The Band

Tania has a fantastic new band of very talented musicians. The band is typically 5 piece plus Tania but it can be anywhere from 1 musician to 10.

James Stanley - Guitar

James started playing the guitar at the age of 7 in a house full of different types of music. With professional dabbling’s in reggae, jazz, funk, soul, prog, gospel, rock and blues on electric and acoustic guitars James has become an adaptable and well-rounded musician.

After working in several orchestra pits and funk/blues bands James was recruited into one of Europe's leading northern soul exponents 'DC Fontana'. Throughout his time in DC Fontana he has toured Europe a number of times, as well as playing all over Britain. Throughout 2007 to the present day James has been doing work as an International studio musician.James is also a renowned educator, working for South Staffordshire College as a music lecturer. He worked on designing the course and is continually looking for ways to engage young people with the world of music. His innovative teaching ideas have led to research for the college in learning technologies as well as being responsible for the quality in assessment for music. James has a BA Hons degree in popular music, PGCE and in September he will be starting an MSc in Studio Production.

Lindsay Goodhand - Saxaphone and Backing Vocals

Lindsay has been involved in theatre; as an actor/singer/instrumentalist for two tours of Holland, The Burt Bacharach Songbook and Golden Moments,as a backing singer for Cilla Black with First Family Entertainment; as a vocalist and mutli-instrumentalist for Celtic Journey, at the Palace Theatre as part of the Stephen Gately Memorial Gala; as saxophonist and clarinettist  for Neil Sedaka show Laughter In The Rain, UK Premiere Tour 2010; and for Tomorrow Morning at the Landor Theatre and Company at Mountview.

She has recently recorded voice-overs for Robinsons family website www.pantokaraoke.com, and she performed on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories with Rod Stewart and with David Hasselhoff.
www.lindsaygoodhand.co.uk

Federico Girlando - Drums

Federico was Born in Sicily and started his musical career at the tender age of 8 years old where he began vocal training techniques and Solfeggio in all keys. He performed in concerts with “Santa Cecilia” of Lecco in Milan and Rome then went on to study piano with E. Sollima, analyzing and interpreting the work of W.A.Mozart. He also followed an external piano program.
Since Federico started his drumming career in 1999 he has studied with professional artists and more recently has had private drum tuition from Neal Wilkinson (Van Morrison). Federico has recorded on many albums and toured Italy with the label ‘Phonola’
Federico appeared with many varied artists and collaborated with many jazz musicians: Giuseppe Vasapolli, Carmelo Salemi, Domenico Cacciatore and Luciano Favara, Osvaldo Lo Iacono, Giovanni Buzzurro, Giacomo Buffa, Sade Mangiaracina, Alberto Aguzza and Angelo Di Marco, to mention a few.
In 2009 Federico graduated at Drumtech Music School (London) with a Master Performance, and at Trinity College of Music (London) with a Pro-Music Performance Licentiate (LMusTCL, NQF Level 6).

Davie Corsie - Bass

 Dave has been playing bass guitar for 25 years. He performed with The Expresso Bongo Orchestra, a 10 piece band with a 5 piece brass section, who covered a wide variety of styles and provided Dave with a lot of gigging experience playing festivals, hotels and residencies at Ronnie Scott’s as well as working abroad. He recorded two albums with the EBO.
Throughout his 16 years with the EBO, he has also played in many other bands and has worked as a dep and session musician, including work as an orchestral pit musician for numerous shows around the Midlands, covering a wide range of styles from funk, soul, rock, jazz through to Latin, Ska and pop. Dave has also played in many covers bands as well as writing original material.

Dave teaches bass guitar at a variety of schools, colleges and universities around the Midlands area as his main profession, along with being an examiner for Rockschool.

Jim - Keyboards