Let Her Go (Passenger)

Let It Be (The Beatles)

Lost (Michael Buble)

Love is All Around (Wet Wet Wet)

Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan)

Mamma Mia (Abba)

Marry You (Bruno Mars)

Moondance (Van Morrison)

Moon River (Audrey Hepburn)

Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)

My Way (Frank Sinatra)

One Day Like This (Elbow)

Perfect (Ed Sheeran)

Perfect Day (Lou Reed)

Prayer (Celine Dion)

Puppy Love (Donny Osmond)

She’s a Rainbow (The Rolling Stones)

Somebody to Love (Queen)

Stand by Me (Ben E. King)

Stay with Me (Sam Smith)

Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra)

Suddenly (Angry Anderson)

Take My Breath Away (Berlin)

The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)

The Prayer (Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli)

Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)

Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin)

Ticket to Ride (The Beatles)

Too Much Love Will Kill You (Queen)

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine (Savage Garden)

Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers)

Viva La Vida (Coldplay)

We Can Work It Out (The Beatles)

We Found Love (Rihanna)

We’ve Only Just Begun (The Carpenters)

What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)

When I’m Sixty-Four (The Beatles)

Who Wants to Live Forever (Queen)

Wings (Birdie)

Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)

Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Beach Boys)

Yellow (Coldplay)

Yesterday (The Beatles)

Pre-1960s

A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening (Frank Sinatra)

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Vera Lynn)

All of a Sudden My Heart Sings (Hildegarde)

All the Way (Frank Sinatra)

Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart)

Blueberry Hill (Glenn Miller)

Coming Home (Vera Lynn)

Cry Me a River (Julie London)

Don't Fence Me In (Roy Rogers)

Earth Angel (The Penguins)

Georgia On My Mind (Ray Charles)

How About You (Judy Garland)

How Deep is the Ocean (Frank Sinatra)

I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (Vera Lynn)

I Don't Want to Walk Without You (Betty Jane Rhodes)

I Love You for Sentimental Reasons (Nat King Cole)

I Remember You (Dorothy Lamour)

I'll Make Up for Everything (Vera Lynn)

I've Heard That Song Before (Vera Lynn)

If You Were the Only Girl in the World (Perry Como)

In the Mood (Glenn Miller)

Knees Up Mother Brown (Elsie and Doris Waters)

Lilli Marlene (Lale Andersen)

Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley)

Mam'selle (Frank Sinatra)

Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)

Moonlight Becomes You (Bing Crosby)

More Than Ever (Come Prima) (Mario Lanza)

My Grandfather's Clock (Evelyn Knight)

My Old Man's a Dustman (Lonnie Donegan)

Paper Doll (The Mills Brothers)

Pistol Packin' Mama (Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters)

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) (Doris Day)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady (Vaughn Monroe and The Moon Men)

Rockin’ Chair (Hoagy Carmichael)

Roll Out the Barrel (The Andrews Sisters)

Room Five-Hundred-and-Four (Vera Lynn)

Sand in My Shoes (Connie Boswell)

Scarlet Ribbons (Jo Stafford)

Sentimental Journey (Doris Day)

Smile (Charlie Chaplin)

That Lucky Old Sun (Frankie Laine)

The Anniversary Waltz (Vera Lynn)

The Gipsy (Billy Reid)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (Ann Sothern)

The More I See You (Dick Haymes)

The White Cliffs of Dover (Vera Lynn)

Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips (Nick Lucas)

Underneath the Arches (Flanagan and Allen)

We're Gonna Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line

(Vera Lynn)

We’ll Meet Again (Vera Lynn)

When I Fall in Love (Doris Day)

When You're Smiling (Louis Armstrong)

Whispering Grass (Erskine Hawkins)

Who’s Taking You Home Tonight (Ivor Novello) (Vera Lynn)

Yes, My Darling Daughter (Dinah Shore)

You are My Sunshine (Gene Autry)

You'll Never Know (Vera Lynn)

You've Done Something to My Heart (Pat Kirkwood)

Yours (Vera Lynn)

Jazz/Standards/Ragtime

All of Me (Ruth Etting)

Dizzy Fingers (Zen Confrey)

Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington)

Dream (The Pied Pipers)

Dream a Little Dream of Me (Mama Cass Elliot)

Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (Ella Fitzgerald)

Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra)

Hallelujah I Love Her So (Ray Charles)

I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Nina Simone)

I'll Close My Eyes (Billy Reid)

I'm Beginning to See the Light (Duke Ellington)

Let There Be Love (Nat King Cole)

Misty (Erroll Garner/Johnny Mathis)

My Foolish Heart (Martha Mears)

My Funny Valentine (Hal McIntyre)

Our Love Affair (Frank Sinatra)

Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin)

Summertime (Gershwin)

Tangerine (Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly)

Tenderly (Sarah Vaughan)

That's All (Nat King Cole)

The Stars Will Remember (Vaughn Monroe)

The Way You Look Tonight (Fred Astaire)

There Goes That Song Again (Kay Kyser & Georgia Carroll)

They Can't Take That Away from Me (Gershwin)

Time After Time (Frank Sinatra)

Musical

Almost Like Being in Love (Brigadoon)

Any Dream Will Do (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Anything Goes (Anything Goes)

As Time Goes By (Everybody's Welcome)

Be My Love (The Toast of New Orleans)

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Pal Joey)

Blue Skies (Betsy)

Bring Him Home (Les Miserables)

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Show Boat)

Close Every Door (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Edelweiss (The Sound of Music)

How Are Things in Glocca Morra (Finian's Rainbow)

I Can Give You the Starlight (Ivor Novello) (The Dancing Years)

I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi Like You Very Much (That Night in Rio)

I'll Be Your Sweetheart (I'll Be Your Sweetheart)

It Might as Well Be Spring (State Fair)

Long Ago (and Far Away) (Cover Girl)

Music of the Night (The Phantom of the Opera)

My Dearest Dear (Ivor Novello) (The Dancing Years)

My Life Belongs to You (Ivor Novello) (The Dancing Years)

No Matter What (Whistle Down the Wind)

Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)

Singin' in the Rain (Singin' in the Rain)

Someday My Heart Will Wake (Ivor Novello)

(King's Rhapsody)

Taking a Chance on Love (Cabin in the Sky)

The Heather on the Hill (Brigadoon)

The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)

Waltz of My Heart (Ivor Novello) (The Dancing Years)

We'll Gather Lilacs (Ivor Novello) (Perchance to Dream)

Film Music

Any Other Name (American Beauty)

Balcony Scene (Romeo & Juliet)

Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King)

Comptine D’un Autre Ete (Amelie)

Feather Theme (Forrest Gump)

Gift of Mortality (Bicentennial Man)

Glasgow Love Theme (Love Actually)

Grow Old with You (The Wedding Singer)

Jurassic Park (Theme)

Love Theme (Romeo & Juliet)

One Last Wish (Casper)

Portuguese Love Theme (Love Actually)

Tennessee (Pearl Harbour)

Titanic (Theme)

When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)

British Music Hall

Any Old Iron (Harry Champion)

Don't Dilly Dally (My Old Man) (Marie Lloyd)

It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Florrie Forde)

Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Ole Kit Bag (Edward Hamilton)

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (Florrie Forde)

Traditional/Folk Songs

Danny Boy (Frederic Weatherly)

Down in the Glen (Gordon/Connor)

How Can You Buy Killarney (Kennedy/Frundland/Morrison/Steels/Grant)

Londonderry Air (Katherine Tynan Hinkson)

Michael Row the Boat (Spiritual)

My Bonnie (Traditional)

My Little Welsh Home (W. S. Gwynn Williams)

Now is the Hour (Scott/Kaihau/Stewart)

Oh My Darling, Clementine (Percy Montrose)

Red River Valley (Traditional)

Scarborough Fair (Traditional)

Simple Gifts (Joseph Brackett)

The Old Folks at Home (Stephen Foster)

Waltzing Matilda (Banjo Paterson)

We'll Keep a Welcome (Joshua/Harper/Jones)

Patriotic

Land of Hope & Glory (Elgar/Benson)

Rule Britannia (Thomson/Arne)

Spiritual/Hymns

Amazing Grace

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

How Great Thou Art

Love Devine

Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Classical

Adagio (Sonata in C) (Beethoven)

Adagio for Strings (Barber)

Andante (Sonata Op.14) (Beethoven)

Andante Espressivo (Sonata Op.72) (Beethoven)

Aria: Lascia ch’io pianga (Handel)

Bagatelle in A (Beethoven)

Bagatelle in C (Beethoven)

Bagatelle in F (Beethoven)

Canon in D (Pachelbel)

Etude No. 3, Op. 10 (Chopin)

Fantasia in D Minor (Mozart)

Fur Elise (Beethoven)

Gymnopedie (Satie)

Happy and Sad (Beethoven)

Kinderszenen (Schumann)

Kiss the Rain (Yiruma)

La Marmotte (Beethoven)

March from the Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)

Meditation (Massenet)

Minuet in G (Beethoven)

Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)

Mozart 40 (Mozart)

O Mio Babbino Caro (Puccini)

On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn)

Pevane Op. 50 (Faure)

Piano Piece (Beethoven)

Prelude in C Minor (Bach)

River Flows in You (Yiruma)

Rondo in C (Beethoven)

Six Ecossaies (Beethoven)

Six German Dances (Beethoven)

Sonata in G (Beethoven)

Sonata in G (Last Movement Hob. XVI/8) (Haydn)

Sonata Op.49 (Beethoven)

Spring Time (Yiruma)

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)

Themes from Piano Concerto No.1 (Beethoven)

Themes from Piano Concerto No.3 (Beethoven)

Themes from Symphony No.2 (Beethoven)

Themes from Symphony No.7 (Beethoven)

Themes from Symphony No.8 (Beethoven)

Themes from Symphony Number 5 (Beethoven)

Themes from Violin Concerto Op. 61 (Beethoven)

Tyrolean (Beethoven)

Variations on a Russian Song (Beethoven)

Waltzer (Beethoven)

Wedding March (Mendelssohn)

Original (Classical Piano)

Blessing

Blossom

Butterfly

Dusk

Fall

Halcyon

Lakeside

Moonlight

Starlit Waters

Stillness

Tranquility

Christmas Repertoire

Traditional/Carols

Deck the Halls

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

God Rest You Merry, Gentleman

Good King Wenceslas

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

In the Bleak Mid-Winter

Jingle Bells

Joy to the World

O Come, All Ye Faithful

O Holy Night

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Oh Christmas Tree

Once in Royal David's City

See Amid the Winter's Snow

Silent Night

The First Nowell

The Holly and the Ivy

The Twelve Days of Christmas

We Three Kings of Orient Are

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

While Shepherds Watched

Popular/Modern

Frosty the Snowman (Gene Autry)

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland)

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (Wizzard)

Last Christmas (Wham!)

Mistletoe and Wine (Cliff Richard)

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee)

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Gene Autry)

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (Harry Reser & Tom Stacks)

Silver Bells (Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell)

Stop the Cavalry (Jona Lewie)

When a Child is Born (Johnny Mathis)

Winter Wonderland (Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Orchestra)

Dan Phelps' Prices

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

Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£65
Up to 1 hour	£160
Up to 2 hours	£250
Up to 3 hours	£375

Wedding ceremony

This includes music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.

£250

Drinks reception

Two performances of up to 45 mins each during your drinks reception

£250

Wedding ceremony + Drinks reception + Dinner

- Music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave. - 2 x 45 min performances at the drinks reception. - 2 x 45 min performances as dinner is being served.

£675

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

To quote some of my previous clients: "The atmosphere was just perfect thanks to the gorgeous piano music" "Brilliant from start to finish" "Added a classy and elegant touch to our celebration" "So accommodating and was able to fulfil all our requests" "Everything Dan played was to perfection and at the highest level - exactly how we imagined"

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Most Recently; The West Mill, Derbyshire Gregynog Hall, Newtown Pencoed House Estate, Pentyrch Tithe Barn, Sturminster Newton

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Queen

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

I always try my best to be flexible to help ensure your event runs as smoothly as possible. If timings change slightly in the run up to the event just let me know as this is usually no problem.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

Unfortunately I do not provide this service.

How much time do you need to set up?

I usually aim to be set and ready around 30 minutes to an hour before I'm due to start playing.

If I have a piano at my venue, are you happy to perform on that?

Yes, absolutely - as long as the piano is in working order (including all keys and pedals) and in tune.

Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?

You are welcome to choose anything from my pretty extensive existing rep list. If there is anything that you'd like me to play that is not on my list this will most definitely be okay, but additional charges may apply.

Are you able to bring your own piano or keyboard?

Yes, absolutely. I can bring and set up my portable stage piano with amplification if required.

Can you learn song requests before the event?

If there's a song you would like me to play which isn't included on my song list I am more than happy to do this for you although additional charges may apply to take into account preparation time and sheet music costs etc.

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