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 Barb is currently working on new material for both sides of the Atlantic with arranger and composer Simon Wallace (The Men I Love) and with Jenny Carr (Tell It Like It Is).
2008 saw the release of Jungr’s new CD and 6th recording for Linn Records, ‘Just Like A Woman – Hymn to Nina’ (AKD 309). The album has had fantastic 4 star reviews “unashamedly dark’ (The Sunday Tines) and was ‘Album of the Week‘ in the Independent with Tim Cummings saying “classy doesn’t even begin to sum it up”. Featuring songs originally sung by Nina Simone and recorded with a stunning group of musicians the album was produced by legendary Blue Nile producer, Calum Malcolm.
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NEW WRITING AND COLLABORATIONS
Barb is developing a piece with The Little Angel Puppet Theatre for 2010. The Fabulous Flutterbys is a children’s story with music, centering on the trials and tribulations of two caterpillars in the modern, changing world. She is collaborating with composer Jonathan Cooper as lyricist and book writer on a piece celebrating the circus star and tiger tamer Mabel Stark, which had a first work in progress showing at Greenwich Theatre’s Musical Future’s season in November 2008. With physical theatre practitioner John Paul Zaccarini Barb is writing The Art Of Falling Gracefully, supported by Newbury Corn Exchange. Barb writes regularly for The Singer magazine.
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LIVE NEWS
New York Times Review
'The Café Carlyle was the site of a small revolution with the sensational uptown debut of the English cabaret singer Barb Jungr.'
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Time Out New York Review
'Simply put, this English chanteuse is one of the very best nightclub singers in the world, and she knocks the genteel Café Carlyle on its pearl-studded ear.'
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Barb is in 'The Hot List' in the Independent on Sunday 15th February bringing together the 100 hottest people, things and fashions in the UK this year.
Barb Jungr - "She's not new - in fact this highly idiosyncratic chanson diva has been performing and recording for years - but she's reached beyond cult status and is tantilisingly close to mass attention with her jazzy versions of Dylan, Elvis and Nina Simone. Check out her singing 'Like A Rolling stone' on YouTube. Then quickly get the back catalogue for your next dinner party"
Barb Jungr 'No Regrets' and 'I Got Life' elected Best Cabaret Show in Time Out New York
Metropolitan Room
January & September 2008
"The English singer cut loose with raw anguish and easy humor, confirming her status as the most exciting interpreter around."
In March Barb performs a 3 week season at New York's premier cabaret room the Cafe Carlyle, at the Carlyle Hotel with her new collection of songs arranged with British composer and pianist Simon Wallace. ‘The Men I Love’ features songs by songwriters including Dylan, Cohen, Springsteen, Simon and more, in stunning new arrangements by Barb and Simon, with whom she worked on her best selling album of Bob Dylan songs and her chansons material for Linn Records.
In spring 2009 Barb performs around the UK, in her own collections and also continuing her concerts with Variety Lives.
Summer 2009 sees Barb launching a new show in the UK produced by Warren Lakin and Mike McCarthy. Accompanied by Jenny Carr and Jessica Lauren, ‘Tell It Like It Is – Barb Jungr sings songs of War and Peace’ is based on her performance earlier in the year in the International Voices Series for The South Bank and features songs by Bragg, Brel, Cohen, Dylan, Previn, Bogle and Stevens among more. The show will support the work of International Alert and will feature Don McCullum’s photographs. The show is booked for the Edinburgh Festival and beyond.
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A LETTER FROM DEVON & DORSET
Late May 2009
The coastal path on the southern coastline in Britain must be one of the most beautiful walks in the world. I snuck down – skiving essentially, to Devon and Dorset last weekend as it was my birthday and I needed a treat, staying with old friends – that’s friends I have had for a long time rather than ancient people – in South Brent and near Bridport.
The weather was so warm, wonderful and windy, that walking was just a joy and on Sunday we headed up through Lady Wood to Ugborough Beacon on Dartmoor.
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