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Simply the best fun, most exciting and professional band in the world.
Based in Paris, France but traveling the world. Playing the Irish Embassy and the Alliance Francaise in Dar Es Salaam,
Tanzania. The Irish Cultural Centre and the Czech Cultural Centre in Paris. A private party for the Rainier family in Monaco.
We have played luxury hotels and clubs in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Belgium.
Google X-Mas party at Croke Park, Dublin. Dublin Law Society at the Mansion House Dublin. Facebook Summer Festival
at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. Farmleigh House, Dublin. Ashford Castle, The K-Club, Kildare. A private yacht on the Hudson River in New York. The Ritz Hotel, Paris. Chateau Rigaud and countless other chateaux in France. The British Embassy, the American and the Irish Embassies, Paris. The "Star Flyer", the largest Clipper yacht in the world out of Monte Carlo for Rolls Royce.
Our repertoire is a best of 20th-century crooners and classic swing with a bit of 21st-century Parisian style and oomph to it.
From Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong to Louis Prima and Brian Seltzer The Stray cats and more modern Neo-Swing.
We also love Funk, Rock n' Roll, Motown and Soul. We play some up-to-date stuff too: Bruno Mars, and Daft Punk.
We can add a request for an opening dance. Often copied but never equalled we are the original and the very best.
The Paris Swinging Lovers are the top luxury option for your event and can fly in anywhere in the world.
If you want to check us out you can come to one of our regular performances at the Caveau de la Huchette, Paris, made famous by the Hollywood film " La La Land".
= free travel (up to 30 miles)
I usually now start weddings with Swing, but then after a while I start rock ‘n’ roll and then later I kinda move into funk and a couple of modern pop songs. I mix it up for the rest of the evening.
Typical set list.
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
Buena Sera Senorina - Louis Prima
C’est si bon - in French - Yves Montand
Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire
Day Tripper - Beatles
Dream a little dream of me - Ella Fitzgerald/Mama Cass
Emma - Tais Toi - in French - Béguine
Fever - Peggy Lee
Fly me to the moon - Frank Sinatra
Folsom prison - Johnny Cash
Get lucky - Daft Punk
Great Balls of fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hello Dolly - Louis Armstrong
Hit the road Jack - Ray Charles
Honky tonk woman - Rolling Stones
Hound dog - Elvis
I cant’t Help falling in love with you - Elvis
I feel good - James Brown
I saw here standing there - Beatles
I think I wanna marry you - Bruno Mars
Johnny be Good - Chuck Berry
King of the swingers - Louis Prima
L.O.V.E - Nat King Cole
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
My baby just cares for me - Nina Simone
My girl - The Temptations
Nothing’s too good for my baby - Louis Prima/Keely Smith
SAINTS - F - Louis Armstrong
Sing, Sing, Sing, Louis Prima - JUNGLE DRUMS
Stand by me - Ben E. King
What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
You never can tell - Chuck Berry
For 6 or 7 Piece version of The Swinging Lovers band:
Stage: 5m X 3m.
4 plugs for: Guitar amp, Bass amp, electric piano and our P.A.
3 parking spaces.
Size of venue.
Number of people expected.
Is there a P.A. in the venue?
Is there a sound engineer?
Completely self contained - P.A. for up to 100 people.
All Backline: Amps Drums etc.
No Lights.
Yes, we’re happy to play music from Spotify before, after and between our sets. We’re happy to choose the music ourselves or let the client choose the music."
We can also provide a DJ for the evening but at extra cost..
My favourite regular gig is the Caveau de la Huchette in Paris.
The most illustrious playing for the French President in the Elysee palace in Paris.
The biggest gig - 6000 at Nice Jazz Festival.
I love playing for dancers.
I've always sang - my whole life. I started playing trombone at 9 years old. I was in the Irish Youth Orchestra.
I've been a professional musician since I was a teenager. When I first came to ParisI busked in the streets..
I soon got into some very big French bands. I've been a performing and songwriting member of FFF: Best live band at Victories de la Musique. We played in front of 70,000 people MainStage at Les Veilles Charues festival.
I've led and fronted the Swinging Lovers for 20 years.
Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Elvis.
What a wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. I play it at all my wadding and party gigs.
We arrive 2 hours before performance.
1 single set of 1h45 mins. No breaks. This in my experience is best for keeping people dancing.
Yes
We have our own standard set list which changes all the time depending how the people react - Do they prefer swing or Rock n Roll.
Our mission is to keep people dancing.
We can take a couple of requests from the client. Usually for first dance of the evening.
"The Swinging Lovers absolutely lit up our wedding reception.
A super confident, creative, accomplished AND soulful performance, they immediately energized the whole room and magnetized
the crowd to the dance floor.
Paddy and his band excel at what they do."
(Ruari)
"We had the good fortune to see The Swinging Lovers in France, where they gave a wonderful performance, and so when we got engaged ourselves, I was certain that they were the band we would ideally have at our big day in the west of Ireland.
They were very professional, made everything very easy for us, and most importantly, got everyone up on the dance floor immediately and managed to maintain that momentum all the way through the evening.
Anyone I've met since that has spoken of the wedding still mentions how much they enjoyed the music,
and that says it all for me, since a major portion of our guests are musicians themselves.
(S. Cullen)
Worldwide. We have played in almost every country in Europe, in Africa, USA and South America.
Facebook, Dublin.
Google, Dublin.
Mairie de 1er, Paris (Paris town hall).
O'Sullivans, Bastille, Paris.
Various weddings.
Ritz, Paris.
Caveau de la Huchette, Paris.
Hotel du Louvre, Paris.
Whelan's, Dublin.
Jazz Cafe, Paris.
Metropole hotel, Cork - Cork Jazz Festival.
City Hotel, Derry - Derry Jazz Festival.
Farmleigh house, Dublin.
Irish embassy, Dar es Salaam.
British embassy, Paris.
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