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   Songs and Stories of Davy the Punk
CaneFire
Eliana Cuevas
Iskwew Singers
Veda Hille
Tao Ravao and
   Vincent Bucher with
   Jean-Noel Godard

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Gary Cristall
PO Box 21547
1424 Commercial Dr
Vancouver BC
V5L 5G2

Phone:
1-604-215-9077

Email:
garycristall@telus.net

Music Outside the Box Sampler CD 2009

Barb Jungr web site

Barb Jungr has been an important presence on the British and international music scene for many years. For thirteen of them she was half of the duo Jungr and Parker. Since the early nineties she has turned her talent to alternative cabaret, positioning herself on the cutting edge of contemporary chanson in Britain. Picking great songs from many genres and interpreting them in the language of the European cabaret tradition has won her rave reviews and enthusiastic audiences. Her acclaimed CD of classic and contemporary chansons, "Chanson- The Space in Between" was voted one of the ten best jazz CDs of 2000 by The Sunday Times (London, UK). Her most recent project is "Every Grain of Sand", a collection of songs by Bob Dylan, to be released in the spring of 2002.

Barb Jungr toured Canadian festivals a decade ago with Christine Collister, presenting a show of songs of sin and salvation- "Hell Bent-Heaven Bound". She would like to return with her new work.

Ms. Jungr Explains…
"I have made a real furrow, which I plough relentlessly, of text based material. I am an interpretive singer, I believe the act of true interpretation to be an art - witness what great actors do with other people's words. Consequently I sniff out and trail anything that feels to me to have the kind of substance I want in a lyric. I find it in Brel, in Ferre, in Prévert and Landesman. In Davies, Dury, Costello and Robb Johnson. I find it in Dylan, and feel that no-one has approached this man's work as chanson before. Bringing to my palette great arrangers and musicians, and bringing nuance out of the melody and lyric I hope brings them to the public anew. That's why I am doing this, because if I am going to sing, I want to be singing the best words there are."