BIG MAC'S WHOLLY SOUL BAND - Caerleon Arts Festival Presents

St. Cadoc's Church, High Street, Caerleon, Newport, NP18 1AZ

Saturday 26th September 19:15 - 22:00

About BIG MAC'S WHOLLY SOUL BAND - Caerleon Arts Festival Presents

Caerleon Arts Festival is delighted to welcome back Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band for the second time.
Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band were formed in 1990 as the house band for the legendary Hollywood Club in Newport. Within months of their formation The Commitments film was released and the band, being of a similar size and specializing too in 60’s Soul music, were inundated with work, constantly playing in numerous clubs, pubs and night spots in South Wales.
In a short time they were supporting The Commitments at a number of venues and were soon welcoming offers of work that took them to holiday camps, five-star hotels and nightclubs both in the U.K. and abroad.
The line-up is that of tenor sax, trumpet and trombone, bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, three dynamic female vocalists and charismatic frontman Mike ‘Big Mac’ McNamara. Mike is a Soul singer in the purest sense of the word, thus the band, though more than adept at producing the raw edged originals of Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding and James Brown, are also proficient in the more polished spheres of black music, Motown, Philly, Funk and those glorious vocal harmony drenched ballads. Vocalists, however, are only as good as their backing band permits and Big Mac has The Wholly Soul Band… easily the best in the business.
The Band has played Cairo, Vienna, Tenerife, Germany and Dublin as well as settings here in the U.K. as diverse as The Café Royal and The Marquee Club. Such far reaching appeal is witness to the band’s adaptability and versatility.

Doors 7.15 pm. - Performance 8.00 pm.
Bar Facilities Available.

Website https://www.caerleon-arts.org