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Cambridgeshire is obviously framed for Cambridge University and its multiple colleges. One of my sons read engineering and then did his PhD at Cambridge, so I spent a lot of time there visiting him, as well as the more laborious task of carting his belongings back and fourth at's term ends and beginnings. Needless to say, it is a stunning location with everything one can think of going on, including a lot of music. Although he was a viola player and played in the county youth orchestra, regrettably didn't continue playing in Cambridge, in part because he felt that people are taking music too seriously, and in part because he had to focus very much on his chosen subject. You had to play perfectly what wasn't good enough. Perhaps that's the ethos of a university like that, that everything has to be top class, but it was a pity because music is very much about enjoyment, enjoyment of others if your performing it, in which case you wrote them to be top notch if they have hired you and you are paying for you, but it also for one's own enjoyment if you're playing unpaid (not that you don't enjoy the music when you're being paid, it just takes things to a different level).

As one would expect that such a university, the statue music is exceptional, and I've enjoyed listening to the music of both King's College choir and St John's choir. Of course there are a host of top class musicians at the University, so in some parts of the year music be supplied for offence as sort of homegrown music, from the students at university. Of course, not all students have the time or desire to perform for weddings and parties, and as the terms are short, there are a large part of the year when the student population with his excellent musicians, is just not there. Therefore, we do get a lot of bookings for our bands from the area and from the University itself.

The flat countryside in the north-east of Cambridgeshire (which now takes in Huntingdonshire) gives an impression of far horizons, for most of it is fenland where cattle graze on drained pastures. To the south is a mellow corner which was the childhood home of one of the most powerful men in British history—Oliver Cromwell, who was born at Huntingdon in 1599.

He was a farmer and Member of Parliament there, and many of the buildings, including the church in Huntingdon where he was christened and the grammar school which he attended, are still much as he knew them. Here, too, Samuel Pepys went to school for a year before he was sent to St Paul's, London, in 1640. The market towns of Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots are linked by the River Great Ouse, and the best way to see them is from the river. Boats can be hired at Huntingdon to explore south-west to St Neots or east to St Ives. The river journey to St Ives offers perhaps the lovelier route, with stops at flower-bright Houghton, and at the twin villages of .Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey.

Cambridge, CB1 1LL, Cambridgeshire

 

garden party The TL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4881.5

Hughes Hall, Cambridge University, , CB1 2EW, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding anniversary  The CP String Trio ref: 2384.2

The Eight Bells Pub 18 Bridge Street, Saffron Walden , CB10 1BU, Cambridgeshire

 

Family reunion/celebration  The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Saffron Walden is only 40 miles from London, yet an unspoilt small town with superb medieval houses—of which the youth hostel at the corner of Myddelton Place is one of the best. The town got its wealth from wool and from its crop of saffron, which was a medicine as well as a dye. The saffron industry is commemorated in the name of the town. The High Street has many late Georgian houses, and medieval houses and cottages are scattered throughout the town, particularly in Myddelton Place, Castle Street, Church Lane and at the junction of Church Street and Market Hill.

A great earthwork at the west end of the town, in which 200 Saxon skeletons were discovered, is known as Repell Ditches and attracts archaeologists.

Great Chesterford  CB10, CB10 1QE, Cambridgeshire

 

The SP Ceilidh/ Barn Dance Band  ref: 6150

The Red Lion, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire  , CB10 1QY, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding party The GW Funk Covers Band ref: 5790.2

The Nucleus, Chesterford Research Park Cambridge, Little Chesterford,, CB10 1XL, Cambridgeshire

 

50th Birthday Party The AB Tribute Band ref: 5519

The flat countryside in the north-east of Cambridgeshire (which now takes in Huntingdonshire) gives an impression of far horizons, for most of it is fenland where cattle graze on drained pastures. To the south is a mellow corner which was the childhood home of one of the most powerful men in British history—Oliver Cromwell, who was born at Huntingdon in 1599.

He was a farmer and Member of Parliament there, and many of the buildings, including the church in Huntingdon where he was christened and the grammar school which he attended, are still much as he knew them. Here, too, Samuel Pepys went to school for a year before he was sent to St Paul's, London, in 1640. The market towns of Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots are linked by the River Great Ouse, and the best way to see them is from the river. Boats can be hired at Huntingdon to explore south-west to St Neots or east to St Ives. The river journey to St Ives offers perhaps the lovelier route, with stops at flower-bright Houghton, and at the twin villages of .Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey.

Broadoaks Manor, Thaxted Road, Wimbish, Saffron Walden, , CB10 2XR, Cambridgeshire

 

Private Party The TL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4881.5

Ubisense, Eastbury, Clanver End, Wendens Ambo, SaffronWarden, , CB11 4UL, Cambridgeshire

 

Company anniversary party The CR Scottish Ceilidh Band ref: 4564

The University Arms hotel in Cambridge. , CB2 1AD, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The AR String Quartet ref: 2394

University Arms, Regent Street, CAMBRIDGE. , CB2 1AD, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The NS String Quartet ref: 2033.1

Downing College, Cambridge, , CB2 1DQ, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Freemasons Hall, Bateman Street, Cambridge, , CB2 1NA, Cambridgeshire

 

INUL 150th Anniversary Garden Party The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Pembroke College Cambridge, , CB2 1RF, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

The early beginnings of Cambridge dates from when a Roman town was established by AD 70 on a hill overlooking the River Cam, which the Romans knew as the Granta. The name of the site, where the Saxons settled after the Romans had left, evolved gradually from Grantacaester to Grantabric, Cantabridge and finally to the modern Cambridge. Part of the Cam near the city is still called locally by its old Roman name.

When the university was established early in the 13th century, students made their own lodging arrangements and grouped around the religious and lay teachers whose ideas most appealed to them. It was 1284 before the first true college, Peterhouse, was founded by the Bishop of Ely. Discipline was slack and the behaviour of students led to a 'town and gown' conflict which went on into the i8th century.

 

Pembroke College, Cambridge. , CB2 1RF, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The BJ Jazz Band ref: 3733.1

Cam Suite, Double Tree Garden House hotel, Granta Place,  Mill Lane,  Cambridge, , CB2 1RT, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The AV String Ensemble ref: 2031

University Social Club Mill Lane Cambridge, CB2 1RX, Cambridgeshire

 

Addenbrookes Physiotherapy Department Christmas party.  The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Saltmarsh Rooms in King's College, Cambridge , CB2 1ST , Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding Tenor - Neil ref: 2213.2

Saltmarsh Rooms in King's College, Cambridge, UK , CB2 1ST , Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding Tenor - Neil ref: 2213.2

Michaelhouse Cafe St Michaels Church, Trinity St, Cambridge, CB2 1SU, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding Evening Reception  The GW Jazz Quartet ref: 3363

Cambridge Union9a Bridge Street Cambridge , CB2 1UB, Cambridgeshire

 

50th birthday party  The AC Flute & Cello Duo ref: 6341.2

St Columba's Church Hall, Downing Street, Cambridge, , CB2 3EL, Cambridgeshire

 

Diamond Wedding Anniversary The EL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4595

Sedgwick museum of Natural History Downing Street. Cambridge , CB2 3EQ, Cambridgeshire

 

Retirement party The BB String Trio ref: 6232

Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge. , CB2 3QJ, Cambridgeshire

 

Christmas Function The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Anstey Hall Maris Lane, Trumpington, Cambridge , CB2 9LG, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding Pianist  - Yul ref: 2726

Just outside the village, on the Trumpington road, is a signpost pointing to Byron's Pool. The muddy cut, by which sat not only Byron but predecessors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton and Dryden, is less attractive than the paths to it through the coppice, rustling with squirrels. In the Church at Trumpington is the brass of Sir Roger de Trumpington dated 1289—the second oldest in Britain.

11 High Street, Balsham Balsham, Cambridge , CB21 4DJ, Cambridgeshire

 

Retirement Party  The JZ Jazz Duo ref: 6566

 

 

Balsham, whose church has a 13th-century tower and inventive 14th-century choir stalls carved with grimacing animals and men, or possibly demons, is located at one end of the Great Dyke. Until the middle of the 18th century the church had its own band, and a few old instruments are kept in a glass case by the south door.

Balsham Village Hall, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DX, Cambridgeshire

 

40th Birthday Party The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Linton, Cambridgeshire, CB21 4HY, Cambridgeshire

 

The RV String Quartet ref: 6259

Linton is a delightful village with modest grey houses grouped around the village green. A tinkling beck is crossed by three bridges—a packhorse bridge, a clapper bridge, which takes its name from the long flat stones of which it is composed, and a modern bridge for road traffic. Gracefully dominating the scene is the imposing facade of Fountaine's Hospital, originally an almshouse for six poor women, but now for men also, founded in 1721 by Richard Fountaine.

 

Marquee on Linton Camping Close, Beside Linton Infants School, , CB21 4JX, Cambridgeshire

 

Barn Dance The BT Trio Ceilidh Band / Barn Dance Band ref: 4456.1

Castle camps Village Hall,5 Claydon Close Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire,, CB21 6TD, Cambridgeshire

 

40th Birthday Party The HP Barn Dance/ Ceilidh Band ref: 6309.1

Barn, The Tackroom, Red House Farm, Great Eversden, Cambs  , CB23 1HW, Cambridgeshire

 

Post wedding celebratation The CA Ceilidh Band ref: 4584

Longstowe Hall, Longstowe, Cambridge, , CB23 2UH, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding The BB String Trio ref: 6232

Longstowe Hall, Longstowe, Cambridge. , CB23 2UH, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding reception The HS Flute & Harp Duo ref: 2597.1

Madingley Hall Madingley, CAMBRIDGE, CB23 8AQ, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding  The AK Ceilidh/ Barn Dance Band ref: 6579

Madingley is an interesting place. From the uplands surrounding the American Military Cemetery and from the byroads between the A45 and Comberton or Colon there are many glimpses of Cambridge between long rollers of undulating farmland. Papworth Everard, in the wooded lanes further west, has an enlightened village settlement for the handicapped. Caxton, near by, has a fine old coaching inn and a pebbly 15th-century church. At New Wimpole an elm avenue leads to the county's greatest mansion, Wimpole Hall (not open), which was built by SirThomas Chichele c. 1640 and considerably altered in the i8th century by the ist Earl of Harduickc. A sham castle in the park was built about the same time.

Childerley Hall1a Mill Yard, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, CB23 8BA, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding  The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Scotland Farm House, Scotland Road, Dry Drayton, , CB23 8BN, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Bar Hill Village Hall, The Spinney, Bar Hill, , CB23 8SU, Cambridgeshire

 

20th Wedding Anniversary The EL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4595

Ploughman Hall. West Ffen Road, Willingham, Cambridge. , CB24 5LP, Cambridgeshire

 

Willingham Feast The PGE Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4456.2

Magdalene College Fellows Gardens, Magdalene Street, Cambridge, , CB3 0AG, Cambridgeshire

 

Garden Party The AM String Quartet ref: 2008

Magdalene college (pronounced Maudlin) Founded in 1542 by Baron Audley of Walden, a courtier of Henry VIII, Magdalene has two small but charming courts and the Pepysian Library, to which Samuel Pepys bequeathed his engravings and books—leaving instructions on how the books were to be arranged in the bookcases that he had provided. The manuscripts of his Diary, written in shorthand, are also in the library.

 

Magdalene College, Cambridge, , CB3 0AG, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding The FB Barn Dance/Ceilidh Band ref: 6005

Clarkson Close Cambridge,, CB3 0EJ, Cambridgeshire

 

50th birthday party The OX Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4750.1

Girton College, Huntingdon Road Cambridge, CB3 0JG, Cambridgeshire

 

Reception for/after a christening The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Girton College, Huntingdon Road Cambridge, CB3 0JG, Cambridgeshire

 

Battle of Britain Guest Night The SHS Jazz Band ref: 6022

Great Hall, Girton College, Cambridge.  , CB3 0JG, Cambridgeshire

 

Burns Night Supper The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Hotel Felix, Whitehouse Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, , CB3 0LX, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booking for Wedding The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

The Felix Hotel, Whitehouse Lane,  Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, , CB3 0LX, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding The SB String Quartet ref: 2538

Queens College, Silver Street, Cambridge, , CB3 9AQ, Cambridgeshire

 

Formal Dinner to celebrate Diamond Jubilee The PSI String Quartet ref: 2649

Queens’ College is named after two queens—Henry VI's wife Margaret of Anjou, who founded it in 1448, and Edward IV's wife Elizabeth, who refounded and endowed it in 1465. Elizabeth built the Second Court, with its cloisters and half-timbered Presi-dent'sLodge. The wooden Mathematical Bridge gives a fine view of the college, the Backs and the river. This bridge was built without a single nail in 1749 and was reconstructed in its original form at the beginning of this century.

Queens' College Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9ET, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding The CN String Quartet ref: 2025

Over Community Centre, The Doles, OVER, Cambs. , CB4 5NW, Cambridgeshire

 

40th Wedding Anniversary The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Jesus College, Cambridge. , CB5 8BL, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding The CA Ceilidh Band ref: 4584

Ely Beet Sports and Social Club 83 Lynn Road, Ely , CB6 1DE, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding  The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

The word ‘Ely’ means Eel Island, a reference to the staple diet of the Saxons who lived there. The administrative area of the Isle of Ely, which is now absorbed into

Cambridgeshire, was an island when Hereward the Wake held out against the Normans. The island disappeared when the Fens were drained in the 171)1 and 18th centuries.

Ely Cathedral, a magnificent sight for miles from any direction, was begun in 1083 on the site of a 7th-century Benedictine abbey. The Norman nave once led to a chancel beneath a central tower. When this tower collapsed in 1322 it was replaced by the wonderful octagonal lantern of Alan de Walsing-ham, who also designed the choir stalls.

The Ely Porta is a three-storey gatehouse to the original abbey. King's School, founded by Henry VIII, claims descent from the monastic school which Edward the Confessor attended. There is an enjoyable walk from the cathedral to Cherry Hill Park, along the bank of the River Ouse.

Chettisham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 1RU, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding The ST String Quartet ref 6334 ref: 6334

Witcham village hall, Witcham, nr Ely, Cambridgeshire,  , CB6 2LB, Cambridgeshire

 

Birthday The FD Barn Dance / Ceilidh Band  ref: 4448

Sutton, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2QA, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding The AM String Quartet ref: 2008

The Maltings, CB7 4BB, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music hired for Wedding reception The LD Ceilidh / Barn Dance band ref: 4734.1

The Maltings, Ship Lane, Ely, Cambridgeshire. , CB7 4BB, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding reception The LD Ceilidh / Barn Dance band ref: 4734.1

The Old HallCauseway, Stuntney, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 5TR, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The WG Barn Dance/Ceilidh Band ref: 4941.1

Wicken Village Hall  Mission Hall green-Pond Green, High Street, Wicken , CB7 5XR, Cambridgeshire

 

Informal wedding-family reunion  The TL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4881.5

There is a Nature Reserve at Wicken Fen, which is largely undrained and is higher than surrounding peatlands, with Holme Fen, which has shrunk because of drainage.

Swynford Paddocks, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket, , CB8 0UE, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The AM String Quartet ref: 2008

Newmarket is the headquarters of horse racing in Britain since the tyth century, when James I played a part in starting racing there. Notices along the roads warn the motorist that strings of horses are likely to be crossing, and the landscape of the heath is dotted with the cupolas and turretsof studs and stables. The National Stud is next to the racecourse, just south-west of the town.

In the High Street is the home of the Jockey Club, the controlling body of British racing, built in 1772 and much enlarged over the years. The public is allowed in during the six annual bloodstock sales in the autumn and early winter; a record price of 202,000 gns was paid for a yearling in 1975. Ai the junction of the Milton-Chippenham

Bedford Lodge Hotel, Bury Road, Newmarket, Suffolk. , CB8 7BX, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The ISI String Quartet ref: 2644

The Bedford Lodge Hotel, Bury Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, , CB8 7BX, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The ISI String Quartet ref: 2644

Church Farm Barn, Church road, Snailwell , Cambridgeshire. , CB8 7LZ, Cambridgeshire

 

70th birthday party The EL Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4595

Bourne is a market town once the refuge of Hereward the Wake, is known today for the BRM racing cars which were manufactured there. The town also services the agricultural community around it. Bourne's water is said to be among the purest in the country, and there are extensive watercress beds.

Sir William Cecil (1520-98), Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I, and created Baron Burghley in 1571, was born in a house which is now the Burghley Arms Hotel. The town was also the birthplace of Frederick Worth (1825-95), founder of the House of Worth in Paris, which became a centre of the fashion world. Only the 13th-century church remains of the Augustinian abbey founded in 1138.

along the north shore of The Wash, and the rivers which drain sluggishly into it—the Welland, the Steeping and the Witham—are all bounded by high man-made banks along their lower stretches. Every perspective in this completely flat land is two-thirds cloudscape, and the winds that sweep across The Wash in winter create a bitter, almost Siberian cold. The soil is varied within short distances but is generally rich. 'The darker the colour, the better the soil' is a local maxim. Forty well-farmed acres in the best areas can provide a good living for a family, and land for agriculture fetches a higher price here than in most other parts of the country. In spring, visitors drive round the tulip fields in Spalding.

Lanwades Hall,, CB8 7UU, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The AM String Quartet ref: 2008

Our Lady Immaculate and St Etheldreda RC Church, 14 Exeter Rd, Newmarket, Suffolk, , CB8 8LT, Cambridgeshire

 

Live music booked for Wedding The ISI String Quartet ref: 2644

Moulton Village Hall, Bridge Street, Moulton, Newmarket, Suffolk, , CB8 8SP, Cambridgeshire

 

40th birthday The NU Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4880

Tattersalls 125 High Sreet, Newmarket, CB8 9BT, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding Ceilidh The SP Ceilidh/ Barn Dance Band  ref: 6150

The Garden Barn Little Bradley Hall, Little Bradley, Haverhill , CB9 7JG, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding  The LD Ceilidh / Barn Dance band ref: 4734.2

Peterborough area, PE1 4DE, Cambridgeshire

 

Live band hired for Wedding The AV String Ensemble ref: 2031

The Angel BourneNorth Street, Bourne, PE10 9AE, Cambridgeshire

 

Retirement The TD French Dance Band ref: 6485

The CroftNorth Road Bourne, PE10 9AS, Cambridgeshire

 

Jazz afternoon event The AW Jazz Trio ref: 6050

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