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SARA DOWLING

Sunday 3rd June 2018 - 8:30 pm

Music Charge: £12.00

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“Gifted with immensely emotional vocals [Sara's] influences are wide and far reaching, reminiscent of jazz and soul greats such as Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Candi Staton”

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After initially studying cello at the Royal Northern College of Music, Sara took time out in the mid 2000's from being an instrumentalist and re-emerged in 2009 as an impressive singer. It wasn't long before she had re-established herself as a significant performer of breadth and intensity with an eclectic repertoire, as well as being an excellent singer/songwriter Sara is also an adept jazz vocalist, performing songs from the classic American Songbook in an inimitable and authentic style. Which means her beautiful, sonorous, voice can be heard not only performing originals with her own excellent band but also performing classics from the 1930's and 40's with the likes of the London Dance Orchestra and hard-bop jazz noir with the Simians of Swing. And if all that wasn't enough, over the last 3 years she has also moved to establish herself as a composer of some note, writing songs for the likes of EMI, Sony, ATV, Warner and ITV Juice as well as for film and television. But it is undoubtedly as a performer of style and ability that Sara is starting to really make an impact on the UK jazz scene. Tonight Sara is bringing her new show "The Life and Rhymes of Jerome Kern" to the Club. This is a tribute to one of the greatest popular songwriters of all time, who was responsible for introducing songs such as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are" and "The Way You Look Tonight" in to the canon of the Great American Songbook. But, if Sara's last shows are anything to go by, don't expect her to just sing a few songs. The idea of the programme is to trace the life of this extraordinary man, a first generation native New Yorker, in song using the sights and sounds of America in the first half of the 20th Century as a backdrop. And accompanying her on this journey will be Gabriel Latchin-piano, Dario Di Lecce-bass and Matt Home-drums.

"A vocal with timeless quality, 5 stars" Jazz Journal; "Enigmatic, beguiling & intensely musical" MOJO Magazine; “She really is quite exceptional… every note, every musical phrase makes sense” London Jazz News

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