With Brexit in the UK followed by Donald Trump in the US, it's certainly been an "interesting" year...
There have been ups and downs - a couple of the ups being my trip to Crete in July
to perform at their jazz festival with the amazing Dimitri Vassilakis and getting back on the rural road with my new Bond to Bowie show in the
autumn. The tour included return visits to a couple of village halls
that I had performed at as part of my first ever rural tour with my
Divas of Jazz show. Once again, we had a great time visiting these
gorgeous parts of the country. And we also got a great review for the show in Cotherstone. Read it here.
Performing in Crete with Dimitri Vassilakis Quartet
Middleton & Todridge Village Hall
Whittingham Memorial Institute
Lund Village Hall
Kirton in Lindsey Town Hall
Beverley Minster - We stayed in beautiful Beverley for the last leg of the tour
Swanland Village Hall - looking Christmassy
A lovely note received after the show in Swanland from a 12-year-old audience member!
I also got the chance to try my hand at being a presenter/host for some
of the London Jazz Festival shows. Really enjoyed it and hope to be
doing more of this, alongside any radio presenting opportunities that my
come up.
Next year I'm looking forward to appearing at more festivals and possibly some performances in Germany too. Watch this space!
Until then, here's a video of my song "Little Things". Happy Holidays!
I'm going back to Greece tomorrow! Tinos is one of the Greek Islands and home to the Tinos Jazz Festival. I'll be performing once again with the wonderful Dimitri Vassilakis Quartet as part of the festival's "Ladies of Jazz" programme.
Apart from the music, I'm especially looking forward to the sun as although we've had a few bits of sunshine recently, today it is pouring with rain in London and the Met Office have even issued flood warnings! This is what we laughingly call the British Summer...
My camera is coming with me as usual so I'll be posting pics here when I get back.
Sun, sea and swinging jazz - here I come!
UPDATE - September
Photos as promised...
On the ferry from Athens to Tinos Island
Tinos Beach Hotel
A walk along the beach before the gig
The venue
Yes - yet another sunset... but I just love sunsets and on the Greek Islands they are particularly spectacular!
