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# Review: The Lydia Rae Band at The Hub at St Mary’s
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/review-the-lydia-rae-band-at-the-hub-at-st-marys/
- Published: 2025-03-22T08:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-21T16:40:48.000Z
- Description: With a talented band and an appreciative audience, local singer Lydia Rae played a set of jazz standards as well as some of her own music when she appeared at The Hub at St Mary’s.
- Author: Ben Macnair
- Tags: Reviews, What's On, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:49

WITH a talented band and an appreciative audience, local singer Lydia Rae played a set of jazz standards as well as some of her own music when she appeared at The Hub at St Mary’s.

With a hard-working drummer, bassist and pianist, the ensemble was boosted by tenor saxophone, trombone and trumpet for the concert.

A reimagined arrangement of Charlie Parker’s Ornithology was a musical workout in unison and harmony performance for saxophone and vocals, while Like Someone in Love featured a vocal duet.

The original Night Train was a swinging number with plenty of solos, while More Than You received a bluesy treatment with a minimalist saxophone motif.

The vocal highlight of the evening was probably Miss Otis Regrets by Kirsty MacColl, here delivered as a heart-rending torch song.