On Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May during the Isle of Arts Festival, Barb Jungr will be bringing her collection of songs celebrating the chansons tradition to Ventnor.
With her specially commissioned translations of Jacques Brel and Prevert, and including British chansons writers, Elvis Costello, Robb Johnson and the balladic Tom Rush and Leonard Cohen, Jungr returns to the material that launched her career in the USA and the UK.
Barb and her accompanist return to Ventnor Arts Club with her much requested chansons repertoire including the specially commissioned translations that have brought Jungr two New York Awards and established her career in the UK.
Her most recently released CD on Kristalyn Records, Hard Rain, has won the Broadway World Award for best Cabaret CD 2014 alongside garnering 4 and 5 star reviews worldwide, and Jungr is shortlisted as Best Vocalist by the London Cabaret Awards 2015. In this performance she will be accompanied by pianist Jenny Carr
The CD, Chansons The Space Inbetween, was recorded by Linn records in 1999 and released in May 2000. It continues to sell all over the world and Jungr is often requested to revisit these songs. This year she will premier them anew at Ventnor Arts Club for the Arts Festival.
Tickets on sale now via ventnorartsclub.com or at Ventnor Exchange.
