Barb Jungr to Premiere DANCING IN THE DARK at 59E59 Theaters, 12/22-29
By: Tyler Peterson Nov. 20, 2013
59E59 Theater has announced that renowned British chanteuse Barb Jungr makes her only NYC engagement of 2013 at 59E59 Theaters when she premieres her new show Barb Jungr: DANCING IN THE DARK, accompanied on piano by Tracy Stark. Barb Jungr: DANCING IN THE DARK begins performances on Sunday, December 22 for a limited engagement through Sunday, December 29. The performance schedule is Tuesday & Thursday at 7:15 PM; Friday - Saturday 5:15 PM & 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 7:15 PM. Please note, there is an added performance on Sunday, December 29 at 3:15 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Single tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.Playing her only New York engagement in 2013 at 59E59 Theaters, the critically acclaimed British songstress Barb Jungr premieres her new show Barb Jungr: DANCING IN THE DARK on the winter solstice. Specially created for the Holiday season, this show features songs by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more, done in Jungr's sultry stripped down style, a seductive accompaniment to the long nights ahead.
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.In 2013 Barb toured the UK and performed in Indianapolis, Toronto and across the Eastern seaboard in the spring. She returned to Australia to perform the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in the Gala performances, two premier concert appearances, and played the Melbourne Recital Centre and Sydney's premier supper clubs in June. She co-adapted Michael Rosen's best selling book We're Going on a Bear Hunt with Peter Glanville and wrote the songs and music for the show, which premiered at The Little Angel Theatre and toured the UK in autumn 2013. She contributed a diary to The New Statesman and was a featured vocalist in the recording of Robb Johnson's Gentle Men and she was a patron of the first upcoming London Cabaret festival.
"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.
Her second collection of Dylan's songs, The Man In The Long Black Coat - Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan was released in May 2011 by Linn Records to excellent reviews. She toured throughout the UK and the USA in autumn 2011, performing for the first time in LA and Austin with return appearances in San Francisco and a two-week run in New York.
In 2012, Barb worked on and completed her long awaited new release Stockport To Memphis with collaborators Simon Wallace and Jenny Carr, while touring and writing. The album, released on Naim Jazz in October 2012, is biographical, drawing on Jungr's north-western upbringing and celebrates elements of her musical and geographic journey. She also began work on a new theatre show for the Little Angel Theatre Company with director Peter Glanville.Born and raised in 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 sold out 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).
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