
The act is based in Manchester and plays throughout the UK especially the North West of England, North Wales and London.
This sought-after cellist Maggie Swan is a popular choice in the solo acts category. Maggie's experience as a performer and her likeable manner shine through in her playing. She liaises closely with clients before the event to create the perfect musical ambience, which includes the Bach solo cello suites, sonorous classical melodies, jazz standards, film, Disney and pop tunes. Special requests are welcomed.
Based in Manchester, Maggie travels throughout the UK and abroad. Her work as a freelance cellist has included performing with some big names (Elbow, Snow Patrol, Emeli Sande, Jools Holland), as well as working for music charities (Music in Hospitals, Lime Arts), teaching, and playing with bands, orchestras and chamber ensembles.
She owns a beautiful acoustic cello which can be amplified if required. As an additional extra, Maggie's wardrobe contains an array of outfits to match the colour scheme or the overall theme of your occasion!
Maggie is also part of the Cupid's Bow Cello Duo that can be found on Freak Music.
Maggie's repertoire is extensive to say the least! In fact, it's impossible to list every single piece due to the sheer number of lovely melodies in the world! If you do have any specific requests, please get in touch.
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Sample repertoire
Classical
Suite for solo cello no. 1 in G major - J.S. Bach
Suite for solo cello no. 2 in D minor - J.S. Bach
Suite for solo cello no. 3 in C major - J.S. Bach
Air â water Music â Handel
AprĂšs un Reve â FaurĂ©
Ave Maria - Bach-Gounod
Ave Maria - Schubert
Barcarole - Offenbach
Berceuse from âJocelynâ - Godard
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Elegie â FaurĂ©
Elegie â Massenet
Gabrielâs Oboe - Morricone
Habanera from âCarmenâ â Bizet
Hornpipe - Handel
Humoresque - Dvorak
Intermezzo Sinfonica from âCavalleria Rusticanaâ - Mascagni
Jesu Joy of Manâs Desiring - J.S. Bach
La RĂ©jouissance â Firework Suite - Handel
Largo from âWinterâ (Four seasons) â Vivaldi
MĂ©ditation â Jules Massenet
Melody in F - Rubinstein
Minuet in G â Beethoven
Musettaâs Waltz - Puccini
Non so Piu â Mozart
O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
On Wings of Song â Mendelssohn
Pachelbelâs Canon in D
Pavane â FaurĂ©
Prayer (from Jewish Life) - Bloch
Salut dâAmour â Elgar
Serenade â Poulenc
Sicilienne - Von Paradis
Sonata Boni, Pietro
Sonata in E minor - Brahms
Song Without Words - Mendelssohn
The Swan - Saint-Saëns
To A Wild Rose - MacDowell
TrĂ€umerei â Schumann
Tumpet tune - Purcell
Un Bel Di Vedremo (Madame Butterfly) â Puccini
Voi Che Sapete âMozart
Waltz Nr 2 - Shostakovich
Wedding March â Wagner
Wedding March â Mendelssohn
Jazz
A Couple of Swells
A Fine Romance
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Basin Street Blues
Bess you Is My Woman Now
Canât Help lovinâ that man
Cheek to cheek
Come Fly With Me
Donât sit under the Apple tree
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue
Fly Me To the Moon
Georgia
Happy Talk
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I got Plenty oâ nuttinâ
It Donât Mean A Thing
The Lady Is a Tramp
La Vie en Rose - Piaf, Edith
Letâs Call the Whole Thing Off
Love and Marriage
Love Me Or Leave Me
Lullaby of Birdland
Mad About The Boy
Makinâ Whoopee
Manhattan
Mister Sandman
Misty
Moon River
My Funny Valentine
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Some Day my Prince Will Come
Someone to watch over me
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Spread A Little Happiness
Star Dust
Summertime
That Old Devil Called Love
They Canât Take That Away From Me
Whatâll I Do?
Popular
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life â Monty Python
A Thousand Years â Christina Perri
Adventure of a Lifetime â Coldplay
All of Me â John Legend
All My Loving - The Beatles
All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
American Pie â Don McLean
Angels â Robbie Williams
Annieâs Song â John Denver
At Last â Etta James
Beautiful Day â U2
Best Day of My Life â American Authors
Blackbird - The Beatles
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Budapest â George Ezra
Can You Feel the Love Tonight? â Lion King
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Canât Buy Me Love â Beatles
Canât Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Clocks â Coldplay
Close To You - Carpenters (Bacharach/David)
Crazy In Love â Beyonce
Crazy Little thing called love â Queen
Donât Look Back In Anger â Oasis
Donât Stop Me Now - Queen
Eternal Flame - Bangles
Every Breath You Take â Sting
Everything I Do â Bryan Adams
Fields of Gold â Sting
Game Of Thrones theme
Girl From Ipanema - Jobim/Gimble/de Moraes
God Only Knows â Beach Boys
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road â Elton john
Groovy Kind of Love â Toni Wine
Grounds For Divorce - Elbow
Halo â Beyonce
Happy âPharrell Williams
Havana â Cabello
Have I Told You Lately? â Van Morrison
Here comes the sun - The Beatles
Hey Jude â Beatles
I Have Dream - ABBA
I Know Him So Well â Andersson/Ulvaeus
I Say A Little Prayer â Aretha Franklin
Isnât She Lovely â Stevie Wonder
It Must Be Love - Madness
Itâs All About You â McFly
Isnât She Lovely â Stevie Wonder
I will always love you âWhitney/Dolly Parton
I Say a Little Prayer - Hal/Bacharach
I Will Always Love You â Dolly Parton/Whitney
I Will Wait â Mumford & Sons
Kiss From A Rose â Seal
La Isla Bonita - Madonna
Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Small Faces
Let It Be - Beatles
Love Is All Around â Love Actually/Reg Presley
Love is A Verb â John Mayer
Make you feel my love â Adele
Mama Mia! â ABBA
Marry You â Bruno Mars
Michelle - The Beatles
Mister Sandman â Ballard
Mr Blue Sky - ELO
My Heart Will Go on (âTitanicâ) â Celine Dion
My Lighthouse â REND collective
One Day Like This â Elbow
One Moment in Time â Whitney Houston
Our Last Summer â ABBA
Paradise â Coldplay
Perfect â Ed Sheeran
Rather Be â Clean Bandit
Roar â Katy Perry
Rock Around the Clock â Freedman
Secrets â One Republic
Shake it Off â Taylor Swift
She â Charles Aznavour
Sheâs the one â Wallinger
Shotgun â George Ezra
Somewhere Only We Know â Keane
Thatâs Amore - Brooks/Warren
Thinking Out Loud â Ed Sheeran
Top of the World â Carpenters
Toxic â Britney Spears
Uninvited â Alanis Morrisette
Vienna â Billy Joel
What a Wonderful World â Louis Armstrong
Whatever - Oasis
What the World Needs Now - Carpenters (Bacharach/David)
When Iâm 64 â Beatles
Wind Beneath My Wings â Bette Midler
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles
With or without you â U2
Wonderful Tonight â Eric Clapton
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
You are the Wind Beneath My Wings
Youâre My best friend â Queen
Your Song - Elton John
Folk/Traditional
Amazing Grace
Arkansas Traveller
Ashokan Farewell
Barbara Allen
Crawfish Waltz
Danny Boy
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (English Air)
Down By the Salley Gardens
The Drunken Sailor
Greensleeves
Hava Nagila
Hungarian folk songs â various
Isleburgh
Italian folk songs - various
Loch Lomond
Londonderry Air (âDanny Boyâ)
Morgan Magan
My Bonnie Lies over the ocean
Off to California
O Susanna
Polish Polka
Salley Gardens
Scarborough Fair
Steal Away
Steamboat Waltz
Swallowtail Jig
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Tanz, Tanz, Yidelech
Teddybearsâ Picnic
Tree of Life
Film
Alfie
A Million Dreams â The Greatest Showman
Annie â Tomorrow
Big Spender â Sweet Charity
Fawlty Towers â Theme tune
Fiddler on the Roof â If I were a rich man
Fiddler on the Roof â Sunrise, Sunset
For the love of a Princess â Braveheart
Game of Thrones - theme
Glasgow love theme (from film âLove Actuallyâ) â Craig Armstrong
The Godfather Theme â Speak Softly Love
Harry Potter â Hedwigâs Theme
Imperial March â Star Wars (Darth Vaderâs theme)
James Bond â Main theme
Jean de Florette theme
Jurassic Park - theme
Love is all around â love actually
Madagascar - theme
Mission Impossible â Main theme
Moon River â Breakfast at Tiffanyâs
My Heart Will Go on (âTitanicâ) â Celine Dion
Romeo & Juliette - Love theme
Schindlerâs List â Main Theme
Somewhere over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz
The Eternal Vow â Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Sound of Music â Do-re-mi
The Sound of Music â Edelweiss
Star Wars â Main theme
This is Me â Greatest Showman
Disney and Musicals
A Dream Is A Wish â Cinderella
Alice In Wonderland
All I Ask Of You - Phantom of the Opera
The Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book
Beauty and the Beast â Main Theme
Cabaret â Main Theme
Can you feel the love Tonight? Lion King
Chim chim Cheree - Mary Poppins
Consider yourself - Oliver!
Do You want to Build a Snowman? - Frozen
Edelweiss â The Sound of Music
Get me to the church on Time - My Fair Lady
How Far Iâll Go â Moana
Hushaby Mountain - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I Dreamed a Dream â Les Miserables
I Just Canât Wait to be King â Lion King
I Wanna Be Like You - The Jungle Book
Kiss the Girl - Little Mermaid
Let It Go - Frozen
Lonely Goatherd â Sound of Music
Memory â Cats
Music of the Night â Phantom of the Opera
Once Upon A Dream - Sleeping Beauty
Somewhere over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz
Up â Married Life (theme)
When You Wish Upon A Star - Pinocchio
Where Is Love? - Oliver!
A Whole New World - Aladdin
Youâll be in my Heart â Tarzan
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah - Song of the South
Christmas
All I want for Christmas
Away In a Manger
Coventry Carol
Deck the Halls
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Fairytale of New York
The First Nowell
Frosty the Snowman
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark! The Herald Angles Sing
The Holly and the Ivy
In Dulci jubilo
In the Bleak midwinter
I Saw Three Ships
It came upon the midnight clear
Jingle Bells
O Christmas Tree
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Once in Royal Davidâs City
Silent Night
We Three Kings of Orient Are
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Please get in touch if your song is not on this list. A small charge may apply for more obscure requests â this would always be agreed with you before I proceed to buy the music.
This act's standard set times are as follows:
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