Barb Jungr
 We produce landmark concerts of Barb's work, including recent appearances at the Purcell Room and Almeida Theatre in London and the Queens Hall in Edinburgh, but no longer look after her touring shows.
Barb Jungr is a singer, performer and writer, whose varied
work has ranged from winning the Perrier award in 1987 as part of the show
Brown Blues, to writing the lyrics for a new musical version of The
Jungle Book.
Last year, Barb launched her new
blues and gospel show Walking In The Sun at the Edinburgh
festival, ahead of the album's release in the Autumn, accompanied by a
tour.
Still available is her popular Elvis-inspired
show Love
Me Tender, which can be seen around the UK and in New York
City this year. Barb is also performing two of her earlier shows at
the Adelaide
Cabaret Festival in June.
A new show for 2007 is Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan,
building on Barb's reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Dylan's
work. Barb contributed two songs to the Dylan birthday
concert at The Barbican, which was later broadcast by the BBC. This show launches with two major concerts in summer 2007 - the first at London's Almeida Theatre on Monday 23 July 2007, and the second at Edinburgh's Queens Hall on Monday 20 August 2007, during the festival.
Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan
In 2005 the Barbican and the BBC hosted a televised
concert to celebrate the work of Bob Dylan through many of the performers
who have sung his songs. In introducing Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg stated
she was “possibly the best interpreter of Bob Dylan’s songs”.
In this view he is not alone. On both sides of the Atlantic and in Australia,
Jungr has been wowing audiences and critics with her astonishingly powerful
reinterpretations of this great songwriter’s work.
With the release
of her critically acclaimed and top selling ‘Every
Grain of Sand’ in 2002, Jungr explored Dylan’s lesser known
and well known repertoire exclusively. Since that time her last three
Linn Records releases have each contained two further Dylan compositions.
Demands have increased for her to sing an evening of exclusively
Dylan material since 2002, and her three exclusively Dylan shows at last
year’s
Adelaide Cabaret festival were resounding sell-out hits. Due to this
demand Jungr is now touring this new show internationally, combining
her most
popular interpretations with new Dylan pieces.
Walking In The Sun
One
of Britain’s leading voices, this new show from Barb Jungr
features her greatest musical and vocal passions: blues and gospel.
Reinterpreting the material in her uniquely powerful
yet intimate style, Barb delves deep to discover what the songs reveal
about the world today. Accompanied by musicians Jenny Carr on piano
and Jessica Laurens on keyboards, harmonica and percussion.
Including classics such as Curtis Mayfield’s ‘People
Get Ready’, Leadbelly and Dylan’s ‘Brady and Duncan’ and
Dylan’s ‘Blind Willie McTell’. Jungr proves that she
remains “Britain’s leading chansonnier” The
Times 2005.
"Jungr is obviously a star. Her linking chat,
which verges on stand-up, is disconcertingly honest and funny." The
Scotsman, August 2005
"A rapidly rising star of the English cabaret
world, she is a genuine original. She knows just how a song should
feel." Time Out New York, 2004
Love Me Tender
An uncharted journey into The King’s legacy
Some of the greatest song
writing talents of the fifties, sixties and seventies wrote for the
legendary singer Elvis Presley. Barb Jungr,
regarded as Britain’s
foremost chansonnier and finest song stylist, takes these songs
and embarks on a journey through love, obsession and faith.
The
show features some of Presley’s most well known songs as
well as the gospel and Bob Dylan songs he sang. With the accompaniment
of Britain’s
top musicians and stunning arrangements, the songs and their history
come together, and we hear the lyrics anew.
Jungr's witty interactions
with
her audiences and vocal virtuosity have led to comparisons with
Piaf, Nina Simone,
Bette Midler, and Janis Joplin. In her blending of jazz, European
cabaret and humour, she is unique.
Barb Jungr won the prestigious
New York Backstage Award for Best International Artist in 2003.
“The thinking person’s cabaret singer” Sunday
Times
“As spirited as they come, brave and true. Catch
her in performance - and there's no more electrifying theatrical performer
than Jungr
when she's
flying” The Herald
“With Barb Jungr every song becomes a poem” The Observer
“A voice that would have brought a goose out
in gooose bumps” Maureen
Lipman in The New Statesman
“A spontaneous soulfulness infuses her work,
often aided by jazzy arrangements and jazzy collaborators.” The
Guardian
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