Variously described by critics as magnificent, mesmerizing and magical, Barb Jungr has built a formidable reputation as an international live performer and recording artiste. She has perfected the art of interpretation to such a level that listeners are often astonished to discover that well- known songs that they thought they knew have been wonderfully transformed and very often elevated when Barb weaves her magic spell.

Her repertoire includes songs by Jacques Brel, Nina Simone, Jimmy Webb, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen amongst many others and she has attracted particular acclaim for her work on the songs of Bob Dylan, which produced two critically-acclaimed albums and a series of sell-out, award-winning transatlantic shows. For four consecutive years (2008 through to 2011) Barb has ranked at the top of Time Out, New York's Best Cabaret Awards for her shows, and in 2008 she also received the Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist.

Stockport To Memphis marks a significant new direction for Barb as she has included five of her own songs in the collection, which also features her new arrangements of songs by Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Rod Argent, Mike Scott, Hank Williams, Tom Waits and, of course, Bob Dylan. Barb Jungr has never been to Memphis. But as a teenage girl in 1960s Stockport, she nurtured a longing for what it represented; the sweet soul music she danced to in clubs at night, and its sense of a bigger, more beautiful world than the northern industrial town she couldn't wait to leave (as embodied by the title-track and stunning album opener). The album charts a metaphorical journey, not just Barb's own route through life and self-discovery but that of others, including her own parents' escape to the UK from war-torn Europe and her father-in-law, the painter Frank Bowling, who came to the UK from Guyana as a young man.

"Her performances are "touched with genius" The Times Square Chronicles

"Empathy is her game and few singers in any genre extend themselves more
deeply into the lives of others." The New York Times

"Possibly our best interpreter of Dylan's songs" Billy Bragg

"Communicating real, heart-felt emotion is what she's about" The Telegraph

"Brings the same creativity for reinterpretation and re-examination that
Ella Fitzgerald brought to Cole Porter" The Wall Street Journal

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 sellout 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).

As a writer and lyricist, Barb's credits include The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company), The Fabulous Flutterbys (The Little Angel Theatre), Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast and Dick Whittington for The Newbury Corn Exchange, Mabel Stark Tiger Tamer currently in development for Northampton Royal and Derngate and We're Going On A Bear Hunt, based on Michael Rosen's legendary book, in development with The Little Angel Theatre Company with director Peter Glanville.

The Wall Street Journal said of her Stockport to Memphis album "every singer in New York could learn from her". Acclaimed on three continents and an international recording artist, Barb Jungr's capacity to inspire, thrill and amaze is not to be missed.

Stockport to Memphis ~ the superb new album from Barb Jungr, one of the world's foremost interpreters of song will be released in Australia on Naim, through ABC Records.

Website: http://www.barbjungr.co.uk/

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/barbjungr/04-have-i-got-what-it-takes

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/festivals/barb-jungr-a-true-superstar-of-cabaret/story-fnil89fm-1226661724335

Barb interviewed on ABC Radio National:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/barb-jungr/4751672

For further MEDIA information please contact Gaynor Crawford on (02) 6699 3437, or gaynor@gaynorcrawford.com

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