BARB JUNGR PLAYS PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ SUPPER
CLUB, PIZZA ON THE PARK.
Pizza on the Park, 11 Knightsbridge, London SW1,
reservations 0207 235 5273
Wednesday 19th – Saturday 22nd May, 2004. 9pm. Wed/Thur: £14/£16. Fri/Sat:
£18/£20
Barb Jungr, the Diva of contemporary cabaret in the UK is to perform at the
Pizza on the Park and Mama Rose in New York.
International Artist of the Year (Backstage Awards, New York) will perform
tracks from her recent hit album, Waterloo Sunset, and much more;
accompanied by the charming Adrian York, at the piano, at the famous Pizza
on the Park, in May. Barb appeared in two runs at Pizza on the Park in
March, earlier this year, with Claire Martin and Mari Wilson, in their show
‘Girl Talk’. The runs were a huge success, playing to sell-out audiences,
and outstanding critical acclaim ("Think the Three Tenors with added diva
glamour" Evening Standard). Barb’s latest album has received excellent
reviews (“An outstanding songwriter…” Mojo; “…for anybody to tackle
‘Waterloo Sunset’, they must be touched or divine. Barb Jungr pulls it off.
Ergo, she must be both.” Record Collector; “Waterloo Sunset provides more
evidence in favour of the Pink Paper's assertion that 'Jungr is now a fully
fledged English Piaf'”. Jazz at Ronnie Scott's) and this set of shows is
followed up with continued UK touring, including at the Cheltenham Jazz
Festival (Cabaret at the Pump Room, Sun 2 May 2004 8:30pm - 10:30pm,
Pittville Pump Room) with Adrian York. Barb returns to the famous Mama
Rose’s Cabaret Club in New York in June (Monday 14, Wednesday 16, Friday
18th and Monday 21st, 9.30 pm, 219 2nd Avenue, New York. Reservations +1
212 533 0558.
www.mamaroses.net). Barb
has received a very warm welcome in the notoriously ‘difficult to crack’ New
York cabaret circuit, and will continue to work there over the next year, as
well as continuing her very busy schedule in the UK and Europe.
What the critics say: “With Barb Jungr every song becomes a poem” THE
OBSERVER. “…the kind of voice that many more should get round to
hearing” MOJO. “[Jungr] turns cabaret singing into an art form”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. "a shrewd, articulate and subtle artist" THE
GUARDIAN. "Though Barb Jungr has long been one of our finest singers,
her work
has reached new heights in the past few years." SUNDAY TIMES.
Meet Diva Barb!
Internationally
acclaimed singer, performer and writer Barb Jungr grew up in Rochdale and
Stockport in the northwest of England in a European household. As a young
girl she wrote music, poetry and plays throughout her school years and
developed her passion for performance. In London she met and made music with
a huge range of performers. Always defying genre classifications, she
became part of the early alternative cabaret circuit, which had a profound
effect on her subsequent work and during and after which she had a 12 year
song-writing and musical partnership with the blues guitarist and singer
Michael Parker. Her interest in ‘world music’ grew as she toured some of the
more remote parts of the world for The British Council(Malawi, Cameroon,
Burma, Tanzania, The Yemen) prompting her to study ethnomusicology for which
she learned Iranian Tribal singing. Specialising in ‘voice’ alongside giving
concerts she has since lectured, written and broadcast extensively and
internationally on vocal techniques and singing. As well as her solo
recordings, performances and tours Jungr has worked with the acclaimed Amici
multi disciplinary dance troupe whose production of ‘20/20’, (a history of
disability in the twentieth century) featured Jungr as the crazed MC of a
circus of freaks and played two short seasons at The Lyric, Hammersmith and
in Berlin (2000- 2002.) She collaborated with composer Jonathan Cooper on
his ‘Moon Behind The Clouds’ cycle which he wrote for her unique voice, she
was featured in Simon Armitage’s millennial poem Channel 4 film directed by
Brian Hill and created the cabaret ‘Girl Talk’ with Mari Wilson and Claire
Martin. Barb Jungr is one of the foremost singers of Jacques Brel’s
repertoire, and with Chanson The Space In Between, (Linn Records AKD 167)
she transformed classic Brel and Ferré songs with new arrangements and
specially commissioned translations. The CD was one of The Sunday Times’
ten best jazz CD’s of 2000. Her Bob Dylan interpretations, the CD Every
Grain Of Sand (Linn records AKD 187), was selected as one of The
Telegraph’s, The Sunday Times’ and the Washington City newspaper’s Top Ten
Jazz CD’s of 2002. In 2001 Jungr performed in Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany,
Norway and The UK. Every Grain Of Sand was invited to New York in 2002 for
an autumn run at the Flea Theatre (supported by The British Council) for
which Barb won a Backstage Bistro Award for excellence in cabaret as
International Artist of The Year in March 2003. She has subsequently
returned to New York by popular demand. Adrian York started his musical
career playing keyboards in the early 80s boy-band Roman Holliday. Through
the rest of the 80s and 90s he successfully combined working in the pop
industry as a session musician and MD for artists as diverse as Ronny
Jordan, Seal, Shirley Bassey and Lily Savage with a jazz career. For the
last few years he has worked as a media composer with many credits in TV,
radio and commercials. Present projects include writing music for a drama
series for BBC1, production of Mari Wilson’s new album and consultancy work
for Disney and other companies on creativity and leadership.
The artist welcomes fans'
mail at Barb Jungr
barb.jungr@virgin.net
. Visit Diva Barb at:
www.barbjungr.co.uk
Linn Records.