Learn more about our players and how they came to music, saxophones in particular.
Fiona Stamp
Jude Jackson
Barbara Dalton
Rob Bartholomew
Fiona was a late starter to the delights of playing saxophone aided by a good grounding in flute and piano. However, at a local festival, she fell in love with the tenor sax and now enjoys playing a wide range of repertoire on alto, tenor and baritone saxes. The Antonians Swing Orchestra gave Fiona her first big-band experience on tenor and alto. Further experience came with playing salsa, samba and cumbia with various Latin-American and World Music ensembles. She was then invited to join the Pitmore Saxophone Quartet playing everything from Early Music to avant-garde jazz. This led directly to her position of baritone player with GLSQ. Additionally, Fiona can be seen dancing with the ‘big fella’ (baritone saxophone) in The Mighty Hump, a dynamic 10-piece jazz/funk band (available for weddings and parties!).
Her free time is spent with her family and a spot of running including a couple of ultra-marathons. She earns a living running her family agency for lorry drivers. Look for Fiona at the bottom of her garden, nurturing plants and weeds
Jude started making music when she was given an accordion 20 years ago . This reignited her joy in playing after many years’ absence. She then started playing folk music with friends , started a Tango band , and got involved with community choirs in west London and joined the St Margarets Elastic band as an oboist., playing big band and swing . It might have been the regular proximity to their large sax section that lead to a saxophone epiphany and a move to Wiltshire five years ago. She first joined the Bathtub Orchestra and now plays with the Wiltshire police band as well as Guinea Lane Saxophone Quartet. When not playing saxophone ,she enjoys time at home with family, walking her dogs and growing vegetablese
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Rob’s playing career started on guitar and mandolin in folk clubs and ceilidhs, most successfully with The Threepenny Operators, who managed the unlikely feat of combining English folk dance music with the songs of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. A spiritual conversion to the saxophone led to a drift towards rock and jazz. This was followed by an increasing involvement in Latin-American music and the formation of the ten-piece Los Latinos Perdidos, playing salsa and samba. Either side of the millennium, Rob was a member of Roger Watson’s multi-cultural ceilidh band, Boka Halat, with musicians from India, Africa and South America, playing folk & roots festivals, concerts and ceilidhs. Rob directed the Cricklade College Big-Band for fifteen years and acted as musical director for community and youth theatre productions including Lark Rise to Candleford, Happy End and The Threepenny Opera. In addition to GLSQ, Rob also plays in the Spanish influenced jazz ensemble The Ingenious Gentlemen and sings in Paul Sartin’s Andover Museum Loft Singers.
