The interest in former bandleader Peter Fielding continues via his grandson Miki Volpe. Miki, ex-Guildhall violin student and later a detective with The Met, sent us these two photos.
One is of his father, Mike Fielding, drummer and bandleader in his own right whilst the other is of Peter Fielding himself. Miki, from his home in Spain where he and his wife now live after they both retired from The Met, tells me he inherited and still has, the Gibson mandolin that his grandfather is pictured with.
If instruments could only talk, what fascinating tales they would tell...
Lance.
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Apparently Mike Fielding lived in Belsay Avenue, Whitley Bay - just down the road from me. Sadly I never met him.
The photo with Peter playing mandolin also shows what appears to be a double neck lap steel guitar!
I worked for some time at the PLAZA ballroom with Mike Fielding also Peter on trombone
Very easy people to work with.
Raymond Newton Double Bass player
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