BARB JUNGR NEWS
Barb Jungr featured in the Independent on Sunday (14 April 2013)
How singer-songwriter coped with the death of her ex-husband and two sisters in the space of two years to became 'our greatest living interpreter of Bob Dylan'
Barb's tours Australia in June
Barb to play 11 dates in Australia accompanied by Simon Wallace on piano.
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Barb featured in the Telegraph newspaper (13 Dec 2012)
Her newly released CD Stockport to Memphis was in Chris Parker's Top Roundup of 2012 Jazz CD's and one of Ivan Hewitt's Telegraph column two best vocal jazz CD's of 2012.
(S)He's Not There - New video
Barb’s cover of the Zombies classic taken from her new album ‘Stockport to Memphis’ gets a new video by Corby film maker Nick Finn in a Blair Witch style!
River - From the superb new album Stockport to Memphis - a Christmas single.
Barb sings Joni Mitchell's River with the Northampton Royal and Derngate Community Choir, Gareth Fuller Choir director with Mari Wilson, Ian Shaw, Sarah Moule, Phebe Edwards, Olivia Williams and Israel J Allen. Produced by Simon Wallace - buy this beautiful version of the classic song now.
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BARB JUNGR – THE UK’S ANSWER TO EDITH PIAF
Barb's new CD - Stockport To Memphis (Naim Jazz) is the superb new album from the magnificent, mesmerising and magical Barb Jungr, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of song.
5 star review in Hi Fi Choice - read reviews »
Find out more about all of Barb's releases including her Dylan collections Man In The Long Black Coat and the cult classic Every Grain of Sand
The greatest musical thing to come out of Rochdale since Gracie Fields Matthew Sweet, BBC 3
One of the best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan anywhere on this angst ridden planet today. Village Voice, New York
AWARDS
Time Out New York - Best Cabaret CD of the Year 2010
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. The superb English singer showed off her infinite variety with lush, insightful reinventions of songs by Dylan, Springsteen, Cohen and more.
Best Cabaret 2008 - Time Out New York
No 2 Best Cabaret 2009 - Time Out New York for ‘The Men I Love’ at The Café Carlyle
Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist 2008
Backstage Award for Best International Artist 2003
Bob Dylan, jazz, northern soul, Nina Simone and continental Europe’s cabaret music perform a subtle dance in Jungr’s consciousness. The Guardian
A fantastic English singer... I was just amazed by her voice...
Jeremy Irons - Desert Island Discs
Possibly our best interpreter of Dylan’s songs. Billy Bragg
Brings the same creativity for reinterpretation and re-examination that Ella Fitzgerald brought to Cole Porter.
The Wall Street Journal