IThis brand new show features two of the UK’s most accomplished jazz singers, SARAH MOULE and SHIREEN FRANCIS. The Ladies’ individual singing careers have seen them perform sell-out shows at Ronnie Scott’s Club, the Royal Festival Hall, on BBC Radio 2‘s Friday Night Is Music Night, and in theatres, jazz clubs and festivals throughout the UK.Here, they come together for the first time to celebrate their musical icons, PEGGY LEE and ELLA FITZGERALD with anecdotes and personal interpretations of their signature songs in a wonderful programme of classic jazz.

 

The Ladies’ exuberant mix of close harmonies and stunning solo work shows why they have all established themselves as jazz singers of the first order. Each brings a contrasting and original take on their chosen repertoire, from the understated purr of Fever and Black Coffee, to the infectious swing of The Lady Is A Tramp and Take The ‘A‘ Train.

 

‘Makes you realise the era of the great jazz singers might not be over’ Bob Sinfield Jazzfm

 

‘The excellent Sarah Moule...a great voice and a great talent’ Russell Davies, BBC Radio 2

 

‘Sarah Moule boasts a stunning vocal spectrum, sweet and salty, tough and tender and hauntingly gorgeous’ Jazz Times USA

 

“Shireen Francis is a brilliant vocalist whose beguiling performance left me wanting more” - Jazzwise Magazine

 

"Quite simply, Shireen is one of the best British jazz vocalists of this generation." – Tony Currie, BBC

 

 

 

WITH GEOFF CASTLE ON PIANO. INTRODUCED AND NARRATED BY

ANDREW D. BREWIS** at certain performances