As seen on TV at the BBC Proms … Award-winning vocalist Matt Ford

Matt is widely regarded as the finest big band singer in the UK, with an enviable wealth of experience performing with the Halle, Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC and RTE Concert Orchestras, as well as the BBC Big Band and Syd Lawrence Orchestra.

Matt works regularly with the acclaimed John Wilson Orchestra and you may well recognise him from his multiple TV appearances at the BBC Proms. He features on the Award winning John Wilson Orchestra albums ‘COLE PORTER IN HOLLYWOOD’ recorded at Abbey Rd studios, and ‘GERSHWIN IN HOLLYWOOD’ recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Matt recorded ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ for the 2017 Tesco Christmas Advertisement.

With an easy-going personality and not shy of a gag or two, Matt will bring us an entertaining programme of swinging songs from the Great American Songbook together with the house Quartet.