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THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS are five musicians from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS specialise in playing well known modern and classic pop songs in styles completely at odds with the originals. “The Foo Fighters” are played on ukulele! “Keane” on mandolin and “Don’t Stop Me Now” by “Queen” is treated to acoustic guitar, fiddle and tambourine! “Green Day”, “The Stranglers” and “Jerry Lee Lewis” are also given THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS treatment as tongue remains firmly in cheek throughout. Between them they can boast two music degrees, one performing arts degree and countless decades of performing experience. JON BENNS has been a professional entertainer since the 1970s, touring as support act to numerous top names such as “Ultravox”, “Barclay James Harvest” and “Steeleye Span”. As a broadcaster he has presented folk and rock music programmes for both BBC and Independent radio stations. Jon now runs “The Music Trade”, the musical intstrument shop in Tewkesbury. He plays guitar, mandolin and ukulele.
JESSE BENNS plays percussion. At only 18 he is the baby of the group. His main job is to reduce the average age of all the other members! OONAGH HUGHES is a young singer and musician with a performing arts degree and a huge talent. Oonagh fronts the band with a dynamic voice and a personality to match.
An evening spent in the company of THE HAPPY ACCIDENTS is an evening of pure musicianship, quirky humour and equal measures of novelty and nostalgia. Contact ( and for ticket bookings ) Jon Benns. The Music Trade, 76 Church St., Tewkesbury GL20 5RX. Tel. 01684 850220 or Mob. 07967 597 388 Email jon@themusictrade.co.uk Listen to us on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/happyaccidentsband
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CAROLINE McQUILLAN-BENNS has a music degree. She has been teaching piano for 25 years. She also arranges and plays music for local Am Dram groups. Very much the “clever clogs” of the group, it can take the other members three weeks to learn a new song while Caroline can play it straight away with one hand while pouring herself a glass of wine with the other!
MAURICE HIPKISS left the Royal School of Music with a degree and an ambition to teach violin, but the lure of the spotlight proved to be too much for him. He now divides his time between live performing and session work in recording studios where he is much in demand as a violinist and pedal steel guitarist.