Caroline Nin
John Peacock
and Des de Moor

Pirate Jenny's autumn season pairing specialists in the art of French language chanson with great new English chansonniers continues tonight with two long-awaited returning acts to the Vortex stage.

Elegant and evocative Parisian chanteuse CAROLINE NIN established herself during a sojourn in Britain as one of the leading singers of French material in the country. She's now based in Paris, but we're delighted to have tempted her back through the tunnel for a rare appearance. Caroline's recent album Scarlet Stories, taped live at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, combines songs from the likes of Brel and Piaf's regular writer Marguerite Monnot with classic Weimar-period German cabaret material and contemporary songs, including one specially written for her by Marc Almond.

A chanson interpreter with a background in jazz, she brings an assured improvisational swing to classic chanson tunes, and a French passion and intelligence to English song, coupled with a strikingly glamourous stage presence and a playful wit. She's joined tonight by pianist SEAN HARGREAVES.

JOHN PEACOCK is a familiar site to Pirate Jenny's audiences as a sideman in Philip Jeays' band, but he's a unique and brilliantly inventive singer-songwriter in his own right, as he's sure to convince you tonight. John delivers intelligent and stealthily intense material in a deceptively unassuming style, occupying the aesthetic territory of figures like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Tim Buckley but infused with his own very English eccentricity.

Master of ceremonies is as usual DES DE MOOR with his own selection of classic and original chansons, joined by maestro DAVID HARROD at the piano.

www.carolinenin.com
www.johnpeacock.com

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See also

Des de Moor's gigs page for a complete list of his forthcoming performances.