Report by: Brian Waters

Performer: Joanne Naulls
Instrument: Hammond SX300

Joanne Naulls visited the Post Office Sports and Club, Peterborough, on Thursday Evening the 13th May 2004. to perform a concert for us on Hammond SX3000,- this was her first ever visit to the club.

There was a disappointing turnout for this concert with less than forty people there but Joanne is a confident lady and came across well to the audience and provided us with quite a pleasant evenings entertainment, with plenty of melodies and traditional Hammond type sounds.

Starting her concert with her Signature tune ‘ Keep the Sunny Side Up’ she went into a selection and then onto some marches ‘ Pride of Gainsborough’ [she lives there] Brass Buttons ‘ Pride of the Fleet’ and Blaze Away.

Joanne mentioned that she plays a lot of music for Dancing and I know she plays regularly for ’ Sequence dancing’ for the International Dance Teachers Association --- we then had a selection of Foxtrots and Quicksteps, and some Waltzes.

Music followed with songs from South Pacific, then we had a selection of Mayfair Reels including Chicken Reel, and then up to the interval with some Latin American Music.

After the usual break, we had further selections, some more Quicksteps then some ‘ Highland Cathedral Music including’ Bless this House ‘ then we had a melody including ‘Them their Eyes’- Sweet Georgia Brown -‘ Saints go Marching in’ and Red Hot Salsa.

Another selection followed and the audience were asked to guess the person associated with the Music - Joanne played ‘Over the Rainbow ‘- Judy Garland - Mr Woo - George Formby - Wind Beneath my Wings- Bet Midler and Winifred Attwells - Black and white Rag.

Ending her concert with keep the ’Sunny Side up’ Joanne was persuaded by the audience to play another and she finished with a good version ‘ Temptation Rag.’