Welcome to Chimera Music. . .

One of the most interesting and innovative bands to have come out of North Yorkshire in the last year, Chimera have proved themselves to be flexible and versatile, moving effortlessly from smooth delivery of popular Jazz standards to gypsy abandon with Celtic and Eastern European Fiddle Tunes. Add a little Ska, Latin and Classical and you have a band who manage to court the mainstream without compromising their originality. Whether you are 17 or 70, there will be something here to seduce your musical tastes.

Chimera  comprise 2 Fiddles, 2 Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Didgeridoo, Tin Whistle Bass and Drums. The music and delivery is up beat and the band likes to have fun both on stage and with the audience. The overall package guarantees a night of quality music delivered in a style that is both humorous and entertaining. Well worth checking out!

Set List

We appreciate that as an original band, it is not
easy to categorise our music, so we have included a typical Concert set list to look at:

Stress (original - see demo music)

Don’t Go Looking (Original - see demo music)

Weather in Yorkshire (Original - see demo music)

Walk on by (Cover)

Rollie (Original - Blues)

Morning Dew (Traditional - Irish Reels)

Call me (Cover)

European Tunes (Traditional - unknown origin, probably Klezma)

Fingals (Traditional Scottish)

5 more Minutes (Original)

These Boots are made for Walking (Cover)

Spooky (Cover)

Moondance (Cover)

Fever (Cover)

Son of a Preacher Man (Cover)

Czardas (Classical - Monti)

Ain’t No Sunshine

Hava Neguila (Traditional - Israeli Folk Song)

Monaghan's (Traditional - Irish Jigs)


New covers to join the set this month are "Light my fire",  and a ska version of "Girl from Ipanema". There are also two new original songs.


Band Members


ANDY LAWRENSON (Fiddle, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Didgeridoo, Tin Whistle) is band leader, founder member and song writer for CHIMERA. He has been playing professionally for 25 years. As a fiddle player,  He has worked  with Clann Na Gael, the Kent Moped Orchestra, The Blethermen and Maurice Dickson. In 2005 he produced his own Album "Dragging the Bow" - a bold exploration of celtic dance tunes and jazz improvisation which acted as a catylist for putting together Chimera.

VICKY WADSWORTH( Vocals, Fiddle, Keyboard) is a trained classical singer and musician, and has appeared on TV in Queen Mary's School Chapel Choir. she is also a member of the National Youth Training Choir. At 18 she is the youngest member of the band.

MIKE HARPER - Electric Guitar

JAMIE AYTON -  Bass Guitar

MARK ISLEY - Drums

BIOGRAPHY

The band is still young, having startied gigging in march 2006. However, in that short space of time, the band have played festivals, concert halls and small venues.  Yorkshire TV were so impressed by Chimera's song "Weather in Yorkshire" that they featured a video of the band performing it on the "Calendar" regional news programme.



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