Warm, witty and totally on song

AWARD winning jazz vocalist and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal’s concerts with her trio are constantly evolving and renowned around the country for their arrangements interspersed with Clare’s warm and witty storytelling.

Her new show promises a rich jazz-infused repertoire in its many forms bringing you more exhilarating swing as Clare and her Trio celebrate 100 years of pop music featuring some of the greatest songs from the great American and British song books, and contemporary writers creating the standards of today.

Clare is one of the UK’s most celebrated and much loved singers.

With her great voice, encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, swing and big band music, and her innate warmth and wit, she is a sought-after singer throughout the country as well as a prolific recording artist and popular BBC Radio 2 broadcaster.

After signing to independent label Candid in 2001 and releasing three acclaimed titles, it was Clare’s first album for Sony Jazz which became her breakthrough record.

Released in 2004, Don’t Talk topped the jazz charts and entered the UK Top 20, garnering extraordinary plaudits and several awards.

By the middle of this year she will have recorded and released 15 albums to public and critical acclaim, seven of them on her own label, Mud Records.

Clare continues to surge ahead on her mission to bring big band and swing to music lovers everywhere, to demonstrate that this genre is ever-evolving and still relevant in today’s world.

Alongside her weekly two-hour live radio show on BBC Radio 2, Clare performs over the length and breadth of the UK, and internationally, with either her pianist, trio, mini-Big Band or Hollywood Orchestra (mini-Big Band with Strings), celebrating the singers and songwriters of yesteryear and today alongside her own original material.

She also guests with the Hallé, BBC Concert, RTÉ Concert and The John Wilson orchestras as well as other top big bands.

In August 2015, in addition to a packed touring schedule, Clare produced and presented her second full scale concert for the Proms Season at the Royal Albert Hall.

Clare comes to The Atkinson on Friday, April 24 and you can get tickets at www. theatkinson.co.uk