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New Friarage Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury

 

Monday January 12th 1970

 

Sweetwater Canal

Support unknown

Alan Cartwright  Ray Draper  Phil Kenzie  Aliki Ashman (and more unknown) **new info** - see below.

   

   

Fred D'Albert Fraser, writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2010 said:     

 "Sweet Water Canal were signed to Ronnie Scott's Management in 1969, (Ronnie Scott's Jazz club).Line up was: Aliki Ashman ,vocals. Alan Cartwright,Bass gtr. Roy (wilf)Davies,Hammond organ, Tony Brown aka Tony Knight (Chessman,Skin Alley) Drums. Fred D'Albert ,Guitar.( Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, The Drifters) . Saxes were Phil Kenzie, Dave Coxhill, Geoff Driscoll. Trumpet was Pat Higgs, also american jazz  star on tuba, valve trombone was Ray Draper.  A lot of  the band were formally  The Freddy Mack band. 

                                            I know , I was there, regards , Fred D'Albert . ( 21 years with the Drifters ) 

 

 

Clippings from The Bucks Herald and Bucks Advertiser

Original local advert - seems that Writing on the Wall were replaced at the last minute. Writing on the Wall did go on to play Friars later in 1970

 

Research continues but little is known about this band at this stage. Cartwright later joined Procol Harum. Draper died in 1982 in a robbery.

Update January 2010 from Aliki's record company:

Sweetwater Canal was formed by Aliki Ashman when she signed management to Ronnie Scott's and was playing in the direction of CTA [ Chicago] We shall endeavor to recall the lineup but Ray Draper was not a member but was a guest and Roy [Wilf] Davies was on keyboards and most played with The Freddy Mack Band 

Aliki is alive and well living near Melbourne Australia working on her Third totally solo album and Wilf passed away years ago when he was still with Gonzalez

 

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