How To Hide a Lion, on which she collaborated again with Peter Glanville and wrote the songs and music, toured the UK in autumn 2018. She co-wrote (with Mike Lindup of Level 42) the book and the songs of Liver Birds Flying Home, which ran for five weeks at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre in spring 2018. She appeared in major cities in the USA premiering three new collections with John McDaniel: Sting’s repertoire in Float Like a Butterfly - the Songs of Sting, which is now released as a CD on Kristalyn records Peaceful Easy Feeling, a collection of 1970s material and Let The Sun Shine In, a celebration of the songs of 1968. Her new collection, Bob, Brel, and Me, premiers in May 2019 at Purcell Rooms, South Bank Centre, and at the Brighton Festival, with an album release on Kristalyn/Absolute to follow.Īdding to her growing body of work as a lyricist and composer Jungr co-adapted and wrote songs and music for Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake with director Peter Glanville for Polka Children's Theatre in April 2018. In 20 Barb appeared all over the UK and in Europe promoting the re-release of her Bob Dylan “cult classic,” Every Grain of Sand. Over four decades, she has never ceased performing live, locally and internationally, as well as appearing regularly on radio and television. She subsequently toured with Kid Creole (in The Three Courgettes) teamed with Michael Parker, she supported Alexie Sayle and Julian Clary, among others.
Her recording career began at CBS in the late 1970s. She sang in folk clubs at school and in jazz and blues bands at college and then in London. Her exhilarating vocal style fuses her sense of jazz, blues, and soul with elements of everything from musical theatre to African and Iranian folk singing.īorn in Rochdale to Czech and German parents, Barb played the violin and mandolin at an early age. Never one to sit still, physically or artistically, she has evolved through the years into one of the UK’s finest and most distinctive singers. Starting out a singer and performer on the alternative cabaret circuit, Barb earned numerous plaudits, including a then-legendary Perrier Award. Her powerful singing style reaches across musical boundaries and defies easy categorization. In 2011, Jungr received the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist, the Backstage Bistro Award for Best International Artist, and Time Out New York's #1 Top Live Cabaret Act for 2011. Jungr’s collaboration with John McDaniel has now produced two recordings.
In her 45-year recording career, alongside many collaborations, she has released 18 solo albums, many for Linn Records, receiving outstanding reviews worldwide and winning many awards. In recent years, Jungr has brought her singular talents to the songbooks of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Jacques Brel, and more, creating the genre of the New American Songbook.
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Her deconstruction/reconstruction of popular songs and unusual and beautiful musical arrangements are characteristics that allow the listener new insights into familiar music. Musician, writer, composer, and lyricist Barb Jungr has been critically lauded for her insightful and passionate interpretive style, described as “revelatory” by the New York Times. As Glam Adelaide recently quipped about her, “It’s as if Edith Piaf and Nick Cave had a lovechild who was adopted by Carmen McCrae.” “No Frontiers” was the title of an extraordinary collection of songs Barb Jungr performed for the 65th Anniversary of Souvenir Press at The Royal College of Music Theatre it would be equally applicable to the superb singer herself.
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