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A Childrens Christmas Ballet
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In memory of Joan Bates Dance Teacher, Stockport.
manchester uk joan bates dance teacher kings hall belle vue
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Good Day to You! I hope my humble offerings of LIVE MUSICIANSHIP give a few moments of pleasure. "Like" or "Add" a Song and I visit your Page in return - ok?
Worked nearly all my life with children. Age 14 to 23 with Joan Bates Dance School, Stockport as Pianist. Then 27 to 30 with kids talent shows etc at Pontins Holidays plus Lounge Pianist and Organist. Search 'PONTINS' on this site. Age 30 to retirement in 2019 organising Functions and Entertainment for Child and Family Audiences with my wife Susan. Have lived Stockport (Heaton Norris as a child and young adult), Prestatyn, Wilmslow and now somewhere very quiet on the Staffordshire-Cheshire Border, England. We were NEVER out of work - ever! and commanded high fees as Entertainers across Manchester and Cheshire UK with many Celebrity Customers, Big Business Owners etc. We trod amongst people many would say "out of our depth" with great skill, care and attention and expert diplomacy. Plus 1000s and 1000s of ordinary everyday folk like ourselves. #Ace Parties Tony and Sue. #Ace Parties Wilmslow.
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Classical • Symphonic
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Peak #1
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
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
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No vocals, instrumental only
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relaxed, cool
high-energy
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Positivity
dark, sad, angry
happy
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unique
radio-friendly
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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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