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The Chapel Hill Duo’s music goes beyond the boundaries of genre and challenges the ‘classical’ Violin and Cello stereotypes. With years of experience performing Pop, Jazz, Classical, Film and Folk music, and a firm grounding in the perfection of Classical virtuosity, they explore the limits of what is possible with just two musicians, a Violin and a Cello.

Although the Duo are loosely based in the East Midlands, U.K., they spend much of their time touring and playing for hundreds of events across the country. Be it a Concert, Wedding, Corporate event, Party or Primary School assembly, Sarah and Jaya love performing and approach all of their engagements with equal enthusiasm.

The Duo’s own intricately detailed covers and arrangements are internationally renowned, selling thousands of copies of sheet music a year. Whether they are tackling the latest top 40 chart hits, epic film-scores or old classics, Sarah and Jaya undertake each new challenge with the same energy and commitment. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide enjoy watching and listening to the Duo perform live and online every year. They have released four albums to date as well as numerous singles of their most popular covers.

As a Duo, Jaya and Sarah have performed in numerous world-class venues including Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Green Note London, the Bath & Brighton Komedias, Brighton Pavilion, Europe House London and the National Piping Centre of Scotland. They have also had the pleasure of recording for, and playing live on, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Lincolnshire, among others.
In 2011 Violinist Jaya Hanley and Cellist Sarah James met at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. In 2015 the Duo graduated with 1st Class Honours Performance Degrees in their respective instruments, but they came away with so much more than just a qualification. In November of the following year Jaya and Sarah got engaged on top of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and in March 2022, after many delays, they finally tied the knot!

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Location

Based in Grantham, Lincolnshire

Will travel up to 500 miles
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POP SONGS – WEDDING PICKS

7 Years – Lukas Graham

​Africa – Toto

All of Me – John Legend

All you need is love – The Beatles

A Thousand Years – Christina Perry

At Last – Etta James

Best Friend – Queen

Better Together – Jack Johnson

Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel

Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

Budapest – George Ezra

Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley

Can’t Take my eyes off you – Frankie Valli

Chandelier – Sia

Chasing Cars – Snow patrol

Cheap Thrills – Sia

Constellations – Jack Johnson

Count On Me – Bruno Mars

Crazy in Love – Beyonce

Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen

Detectorists – Johnny Flynn

Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia

Earned It – The Weekend

Eastside – Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) – Bryan Adams

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

Fidelity – Regina Spektor

​Fields of Gold – Sting

Flashlight – Jessie J

God Only Knows – The Beach Boys

Greatest Day – Take That

Grow Old with Me – Tom Odell

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Happy – Pharrel Williams

Heartbeats – Jose Gonzalez

Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles

Here With Me – Marshmello ft. CHVRCHES

Higher Love – James Vincent McMorrow

Ho Hey – The Lumineers

Hold My Hand – Jess Glynne

How Does A Moment Last Forever – Celine Dion

How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding

How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye

I Love My Life – Robbie Williams

I’m Yours – Jason Mraz

It Must Be Love – Madness

It’s All About You – McFly

It’s Time (Live Lounge Version) – Imagine Dragons

I Will Wait (Slow Aisle Version) – Mumford & Sons

Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars

Kissing You – Des’ree

Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters

Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men

Locked Out Of Heaven – Bruno Mars

L.O.V.E. – Nat King Cole

Love Me Do – The Beatles

Love Me Like You Do – Ellie Goulding

Make You Feel My Love – Adele

Man In The Mirror – Michael Jackson

Marry Me – Train

Marry You – Bruno Mars

ME! – Taylor Swift ft. Brendon Urie

Mr Brightside – The Killers

My Girl – The Temptations

My Heart Will Go On – Titanic Theme Song

One Day Like This – Elbow

Only Girl In The World – Rhianna

On My Way – Rusted Root

Over And Over Again – Nathan Sykes

Paradise – Coldplay

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Pompeii – Bastille

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

Royals – Lorde

Rude – MAGIC!

Say You, Say Me – Lionel Richie

Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur

Shake It Off – Taylor Swift

Shape Of You – Ed Sheeran

She – Elvis Costello

Shotgun – George Ezra

Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder

Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

​Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi

Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Ukulele) – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

Stand By Me – Ben E King

Star Girl – McFly

Still Falling For You – Ellie Goulding

Still Into You – Paramore

Sweet but Psycho – Ava Max

Symphony – Clean Bandit

Take Me To Church – Hozier

Take My Breath Away – Berlin

The One – Kodaline

The Power Of Love – Gabrielle Aplin

The Wedding Song – Kenny G

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

​This Is Me – The Greatest Showman

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) – Natalie Cole

Tightrope – The Greatest Showman

Titanium – David Guetta

To Love Somebody -The Beegees

Us – Regina Spektor

Viva La Vida – Coldplay

Wake Me Up – Avicii

Walk Me Home – P!nk

We Found Love – Rihanna

What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

When We Were Young – Adele

Wings (Slow Wedding Version) – Birdy

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Wonderwall – Oasis

You Make My Dreams – Daryl Hall & John Oates

Your Song – Elton John

Zoom – Fat Larry’s Band

POP SONGS – OTHER

500 Miles – The Proclaimers

Amanda – Boston

Annie’s Song – John Denver

Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepson

Crazy For You – Madonna

Dreams – Fleetwood Mac

Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version) – Iron & Wine

Four Five Seconds – Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John

Good For You – Selena Gomez

Hello – Adele

Hey Jude – The Beatles

Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Invincible – Tinie Tempah/Kelly Rowland

La Deserteur – Boris Vian

La Mer – Charles Trenet

La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf

Let It Be – The Beatles

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Original) – Joy Division

Mr Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra

Nothing Else Matters – Metallica

Perhaps Love – John Denver

Radar Detector – Darwin Deez

Radioactive – Marina and the Diamonds

Romeo & Juliet – Dire Straits

Satellite – Oceanlab

Say Something – James

Shiver – Lucy Rose

Smooth Criminal – Michael Jackson

Somewhere In My Heart – Aztee Camera

Sound & Vision – David Bowie

Stay – Rihanna

Stay Alive – Jose Gonzalez

That’s Amore – Dean Martin

The Book Of Love – Peter Gabriel

The Scientist – Coldplay

​Through the Barricades – Spandau Ballet

Town Called Malice – The Jam

Whatever – Oasis

Whisky in the Jar – Thin Lizzy

You’ll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & The Pacemakers

Youth – Daughter

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