Music at Muncaster Castle ALSO LIVE STREAM NOW AVAILABLE

Music at Muncaster Castle in collaboration with The Gather, Ennerdale.

Our Gala Evening meal option is still available for late comers

Programme of events

6:00 pm Arrival and reception drinks

6:30 pm  Guests take their seats for a Muncaster Castle three course feast - served by volunteers from The Gather Ennerdale

8:30 pm Guests move to their reserved seats in the Concert Space for an evening of entertainment

8:35 pm Live music by the legendary duo, Snake Davis musician, Vocals, Saxes, Flutes, Ethnic Flutes and Whistles and Gareth Moulton musician and singer-songwriter. lead guitarist with rock band “Cutting Crew” and also singer and guitarist with “Wang Chung”

9:20 pm Interval drinks and refreshments

9:40 pm Presentation to new patrons

9:55 pm More live music by Snake and Gareth

10:40 pm Carriages await 

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More about the artists....

Snake Davis is one of the music world’s best kept secrets.  He is a saxophonist of almost unparalleled gifts who has played with the best in the business through a career spanning three decades.

These are some of his career highlights to date:-

• Sax Solo on cult television show “The Tube”
• World Tour with Lisa Stansfield
• “Tonight with Jonathon Ross”
• 1993   The start of his long association with M-People
• Plays himself as band leader in “The   Paradise Club” ITV series
• Presents a Masterclass on Tyne tees, Granada and Yorkshire TV
• World “Peace” tour with The Eurythmics
• Saxophonist on Paul Hardcastle JazzMasters Series
• First Solo album commercially available released – Snakebites
• First of many tours with Japanese rock star Eikichi Yazawa
• Digital single “Human Nature” record of the week on JazzFM
• Human Nature No.1 on smooth jazz single charts with CDBaby
• World Premiere of SnakeStrings
• Appearance on BBC1 “The One Show” with Chris Evans, Alex Jones and Gary Barlow – feature on The Solo’s The Star for his sax on “A Million Love Songs”
• Two of his students were BBC Young Musician of the Year finalists in 2014 and Jess Gillam was runner up in 2016
• Klingande and Faul & Ad Wad used his sax riffs on three European chart hits, reaching number 1 in the dance charts in the summer of 2014.
• Snake's performances were included as part of the City of Culture celebration in Hull in 2017
• In March 2020 the Covid-19 lockdown saw the start of Snake as an internet livestream artist with 3 shows and a sax workshop each week throughout the period.

Snake plays soprano, alto, tenor and baritone Saxes, Shakuhachi, Flutes, Whistles and Vocals. He also composes and works as an educator, examiner and music director.

Snake especially composed the introductory music that precedes every streamed Great Atists - Small Venue performance. It is called “Ennerdale Water” and was composed for the Shakuhachi, and Whistle.

Gareth Moulton

In a career spanning over 35 years, Gareth has become in-demand worldwide as a singer and guitarist, onstage and in the studio, for a host of artists, (including Wang Chung, Go West, Holly Johnson, Jim Diamond, Heather Small, Paul Young, Shaboom, DJ Sneak). He has been writing and releasing his own music since the age of 18 and can be heard on many a Snake Davis album.

Lead guitarist with the Grammy nominated rock band Cutting Crew (USA no1 hit: “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”), Gareth has also released albums with the critically acclaimed Prog-Rock group Combination Head, moonlighted as lead singer and guitarist with the iconic new wave band Wang Chung (“Dance Hall Days”, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”) and composed other wide-ranging music for tv and film.

His songs for the recent, critically acclaimed play 'Fly Half' (5 star reviewed, britishtheatre.com) mark a return to his roots as a solo acoustic, singer-songwriter, and can be heard live in the duo shows with Snake Davis.