Banquet and wedding music specialists The London Banqueting Ensembles Professional musicians for all occasions     Palm Court Trio The British Travel Awards Battersea Evolution Image: Steve Dunlop Photography (Click image to enlarge)   Hi Steve, Just a quick note to say thank you very much for your performance on Thursday night at The British Travel Awards. I think you suited the mood of the guests perfectly and I’ve had some very positive feedback. Thank you and your fellow performers very much – and, all things being equal I’d like to book you again for next year. Let’s keep in touch. When I get the final edits of the event highlights I will send you a copy as I am sure you will be included in it! Kind Regards Lorraine Lorraine Barnes Burton CEO UK Travel Awards Ltd Producers of The British Travel Awards Palm Court Trio Wedding Ceremony and Reception - Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex Hi Steve, We just wanted to send you a message to thank you and the rest of the trio on an absolutely amazing performance at our wedding. Every person we have spoken to has commented on how brilliant you all were. You really did make our wedding complete and we would like to thank you. The way you played the trumpet as we arrived at the ballroom will stay in our minds forever, it made us feel like king and queen! Thanks for the amazing memories you have given us. If you ever need someone to use as a reference then feel free to give our details out and if we ever need any music again, you will be the only ones we think of. Good luck for the future. Kind Regards, Jez and Sarah Bagpiper Wedding Ceremony and reception - Fanhams Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire. Dear Steve, I have been meaning to email you since our wedding but keep forgetting. I wanted to thank your Piper for a fantastic performance everyone loved him and still talk about him. He was fantastic, 100%. Please pass on our thanks and best wishes to him. Kind regards Pauline & Peter Salon Orchestra, Fanfare Trumpeters and Post Horns Masonic annual dinner for the Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey New Connaught Rooms, London Dear Steve, You will gather from the rapturous applause what an excellent job you did yesterday. Your selection of music was excellent. We spoke about booking next year, and the year after, as we would like you to provide the music again. Kind regards, Jim Provincial Grand Secretary Palm Court Trio, Cocktail Pianist, Fanfare Trumpeters and Post Horns Retirement Party for a former Royal Marine turned Solicitor! The Naval and Military Club, St. James’s Square, London Dear Steve Just a short and hopelessly inadequate note to say a very big thank you to you and your musicians for what all the guests described as an outstanding performance Saturday evening. Without exception, everybody felt that your ensemble made a massive contribution to the success of the evening. The Post Horn Gallop and medley that followed absolutely floored everybody. We are extremely grateful to you for not only stepping into the void left by the Royal Marines, but doing so in such a first class fashion. Thank you all very much indeed. Once again, very many thanks. Kind regards. Jim Crocker Howell & Co Solicitors String Quartet Wedding Ceremony, Holy Trinity Church, Rayleigh, Essex Wedding reception, Stock Brook Country Club, Billericay, Essex Hi Steve, I just wanted to say THANK YOU so much to you and the other members of the quartet. You were fantastic, I nearly cried when you started up at the church!! It was fab that all you joined in with the choir, it sounded great. (I'm not too keen on organs!) I didn't get to hear much of you at the reception as the photographer kept dragging us away from everyone, but you looked brilliant set up on the patio and everyone has commented on you. People who aren't yet married now all want a string quartet at their wedding! Thanks again to you all, you were one of the highlights of the day :o) Love, Sam and Brett x Wedding Trumpeter Wedding Ceremony, Copythorne Church, Southampton. Hi Steve, Just to say a very big thankyou to you and Jerry, who was absolutely perfect, brilliant, everyone at the service said how much they enjoyed the trumpet. Steph walked up the isle to the trumpet voluntary and the vicar said wow what an entrance. The whole service was perfect, I don't think we can say anymore than thankyou for making the church service special and it is something that will be talked about for a quite a while. I will phone Jerry but also can you pass this message on. Kind regards and many thanks, Christine Palm Court Trio Wedding ceremony and reception. Gaynes Park, Epping, Essex Dear Steve, We would like to extend a belated but heartfelt "thank you" to you and the rest of the group for your amazing performance at our wedding on 23rd March. You played everything absolutely perfectly, incorporating all of my wishes and requests seamlessly. From accompanying my walk down the aisle to accompanying the wedding breakfast, you were all so professional. I am to this day especially receiving rave comments about your trumpet fanfare at the end of the dinner Steve - it was just fantastic. It made the day all the more truly memorable and we thank you so much for all the extra effort you put in. Once again please accept our sincere thanks for everything, and we will not hesitate in recommending you to anybody who needs a similar service for any occasion. With very best wishes, Nancy and Wayne Fanfare Trumpeters ‘Once upon a time’ themed event held by John Lewis plc The Royal Courts of Justice, London Dear Steven, Re: Once Upon a Time Ball We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your colleague for the service provided for us in relation to the above event. The Trumpeters enhanced the theme of our event and the trumpet fanfares followed by announcements allowed us to create a really regal feel at various points throughout the evening. People stopped, looked up to the balcony and ‘wowed’ in amazement as the sound carried across the great hall to full effect. This proved to be a really integral part of our event, and was a very memorable aspect for many.  Thank you once again. Yours sincerely, Germaine Matthews and Claire Gilbert Event organisers John Lewis plc Palm Court Trio Workshop Dinner for BP Marine Fuels. Macdonald Frimley Hall Hotel and Spa, Camberley, Surrey Dear Steve, Thank you for a lovely performance at the BP workshop dinner. I’m only sorry I was preoccupied and not able to focus on the music as fully as it deserved. I’ll certainly remember you for any similar event. Regards, Nikki Fanfare Trumpeters Christmas Carol Concert with IDMC Gospel Choir, St. Paul’s Girls School Choir and Thomas’s Day School Choir raising over £30,000 for the Honeypot charity. St. Luke’s Church, Sydney Street, Chelsea, London Dear Steve, Thank you so much for supporting Honeypot. We are extremely grateful for the charitable discount you made on our booking for our carol concert. We thought the trumpeters did a marvellous job on the night and your presence also added a special something to the event. We are pleased to say that the event was a huge success, raising a significant amount which will allow us to continue providing respite breaks to young carers and vulnerable children. We have had great feedback from our guests and would very much like to book you for next years Christmas Carol Concert. One of our members of staff will definitely be in touch in the foreseeable future. We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Kind Regards Dani Dani Linder| Events Coordinator| The Honeypot Charity www.honeypot.co.uk Palm Court Trio and String Quartet Company 50th Anniversary Party The Barbican Centre, London   Dear Steve A short note of thanks to say how much we appreciated your professionalism in playing at Theatre Projects Consultants 50 Birthday Celebrations in The Conservatory at The Barbican. The event was a major milestone in the history of the company and you hit just the right note for our guests. Many of the people in attendance commented on the great variety of music you played and I was delighted that you were able to provide both the Palm Court Trio and String Quartet. You and your colleagues very much helped us to celebrate our evening and all of us at TPC Were delighted to have had such a professional group of musicians playing and helping to give the evening such a great ambience. My thanks one again Hope all is well with you Regards Andrew Andrew De Rosa General Manager, Theatre Projects Consultants Limited www.tpcworld.com   Palm Court Trio Family get-together ‘Sunday Lunch’ party. Macdonald Frimley Hall Hotel and Spa, Camberley, Surrey Dear Steve, Although my wife may have done so already, sorry it has taken me a few days to send our thanks for your excellent and enjoyable music at our lunch last Sunday at the Frimley Hall Hotel. Your choices of music were quite perfect. Most people knew some or most of the tunes, which means they were pleased to be able to 'sing along' (quietly of course) and enjoy it the more. I am particularly grateful for the splendid fanfare for 'lunch being served' and shall certainly recommend your different groups whenever I can. One of our guests is an examiner for both the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and the Royal College of Organists and he was most impressed with your personal versatility and performance - could you ask for more? Please convey my thanks to your colleagues, and many thanks again to you personally. Regards David   Dear Steve and fellow musicians, Thank you so very much for a wonderful performance at our lunch party - superb choice of music and so sensitively played - Tina was so right - you are the best! We were so impressed with the fanfare - and on the right instrument too! Just about everyone sends their thanks with ours for making it such a lovely time with our friends and family. Hope we can hear you again, Very Best wishes, Celia Fanfare Trumpeter Wedding ceremony and reception. Sulgrave Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire Dear Steve, Just a note to day your performance was wonderful – absolutely perfect, we were delighted and our guests loved it too. Thank you very much you really added to the day which was very happy for us. Thank you wholeheartedly again and all the very best Stevi Palm Court Trio Wedding reception. Down Hall, Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire. Dear Steve We just wanted to thank you for being so fantastic at our wedding at Down Hall. You and your associates were absolutely brilliant and so many people commented as such. You even managed ‘swing low’! Hindsight is a wonderful thing however, we wouldn’t have had the band in the evening, my father said he would have rather seen/heard you continue into the evening. In any case, I just wanted to say thank you and in addition for the support you gave us in the run up to our big day. We had a wonderful wedding and are grateful to you for your part in it. Very best wishes Naomi & Simon String Quartet Wedding ceremony and reception. Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Hi Steve We have just got back from our honeymoon and wanted to just send you a thank you note. Your string quartet performed at our wedding at Hatfield House and were brilliant, The Ludlow's that we had requested was perfect and played beautifully. We had a lot of people tell us how good the music was. Also I know the registrar was very impressed! Thanks again for helping to make our day so wonderful Best regards Sarah Palm Court Trio Diamond Wedding Anniversary. Private Garden, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire. Dear Steve, just a quick note to thank you and your colleagues for adding so much to everyone's enjoyment of my parent's Diamond Wedding Anniversary garden party on Sunday. You were superb and the music made the day go with a swing best wishes, Steve Johnson String Quartet Wedding ceremony and reception. Bookham Grange Hotel, Little Bookham, Leatherhead, Surrey Dear Steve I'd just like to say thank you very much for your fantastic playing at our wedding. All our guests commented on the music and it really made the whole day "special". The choice of music was spot on, mixing contemporary, classical and a few familiar TV sound-tracks. Thanks once again to you all Best wishes Margaret String Quartet Wedding ceremony: St Mary's College Chapel, Twickenham, Middlesex Wedding reception: Oakley Court, Water Oakley, Windsor, Berks Hi Steve Having just got back from honeymoon we wanted to thank you for the music you played at the wedding. Lots of people commented on how great the music was and we particularly enjoyed the music in the church - it was fabulous. I'm looking forward to seeing the video so i can hear it back again. Thanks again Rebecca Team of 16 Fanfare Trumpeters, 3 percussion and Conductor Fundraising event in aid of the Raisa Gorbachev foundation, hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev Hampton Court Palace Richmond, Surrey Dear Steve I hope that you have recovered from the weekend. I just wanted to drop you a line to say many thanks to you and all your team for all of your hard work, patience and good humour through Saturday’s event. I really think that your performance created such an amazing atmosphere and impressive spectacle for the guests as they arrived to Hampton Court Palace, it looked fantastically seamless (as all good events do!). Once again, thank you so much to you and all of the guys for their input and great attitude on Saturday night. I will, of course, pass on any feedback that we receive from the client. Please give me a call if you have any questions or queries, but I will call soon to talk about the next event!! Best wishes Alix Private Drama Events www.privatedrama.com Palm Court Trio Wedding Ceremony St. Raphael’s Church, Twickenham, Middlesex Wedding Reception, Hampton Court Palace Richmond, Surrey Dear Steve, Just wanted to drop you a quick note before heading off on honeymoon to say thank you so much for the stunning music on Friday at our wedding. Coming into the Church to “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” fulfilled everything I had imagined and your playing of Jerusalem got everyone singing so loudly I thought we’d lift the roof off St. Raphael’s, it was just brilliant!! The reception was amazing too - you guys created a great sense of occasion. Thanks again to you all.   Very best wishes, Steph and Karsten Palm Court Trio St. Georges' day dinner Royal Blackheath Golf club Eltham London Hi Steve, I would like to Thank You and the rest of the Palm Court Trio for making our evening at Royal Blackheath such a great one. Many of those that attended congratulated me on the wonderful choice of music which makes the whole experience worth while. Once again thank you and all the best. Regards, Roy Taylor