|
Past MFCE live music events
Events and Projects: MFCE organises innovative, high
quality acoustic music events featuring great musicians and great venues. MFCE also promotes and runs
the finest educational projects for children, teenagers and adults.
| COURTNEY PINE at MFCE Real Action event 2007 |

|
| Photo: Mike Bryant (2007) |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BELOW IS A LIST OF PREVIOUS EVENTS
(Starting with the earliest ones first)
'Metamorphosis' event in 2004
held at Hugo's. Live artists included: Solo Pianist Charles Brereton and singer Eliana Tomkins. Spanish
guitar by Hugh Burns, MFCE trio featuring Vicky Tilson on bass, Roger Diamond on piano & vocalist Bathsheba. Eclectic
pop music styles from electric keyboards and vocals by guest duo 'Finesse'.
| VETERAN PIANIST MICHAEL GARRICK |

|
| (c) Vicky Tilson |
'Gypsy Jazz Party' event in
2005 held at Hugo's. Live jazz artists included: Michael Garrick trio, veteran singer Frank Holder, MFCE trio
featuring Vicky Tilson on bass & Roger Diamond on piano. Special guest solo pianist was Emanuel.
| SINGER & PERCUSSIONIST FRANK HOLDER |

|
| PERFORMED FOR MFCE & REAL ACTION (2005) |
EVENTS IN 2006
'Butterfly Party' event held in 2006 at
The Cobden Club.
Live music by: The Joe Stilgoe Trio, and a guest appearance by 'London's
finest cabaret singer', Holly Penfield. Up on the top floor, 'JazzReloaded' led by Courtney Pine's bass player Darren Taylor.
Guest appearance by Emily Jane Hagger plus Oli Jackson, and DJ Aimee played until late.
| DARREN TAYLOR aka JAZZRELOADED |

|
| Darren is also Courtney Pine's Bass Player |
'Marlborough Place' at a private
residence in 2006 a fund-raising party was organised by Real Action
supporters; Geraldine Arnott, Lesley Adams and Jason Armitage on behalf of Mfce and Real Action. It featured the
very talented banjo playing jazz singer Cousin Alice and her professional jazz trio for the night. To introduce
Cousin Alice, international cabaret singer Holly Penfield gave a lovely guest performance,
singing whilst playing the Baby Grand Piano.

|
| Holly Penfield |
EVENTS IN 2007
'Real Action's 10th Anniversary Party' event
was held in 2007 at the Cobden Club. Artists featured included: Cameron Pierre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson,
Jazzreloaded and Jenny Maynard with Simon Lockstone. Ayanna
Witter-Johnson's 7 piece band of young musicians is one of the many bands championed by Courtney Pine. International
star Courtney Pine performed as a guest for the charity that night. The event was an outstanding success. All artists and
contributors took part on a voluntary basis.
| Cameron Pierre at our May 07 event |

|
| Photo by Mike Bryant |
'Carnival Jazz Party' was also held in 2007 at the Cobden Club. It featured Julia
Biel trio and Afranio Guimaraes. There was a surprise guest appearance of Brazilian singer Marilda Blanca and Vava. In variety
entertainment show style there were also performances from Samba Collective dancers and Tabot Mix youth dance troupe. DJ
Aitch B from the famous Soul-II-Soul, played the best grooves till late.
In the restaurant floor of Carnival Jazz Party was:
Guest Pianist: Paul Schofield.
| Samba dancers at our Carnival Jazz Party 2007 |

|
| Photo by: Mike Bryant (2007) |
| Tabot Mix youth street-dance troupe |

|
| Photo by: Mike Bryant |
| Julia Biel at Real Action's 10th anniversary event |

|
| Photo by: Antonella Fabiani |
| Real Action's 10th Anniversary Party 2007 |

|
| MFCE event for Real Action's 10th Anniversary 2007 |

|
Antonellafabiani.com
---------------------------------------------------
'Marlborough Place' Summer fund-raising buffet
event in 2007 was organised by Real Action supporters; Lesley Adams and Geraldine Arnott for Real Action. There
was delicious food and sparkling live entertainment from international pop and R&B singer Louise Setara and also jazz pianist/singer
Joe Stilgoe. Joe Stilgoe has now released his first album and has been performing at the famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz
Club to great aclaim since October 2008.
| Joe Stilgoe: Popular Singer and Pianist |

|
| Joe performed at Real Action benefit events in 2006/7. |
'My Funny Valentine' on the 14th of February 2008. This was held at The Cobden Club featuring:
Trudy Kerr, Geoff Gascoyne & Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Young jazz/R&B talent Ayanna; sung some tunes solo whilst
playing her cello and also sung about three songs with backing from Trudy Kerr's band. Geoff
Gascoyne is the bass player for Jamie Cullum and had just completed a fantastic world tour with Jamie. Attendees were amazed
at the high quality of the live music and the specially chosen songs for Valentine's Night. The Cobden's resident soundman
did some quality mixing and a great DJ set played to the early hours of the morning.
| CHARLOTTE CAMERON |

|
| PERFORMED AT OUR AUTUMN BREEZE EVENT |
'AUTUMN BREEZE' Our Autumn Breeze event in November 2008 was a great success.

| Singer and musican Ayanna Witter-Johnson |

|
| Performed at our AUTUMN BREEZE event November 2008. |
Butterfly 10th Anniversary Party 2009
Real Action's Butterfly 10th Anniversary event on 1st December was held at C&R Restaurant
in Westbourne Grove. It was hugely enjoyable and featured a wonderful performance from the brilliant - and wildly entertaining
- cabaret singer Holly Penfield and a beautiful cake made specially for us by Molly Bandah. We are especially grateful
to Mei Sim Lai for helping to organise this, and to IUVO Marketing for their support. They, like Holly and Molly gave their
services free. We thank them all.

Holly Penfield is such a wonderful entertainer, we hope
to ask her to perform for us again in 2010.
SUBSCRIBE TO MFCE E-MAILING LIST
| TRUDY KERR at MFCE's Real Action event 2008 |

|
| Photo: ANTONY PEPPER (2008) |
| MC & Singer DANELLE HARVEY |

|
| PERFORMED AT OUR AUTUMN BREEZE EVENT 2008 |
| Singer and musican Ayanna Witter-Johnson |

|
| Performed at MFCE events in 2007 & 2008 - Click photo to view large size. |
| SAMBA COLLECTIVE.. |

|
| ..performed at our 'Carnival Jazz Party' 2007 |
| Afranio Guimaraes Brazilian guitarist at MFCE 2007 |

|
| Photo by: Mike Bryant |
|