Schools Music Workshop
2025-06-27
We often deliver workshops in schools and other settings. See our workshops page for more info, and get in touch if you’d like to find out more or book us!

Mambo Jambo at The Big Malarkey Festival
2025-06-28 | East Park, East Park, Hull, United Kingdom
Details to follow

Schools Music Workshop
2025-07-03

Friends Of Chatsworth Garden Party - Private Event
2025-07-04 | Chatswort House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP

Private Party
2025-07-05
Please get in touch to enquire about booking us for a private party, event or wedding, (info@mambojambo.co.uk)and here’s a page with Frquently Asked Questions about booking us; https://mambojambo.co.uk/private-parties-private-bookings-weddings/

Mambo Jambo at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod
2025-07-09 | International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, LL20 8SW
This is an amazing festival that we’ve been lucky enough to play a few times previously. We’ll be playing 6.15-7.15 pm on the Oakleigh Stage. (Check out also, just before us, The gathering, nvolving international and UK participants joining together in an exchange of dance and culture.
https://international-eisteddfod.co.uk/

Mambo Jambo at Dysart Arms, Cheshire, Latin Party Night
2025-07-11 | Dysart Arms, Bowes Gate Rd, Bunbury, Cheshire, CW6 9PH

Wedding, Lake District
2025-07-12

Wedding
2025-07-19

Wedding, Reykjavik
2025-07-24

Wedding, Dorset
2025-07-26
We love playing weddings, and often get asked to! There’s a page of Frequently Asked Questions here if you’d like to book us for a wedding or a private event or party: https://mambojambo.co.uk/private-parties-private-bookings-weddings/

Bar De La Marine, France
2025-08-27

Wedding, Yorkshire
2025-09-06
We love playing music at weddings, and often get asked to! There’s a page of Frequently Asked Questions here if you’d like to book us for a wedding or a private event or party: https://mambojambo.co.uk/private-parties-private-bookings-weddings/
‘Dear Frankie and Pete, We were very happy to have you there on our special day – everyone loved it and you really brought a joy and vibrancy to the atmosphere helping to make the night unforgettable. Thank you very much. Best wishes, Jack and Jisu.’
‘Thank you so much for making our evening really special, you went down a storm everybody loved you!’ Sharon and Steve Horne
‘We had an absolutely fabulous time on our wedding day, made all the better by Mambo Jambo.
Frankie and Pete were absolutely brilliant. They were such lovely people to have around on the day (very sweet and accommodating), and their music was really wonderful. They are an incredibly talented pair and we would like to highly recommend them to others. Our guests thought they were fantastic too.’ Claire and Phil

School's Award Ceremony
2025-09-11

Hannas House, Sweden
2025-09-19 | Hannas House, Orums Great Rd 21, Hannas, Sweden
We’re excited to be playing this venue in Sweden; looks like it’ll be a great venue! Tickets nearly all sold out.

Kulturnatten, Norrkoping Sweden
2025-09-27 | Gramtone, Slottsgaten 135, Norrkoping, Sweden
https://visit.norrkoping.se/se-och-gora/evenemangskalender/evenemang-september-2025/konsert-med-mambo-jambo-fran-storbritannien-en-gladjefylld-virvelvind-av-rootsmusik
We’ll be leading a family workshop suitable for all abilities at Gramtone in the afternoon, followed by an early evening concert. We’re looking forward to being part of this cultural festival in Norrkoping, which is part of the Musical Cities Network. UNESCO Cities of Music (Hull is bidding to become part of this network)

Dalsland, Sweden
2025-10-03
SOLD OUT!

Skordefest Orust, Sweden
2025-10-04

Primary School Music Workshops
2025-10-15
We’ve been asked to deliver music workshops for a Primary School near Bradford, to tie in with Bradford’s City Of Culture 2025.
We offer lots of different music workshops, dance workshops, Spanish themed workshops, and more! Please see our workshops page, and contact us at info@mambojambo.co.uk

Mambo Jambo on the Music Train! CANCELLED
2025-10-16
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE ORGANISERS. APOLOGIES TO ALL
Come on a train jorney with us, and enjoy the ride, and the music! Pre-book your tickets to travel from Altrincham to Chester and back. (But you can get on at ny station en route) In Chester, then we all go to Alexander’s café-bar where another band will be playing,’So What Now Jazz’ Band.
Pre-book at alexanderslive.com – you can find the Music Train tickets under ‘Book Tickets’
Altrincham Railway Station Departs at 18:36 and arrives back at 23:53

The Three Cups, Malmesbury
2025-10-18 | The Three Cups, 90 The Triangle, Malmesbury, SN16 0AH
We’re looking forward to playing here; it’ll be our first time, but we’ve heard such good reports of the venue, and Malmesbury as a musical place! At 8pm in the Main Bar
“Mambo Jambo ‘A joyous whirlwind of roots music!’
‘Everyone comes out with the big smiles Pete & Frankie came in with’ The Bell Inn, Bath
‘The sheer enthusiasm & joy of their music along with their wonderful musicianship & great stage presence combine to create an act that will undoubtedly go down a storm wherever they play. ” Jim McLaughlin, Musicport Festival
‘Really brilliant ! So uplifting!’ BBC Radio Derby

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Acoustic Roots Duo and Musical Explorers Mambo Jambo will take you an exciting and joyous musical journey performing, as well as their own compositions, their mash-up of styles, with elements of roots, jazz, world and folk – plus bluegrass! Think Carnivals, fiestas, hoedowns, speakeasies and more! They’ve rightly been described as one of the biggest duos around.
A fabulous musical treat is in store wherever they roll up, their tour bus packed to the brim with instruments. Frankie is on sax, vocals, clarinet, flute, uke, guitar, and Pete on guitar, vocal, banjo, tres (traditional Cuban guitar), accordion, & between them all kinds of percussion including suitcase and spoons!
YouTube Clips –
see https://mambojambo.co.uk/gallery
https://www.youtube.com/@mambojamboduo
https://youtu.be/VlWlrwvHqHo
https://youtu.be/YiFh_l5ayl4
Pete and Frankie have appeared on various BBC Radio shows (UK), and MTV Asia, and have been gathering admirers at shows and festivals in the UK, Europe and Internationally; Festivals include Costa Del Folk in Portugal, Cork (IRL) & Manchester Jazz, Voix Des Pays & St Patrick Cavan in France, Borneo Jazz, International Eisteddfod (Wales), Sidmouth, Broadstairs & Shetland Folk (UK) etc. Tours of France, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland & Sweden

The Bell Inn, Bath
2025-10-19 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | The Bell, 103 Walcott Street, Bath, BA1 5BW
Fantastic Live Music Venue!
Playing 1-3pm. We love our once a year trip to The Bell, and in fact we ended up in their 10 year anniversary of the Coomunity Buy Out Photo two years ago, which was an honour!
Check out their website:https://thebellinnbath.co.uk/.
They’ve also said some great things about us in the promo leaflets:
​​“Name the style, they can play it, name the audience, they’ll entertain them. Everyone comes out with the big smiles Pete & Frankie came in with”

​“multi-instrumentalist duo with a talent for entertainment as well as musicianship, taking delight from the music as well as the delight they create in audiences, fuelling another energetic romp!”

Primary School Music Workshop
2025-10-20

Malet Lambert Hull, International Week Concert with Mambo Jambo
2025-10-22
We often get asked to play international Weeks in Schools, to play a participatory concert. We’re very pleased to have been asked to play at Malet Lambert, Hull for their International week.
More info on our schools concerts & workshops here: https://mambojambo.co.uk/workshops/

'Musicport On Tour'
2025-10-23
Details to be confirmed

Mambo Jambo and Joe Martin at Musicport Festival, Whitby
2025-10-26 | Whitby Pavilion, West Cliff, Whitby, YO21 3EN
We are thrilled to be playing at the fantastic Musicport Festival! It’s their 25th year & the line-up is fantastic!
https://www.musicportfestival.com/
Tickets here:
You can watch us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_emBxZg0WE here:
Mambo Jambo with Joe Martin – Three Musical Adventurers
Eclectic genre-defying Duo, Mambo Jambo, Pete and Frankie, plus their wonderful array of instruments, make a welcome return to Musicport Festival!
This time they’re joined by violinist extraordinaire, Joe ‘Hotbow’ Martin for spontaneous, joyful music making and a romp across genres.; Joe and Pete played, many moons ago, in the legendary Hull band Ain’t Misbehavin’ , and as frontman lead them to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Mambo Jambo are known locally for their lively, uplifting shows that whisk the audience off on shared musical adventures; They also captivate audiences with their wonderful array of instruments; Pete on guitar, cuban traditional guitar (tres), banjo, accordion, vocals & percussion, and Frankie on sax, flute clarinet, guitar, vocals. She’ll be bringing a few unusual instruments to the concert as well!.
When they get together with Joe the three of them really take off, with infectious energy! Expect all sorts of musical wildness, a mash-up of some vaudeville swing, some Latin American, Cajun, Eastern European, some folky Bluegrass… plus two of their original pieces that the three of them wrote together for the ‘Out Of The Box’ Festival 2023 and Hull Jazz Festival.
“An absolute treat and a delight, and you can tell all three of them feel the same way about playing together!”
“Refreshing and Uplifting”

Mambo Jambo Halloween Concerts with Concerteenies, Greystones Sheffield
2025-10-31 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-11-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Greystones, Greystones Rd, Sheffield, S11 7BS, United Kingdom
Acoustic roots duo, Mambo Jambo, performs a spooktacular set for 0-5 year-olds and their grown-ups.
Concerts at 10.30 am and 11.45 am. Tickets Here:
More info here:

Mambo Jambo and Joe Martin, Hull Jazz Festival
2025-11-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LB
We’re thrilled to have been asked to play the Hull Jazz Festival again, with Joe Martin!
Hull Truck Theatre https://www.hulltruck.co.uk/
Here’s more info, and how to get tickets https://www.hulltruck.co.uk/whats-on/music/mambo-jambo-and-joe-martin/
“Eclectic genre-defying, Mambo Jambo are joined by violinist extraordinaire, Joe ‘Hotbow’ Martin for spontaneous, joyful music making. Expect all sorts of musical wildness, a mash-up of some swing, some Latin American, Cajun, Eastern European, some folky Bluegrass, plus original pieces that they composed together for the Out Of The Box Festival, 2023  Some may remember Joe from when he was fronting the legendary Hull band ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ and leading them to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Here’s a clip of the three of us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_emBxZg0WE

Schools Project: Music and Dance on a Dragons Theme!
2025-11-10
We’ve been working on a school’s music and dance project with Primary School children, interpreting Dragons with music we’ve written on electric guitar, kora (west African harp), tongue drum, steel pan, flute, cymbals, clapping, chanting and roaring! It’s been brilliant! We’ll be performing the pieces today with the children!
For more info on our Shcools workshops and projects check out our workshops page.
