Blond
Blond are a highly professional, all female contemporary quartet. Their huge repertoire includes pop music & jazz, light classical, show songs, traditional sing-a-long tunes & Christmas carols. Perfect for weddings, corporate events and parties.
Price from £771 + travel
Set List / Repertoire
New! Christmas Repertoire!
Bell Carol/In Dulci Jubilo (Traditional)
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella (Traditional)
Carol of the Drum (Little Drummer Boy) (Davis)
Christmas Medley 1, includes: Silver Bells, Let it Snow, Have yourself a merry little Christmas, White Chritmas
Last Christmas- Wham!
Christmas Medley 2, includes: Shepherds leave your sheep, come, O come Emmanuel, Here we come a-caroling
Christmas Medley 3, includes: The Coventry Carol, God rest you merry gentlemen, Listen, Lording unto me
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (Praetorius)
O Holy Night (Adam)
Silent Night (Gruber)
Sleigh Ride (Anderson)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Last Christmas- Wham!
Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
WEDDING MUSIC
“Anniversary Waltz” (Dubin/Franklin)
“Amazing Grace”(Traditional)
“Ave Maria” (Bach/Gounod)
“Ave Maria (Schubert)
Bridal Chorus from “Lohengrin” (Wagner)
Hornpipe from the “Water Muisic” (Handel)
The Lord’s Prayer (Malotte)
“Ninveh” (Middle-Eastern wedding song) (Daniel)
“Ode To Joy” (Beethoven)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
“Panis Angelicus” (Frank)
“Sabbath Prayer” from “Fiddler on the Roof” (Bock)
“Sunrise Sunset” from “Fiddler on the Roof” (Bock)
“Tell Me Why” (Traditional)
Trumpet Tune (“Martial Air”) (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary in D (Purcell)
Wedding March from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Mendelssohn)
Wedding Processional from The Sound of Music (Rogers)
Wedding Song (“There Is Love”) (Traditional)
The Wedding Suite (Naughtin)
BAROQUE/CLASSICAL
Air – from suite no.3 (Bach)
Alla Sicialana (Handel)
Alla Turka (Mozart)
Allegro 1 – from sonata op1 no.11 (Handel)
Allelujah – from Exultate Jubilate (Moazart)
Andante – from Piano concerto no.21 (Mozart)
Arietta – (Pergolesi)
Arioso (Bach)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
Ave Maria (Bach)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F (Bach)
Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G (Bach)
Canon and Gigue (Pachelbel)
Cantata no.140 (“Wachet Auf”) (Bach)
Chacony (Purcell)
Christmas Concerto (Corelli)
Concerto Grosso in D minor (Vivaldi)
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor (Bach)
Chorale Prelude “Liebster Jesu Wir Sind Hier” (Bach)
Chorale Prelude “Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme” (Bach)
Didos Lament (Purcell)
3 Divertimento (Mozart)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Fireworks Music (Handel)
The Four Seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring (Vivaldi)
Hornpipe (Handel)
Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring (Bach)
Larghetto – from piano concerto in C minor (Mozart)
Largo (Handel)
Loure – from the cello suites (Bach)
Music for a While – from Oedipus (Purcell)
Prelude and Fugue no.12 (Bach)
Rondo – from Abdelezar (Purcell)
Sarabande and 2 variations (Handel)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Quartet in G KV 80 (Mozart)
Quartet in D KV 155 (Mozart)
Quartet in G KV 156 (Mozart)
Quartet in C KV 157 (Mozart)
Violin Concerto in E major, 1st movement (Bach)
Violin Sonata no.4 in D major (Handel)
BROADWAY, POP AND LATIN
All I Ask Of You - from Phantom (Lloyd-Webber)
All you need is love (Beatles)
America - from West Side Story (Bernstein)
Anthem from Chess (Lloyd-Webber)
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Sherwin)
Annie Highlights (Strouse)
Anything Goes (Porter)
Ashokan Farewell - from The Civil War (Ungar)
Autumn Leaves
Bachianas Brazileiras no.5 (Villa-Lobos)
Begin The Beguine (Porter)
Better Man (Robbie Williams)
Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve)
Blue Moon
Blue Tango (Anderson)
Bohemian Rhapsody
But Not For Me (Gershwin)
Cabaret
Call Me (Blondie)
Charleston Times. Includes: Indiana, The Charleston, There's Nothing New Under the Sun, Oh Joe, I wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
Chasing cars (Snow Patrol)
Cheek to Cheek
Chicago (Fisher)
Cinema Paradiso love theme (Morricone)
Close every door
Close to you (Carpenters)
Come In From The Rain (Manchester)
Country Club (Joplin)
Dancing Queen (Abba)
Danzas Argentinas no.2 (Ginastera)
Diamonds (From the Advert)
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend (Bacharach)
Don't let the sun go down on me
Don't You want me (Human League)
Do It Again (Gershwin)
El Choclo Tango (Villoldo)
Eleanor Rigby (Lennon)
Embraceable You (Gershwin)
The Entertainer (Joplin)
El Relicario (Padilla)
E.T - film theme (Williams)
Evergreen (Streisand)
Every breathe you take (Police)
Everytime We Say Goodbye (Porter)
Fascinatin' Rhythm (Gershwin)
Fawlty Towers - TV theme
Feelings (Albert)
Final Countdown
Fly Me To The Moon (Bacharach)
Foggy Day (Gershwin)
The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Kern)
For Just a Moment - from St Elmos Fire
Getting Sentimental
Goodbye To Love (Carpenters)
The Greatest Love Of All (Masser)
Hang On To Me (Gershwin)
Have I told You Lately ( Morrison)
Hello (Lional Ritchie)
Hello Dolly
He Loves and She Loves (Gershwing)
Hey Jude (McCartney)
I Do It For You (Bryan Adams)
I dream a dream (Les Miserables)
I don't know how to love him
I Feel Pretty - from West Side Story (Bernstein)
If You Could Read My Mind (Lightfoot)
I Got Plenty O'Nuttin (Gershwin)
I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)
I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise (Gershwin)
I Love Paris (Porter)
In The Mood (Garland)
It Aint Necessarily So (Gershwin)
It had to be you
Jalousie - Tango (Gade)
Jeeves and Wooster - TV theme
The King and I Highlights
La Bamba (Valence)
La Cumpasita (Rodriguez)
Lady in red
Lara's Theme
Laura (Raksin)
Latin American Ludwig
Leaning On A Lampost (Gay)
Lets Do It (Porter)
Let it be
Leaving On A Jet Plane (Denver)
Loony Tunes Fugue (Naughtin)
Love Is Here To Stay (Gershwin)
Love moves in mysterious ways
Love Supreme (Robbie Williams)
Magic moments
Makin Whoopee (Gershwin)
The Man I Love (Gershwin)
Manha de Carnavel - from Black Orpheus (Bonfa)
Maria - from West Side Story
Match of the day
Memory - from Cats (Lloyd-Webber)
Misty (Garner)
Mood Indigo (Ellington)
Money, Money, Money (Abba)
Moonlight and Roses (Lemare)
Moon River (Mancini)
The Music Of The Night - from Phantom (Lloyd-Webber)
Music To Watch Girls By (A Williams)
My Funny Valentine (Rogers)
My Heart Stood Still (Rogers/Hart)
My Heart Will Go On - from Titanic (Horner)
New York, New York (Bernstein)
New York, New York (Kander)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin)
Noites Cariocas (Bandolim)
No Strings (Berlin)
One Hand, One Heart - from West Side Story (Bernstein)
The Orange Blossom Special (Rouse)
Over The Rainbow (Arlen)
Paragon Rag (Joplin)
Peacherine Rag (Joplin)
Penniew from Heaven (Johnson)
Por Una Cabeza Tango - from Scent Of A Woman (Gardel)
Purple Haze (Hendrix)
Ragtime Dance (Joplin)
Red Sails In The Sunset (Williams)
Romeo and Juliet Love Theme (Rota)
San Jose (Bacharach)
Send In The Clowns (Sondheim)
Seven By The Beatles. Includes: Day Tripper, Hard Days Night, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, When I'm 64 and Back In The USSR
She's The One (Robbie Williams)
Slap That Bass (Gershwin)
Smells like teen spirit (Nirvana)
Solace (Joplin)
Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin)
Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Somewhere - from West Side Story (Bernstein)
Sophisticated Lady (Ellington)
Speak Softly Love - theme from The Godfather
Spread a little happiness
Stardust
Stormy Weather (Arlen)
Suddenly (Diamond)
The Summer Knows - theme from The Summer of 42' (Legrand)
Summertime (Gershwin)
Swanee (Gershwin)
S'wonderful (Gershwin)
Syncopated Clock (Anderson)
Take me out (Franz Ferdinand)
Tango (Albeniz)
Tanguedia 3 (Piazolla)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Gershwin)
Tico - Tico (Abreu)
Tonight - from West Side Story (Bernstein)
Truly (Ritchie)
Upstairs, Downstairs - TV theme
Village Inn (Mancini)
Waterloo (Abba)
Whats New (Haggart)
What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life? (Legrand)
We've Only Just Begun (Carpenters)
When I Fall In Love (Young)
Whole lotta love (Led zepplin)
With one look
Wonderful world (Louis Armstrong)
Your Light Up My Life (Brooks)
You're The Inspiration (Foster)
Yesterday (McCartney)
Your're the one (Robbie Williams)
Your Took Advantage Of Me (Rogers/Hart)
You Took Advantage Of Me (Rogers/Hart)
You Are Too Beautiful (Rogers/Hart)
You Say It Best (Keating)
Your song
Zuhalterballade (Weill)
Anthem from Chess
Autumn Leaves
Blue Moon
Bohemian Rhapsody
Caberet
Can’t take my eyes off you - Andy Williams
Cheek to cheek
Close Every Door - from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
Diamonds for Sigma
Fawlty Towers - Theme and variations
The Final Countdown - Europe
Getting Sentimental Over You
Hello - Lionel Richie
Hello Dolly
I Don’t Know How To Love Him - from Jesus Christ Superstar
I Dreamed a Dream - from Les Miserables
It Had To Be You
If
Match of the Day
Lady In Red
Lara’s Theme - from Dr Zhivago
Love Moves In Mysterious Ways
Spread A Little Happiness
Stardust
With One Look from Sunset Blvd
Waterloo - Abba
Let it be - Beatles
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John
It Must Be Love - Madness
Your Song - Elton John/Moulan Rouge
Mack the Knife
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Close To You - Carpenters
Don’t You Want Me - Human League
All You Need Is Love - Beatles
Betterman - Robbie Williams
Call Me - Blondie
Kissing you - from Romeo and Juliet - Desree
Theme from Gabriel’s Oboe
Kiss By a Rose - Seal
Your Beautiful - James Blunt
The Way you make Me Feel - Brian Adams
Nobody Does It Better
ROMANTIC/MODERN
Adagio for Strings (Barber)
Adagio Cantabile – from The Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven)
Allegretto (After Bocherini) (Kreisler)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Barcarolle (Offenbach)
Berceuse (Faure)
Bolero (Ravel)
Chanson De Matin (Elgar)
Chanson De Nuit (Elgar)
“Che Gelida Manina” – from La Boheme (Puccini)
Clair De Lune (Debussy)
Czardas – from Die Fledermaus (J Strauss Jr)
Danse De Mirlitons (Tchaikovsky)
Dance of the hours (Ponchelli)
Duet – from The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
Entr’acte to Act 3 of Carmen (Bizet)
Entr’acte to Act 4 of Carmen (Bizet)
Flower Duet (Delibes)
Flower Song - from Carmen (Bizet)
Force of Desiny (Verdi)
The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
Golliwogs Cake-Walk (Debussy)
3 Gymnopedies (Satie)
Gypsy Life (Herbert)
Habenera – from Carmen (Bizet)
Hoe-Down – from Rodeo (Copland)
Humeresque (Dvorak)
Hungarian Dances: nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11 &21 (Brahms)
Intermezzo (Capua)
Largo – from The New World Symphony (Dvorak)
La Spagnola (Di Chiara)
Meditation – from Thais (Massenet)
Menuet – from Le Tombeau de Couperin (Rave)
Minuet (Boccherini)
Morning – from Peer Gynt (Grieg)
Nessun Dorma (Puccini)
Nimrod (Elgar)
Nocturne (Borodin)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Offenbachiana (Medley from the operettas of Offenbach)
The Old Refrain (Kreisler)
O Sole Mio (Capua)
Overture, Waltz and Can Can (Offenbach)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Pavane (Faure)
Pavane Pour Infante Defunte (Ravel)
Pizzicato Polka (J Stauss)
Polovtsian Dance (Borodin)
Prelude no.2 (Gershwin)
Romance – from The Gadfly (Shostakovich)
Romanza Andaluza (Sarasate)
Rumanian Folk Dances (Bartok)
Salut D’amour (Elgar)
Simple Gifts fugue (Naughtin)
Son of the Puzta op.134 no.2 (Kreisler)
Song for India (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler)
Thou Ring On My Finger (Schumann)
Three Little Maids from School (Sullivan)
Tramerei (Schumann)
Trish Trash Polka (J Strauss)
Vilia – from The Merry Widow (Lehar)
Vocalise (Rachmaninov)
Wedding March – from A Midsumer Nights Dream (Mendelssohn)
Wedding March – from Lohengrin (Wagner)
William Tell Overture (Rossini)
TRADITIONAL
Cock Linnet
Country Garden
Country Medley
Greensleeves
Golden Earings
Happy Birthday Variations
Hava Nagila
Irish Sherry
Londonderry Air
Loch Lomond
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
WALTZES
Belle of the Ball (Anderson)
Blue Danube (J Strauss, Jr)
Caprice Viennois (Kreisler)
Chopin Waltzes op.18, op.64 and op. 64 no.2
Danube Waves (Anniversary Waltz) (Ivanovici)
Die Fledermaus Waltzes (J Strauss, Jr)
Liebesfreud (Kreisler)
Merry Widow Waltzes (Lehar)
Midnight Bells Waltz (Kreisler)
Musettas Waltz – from La Boheme (Puccini)
Richard Rogers Waltzes. Includes: The most beautiful girl in the world, Falling in Love, My favourite things, carousel waltz
Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes (R Strauss)
Saturday Night Waltz – from Rodeo (Copland)
Schon Rosmarin (Kreisler)
Skaters Waltz (Walderfel)
Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky)
Tales From The Vienna Woods (J Strauss, Jr)
Two Hearts in Three-Quartet Time (Stoz)
Valse (Chopin)
Waltz – from Symphony no.8 in G (Dvorak)
Waltz (Greig)
Wiener Blut Waltzes (J Strauss Jr)
JAZZ/MODERN
Albeniz - Tango
Anderson - Forgotten Dreams
Blue Tango
Bernstein - New York
New York
Capua - O Sole Mio
Chiara - La Spagnola
Faris - Upstairs Downstairs
Gershwin - A Foggy Day
But Not For Me
Embraceable You
He Loves and She Loves
I Got Rhythm
Liza
Mine
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Someone To Watch Over Me
Swanee
S'wonderful
The Man I Love
Gimbel - Killing me softly
Horner - My Heart Will Go On
Joplin - Country Club
Euphonic Sounds
Heliotrope Bouquet
Joplins New Rag
Maple Leaf Rag
Paragon Rag
Pineapple Rag
Kern - The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Lemare - Moonlight and Roses
McCartney - Eleanor Rigby
Padilla - El Relicario
Rodriguez - La Cumpasita
Rogers and Hart - Mountain Greenery
My Funny Valentine
My Heart Stood Still
Thou Swell/Blue Room Medley
You Are Too Beautiful
You Took Advantage of Me
Sullivan - Three Little Maids From School
Pirates Of Penzance
Traditional - A Wee Dram
Greensleeves
Hava Nagila (Jewish Folk Song)
Happy Birthday Variations
Dark Eyes
Full Biography
The Blond String Quartet was formed in 2001 as an innovative ensemble to perform music outside of the standard string quartet repertoire.
Blond have a wealth of experience in playing at weddings corporate events and parties. The girls have also enjoyed a residency at the Ritz Hotel London performances on the Saga Pearl cruise ship and a repeat invitation by Mervin King to perform at the annual dinner for the Bank of England. Their celebrity client list includes Bill Clinton Stephen Hawkins and Nelson Mandela.
Other clients include: Samsung Princess of Wales trust Newmarket racecourse and Gary Player.
Blond have also been building up their recital repertoire and have been enjoying giving public concerts at many classical music festivals.
The quartet has had many arrangements specifically written for them. They enjoy playing music from different genres, including pop, jazz and easy listening as well as an extensive classical repertoire.
Blond will do their best to find or arrange music not seen on their rapidly expanding repertoire lists.
Members of Blond have all studied at the top music colleges in London. They have enjoyed performances with many professional ensembles, west end shows and orchestras. These include:
London Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
English National Ballet
London Children's Ballet
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Northern Sinfonia
Opera North
BBC Philharmonic
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
Here are a just a few comments from past weddings:
'You really gave our wedding the very elegant, classy touch we were hoping for'. Andrea Newman
'We were so impressed and everyone commented on how beautifully you played'. Amy and Tom
'Thank you for your highly professional performance. Everyone has regarded you all as a highlight of the day'. Josh and Teresa Perry
Lineup
Default lineup: 4 members
Quartet: violin, violin, viola, cello Can add extra string players for a bigger ensemble.
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Prices
Price from £771 + travel from Hertfordshire
Based on 4 members performing 2 x 60 minute sets
- East of England From £771
- South East From £771
- East Midlands From £810
- South West From £1,046
- West Midlands From £1,046
- North West From £1,176
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30 Customer Reviews
Performance quality: | 5 stars |
Sound quality: | 5 stars |
Behaviour: | 5 stars |
Communication: | 5 stars |
Audience engagement: | 5 stars |
Value for money: | 5 stars |
Blond were excellent. Overall very thorough service and a great outcome with ...
John W booked Blond for their Wedding in Bedfordshire
“Blond were excellent. Overall very thorough service and a great outcome with the artists concerned. No hesitation in using your service again in the future.”
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Abigail W booked Blond for their Wedding in Berkshire
“I booked Blond through Alive Network for my sisters wedding. The web site was easy to use. You were very helpful and efficient! The quartet were excellent. Talented, courteous, well presented, punctual and flexible to meet the needs of the venue and the weather. Many thanks Abi Waterfall ”
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Vicki T booked Blond for their event in Northamptonshire
“Blond were very professional, arrival was prompt and set up was OK despite the weather. I can not fault the groups look, very professional. Blond performed a number of different tunes for our event and all were great, feedback was positive from all that were there.”
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