Make someone happy

When I am not painting I like to take my wife dancing but as we aren’t celebrities or professionals you won’t see us on that show on TV. We do take it seriously and there’s nothing better than dancing in front of a live band, and arguably the best in the UK right now is the LP Swing Orchestra. They play at the top venues and for the professional championships at Blackpool and fortunately for us at some of the Warners resorts around the UK. Its a great sound and fronted by great singers including my favourite Matt Ford. “Make Someone Happy” originally sung by Jimkmy Durante in 1964 is one of Matt’s sandards - you really feel he means when he sings and so I thought I would also try and make someone happy too. I can’t sing but I am OK with a paint brush and after a hard weeks work I think I captured him pretty well.

Matt Ford

I also did some sketching while on this break and that is more of a challenge, for three reasons it pretty dark in the audience musicians and singers are always moving when playing, and you maybe have half an hour, hour to make a study. This is Sandra Lambert the orchestras pianist and like many in LPSO she has a very successful career in her own right..

I found this very hard to do but Sandra liked the result and that’s what matters. So whatever your creative talent is “Make Someone Happy”