Barb Jungr responds
THE wonderful Rochdale born, internationally renowned interpreter of song, Barb Jungr has responded to AATA’s shout out to creative artists with: ‘Thank you for your lovely email.
‘I don’t know what I can contribute but I would like to share a press release with you for a track I made with the LGBTQ choir The Fourth Choir to herald a concert we will now have to postpone to who knows when.
‘So, when people asked us to release it anyway, I was very happy.
‘In My Troubled Days is available for pre-order and from the April 10 can be streamed easily on all the usual sites.
‘If there’s something else you would like me to contribute to AATA I’d be happy to. ‘You are wonderful. ‘I’m in Stockport looking after my mum through this so just down the road! Barb xxx’
Last spring Barb and John McDaniel decided to write something for a Gala performance they were due to do a couple of months later.
Barb recalls that she sat down and looked out of the window, feeling pretty low,’ but the trees were in bud and there was blossom, so I went for a walk along the river.
And everything I saw made my heart sing.
Every flower, every ripple on the water that caught the sun, made my troubles seem so much smaller.’
When she started a recent collaboration with The Fourth Choir she proposed In My Troubled Days as something they might do together, John immediately wrote the choral arrangement and they recorded it in St Silas The Martyr Church in Kentish Town just as our world was turning in a direction none of us had foreseen.
Barb played the recording to friends, and without exception they said, please, put this out now.
‘I hope choirs everywhere will sing it.
‘People everywhere will sing it.
‘I hope our world turns again and the sun shines again and the sad cafes where no-one has the answer fill again.
‘Meanwhile I watch the blossom and the neighbour’s bees and look towards the stars.’
Barb is widely regarded as one of the greatest living interpreters of song.
From her early days recording in a studio in a bacon factory, to her current song-writing partnerships with Level 42’s Mike Lindup and John McDaniel and her work as a theatre lyricist, alongside her live performances, she continues to gain admirers around the world.
Visit www.musicglue. com/barb-jungr.