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 NEWS
 NEW CD RELEASE
‘The Men I Love’ - Barb Jungr’s new CD featuring repertoire by Dylan, Cohen, Diamond, Byrne and more is available now and released nationally on March 8th, 2010 on Naim Label - naimcd144
for more information please go to
www.naimlabel.com
**** The Sunday Times
**** The Independent
**** Rock’n’Reel
“Only Glenn Campbell has delivered a better version of Wichita Lineman”
Choice, Feb 2010
“Jungr needs no added ingredients to improve her communication of these great songs.” The BBC Jazz Review, March 2010
“There are few better interpreters of contemporary song than Barb Jungr.” Rock’n’Reel
“First recorded by Glen Campbell, I can think of no other version of Jimmy Webb’s ‘Wichita Lineman’ which best conveys the infinite horizons of northern Oklahoma which provided the inspiration of the song than Jungr’s reworking here.” Jazzwise
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More CD reviews here »
Barb’s prior recordings can be ordered or downloaded directly from Linn records.
Writing and Musical Theatre
‘The Fabulous Flutterbys’ written by Barb Jungr opened in May 2010 at The Little Angel Puppet Theatre, directed by Peter Glanville, performed by Seonaid Goody, Jonathan Storey and Arran Glass, with puppets by Roger Lade and designed by Ann Tilby.
**** FOUR STARS - Time Out
**** FOUR STARS - Evening Standard
**** FOUR STARS - Sunday Express
*** THREE STARS – Guardian
CRITICS CHOICE - Time Out
"A creepy-crawly delight."
Time Out
"...this is surely one of the best-value tickets in town."
Evening Standard
"...there is no more enchantingly written and executed show than The Fabulous Flutterbys"
Sunday Express
"...my grandson announced that he'd like to see the show again" The Guardian
"Roger Lade’s enchanting glittery-eyed puppets... are utterly, butterfly fabulous."
The Stage
View scenes and songs from the show on our YouTube channel in our Fabulous Flutterbys Video
Mabel Stark Tiger Tamer’ a musical theatre piece by composer Jonathan Cooper and lyricist Barb Jungr began with a work in progress showing at Greenwich Theatre’s Musical Future’s season in November 2008 and was subsequently workshopped at the RSAMD in Glasgow in November 2009 with director Laurie Sansom. It is currently in development with Northampton and Derngate Theatres in collaboration with director and dramaturg Laurie Sansom for production in 2011. |
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LIVE NEWS
Barb appeared on NY1 TV in spring during her performances at The Metropolitan Room - see that interview and clips here »
Barb appears for a week at the Assembly Rooms during this summer’s Edinburgh Festival, accompanied by Simon Wallace, after a return to Fleece Jazz and the 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea. She tours Australia in early Sepetmber, with appearances in Sydney, Mebourne, Canberra, Katoomba and the Noosa Jazz Festival, accompanied by Jenny Carr. In October Barb returns to New York to reprise her rave reviewed show ‘River’ at The Metropolitan Room and to appear at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at The Lincoln Centre. In the autumn in the UK she plays in the southwest, Liverpool and at the Leicester Square Theatre before performing in St Louis and San Francisco in early December returning to play Christmas Eve at The Vortex.
Live details here »
News - June 2010
Read what people are saying
"…the brilliant British chanteuse who inserts sticks of emotional dynamite into songs of every vintage…Empathyis her game, and few singers in any genre extend themselves more deeply into the lives of others." -
Stephen Holden, The New York Times (May 2010)
“…she brings to it the same creative capacity for reinterpretation and re-examination that Ella Fitzgerald and Mabel Mercer brought to Cole Porter.” - Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal (May 2010)
“The spirited chanteuse sings ditties you've heard before but never expected to hear this way. She gets so deep into her material, you may get the bends resurfacing…miss her artistry at your peril.” - David Finkel, Village Voice (May 2010)
“The English singer cut loose with raw anguish and easy humour, confirming her status as the most exciting interpreter around….One of the very best nightclub singers in the world.”
- Adam Feldman, Time Out New York, (March 2009)
“Barb Jungr’s voice has established her as a superlative interpreter of the great song-books” Independent Aug 2009
Awards
Ranked No 1 of The Best Cabaret 2008 by Time Out New York
Ranked No 2 The Best Cabaret 2009 by Time Out New York for ‘The Men I Love’ at The Café Carlyle
“The astonishing English singer blew new life into the Carlyle, and the room has never seemed less stuffy.” Read more »
2008 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist
2003 Backstage Award for Best International Artist
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A LETTER FROM PIMLICO
June 2010
Gardening is fun – hold the front page – I never got it, Dillie Keane told me gardening was her yoga, and I said ‘yeah yeah’ but suddenly yesterday it all came clear. I’d come up to Stockport to see my mum, and she had asked me to help her with the back of her garden where the trees were overgrowing, and I got stuck in and pruned and gathered and sweated and strained, and the end result was wonderful. So now I am thinking, maybe allotments are the secret of life in the city, maybe a garden is the road to happiness. It will probably pass, along with most of my enthusiasms, within days. My main joy is a rescued plant from the garden centre, that, re-potted, seems to have sprung to voluptuous, flowering life.
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