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Welcome to the official website of multi-instrumentalist,
composer and performer Pete Hartley. Pete has recorded and
performed all over the world in almost every musical style
in existence over a 30-year professional career. Pete is
active as a session musician, a wedding and function
musician, a recording artist and Birminghams most famous busker,
and is active in promoting the rights of buskers and other
professional musicians.
Pete Hartley is one of the most experienced and in-demand
wedding and function musicians in the country – a virtuoso
violinist, mandolinist, bandleader and composer who has
toured all over Europe, pioneered the use of the 6-string
Violectra electric violin (now also endorsed by the likes of
Escala and Nigel Kennedy) and played functions for the likes
of Bill Clinton, Bertie Ahern, Princess Anne and, in a
personal career highlight, Joanna Lumley!
Pete has nearly 30 years' experience as a session musician
for TV and Radio, and has performed music for programmes as
diverse as Top Gear, Pebble Mill, Not the Nine o'clock News
and the Goodies, amongst many others. He was also a heat
winner on the televised talent competition New Faces in
1987.
On this site you can learn more about Pete, hear and
purchase his recordings, and book him to play your wedding,
function or gig, ensuring that you will get the very best
for your most important day!
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