Jazz breaking news: Singer Lauren Kinsella To Make London Debut

While the jazz scene is not short of young jazz singers trying to find a distinctive place on the scene, Kinsella seems to be already well on her way. She completed her BA at Newpark School of Music in Ireland under the instruction of Ronan Guilfoyle and has studied with R.A Ramamani in India, Mats Holtne in Sweden and represented Ireland at the 19th IASJ Meeting under Dave Liebman. Lauren has also performed in festivals around the world including the Shiva Festival in India, the Spring Festival, York, The DL 5-8 Festival in Dublin and the Summer Chain Bridge Festival, Budapest, and she is also a member of other groups such as The Troupe, Lupo with Swiss singer Sarah Buechi, and a recently formed duo with Berlin-based percussionist Alex Huber. Their duo album All This Talk About is being released on WideEar records later this year.

Kinsella’s group Thought-Fox won the Young Musicwide Award and receives backing from Culture Ireland. Thought-Fox features Kinsella with Colm O’Hara on trombone; Tom Gibbs, piano; Mick Coady, recently in action at the Loop Festival on double bass; and Simon Roth, drums. The group takes its name from a Ted Hughes poem written in his 1957 collection Hawk in the Rain. As with other compositions in Thought-Fox’s repertoire, the poem is used as a jumping-off point for approaching song and group interplay.

You can catch them at the North London Tavern this Sunday (10 April) in a double bill with Hyphen and then on 13 April at Charlie Wright’s in Hoxton.

– Stephen Graham