FD Entertainments
Providing Professional Function Bands for All Events
Toms bands are available from a duo, great for smaller venues and budgets or expandable up to a 31 piece orchestra if required. You could start your evenings entertainment with Big Band/Jazz and finish with classic songs from the 60's, 70's to more modern hits.
Whatever combination you choose be it Rat Pack to start with then Jazz maybe some Blues Brothers/Commitments and finishing with a mixture of songs that will have everyone wanting to get up and dance you can be assured that the band will sound fantastic and you will have a thoroughly entertaining evening.
Tom Rust is a professional vocalist whose musical talent and interpretation has helped to establish him as one of the UK's top singers from Jazz to Rock through to Soul, Blues and then back to the 'Old School' Crooners.
Having studied Opera and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama he developed careers not only as a performer but also as a session singer and recording artist in his own right.
Performances worldwide for private, and corporate events have helped to establish his growing popularity. Tom will be performing at the Olympics in Beijing 2008.
Tom Rust is eliciting rave reviews on the jazz and soul scene with what has been called his mellifluous tones, mellow, smooth and 'lived-in' voice.
Tom certainly hasn't slacked in his drive to get to the top, Tom is plying his trade, sweating it out in the clubs every week pleasing the crowds with standards, and his own interpretations of modern jazz & soul classic.
Tom says he is often mistaken for someone, or "people think they have met me before", and with his typical dry Mancunian wit he retorts "I used to be a prison warder".
Tom was born in Manchester, starting his musical journey aged 13 in the school band, graduating to the local youth orchestra, even doing his stint on Morecambe Pier!
Tom has always recognised the importance of performing 'live'... "with a live band there is something special, something in the push-and-pull of the band and audience... 'that chemistry' that brings out the best in the music"..."its fantastic that jazz has become 'cool' again thanks to the new wave of jazz and soul music artist's, and that certainly gives me a boost".
Tom Rust is being 'bigged-up' by some of the biggest names in music and the music business, and with credible reviews in everything from the Observer to 'Blues & Soul'
Tom looks set to 'go-all-the-way!'
Genre
Swing/Jazz, Jazz/Blues, Party/Rock/Pop
Line up
Small function/wedding bands (Drums and incidental music is pre recorded)
Duo • Vocals and guitar
Trio • Vocals, guitar and bass
Function/Wedding bands
Quintet • Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums
Sextet • Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals (Female)
Septet • Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals (Female) and saxophone
Octet • Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals (Female), saxophone and trumpet
Jazz (Rat pack/great American songbook)
Solo • Vocals (Performance to backing tracks)
Trio • Vocals, piano and bass
Quartet • Vocals, piano, bass and drums
Quintet • Vocals, piano, bass, drums and saxophone
Sextet • Vocals, piano, bass, drums, saxophone and trumpet
Septet • Vocals, piano, bass, drums, saxophone, trumpet and trombone
Octet * Vocals, piano, bass, guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet and trombone
Big Band/Orchestra
Vocals • 17 musicians (5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 bass trombone, piano, guitar, bass and drums) and Conductor/bandleader
Vocals, 31 musicians (5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 bass trombone, piano, guitar, bass, drums, 9 violins, 3 violas and 2 celli) and Conductor/bandleader
Most combinations of instruments are possible. From experience, however, the combinations above work best.
Extras
Between live music sets they can play CD's through the P.A.
Repertoire
Rat Pack
Jazz
Blues
Rock 'n Pop
60's
70's
Modern Hits
Location
London
UK Wide
Yes
International
Yes
Performance Time
Varies according to clients needs.
Equipment
PA & Lighting all hired in.
Rates
P.O.A.
Mileage Charge
P.O.A.
Client Testimonials
"Tom's smooth voice gave the whole evening a touch of glamour. As soon as he started singing we were all itching to start dancing." - Celia Walden, Editor of Spy, Daily Telegraph.
"Tom Rust's rendition of Rat Pack era tunes was just perfect for a ball attended by the Rat Pack of Fleet street. His performance was much appreciated on a night which raised a lot of money for the Newspaper Press Fund." - Charles Garside, Managing Editor, Daily Mail.
"He has every right to be an award winner both as a singer and charismatic performer" - The Observer.
"Tom Rust has a voice of great character, with the subtlety to make swing songs really swing and enough edge to save ballads from blandness."
- Dave Gelley. Jazz critic for The Observer
"You did a great job!" - Peter Gabriel