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On Tuesday 2nd January 2012, at 18.00, Stephen Foster
presents Live Music From Suffolk, on BBC Radio Suffolk, which features an hour long show SARAH MOULE SINGS PEGGY LEE, recorded live when Sarah guested with the Roger Odell Trio at The Bell, Clare in October 2011. They perform some of Peggy Lee's signature songs, and Sarah talks to Stephen about her personal take on this iconic singer. To hear the show live online or afterwards on listen back go to to www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/programmes/schedules/2012/01/02 and click on the programme.
BRAND NEW SHOW: Sarah Moule's FEMMES FATALES - Songs for the Fallen, Wild & Wicked
Linda Marlowe (Berkoff's Women, The World's Wife) directs Sarah in this show celebrating the phenomenon of the Femme Fatale as 'fateful woman'. It combines songs and monologues to explore the 'fatale' as a heroine and heartbreaker, rule-breaker and role model, uncovering a potent mix of sex appeal and danger. With Simon Wallace on piano.
The first show was on16th September 2011 at The Pheasantry, King's Road, then on 22nd October 2011 at The Abattoir Club, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire. A date for the Dulwich Festival 2012 has just been confirmed, on 18th May at the East Dulwich Tavern. Look out for more dates coming in 2012.
BRAND NEW SHOW: LADIES SING THE BLUES - featuring the music of BILLIE HOLIDAY (sung by Gill Manly), PEGGY LEE ( sung by Sarah Moule) and ELLA FITZGERALD (sung by Shireen Francis).
Interpreting some of the greatest songs from this iconic trio plus duets and close harmony numbers. Infectiously upbeat and swinging. First shows were at Ronnie Scott's Club, 4th September and the award-winning Hideaway, Streatham 9th October. See Dates page for more shows. Boisdale Canary Wharf 29th November, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean St. 5th December (the Christmas show), then Cafe Posk in February 2012, and the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in March.
Sarah & Simon Wallace join Michael Horovitz's Poetry Olympics at the University of London on Friday 28th October: See below for details:
Friday 28th October 2011
Poetry Olympics Superjam Parts 1 and 2
The Venue, University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Waterstone’s Gower Street presents a two-part event with Michael Horovitz and Barry Miles and a performing arts circus of some of Britain’s most popular and inspired poets, singers and musicians.
Part 1: 6pm
Writer Barry Miles and poet Michael Horovitz in conversation. To celebrate the publication of Barry Miles’s new book ‘In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture’, they will be discussing Beat poets Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, and others who featured in the seminal international poetry ceilidh that levitated Albert Hall Poetry in June 1965 and gave birth to the Swinging Sixties whose spirit lives on to this day in the Poetry Olympics and New Departures productions.
Part 2: 7.30pm
The latest incarnation of ringmaster Michael Horovitz’s megagigs brings together an all-star galaxy of performers including Steven Berkoff, Elvis McGonagall, Gwyneth Herbert, Adam Horovitz, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Niall McDevitt, Molly and Sophie Parkin, Annie Whitehead’s trombone and vocals, and a celebration of much missed Fran Landesman from Sarah Moule & Simon Wallce.
£6, £4 concs, available in advance from the branch – admits to both sessions.
Tel: 020 7636 1577 or email events@gowerst.waterstones.com
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street (Northern Line)
www.waterstones.com/events for the event listings
www.poetryolympics.com
A PORTRAIT OF MISS PEGGY LEE
One of the most iconic American singers of the last century, influencing a generation of vocalists, Peggy Lee enthralled listeners with her ‘electric blue voice’. Sarah revisits Lee’s signature songs such as Black Coffee, Fever, Why Don’t You Do Right?, I’m A Woman and Is That All There Is?, revealing the turbulent character beneath the glamourous exterior and along the way explores Lee’s own influences from the Blues to Ray Charles and Maxine Sullivan. Jazz FM’s Bob Sinfield had this to say about Sarah: “When tackling the work of Peggy Lee something of the spirit of Peggy does seem to come over her. It’s slightly spooky...but in a very good way’.
A one hour live recording with the Roger O'dell Trio to be broadcast on BBC Suffolk (and iplayer) as a Christmas Special for 2011.
Sarah performed the show on 31st August at one of London's newest jazz venues, Boisdale Canary Wharf, on 30th October at The Bell, Clare, Suffolk with the Roger Odell Trio. Next performance is at Harri's Jazz, Shepperton on 24th November 2011featuring special guest Andy Panayi (saxes), Simon Wallace (piano), Mick Hutton (bass) and Paul Robinson (drums).
THE ART OF SONG FESTIVAL May 2011 - An Evening With Fran Landesman,featuring Gwyneth Herbert, Ian Shaw, Nicki Leighton-Thoms, Sarah Moule and Simon Wallace. For one night only, on 19th April 2011, at the Leicester Square Theatre, London.
Sarah is guest vocalist on Mick Hutton's stunning new CD, KNACKERED ACADEMICS, on Shed Records, and featuring Andy Panayi, Mark Edwards and Paul Robinson. She sings Ellington's haunting classic 'In My Solitude'.
Volume I of the Landesman/Wallace songbook, available at Red Ram Records.com and spwmusic@btinternet.com.
Piano, guitar and vocal arrangements for 30 of Simon and Fran's songs.
AN EVENING WITH FRAN LANDESMAN was produced by the Southbank Centre, in May 2010 and featured Fran being interviewed by Ian Shaw, with guest singers Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Gwyneth Herbert, and Sarah Moule with special guest Bob Dorough. An impromptu performance carried on afterwards in the Front Room of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, until the Southbank curfew forced the audience to reluctantly go home.
BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT is the title of the show which Sarah, Pete Atkin and Simon Wallace have put together. It features duets and plenty of harmony singing on some of their favourite songs, from writers as varied as Richard Thompson, Carole King, and even Buddy Holly plus stunning songs from their individual repertoires.
Dave Gelly reviews A Lazy Kind Of Love in The Observer
newspaper on Sunday 18th May, calling it 'a little treasure' see reviews on Press page
Sarah and Simon Wallace performed the title track from 'A Lazy Kind Of Love' on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends on Saturday 31st May 2008.
Midnight Voices
Pete Atkin's cd Midnight Voices - Volume I of the Clive James and Pete Atkin Songbook is now available on www.redramrecords.com
Guest vocalist on Pete Atkin's new cd, 'Midnight Voices' (Hillside Music), Volume 1 of the Clive James/Pete Atkin Songbook. Sarah and Pete perform the duet 'Be Careful When They Offer You The Moon', as heard on Russell Davies' Song Show on BBC Radio 2 in February 2008. This song was previously recorded by Pete and Julie Covington.
'Midnight Voices' launched at The Groucho Club, Soho, London on 11th March 2008. Pete and Simon Wallace played a short set to invited guests and journalists, including the lyricist, writer and broadcaster Clive James, who also sang one of his and Pete's compositions. Sarah joined them to sing harmony vocals on Be Careful If They Offer You The Moon - 'That was beautiful' was Clive James' s reaction to hearing the song live.
Sarah and Pete Atkin performed together at The Stables, Wavendon on Friday 4th April 2008 . Each played a set of songs from their respective new cds. The band featured Simon Wallace (piano), Mark Hodgson (bass) and Ralph Salmins (drums) . Pete recorded the album at Underhill Studios in the summer of 2008 with Simon, Mark and Roy Dodds, with Mike Outram on guitar and Alan Barnes on saxes. Check out www.peteatkin.com for more info and to become one of the Midnight Voices forum members. |
