ONE of the UK’s leading jazz vocalists Beverley Beirne is beginning a residency at The Ticket Office in Ilkley. The nights will run the last Thursday of every month, starting with The Great American Songbook on Thursday July 28th at 7.30pm.
“We thought it would be fun to theme the gigs,” says Beverley. “So for our first gig you can hear The Great American Songbook, followed next by Hot Club Jazz, Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun – interpretations of songs from other genres, particularly the 80s, a Halloween Jazz Party, The Contemporary Jazz Writers and to round the year off a Christmas Jazz Party.”
Beverley has performed at leading clubs throughout the UK and Europe including Ronnie Scotts Upstairs, Pizza Express Jazz Club, 606 Club, The Stables (Cleo Lane’s prestigious venue), Gregory’s in Rome, Venice Jazz Club, to name a few and also headlined at Marsden Jazz Festival 2019 with her band of leading young UK musicians. Beverley’s latest album Dream Dancer garnered four star reviews from leading jazz journalists and the song Old Brazil on reached number two in the Roots Charts in the States for several weeks.
“I was very lucky,’ Beverley says, “I managed to get my tour in for my album Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun which ended in December 2019. I was also very lucky to have already recorded Dream Dancer so I was able to release it in 2021.”
Dream Dancer is Beverley’s second album with Grammy winning producer Jason Miles, who’s many credits include creating the synthwork on Miles Davis groundbreaking album Tutu.
“Working with Jason was wonderful, not least because Jason has so many fantastic stories of all the incredible people he’s worked with from Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Sting,” Beverley says. “We created two albums that I’m very proud of.”
It’s been pretty tough on grassroots music over the last two years but Beverley is positive about the future of music and jazz!
“Things are beginning to look a lot more healthy. It’s taking time but it’s really great seeing live music events starting to flourish and gain momentum,” Beverley says, “and The Ticket Office is such a great venue, we have some fantastic songs planned and I’m going to be joined by some of the norths leading jazz musicians for a run of great gigs in my lovely home town of Ilkley. What more can you ask? It’s really going to be a lot of fun.”
For more information contact: www.ticketofficebar.co.uk 01943 674455 or www.beverleybeirne.com
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