Monique
Steve Tasane
and Des de Moor.

Pirate Jenny's autumn season has a French chanson flavour with a series of French singers headlining, supported by some of our most distinctive English chansonniers and a splash of performance poetry.

The season opens in September with the return of superb cabaret and chanson singer MONIQUE. Originally from the south of France and a graduate of the Nîmes Conservatoire, Monique now specialises in authentic French popular songs from the 1930s to the present day, many of them in original English translations, including work by Trenet, Aznavour, Piaf, Barbara, Prévert and Kosma, Bécaud, Josephine Baker and Patricia Kaas. You'll also find some originals, a little Flanders and Swann and a Corsican folksong thrown into the mix! This "chanteuse puissante et expressive" (Le Monde) hosts her own international cabaret sea-sons at Walton-on-Thames and will be appearing straight from the Edinburgh fringe, with NIGEL JONES on piano.

PJ veteran and sometime deputy host STEVE TASANE brings his distinctive performance poetry back to the Vortex tonight. A stalker of stages from Glastonbury to the ICA and now host of the Soho Theatre's regular Pure Poetry club night, Steve has published three books of verse but it's in performance that his wordsmithing, which laces political anger with acid humour and displays an invention sprung from a deep love of language and amusical sensibility, jumps off the page and into the audience's faces. Steve co-founded semi-legendary poetry pop group Atomic Lip and has pioneered performance prose, taking an entire novel, Sic, on tour.

As always Pirate Jenny's host and resident performer DES DE MOOR contributes his own mini-set of unique and dramatic performance combining moving and witty originals and classic European songs, with DAVID HARROD on piano.

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See also

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