Elizabeth Mansfield
Tonight's Pirate Jenny's at the Drill Hall invites two outstanding artists new to the club, one a chanson and cabaret veteran, the other a compelling new voice.
Elizabeth Mansfield is one of Britain's most accomplished actor-singers, with a link to English chanson that goes back to early work with Leon Rosselson and a glowing reputation as an interpreter of European material. In recent years she's been touring her show Portraits in Song, assembled from the work of Bertolt Brecht and Edith Piaf, but sung in English, and she'll be drawing from this repertoire for her appearance tonight.
About as far apart as you can get, these two great figures of European chanson and ballad connect by contrast. Piaf engages the heart, Brecht the mind, but with songs full of fantastic theatricality and drama, and through the vivid and griping voice of the performer two powerfully different world views emerge. We're delighted finally to welcome Elizabeth to Pirate Jenny's with such first-class material.
Des de Moor
Fergus Rougier
"Mansfield's stellar acting and singing is mindblowing" - What's On in London
Fergus Rougier is a new English chansonnier and accordionist, who tonight brings his own "dark cabaret" songs, influenced by the work of Kurt Weill, Jacques Brel, Cole Porter and Tom Waits and standing alongside the work of the Tiger Lillies and Dresden Dolls. Expect dark humourous lyrics, catchy melodies, bitter torch songs and Cowboy film noir.
As always, Pirate Jenny's tonight includes a performance by founder and host Des de Moor, a superb and dramatic singer, writer of salty English chanson and an acclaimed translator and populariser of songs from mainland Europe.
Elizabeth Mansfield website: www.ensemble-online.com
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16 Chenies Street
London WC1E 7EX
www.drillhall.co.uk
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+44 (0)20 7307 5060
Times 20:00-22:00 hrs PROMPT
Tickets GBP10.00/7.00
Licensed bar
Space at the Drill Hall 2 is limited so advance booking is highly recommended
Underground Goodge Street (Northern Line)
National Rail Euston (Virgin, Silverlink)
Bus 10, 24, 29, 73, 134, 390
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