An accomplished song- writer, pianist, flute & guitar player she is also a well known actress of top film and theatre productions both nationally and abroad.
Un-missable!

Visit Juliet’s website: http://www.juliethowland.com

Barb took her sell-out show ‘The Man in the Long Black Coat: The songs of Bob Dylan’ to New York’s Metropolitan Room in October 2011 and won rave reviews.

Theater Scene has already pronounced the show one the ‘Best of 2011′ in their Cabaret Roundup stating, ‘her performances have become iconic.’ Plus Jungr was voted the Number One Cabaret Act of 2011 by Time Out New York following her Metropolitan Room run. Time Out NY commented: ‘The extraordinary English singer didn’t just cover Bob Dylan’s songs; she uncovered and discovered them with exuberant musical insight.’

Happily Barb Jungr fans can catch this great show when she returns to The Metropolitan Room, New York in April 2012.

Time Out New York – Best Cabaret CD of the Year

Once again Barb featured in Time Out New York’s best of the year 2010 with Best Cabaret CD of the Year – Barb Jungr, The Men I Love (Naim) The superb English singer showed off her infinite variety with lush, insightful reinventions of songs by Dylan, Springsteen, Cohen and more.

Barb has reinvented “cabartet” and in the even broader sense of a diverse range of songs interpreted in this style. A song-stylist incorporating  jazz and blues,  her approach often includes radical re-woekings and brilliant arrangements of classic songwriters such as Dylan, Springsteen, Cohen, Rundgren, Simon, Eno, Daimond etc, as well as original material.

With rave international reviews and two prestigious New York awards (2008 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist and Best International Artist 2003 Backstage Award), Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal style, interpretation of song and radical approach to arrangements. Her acclaimed releases on Linn Records and Naim Label, and “revelatory” live performances have brought her to audiences all around the world.

Barb celebrated 2011 touring the UK extensively with a new Bob Dylan collection, performing the show Girl Talk with Mari Wilson and Gwyneth Herbert, and collaborating with Kuljit Bhamra and Simon Wallace on Durga Rising. The CD The Man In The Long Black Coat – Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan was released in May 2011 by Linn Records to excellent reviews and she toured throughout the UK and to the USA in autumn 2011, performing for the first time in LA and Austin with return appearances in San Francisco and a 2 week run in New York.

“One of the best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan anywhere on this angst ridden planet today” (Village Voice, New York) and “one of the best nightclub singers in the world” (Time Out New York), Jungr is “a fearless iconoclast who dives into the deepest waters of popular song to wrest exotic treasure from the ocean floor” (The New York Times). Her earlier Dylan collection, Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan: Every Grain of Sand (Linn Records 2002), which the Wall Street Journal called “the most significant vocal album of the 21st century thus far,” is now regarded as a cult classic album.

Born and raised Rochdale and Stockport, Barb has worked with many of the finest musicians and composers in the UK (including Mark Anthony Turnage who wrote ‘About Water’ for her to sing at the re-opening of The South Bank with the London Symphonietta), has toured all over the world with the British Council in the 1990s (Malawi, Cameroon, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Cote D’Ivoire, Sudan), appeared in Australia (2006, 2007 and a sellout tour in 2010), toured across Norway and Holland and performs regularly in New York and across the United States (several seasons at The Cafe Carlyle and Metropolitan Room and Joe’s Pub, New York, Catalina’s in LA, Rrazz Room in San Francisco and for Austin Cabaret).

As a writer and lyricist, Barb’s credits include The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company), The Fabulous Flutterbys (The Little Angel Theatre), Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast and Dick Whittington for The Newbury Corn Exchange, and Mabel Stark Tiger Tamer currently in development for Northampton Royal and Derngate.

Barb lives in London.

Musician’s recording session at cathedral

2:40pm Monday 27th February 2012 in News By Warwick Payne

Marvin Ayres

MUSICIAN Marvin Ayres held a recording session with a difference at Winchester Cathedral last Friday (February 24).

He spent several hours performing in the historic landmark, but not with the aim of recording his notes.

Instead, he wanted to capture the echoes and reverberations for a major new project.

The multi-instrumentalist is visiting a range of awe-inspiring and unusual venues across Britain for his latest work.

It has already included visiting Portsmouth’s Royal Navy base and playing inside a submarine.

Later this year he intends to merge all of the captured echoes and reverberations into a new musical work.

He is also planning several live performances, which is expected to include a date at Winchester Cathedral.

The next date and location for Marvin Ayres’ Sacred Spaces project will be on Friday February 24th, 2012 in Winchester Cathedral.

Marvin Ayres’s latest project is Sacred Spaces. The idea behind Sacred Spaces is to use incongruous places for composition and performance and reawaken the inherent and/or dormant spirit residing in these unlikely locations. “Pilgrims in search of sonic beauty”. These include anything from derelict industrial sites to historical places of interest, (incorporating National Trust and English Heritage) and re appropriating them for musical purposes.

Sacred Spaces is an ongoing and evolving project. The instruments will be randomly tuned to compliment the environments and microphones will be used to pick up and record the full ambience of the spaces once excited by the cellos, violins and violas. One element which will link all the locations will be the same series of notes which will be assembled to create one collective piece composed from the overtones, sustains and reverberations recorded in each environment.

The intention is to return at a later date to the Cathedral and to stage and exhibit a 3D surround sound installation of the compositions that were inspired by, and recorded there. To accompany these journeys the project will be documented with a film diary.

Other locations planned or underway for “Sacred Spaces” are: Bretton Chapel in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, H.M.S Alliance submarine, Fleet Air Arm museum including Concorde, Tate art gallery store, Royal Observatory, The Atomic testing site at Orford Ness, and others.

Press Release February 2012:

The next date and location for Marvin Ayres’ Sacred Spaces project will be on Thursday February 9^th, 2012 on the island of “Orford Ness National Nature Reserve”, the old M.O.D Atomatic Weapons Research site used during the Cold War for environmental testing, taken over by the National Trust in 1993.

Duncan Kent, the National Trust’s Countryside & Visitor Experience Warden at Orford Ness, said: “Orford Ness has attracted many artists using different mediums over the years as it is often a thought-provoking and inspiring place, including iconic buildings and internationally important wildlife.”

Other locations planned or underway for “Sacred Spaces” are: Winchester Cathedral, Bretton Chapel in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, H.M.S Alliance submarine, Fleet Air Arm museum including Concorde, Tate art gallery store, Royal Observatory, and others.

Marvin Ayres is a British modern-classical composer, cellist, violinist, pianist and producer. He has composed and recorded a diverse selection of minimalist albums, incorporating spatial soundscapes and psycho-acoustics, in his 5.1 surround sound and latterly 9.1 surround sound Wall of Waves Studio. Sound engineer Alex Siddall will assist Marvin on the project.

Marvin’s latest work ‘Harmogram Suite’ is due for release in spring 2012.

www.marvinayres.com

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Submarine HMS Alliance used by composer Marvin Ayres

Marvin Ayres recorded sounds, echoes and reverberations on board HMS Alliance, based at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, in Gosport.

The session was part of his Sacred Spaces project, making recordings in historical environments with different sonic characteristics.

Mr Ayres said: “It’s ethereal and beautiful – beyond my expectations.”

During his career as a composer, cellist and pianist, Mr Ayres has contributed to albums by bands including Culture Club, Simply Red, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

‘Tight space’The Gosport recording saw the submarine wired with microphones to record Mr Ayres playing cellos, violins and violas.

Sound engineer Alex Sidell said: “It’s fantastic and particularly unique because of the tight space and all the metal.”

Classical composer Marvin Ayres plays on board HMS Alliance

The team plans to record in other historical or derelict venues around the country, including Cornish tin mines and the former Orford Ness atomic weapons research site in Suffolk.

Mr Ayres said: “The idea is just to go into a space and to try to extract the spirituality and resonances inherent in the building.”

It is hoped a piece of music will be compiled from the instruments and the echoes recorded in each environment, with an album available by the end of next year.

HMS Alliance is being restored as a memorial to submariners who gave their lives in military service.

It is listed in the UK’s historic ship’s register, alongside the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose, and HMS Victory.