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 RECORD NEWS
 A radio edit single of ‘Just Like A Woman’ will be released in early 2012. The track can be downloaded in full from Linn Records, Amazon and Itunes.
LATEST CD RELEASE
The second collection of Barb Jungr singing Bob Dylan ‘The Man In The Long Black Coat’ including 4 newly recorded tracks released by Linn Records on May 30th 2011. Cd available from www.linnrecords.com
*****Record Collector
****The Sunday Times
"As a Dylan interpreter, Jungr is right up there with Simone or The Byrds." BBC
"with a pensive, unfailingly literate collection…and the musicianship is never less than first rate." The Sunday Times
"widely regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of what she calls ‘the new American songbook’ and central to this is the back catalogue of Bob Dylan." The American
Tracks include Like A Rollin’ Stone, Tomorrow is a Long Time, It Ain’t Me Babe and With God On Our Side.
Durga Rising Jan 30th 2012 - from Keda Records including previously unreleased tracks and available here - www.keda.co.uk/keda/shop.aspx and more info on the tracks and lyrics, here - www.keda.co.uk
The Men I Love - Barb Jungr’s highly acclaimed CD featuring repertoire by Dylan, Cohen, Diamond, Byrne and more is available on Naim Label
For more information please go to www.naimlabel.com
**** The Sunday Times
**** The Independent
**** Rock’n’Reel
****The Telegraph
****The Times
****Downbeat
****The Scotsman
“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
Click here to buy online at www.naimlabel.com
www.amazon.co.uk
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Barb’s prior recordings can be ordered or downloaded directly from Linn records.
WRITING AND MUSICAL THEATRE
‘The Fabulous Flutterbys toured spring 2011
The Fabulous Flutterbys, a musical for children by Barb Jungr opened in May 2010 at The Little Angel Puppet Theatre in Islington. Centering on the trials and tribulations of two caterpillar friends in the modern, changing world The Fabulous Flutterbys was directed by Peter Glanville, with puppets by Sue Dacre and design by Ann Tilby and toured through spring 2011 – details here – details here www.littleangeltheatre.com
**** 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 in development
Mabel Stark Tiger Tamer is a musical theatre piece by Jonathan Cooper and Barb Jungr which 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.
The Ballad Of Norah’s Ark - by Barb Jungr, Russell Churney and Andy Goldberg, is performed by The Billingham Players in June 2011
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LIVE NEWS
Barb named best cabaret act of 2011 by Time Out,
New York... Click here for full details
Celtic Connections in Glasgow in January 2012, Pizza Dean Street jazz club in Soho and many more... Click here for all dates
US SPRING TOUR 2012
After the success of the autumn 20122 tour Barb returns for a 3 week run at The Metropolitan Room to reprise her hugely successful performances of The Man In The Long Black Coat, Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan. Barb travels the Eatsern seaboard with the show in April 2012.
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Durga Rising re-release and live shows
In 2012 Barb collaborates with ace percussionist Kuljit Bhamra and pianist Simon Wallace to reform Durga Rising, for live shows and to re-release their 1995 CD previously only available through Keda Records featuring Barb, Kuljit and Russell Churney and including three previously unreleased, original tracks. On sale from January 30th 2012. With live dates in 2012.
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Girl Talk
eatures Barb, Mari Wilson and Gwyneth Herbert in a brand new collection of great songs, I Am Woman.
More details here: www.girltalkdivas.co.uk
Also at selected venues Barb performs The Men I Love, and Take Me To The River. Click here for all dates
NEWS
"In 2002, the British singer Barb Jungr released "Barb Jungr sings Bob Dylan: Every Grain of Sand," which is, as far as I'm concerned, the most significant vocal album of the 21st century thus far" The Wall Street Journal
"Miss her artistry at your peril" The Village Voice
Barb Jungr is known for her choice of repertoire, passionate singing, subtle musical arrangements and reinterpretation of great songs.
"As a Dylan interpreter, Jungr is right up there with Simone or The Byrds." The BBC
One of the most respected interpreters of contemporary songs and in particular the work of Bob Dylan, Barb has been featured on NY1 TV, BBC breakfast TV, in The New York Times, The Melbourne Age, The Sydney Herald, and the UK's Independent on Sunday. Her new collection of Bob Dylan’s songs, ‘The Man In The Long Black Coat’ was released by Linn Records in May 2011.
NEWS - JAN 2011
Once again Barb featured in Time Out New York's best of the year 2010 with Best Cabaret CD of the Year
Barb Jungr, The Men I Love (Naim)
The superb English singer showed off her infinite variety with lush, insightful reinventions of songs by Dylan, Springsteen, Cohen and more. Read more »
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Read what people are saying:
"In 2002, the British singer Barb Jungr released "Barb Jungr sings Bob Dylan: Every Grain of Sand," which is, as far as I'm concerned, the most significant vocal album of the 21st century thus far—certainly the one that's had the most profound impact on me, personally. Ms. Jungr was the first to show, and brilliantly so, that Dylan songs can be "unlocked" by singers outside of the folk and rock genres and that they're no less suitable as raw material for reinterpretation than those of Gershwin or Berlin. She forges a truly cosmic connection between singer and songwriter, performer and material, artist and art."
The Wall Street Journal Oct 2011
"A fearless iconoclast who dives into the deepest waters of popular song to wrest exotic treasure from the ocean floor." The New York Times Oct 2011
"she is THE reason why cabaret continues to find a new audience. And if that’s an overstatement, it gives her a goal which she will unquestionably accomplish. In a reasonably short amount of time, she has emerged as one part educator, one part icon, and all parts made of static electricity that will never cease to crackle across the wide oceans." (The Andrew Martin Report, 2011)
" her revelatory show at the Metropolitan Room, she provides stunning, deeply personal renditions of 13 Dylan classics in which every word shines with crystal clarity." The New York Post Oct 2011
"This is clearly Jungr’s show and a powerful, painful and distilled ‘Woman in Love’ which could not only wipe the floor, walls and windows with Streisand also firmly asserts her position as the most impeccable interpreter of the ‘chanson’ of her own – or any subsequent – generation." The Londonist Feb 2011
"Britain’s most ferociously brilliant and individual singer of classic songs." Mark Shenton, The Stage
"There's no one like her in the States or in her home, England. Her specialty is taking songs everyone knows by Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, or just about anything from recent chapters in the Great American Songbook and finding levels of meaning in them that even the original crooners had no idea were there. Incidentally, her intros are worth the admission price alone." Village Voice Choice, Nov 2010
"Barb Jungr’s voice has established her as a superlative interpreter of the great song-books"
Independent Aug 2009
“…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 unique artistry of Barb Jungr has brought rave reviews internationally and two New York Awards; her acclaimed recordings and her live performances have brought her to the world's stages.
"Casually virtuosic" The Guardian
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
2008 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist
2003 Backstage Award for Best International Artist
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See Barb Jungr on NY1 here »
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