Hilde Hildebrand
Pirate Jenny's, London's unique monthly musical cabaret and chanson night, has been regularly presenting grownup songs for grownup people in the capital since December 1994. Now Jenny celebrates the approach of her first decade with a move to a new venue, the intimate Drill Hall 2 in the heart of Bloomsbury, central London. Our first show of the Autumn season is an outstanding bill mixing international Brechtian-inspired theatre song with new English songwriting.
Headlining the evening is German-born singer and actor Hilde Hildebrand returning to Pirate Jenny's in the company of her regular musical director and pianist Kees van
Zantwijk. Now based in Amsterdam and renowned there for a series of acclaimed music theatre and multimedia shows such as the recent Mehr-Meer and Belin Emigrant, Hilde is a compelling and witty cabarettiste who effortlessly evokes the world of 1920s Berlin in all its theatricality, melancholy, subversion and eroticism, while still finding a contemporary relevance. Expect songs from the likes of Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Franz Schubert...and Janis Ian, and to be delighted 'von Kopf bis Fuß'.
Pirate Jenny's founder and host Des de Moor is acknowledged as one of Britain's leading artists working in the cabaret-chanson tradition, a powerful and unique singer and performer with a repertoire encompassing his own salty English chansons and innovative interpretations of other peo-ple's material, including a line in original and faithful English versions of mainland European songs. Over the next four months he'll be presenting four different themed sets of songs at the Drill Hall with the exemplary assistance of Jenny's resident maestro David Harrod, starting tonight with an unsentimental journey into the work of Bertolt Brecht.
The Drill Hall shows also feature contributions from up-and-coming British singer songwriters, starting tonight with singer and actor Marcus Reeves. A regular performer on the London fringe, with a self-penned musical Cut out and keep performed in scratch form at Battersea Arts Centre, Marcus is tonight presenting his original songs which combine influences from music theatre, glam rock, Andy Williams and Neil Diamond. For more see www.reevescorner.co.uk.
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16 Chenies Street
London WC1E 7EX
www.drillhall.co.uk
Box office
+44 (0)20 7307 5060
Times 20:00-22:00 hrs PROMPT
Tickets UKP7.00/5.00
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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