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 Sophie
Bancroft's New CD 'Handwritten' has arrived
and we are celebrating with two launch parties.
Visit our Shop to
order your copy online now.
Thursday June 19th
at Cabaret Voltaire, Blair Street, Edinburgh
Doors 8pm
featuring Sophie Bancroft & Tom Lyne
plus special guests Amy Geddes on fiddle & Ross Mitson
on guitar and vocals.
Tickets £7
contact: www.thecaberetvoltaire.com
or Ripping Records
Saturday 21st June
at Pathhead Community Hall, 11 Main Street, Pathhead
Doors 8pm
featuring Sophie Bancroft & Tom Lyne
plus special guests Amy Geddes, Ross Mitson and The Pathhead
Choir
followed by dancing to the great music of Ted's Shirt
Bring Your Own Bottle and dancing shoes!
Tickets £8 contact: info@sophiebancroft.co.uk
One
of the most inventive and distinctive artists to emerge from
Scotland, jazz-folk singer-songwriter Sophie Bancroft has
drawn comparison to artists as classily diverse as Peggy Lee,
Joan Armatrading, and Norah Jones. With her music used on
hit TV drama 'Six Feet Under' , Sophie's songs about life
can be fun, flirty, heart-wrenching, shocking and beautiful.
“Refreshing and utterly magical” The Herald
Please
vist my page at Myspace.com
For
bookings please contact info@sophiebancroft.co.uk
Online
shop now open for CDs and fabulous T-shirts .
For
all enquiries email here
RHYTHM FOR SINGERS WORKSHOP: Sun 8th June
2008, 10.30am - 4.30pm, £95, lunch provided - with tutors
and jazz educationalists Sophie Bancroft, Tom Lyne and Tom
Bancroft. This workshop will enable an understanding and connection
with rhythm essential for every vocalist.
This workshop will include
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Analysing rhythm
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Understanding different grooves
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Percussive work
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Learning songs in various grooves
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Time signatures
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Vocal rhythmic work
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Gigs
Last
Updated: 16th May 2008
Performance
+ Workshop Dates 2008
Jun
6th: Sophie Bancroft & Tom Lyne @ Three Harbour
Arts Festival, 8pm, £7, http://www.3harbours.com
Jun
8th: Rhythm For Singers Workshop, Pathhead, 10.30 -
4.30pm, £95,
bookings: info@sophiebancroft.co.uk
Jun
19th : CD Launch @ Cabaret Voltaire, Blair St, Edinburgh,
Doors 8pm, £7, www.thecaberetvoltaire.com
or Ripping Records
Jun
21st : CD Launch Party @ Pathhead Community Hall, 11
Main St, Pathhead, Doors 8pm, £8/£5 conc.
Tickets: info@sophiebancroft.co.uk
Jun
24th: Tron Theatre, Glasgow International Jazz Festival
with Liane Caroll and Fionna Duncan
Jun
24 - 28th: Tutor on Fionna Duncan Vocal Jazz Workshop
during Glasgow International Jazz Festival with Fionna Duncan
and Liane Carrol
http://www.fionnaduncan-workshops.co.uk/
Jul
28 - Aug 1st: Tutor on Fionna Duncan Vocal Jazz Workshop
during Edinburgh International Jazz Festival with Fionna Duncan
and Liane Carrol
http://www.fionnaduncan-workshops.co.uk/
Aug
8th: Pittenweim Festival - tbc
Aug
9th: TWO TALL GIRLS @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Acoustic
Music Centre, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Aug 10, 11, 12th: TWO TALL GIRLS @ Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, Acoustic Music Centre, 8 - 9pm
Aug
23 - 30th: Teaching on the Jazz
Summer School in France with Liane Carrol
Oct
3rd : The Old Brewery, Cromarty
Oct
4/5th: Music Workshop, Cromarty with
Amy Geddes + Tom Lyne.
Further info to follow.
bookings: info@sophiebancroft.co.uk
More
dates to be confirmed, keep checking this space!
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of CD 'Hot and Cold'
- "Play
it on your way out and let it rescue you from the ceiling
when you get home. This album is hip, cool and simply beautiful."
BIG ISSUE
- "This
elegant and meticulously produced CD inhabits the border territory
between jazz and folk-country-pop, which suits Sophie Bancroft's
cool, rather ethereal voice to perfection." THE
OBSERVER
- “Bancroft's
tunes are very good indeed and, to these ears, becoming more
irresistible as she goes on writing them. Her songs are being
picked up by astute TV producers, so my opinion is shared.”
THE HERALD
- "the
maturity, complete authority and confidence she brings to
this her third outing as a solo artist." JAZZVIEWS.CO.UK
For full review click
here
To
see interview featured on Jazzviews.co.uk click
here
- Sophie Bancroft
writes, performs and sings like someone that has been immersed
in music all of their lives. Someone that is able to pluck
themes and ideas from a number of acoustic genres, folk, blues
and even classical and use them to inform a jazz style that
is proper listening music, music that you can either allow
to wash over you to take away the stress of the day, or music
you can really pay attention to. FATEA.CO.UK
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by Louis De Carlo
Reviews for CD Modern Love:
"Sophie
Bancroft has an impressive CV that covers jazz, pop and
folk. She draws on all these diverse skills, weaving them
through a captivatingly moody set of songs. There's an
openness and transparency in her songs that communicate,
and that's what it is all about."
(Jazzwise)
"In the best possible way, her diverse taste shows,
sewn together by the wayward, arresting trajectories of
her elastic, creamy voice. Echoes along the way range
from Peggy Lee to Joan Armatrading, Alison Krauss to Bjork,
in a boldly achieved balance of the classic and the contemporary."
(Sunday
Herald)
"In
an area somewhere between Rickie Lee Jones and the ambient
sounds of Zero 7, the nicely varied electro-acoustic settings
capture the mood of hazy langour."
(The Herald)
"Sophie
Bancroft's voice will send shivers of sensuality up your
spine" (Massive
Magazine) |
News Briefs
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Jazz
singer-songwriter whose music has been used on major
TV series ‘Six Feet Under’
.
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Music
has been extensively broadcast on BBC Radio 1, Radio
2, Radio 3, Radio Scotland and numerous American and
European radio stations.
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Performance
career spanning major jazz, folk and contemporary
music festivals around Britain, Europe and the USA
including the legendary South By Southwest
Festival in Texas.
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CD
tracks have reached top 10 positions in the Alternative
Pop, Folk + Alternative Folk, Male Fan Picks and Contemporary
Jazz charts respectively on music industry website
broadjam.com.
ww.verticalrecords.co.uk
have released 'The Acoustic Affair: Twelve
of the Best - Volume One' album featuring
12 of Scotlands finest acoustic performers: James
Grant, Karine Polwart, The River Detectives, Clive
Gregson, Carol Laula, Unkle Bob, Sophie Bancroft,
Benny Gallacher, Karen Casey, Kieran Docherty, No.1
son and Sporting Hero.
Hot
And Cold tracks 'Hot And Cold'
and 'Cruel Or Just Kind' have reached
the Folk top 10, Jazz top 10, Europe top
10 and UK top 10 on www.broadjam.com
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Previous
Performances
2008
Jan
20th:
CELTIC CONNECTIONS, City Halls,
Jan
27th: Vocal
Harmony Workshop, Pathhead,
Feb
15th: Birnam House Hotel,
Mar
6th :
The
Jazz Centre, Edinburgh
2007
Tune Up Tour
January 23rd: Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas
January 24th: City Halls, Glasgow
January 25th: An Lanntair, Stornoway,
Isle Of Lewis
January 27th: Sunart Centre, Strontian
January 28th: Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
January 29th: Byre Theatre, St Andrews
April
28th: Collieston, Aberdeenshire
May 31st : Bongo Club, Edinburgh
June 9th: Leith Festival, Leith
June 20th: The
Lot, Edinburgh
June
23rd - 30th: JazzCamp West, California, USA
Aug 17th: TWO TALL GIRLS @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Aug 18th: TTG @ Edin Fringe Festival
Aug 19th: TTG @ Edin Fringe Festival
August 25th to Sept 1st: Teaching on the Jazz
Summer School in France with Liane Carrol
Sep 22nd: TTG @ Merchant City Festival,
Glasgow
Oct 27th: Martyn Bennett Day Workshops,
Nov
11th: Vocal
Improvisation Workshop,
Nov
23rd: Sophie Bancroft & Andi Neate @ Heriot-Toun
Studio, Heriot,
Nov
24th: Sophie Bancroft & Andi Neate @ The
Old Brewery, Cromarty,
Dec 1st: Queens
Hall, Edinburgh, 7.30pm, Jan
6th: Singer-songwriter
Workshop,
2006
Jan
15: Celtic
Connections, Glasgow
Jan
19: Celtic
Connections, Glasgow
April 1:
The
Jazz Centre, Edinburgh
June 27th: The Ramshorn Theatre,
Glasgow
July
31st : The Hub, Edinburgh
August 10th: Acoustic
Music Centre, St Brides, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August
11th : The
Belladrum Festival performing in Martin Green's 'The Green
Machine
August
26th : ABC,
Glasgow, supporting Bert Jansch
2005
26th Feb: Henrys Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh
29th April: An Tobar, Mull.
June 3 & 4, Henry's Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh.
June
21, 7.30pm
Tutors
Concert for FDVJW
with Fionna Duncan & Jay Clayton, Ramshorn Theatre,
Glasgow
June
29, 8.30pm
The
Halfmoon, Putney, London
August
1 , 1pm
The Hub, Edinburgh International Jazz Festival
August
17, 18 + 19, Henry's
Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sept
2,
The Loft, East Grange,
Sept
3,
Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth,
Nov 25,
The Tron, Glasgow
Nov
26, 27, 28,
Burnsong
Festival, Dumfries and Galloway.
2004
21st
Feb: Henrys Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh
12th Mar: Henrys Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh
18th Apr: Tron Theatre, Glasgow
22nd May:Orkney
5th Jun: Henrys Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh
29th Jun: Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow
5th Aug: Edinburgh International Jazz Festival
8th Aug: Edinburgh International Jazz Festival
9th to 12th Aug: Edinburgh Fringe Festival
21st Aug: Edinburgh Book Festival
27th Aug: Edinburgh Book Festival
30th Sep: Tolbooth, Stirling
28th Oct: Henrys Jazz Cellar, Edinburgh
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