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 NEW CD - Just Like A Woman
2008 brought 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 Times) 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 including pianist and Barb’s MD Jenny Carr, organist and multi instrumentalist Jessica Lauren, drummer Johnny Lee, bassist Danny Thompson and saxophonist and clarinetist Mark Lockheart. The album was produced by Barb and legendary Blue Nile producer, Calum Malcolm.
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LIVE NEWS
Barb brings her 4 star repertoire of songs celebrating Nina Simone to London’s top jazz club Pizza Express Dean Street on May 8th, 9th and 10th accompanied by the great team of Jenny Carr and Jessica Lauren. Album and show reviews have been fantastic and the tour continues through the year.
Meanwhile Barb is thrilled to return to the Almeida in July, the 22nd (after her sellout show there last year) - this summer she revisits for the first time in a years her celebrated chansons material from her first ever Linn recording. Featuring new translations of Jacques Brel, Leo Ferre, plus Cole Porter and of course her beloved Bob Dylan, Barb is thrilled to revisit this powerful repertoire.
In August Barb premiers her highly acclaimed new Nina Simone show at the Edinburgh Festival with a 2 night return to the Assembly Queen’s Hall in August (6th and 7th). And in between she plays all over the country - don’t miss the UK’s foremost song stylist at a venue near you - check live dates for information »
BARB WINS 2008 NIGHTLIFE AWARD IN NEW YORK
2008 started with a bang when Barb won the Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist. The only broad-based, critic-driven award show for Nightlife in New York, the Nightlife Awards celebrates the best performances in cabaret, comedy, and jazz, the winners chosen by a total of four different panels representing nearly thirty critics from across the city. Barb will appear at the winners concert on January 28th at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
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A LETTER FROM PIMLICO
Spring 2008
The other night I was coming down the side of my flats at about 10.30 after a fabulous yoga class with fantastic Stewart, when I spotted a small animal run across my path. I stood stock still for a couple of minutes, during which time his shape and form registered. “It's a fox” I thought, noting his lovely long, white tipped tail and neatly shaped head. As I stood, silently, he turned and ran towards me, stopping only a few feet before me to look directly into my eyes, before turning and running into the garden bushes. I waited to see if he’d return but he was gone. At home a few minutes later I looked up the symbolism of foxes on the web, and came up with some wonderful information. For example some Japanese people would view this as a sighting of a rain God. Whatever it was, I have had a month of seeing the most wonderful animals, in and out of the city.
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