ABOUT US
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Ray Cockerton cut his
musical teeth 65 years ago in an Hawaiian band playing ukulele. He moved
on to play guitar and joined various bands with different styles. He
toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company as guitarist in the orchestra,
to Japan and Australia then moved on for several years as the “Ray
Adam’s Soundtrack” as a solo artist, singing and playing guitar with his
own backing tracks. His musical “fastenyourseatbelts.biz”,
was performed in Eymet in 2011 and Ray is working to promote it to a
wider audience in London. Throughout his musical career Ray has had a
“sound” in his head which has been achieved with his new band “Rhythm A
La Carte”. |
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Rob Russell
has been a professional musician for 50 years. He did his first gig when
he was 12 years old! He has played in many bands, notably White Plains
(“When You Are A King", My Baby Loves Lovin’ ", Whirlwind and his own
band The Del Monties ('Classics EP' available on iTunes etc’). He has
toured Europe and made an appearance on the Paris TV show “Chorus”. He
also appeared on "Top Pops” in Holland. |
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Fred Olthoff is Dutch
and since 2008 has been living in France. He runs a B&B/ Glamping
business here with his wife. He has many hobbies including painting and
playing music. He started playing the sax but now he concentrates on his
passion of playing rhythm percussion with congas and bongos. What he
does musically, he really enjoys. He joined “Rhythm A La Carte” because
he likes their music and their ambitions to move on to Latin, Brazilian
and Cuban which is his favourite type of music. Fred is very pleased to
be playing with Ray and Rob as they have great fun when they rehearse
together. |
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As
you’ve probably guessed by now we are all getting on a bit! But, like
fine wine we have matured with age and we refuse to be banished to our
garden sheds in our retirement and fade away! So, we are all putting our
musical experience to great use with Rhythm A Carte and are zestfully
applying ourselves to what I think will be a successful future. |
