Star line-up for Cambridge International Jazz Festival

Laura Mvula

By Cambridge News  |  Posted: October 10, 2016

Top female vocalists and instrumentalists are heading for Cambridge next month – for the city's annual International Jazz Festival.

Among the big names are Mercury Prize nominated Laura Mvula, award-winning jazz vocalists Anita Wardell and Lauren Kinsella, saxophonists Dee Byrne and Karen Sharp, trumpet player Laura Jurd, and award-winning pianists Nikki Iles and Kate Williams.

Since catapulting into the limelight with her acclaimed debut album Sing To The Moon and touring the world, Laura Mvula is back with a new album The Dreaming Room, released in June.

Anita Wardell received the BBC Jazz Award for Best of Jazz category in 2006 and a British Jazz award for Best Vocalist in 2013. She will be performing at the festival with the Robin Philips Trio at the Gonville Hotel, and also leading a vocal jazz masterclass.

Lauren Kinsella, winner of the UK Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 Jazz FM Awards, is known as one of the jazz scene's most adventurous artists, experimenting with spoken word, poetry and improvisational singing, including shrieks, yelps and clicks.

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