A Childrens Christmas Ballet

Piano UK Tony William

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In memory of Joan Bates Dance Teacher, Stockport.

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Piano UK Tony William

Hello. Thank you for calling in. Your visit is appreciated. Tony in Staffordshire, England.

Pianist, Organist over age 70. First Piano Lesson aged 7 and taught under Trinity College of Music, London Syllabus. Have worked as a Newspaper Printer, Professional full-time Musician Hotel Bands, Holiday Resorts in UK, Clubs on Hammond Organ etc. Switched to Magical Entertainments with my wife way back in 1981 - never looked back. So I'll stress the word MAGICIAN. Have lived in the UK in Stockport, Prestatyn, Wilmslow and now "somewhere" very quiet in Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Still using my faithful Yamaha Digital 88 fully weighted Piano, and various others by Yamaha, Casio and Korg, and have an old Technics Organ. I don't sequence music, I don't use any programmes on computer other than Audacity. What you hear is what I am. I don't give other infornation here now.

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Acoustic • Acoustic General

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Peak #1

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Tony William - Revised 2025

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Tony William - Piano, Organ and Keyboards.

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September 26, 2020

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MP3 4.8 MB • 320 kbps • 2:07 minutes

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relaxed, cool

high-energy

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coffee-place

dancefloor

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unique

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BELLE VUE MANCHESTER. BELLE VUE KINGS HALL MANCHESTER:  It was suggested to me that 2025 may be the 60th Anniversary of my Aunt, Dance Teacher Joan G. Bates of Stockport UK putting on her own CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS BALLET in a long gone Manchester venue known as the Kings Hall, in a long gone, huge entertainment complex containing a Zoo, Dance Halls, Speedway, Circus etc.  This may well be the case, but my thoughts are more towards 1966-67. Joan had been presenting Kids Shows for a long while at Belle Vue, and I played as a child myself for the 1964 September Railway Carnival Kids Ballet in this same venue. Subequently until the cessation of Railway Carnivals, and up to the 1972 Children's Christmas Ballet.  There was a pianist I met briefly at Manchester Press Club who took over from me by the name of Doris Nixon.

Recently though I saw a photo of The Beatles playing Manchester Apollo Theatre in 1965. It states it was a very foggy night . . . this makes me return to considering 1965 as I remember going to play for a Show at the nearby Kings Hall, on a similar freezing foggy night.  Any news for me on this topic, or any questions for me with pleasure . . . pianist@tutamail.com

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