Louise Gibbs

Louise runs a jazz vocal workshop for singers on Saturday 16 May at her home studio in Leeds. The workshop welcomes singers wanting to become more confident jazz performers and improvisers, and also soul, pop and classical singers who’d like to take a freer jazz approach to their sound and performance.  Bring your own material and try some new jazz repertoire.

Participants also have the valuable opportunity to direct a live accompanying trio – working with some of the best young musicians on the UK scene: Sam Leak, Simon Read, & Sam Gardner.

Louise brings depth of experience and expertise both as a performing artist and educator. She was course leader at Leeds College of Music for the jazz and postgraduate programmes 2007-2011, has taught and run workshops in most major UK conservatoires, was voice tutor for the Jamie Aebersold clinics in the UK.

£75 for the day (£60 full time student) – includes lunch & refreshments. To book or for more information: louise@jazzmine.co.uk or 07813 684077

Louise Gibbs Quartet – Sam Leak (piano), Simon Read (double bass), Sam Gardner (drums) will perform a lunchtime concert and offer a jazz ensemble workshop for University of Hull. We’ll be playing specially arranged excerpts from the Seven Deadly Sings song suite, a preview of the latest Missing project, peppered with some of our favourite jazz standards – no doubt featuring music by Thelonious Monk amongst others.

The performance will be followed by a workshop open to all students and observers who’d like to gain some insight into how jazz ensembles work and improvise. Students will have the opportunity to present their own ensembles and to play with the LGQ band to discover how to improvise with more fluency and confidence.

Louise Gibbs sings at the famous Head of Steam pub, Huddersfield station, with Paul Smith, Graham Hearn et al.

Mooching in Miami with family for this month, and working on the new “Missing” project. Visiting University of Miami and Professor Rachel Lebon this week. Checking out music at The Corner this Tuesday at North Miami Avenue. Is there a jazz and jazz latin scene in Miami? It must be deep underground? Will report my discoveries as they are unearthed. (Well if I can’t dig at the allotment I’ll have to dig another way and elsewhere.)

Scotland the Brave! Louise Gibbs and the Septet will perform Seven Deadly Sings and a set of Thelonious Monk and Monk-inspired tunes in Edinburgh and Glasgow in November. The Septet: Krzysztof Urbanski (alto/baritone sax), Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor sax/clarinet), Kim Macari (trumpet/flugel), Kevin Holbrough (trombone), Sam Leak (piano), Simon Read (double bass), & Sam Gardner (drums).

Scotland the Brave! Louise Gibbs and the Septet will perform Seven Deadly Sings and a set of Thelonious Monk and Monk-inspired tunes in Edinburgh and Glasgow in November. The Septet: Krzysztof Urbanski (alto/baritone sax), Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor sax/clarinet), Kim Macari (trumpet/flugel), Kevin Holbrough (trombone), Sam Leak (piano), Simon Read (double bass), & Sam Gardner (drums).

Seven Deadly Sings will be at MARSDEN JAZZ FESTIVAL in October as part of their New Stream programme of cutting edge jazz. We’re thrilled to be at this fabulous jazz fest in a beautifully gritty and friendly town. Seven Deadly Sings is the new song cycle based on the seven deadly sins of pride, lust, gluttony, envy, sloth, anger, and greed – performed by Louise Gibbs and The Northern Septet (Krzysztof Urbanski, Riley Stone-Lonergan, Kim Macari, Kevin Holbrough, Sam Leak, Simon Read, & Sam Gardner).

Will you be cheering the Tour de France in Yorkshire? Would you like to create an inspiring wave of sound to motivate competitors as they speed by? Would you like to have fun making a big noise and learn some vocal skills along the way?

You can attend a CheerSing workshop as part of the the Grassington Festival in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales – to devise, lead and perform your own songs, cheers and chants to inspire the riders.

The workshop starts at 2.00pm. But if you’re outside the Town Hall at 12.00pm noon we’ll provide you with a taste of what’s to come. And after the workshop…you can be part of spontaneous performances around the festival.

The workshops are free, open to all ages and require no previous experience or skill.  For more information: www.cheersing.co.uk

Will you be cheering the Tour de France in Yorkshire? Would you like to create an inspiring wave of sound to motivate competitors as they speed by? Would you like to have fun making a big noise and learn some vocal skills along the way? In the run up to the TdFY, CheerSing – part of the Yorkshire Festival 2014 – offers workshops to help communities along the route to devise, lead and perform their own songs, cheers and chants. Be part of it!

The workshops are free, open to all ages and require no previous experience or skill.  For more information: www.cheersing.co.uk