Thu 8 May 2025 7:30pm - 9:20pm

Barb Jungr Sings Dylan & Cohen

£24.00

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Award-winning singer & writer and ‘Our greatest interpreter of Dylan’s songs’, Barb Jungr, returns with a collection of Dylan and Cohen’s most iconic songs mixing her best and award winning interpretations with a selection of challenging new arrangements of these classic songbooks.

Fresh from curating the first ever UK festival of Bob Dylan for Farnham Maltings, Visions of Dylan, Barb embarks on a series of shows celebrating two of the greatest contemporary songwriters of the western world. One of the most extraordinary British performers of her generation. Barb Jungr’s formidable talent as a singer, composer and lyricist is only outshined by her ability to reinterpret familiar songs and reveal new depths of meaning and beauty.

‘The brilliant jazz singer on world-beating form. Barb Jungr proves she’s a genuine jazz marvel… A true musical alchemist’ – The Telegraph

Barb Jungr

Best known for her re-creation of the magic of the Parisian cabaret scene in a contemporary setting with modern translations of Brel, Piaf, Ferr, Harburgh and Cole Porter. She has also set the songs of Bob Dylan and Nina Simone to new and beautifully crafted arrangements. In the UK and New York she plays to packed houses and was recently heralded in a feature about her work in the New York Times. 'To turn down an invitation to see Barb Jungr perform live is to miss out on a revelatory and uplifting experience' (The Guardian) 'On stage she's a lioness' (The Sydney Morning Herald) 'The most literate of singers, Jungr is the perfect interpreter of this kind of material' (The Times) 'Possibly our best interpreter of Dylan's songs' (Billy Bragg).

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