Rachel Hayward (2)

Rachel Hayward, guitar and banjo, learnt classical piano until, moving with work to Kidderminster, she heard New Orleans jazz for the first time, and fell in love with it. She bought a banjo and joined Stan Allsopp’s Ragtime Band. Following a spell playing with Norman Thatcher’s New Orleans Jazz Band, Rachel teamed up with Chris Pearce and Tony Sharp to form the very popular trio that played in pubs and clubs around Gloucestershire and beyond, joined on many occasions by Roger Bennett of Blue Note fame.