Barb Jungr
Barb Jungr, award-winning singer and longstanding favourite at Pirate Jenny's, makes an overdue and very welcome return to the Vortex. Barb is emerging as Britain's most accomplished musical cabaret artist and chansonnière: 2000's superb album Chanson the Space in Between made her reputation as an interpreter of French song in translation and 2002 has seen further interest and success with her stunning take on Bob Dylan songs, Every Grain of Sand (both Linn Records).
Multi talented, single minded and determined to raise the profile of the art of singing at every level, Barb combines chansons, jazz, blues, storytelling, and non-western vocal genres in her performances. Tonight she plays a mixed cabaret set with material from her vast and always fascinating repertoire.
Eric Presland
with Des de Moor
"At once glamorous and crazed...an outstanding cabarettist" Daily Telegraph.
"Queen of musical cabaret" Time Out
Sterling support is provided by another returning favourite, Eric Presland, gay theatre and cabaret stalwart and passionate researcher and advocate of the works of such figures as Kurt Weill, Francis Poulenc and Boris Vian. Eric is possibly best known as the man behind the cabaret stage at far more Pride festivals than you'd care to remember, a spark of hope in an increasingly brain-dead 'drag-and-boy-band' gay culture.
Recently Eric's been active in theatre again with the critically acclaimed Somebody Bin Usin' That Thing, documenting in astonishing style the hidden history of sexual alternatives in English-language song, and the revival of his musical Dorothy's Travels. He's also been writing some superb new material on his own account, so expect a mixed repertoire ably supported by David Harrod at the piano.
Pirate Jenny's host and resident performer Des de Moor offers his own mini-cabaret set, also in the company of David, bringing his unique and dramatic performance to moving and witty originals as well as drawing on a selection of French, German and Dutch material in original translations.
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London N16
Reservations
+44 (0)20 7254 6516
Times 20:00-23:15 hrs
Admission UKP6.00/5.00 (EUR10.00/8.50)
Hot food, licensed bar
Rail Stoke Newington (WAGN Liverpool Street)
Underground Manor House 2km
Bus 73 past the door (Victoria, Oxford Circus, Euston, Islington); 67, 76, 106, 149, 243 to Stoke Newington High Street
www.palay.ndirect.co.uk/
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Barb Jungr home page:
www.barbjungr.com