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David Sanchez
David Sanchez was born in Ecuador and moved to the Isle of wight as a small boy. He took up the saxophone from the age of sixteen and within a year was widely regarded as a gifted Jazz saxophonist, winning the County Music Award and playing regularly with established Jazz bands.
After reading Music and Education at Cambridge University, David moved to London to take up a teaching post and pursue his career in music. He played soprano saxophone for numerous jazz bands and worked with Palmskin Productions as a session musician.
As soprano saxophonist with the band Acid Vibe, David has played many perstigious jazz stages, including the Jazz Café, Glastonbury Festival and supported Heat Wave, Gil Scott Heron and Galliano among others.
David's latest project involves playing the double bass with the critically acclaimed Jazz duo SLUG.
Alan Springate
Alan Springate was born and raised in Bromley, South of London. A guitarist and song-writer since his teens. His musical path has led him to fronting and playing with various bands, (Last Bus Home and Underwood Two being the pick of them), and gigs as a solo artist.
Relocating to the Isle of Wight in adulthood he released the Bones Wrapped In Skin CD, 'the disc is a psycho-drama with its own weird logic.' So said Folk On Tap's Brian Hinton. He went on to pronounce that, 'Alan is a master of the National steel guitar; he grasps its essential harshness, and here are lyrics and impassioned singing to match, oddly disturbing and edgy.'
Always keen to help others get started, Alan has found himself teaching guitar on behalf of the Isle of Wight Music Service, and as part of the Islands Yamaha Music School. Then there is Jamming Dodgers, an informal get together which aims to get people of all ages playing music in front of a small appreciative audience.
Alan's latest gig? Oh, he's playing guitar and singing with Slug.