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 NEWS
 NEW CD RELEASE
‘The Men I Love’ - Barb's new CD featuring songs by Dylan, Cohen, Diamond, Byrne and Eno and more is now available for download and pre-order CD on Naim Label
www.naimlabel.com
Click here to download a free taster track 'Wichita Lineman'
The studio recording of ‘The Men I Love’ featuring some of London’s greatest musicians is released at the end of January on the very prominent and exciting Naim Label. With her customary approach to arrangements of The New American Songbook, (songs by Byrne and Eno, Cohen, Dylan, Diamond and more) in collaboration with composer Simon Wallace Barb reveals herself to be a peerless interpreter of popular song, championing pop tunes as classic repertoire. Musicians are Simon Wallace on piano, organ and synth, Frank Schaeffer on cello, Steve Watts on double bass, Paul Clarvis on percussion and Clive Bell on flutes and shakahachi. The album was recorded in London, mixed by Christoph Bracher and features the photography of Steve Ullathorne.
Click here to buy online at www.naimlabel.com
Tourdates begin on 14th January at Guildford - more info »
Barb’s prior recordings can be ordered or downloaded directly from Linn records.
NEW WRITING AND COLLABORATIONS
‘The Fabulous Flutterbys’ by Barb Jungr opens in May 2010 at The Little Angel Puppet Theatre. A children’s story with music, centering on the trials and tribulations of two caterpillar friends in the modern, changing world The Fabulous Flutterbys is directed by Peter Glanville, with puppets by Sue Dacre and design by Ann Tilby.
'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 Laurie Sansom. |
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LIVE NEWS
“Barb Jungr’s voice has established her as a superlative interpreter of the great song-books” The Independent
Barb starts 2010 with live appearances on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC London's Joanne Good and Robert Elm's shows. She returns to The Cafe Carlyle in New York for 6 late night shows in late February and early March and her downtown home, The Metropolitan Room, for a week in May to launch the US release of her new Naim Label CD, The Men I Love.
‘The Men I Love’ premiered in the UK in early November at The South Bank Centre and tours the UK throughout 2010 - dates and information here
Barb returns to New York’s Café Carlyle in February and March 2010 with Simon Wallace on piano with a fabulous new collection of material – ‘River’ – featuring songs from her new CD, her extensive back catalogue, and exciting new repertoire including Hank Williams, Kern and Hammerstein, Ewan McColl, Percy Mayfield and more.
Barb returns to London’s Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre on June 4th, performing ‘River’ - the collection she debuts at New York’s Café Carlyle in February and March featuring songs from her new CD and back catalogue and more.
Once again Barb was chosen in Time Out New York’s ‘Best Shows of 2009’ for ‘The Men I Love’ at The Café Carlyle, having topped the list last year for her 2008 appearances in New York -
"The astonishing English singer blew new life into the Carlyle, and the room has never seemed less stuffy."
Time Out New York have chosen her next Café Carlyle appearance in Feb and March 2009 as highlights in the coming year.
Read more here »
Barb’s March ’09 debut at the most prestigious of cabaret rooms, The Café Carlyle, was a triumph, garnering rave reviews and cheering audiences.
Read live reviews here »
‘Caught In The Act’ - A new archival article of the full expanse of Barb’s career up to last year appears in the online magazine ‘Caught In The Act’ - you can read about it here »
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A LETTER FROM PIMLICO
January 2010
I’m writing on an Amtrak train which is standing in the station in
Washington DC because the lines in Baltimore are closed due to someone
walking along the tracks and being hit by a speeding train. They are
dead as doornails apparently. There is no news about when we might set
off due to investigations now on the lines and all trains are
suspended. The good news – as they have just announced – is that the
train café is now open!
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