NEW CD RELEASE
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‘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.
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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.
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LIVE NEWS
Barb appeared on NY1 TV in spring during her performances at The Metropolitan Room - see that interview and clips here »
Barb appears for a week at the Assembly Rooms during this summer’s Edinburgh Festival, accompanied by Simon Wallace, after a return to Fleece Jazz and the 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea. She tours Australia in early Sepetmber, with appearances in Sydney, Mebourne, Canberra, Katoomba and the Noosa Jazz Festival, accompanied by Jenny Carr. In October Barb returns to New York to reprise her rave reviewed show ‘River’ at The Metropolitan Room and to appear at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at The Lincoln Centre. In the autumn in the UK she plays in the southwest, Liverpool and at the Leicester Square Theatre before performing in St Louis and San Francisco in early December returning to play Christmas Eve at The Vortex.
Live details here »
News - June 2010
Read what people are saying
"…the brilliant British chanteuse who inserts sticks of emotional dynamite into songs of every vintage…Empathyis her game, and few singers in any genre extend themselves more deeply into the lives of others." -
Stephen Holden, The New York Times (May 2010)
“…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 spirited chanteuse sings ditties you've heard before but never expected to hear this way. She gets so deep into her material, you may get the bends resurfacing…miss her artistry at your peril.” - David Finkel, Village Voice (May 2010)
“The English singer cut loose with raw anguish and easy humour, confirming her status as the most exciting interpreter around….One of the very best nightclub singers in the world.”
- Adam Feldman, Time Out New York, (March 2009)
“Barb Jungr’s voice has established her as a superlative interpreter of the great song-books” Independent Aug 2009
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
“The astonishing English singer blew new life into the Carlyle, and the room has never seemed less stuffy.” Read more »
2008 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist
2003 Backstage Award for Best International Artist
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NEW WRITING AND COLLABORATIONS
‘The Fabulous Flutterbys’ written by Barb Jungr opened in May 2010 at The Little Angel Puppet Theatre, directed by Peter Glanville, performed by Seonaid Goody, Jonathan Storey and Arran Glass, with puppets by Roger Lade and designed by Ann Tilby.
**** 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’ 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 director and dramaturg Laurie Sansom for production in 2011.
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