Gareth Mewes
Duo · Based in Brisbane
About this act
Gareth Mewes begged his parents for a violin as a small child and hasn't put it down since. Seventeen years of classical study at the Wollongong Conservatorium followed, with an AMusA diploma along the way, plus folk playing at the National Folk Festival and Illawarra Folk Festival. Brisbane and university pulled him into jazz, he won a competition in 2015 to perform with The Cat Empire, and he finished a Bachelor of Music in Jazz in 2018. He plays gypsy jazz standards, well known classical repertoire including Bach partitas, Vivaldi, Monti's Czardas and Pachelbel's Canon, and film themes like the Lord of the Rings medley. Book him solo, with a guitarist, or as a trio with two guitars. Blue Card and performers insurance held.
Repertoire
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Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Aha - Take on Me
Bach - Double concerto
Bach - Violin Partita no. 2 in D minor
Bach - Violin Partita no. 3 in E major
Bach cello suite no. 1
Backstreet Boys - I want it that Way
The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles - Let it Be
The Beatles - Octopuses Garden
The Beatles - She Loves you
Best Day of My Life
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Brahms - Hungarian Dances 5, 2, 6
Calum Scott - You are the Reason
Chattahoochee
Classical
Coldplay - Yellow
Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love
Cristina Perri - A Thousand Years
The Cure - Friday I’m in Love
Dancing in the Moonlight
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Dvorjak - Humoresque
Ed Sheeran - Perfect
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
Elvis - Can’t Help Falling in Love
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Glass Animals - Heatwaves
Gymnopedie - Debussy
House of the Rising Sun
Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso - Saint Saens
Irish music, anything else!
Jesu Joy of Mans desiring
John Legend - All of me
John Lennon - Imagine
Kate Bush - Running up that hill
Kenny Rodgers - The Gambler
Kreisler - Preludium & Allegro
Lion King - Can you feel the love tonight
Lord of the Rings Medley
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Many more
Meditation - Thais
Mendelssohn - Violin concerto in E minor
Monti - Czardas
Mozart - Violin Concerto in G major 1st mov
Pachabels Canon
Paganini Caprice no. 20
Panis Angelicus
The Paper Kites - Bloom
Pirates of the Caribbean Medley
Pop
Popular music with good melodies that works well instrumentally.
Rihanna - we found love
Sam Smith - Stay with Me
Shania Twain - Still the One
Simon & Garfunkle - Sound of Silence
Sixpence - None the Richer
Sixpence none The richer - kiss me
Smash Mouth - all star
Star Wars Medley
Stevie Wonder - Isn’t she Lovely
Taylor Swift - Anti Hero
Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams
Train - Marry Me
Variety of Gypsy Jazz classics and well known violin classical music.
Vivaldi - 4 seasons - all
Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag