Dick Laurie & The Elastic Band

Dick Laurie's Elastic Band continues its long-standing jazz residency at the Half Moon, every Sunday lunchtime with free admission from 1 to 4pm.

The music ranges far and wide, from Dixieland to Mainstream, New Orleans to Bebop. Of the many notable guests it attracts, the band has recently welcomed, Stan Robinson, who played saxophone with Maynard Ferguson, multi-award winning multi-instrumentalist Alan Barnes and Bob Clarke.

The Elastic Band's other engagements have been in Ireland, France and Hong Kong and at many prestigious events such as, the opening of the Channel Tunnel, the Lord Mayor of London events, the Leeds Castle, Kent, wine festivals, the Ordination of the first woman priest at the St. James's Church in Piccadilly, Central London, at Soho annual jazz festivals and others at Teignmouth, Upton-upon-Severn, and Cork, Eire.
The Laurie Elastic band has appeared on radio and television shows, as well as at the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre, Silk Road, London and at the Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington.

The founder of the band and longtime Putney resident Dick Laurie, alias - The Conductor - is also a jazz festival organiser and is responsible for the booking of bands at the open-air Summer sessions at Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon.