Song Stylist Barb Jungr Makes Cafe Carlyle Debut 3/11-3/28

Barb Jungr, the iconoclastic British song stylist, will make her Café Carlyle debut in an exclusive three-week engagement. Beginning Wednesday, March 11th (and playing through March 28th), Ms. Jungr, who earned Time Out New York's "Best of the Year" honors for her two Manhattan engagements in 2008 and whom The New York Times calls "a complete entertainer," moves uptown to premiere a brand new show, The Men I Love.

In The Men I Love, as she has done most notably with the music of Bob Dylan, Jungr re-imagines a flock of contemporary tunes -- many of them rock, folk, blues and R&B classics -- allowing them to take flight in unexpected ways. Rather than egotistically disfiguring them, Jungr fleshes out shadings and meanings that are inherent - if not apparent. "Often very simple songs are loaded with shadows and light," she explains. With a depth of feeling that glows ember-like and a wit and intelligence that flashes like a sword in the sun, Jungr's eye-opening renditions not only surprise, they often fulfill -- miraculously and convincingly -- the true lyric potential of these songs.

Among the predominantly American songwriters whom Jungr loves include Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Todd Rundgren, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, the Talking Heads, and Paul Simon. Among the songs in The Men I Love are "Night Comes On," "Wichita Lineman," "Everything I Own," "Walking in the Sun," "Can't Get Used to Losing You" and "Walking in Memphis."

The Men I Love will feature Jungr's London-based music director/arranger, Simon Wallace, on piano, who has yet to play with Ms. Jungr in New York.

The performance schedule is: Wednesday-Friday at 8:45 PM and Saturday at 8:45 PM & 10:45 PM. There is a $50 music charge for the Wednesday - Friday performances and a $65 music charge for the Saturday performances. Bar seating is available Wednesday-Friday ($30) and Saturday ($35). Dinner is served from 6:30PM.

The legendary Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel - 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue, and is what Liz Smith calls the "favorite of all New York nightspots." For reservations please call 212-744-1600. For additional information please visit www.thecarlyle.com.

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