Jamboree Collective

Doors: 7pm to 11pm
Entry Price: £4
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Happy birthday to Into the Moon’s Leander! Every Monday at Jamboree a tight-knit collective of musicians conduct the audience through the evening from attentive folk and blues appreciators to a joyous rabble dancing and cavorting to uplifting European Folk, Americana, World Music and Gypsy Rock’n’Roll! This will be a special to celebrate Leander’s big day, featuring as may of the collective as possible.

This tight knit group of musicians live and breathe the music they play at Jamboree which helps creates an unvarnished and friendly atmosphere with that community feeling; a rare find in the cosmopolitanism of London.

The collective of musicians is made up of Adam Beattie. Brooke Sharkey. Ewan Bleach. Leander Lyons. Louisa Jones. Mirabelle Gilis. Garance Louis. Dakota Jim. Barny Rockford. & guest appearances from the likes of Jackson Scott, Morski, and other friends of the collective!

Regular Acts:

LOUISA JONES & WHISKEY MOON FACE

Louisa Jones explores folk music originating in various parts of the world, with a nod to Eastern European folk. Her style is distinctively unique, yet identifies with many a folk and jazz appreciating taste. Their music reveals influences from early 20th century jazz, vaudeville blues, rag-time and north Indian classical music.

Louisa Jones is the lead singer of Whiskey Moon Face whose voice is like a soothing baritone wisp, captivating you in her velvety yet raw and warm range of blues infused melodies. This combined with the Roma gypsy sound of the Accordion, Ewan Bleach’s hypnotic and virtuosic clarinet playing makes for a enchanting blend.

INTO THE MOON

An American country-boy lunatic with a big electric sound and anthems in his voice, a ravishing French violinist with a gypsy heart, and an seductively smart drummer lure you into a musical dream sequence splattered with laughter and sparkled with tears.

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DAKOTA JIM & HIS FAMILY BAND
Dakota Jim & His Family Band will throw you back to the time of Speakeasies, the age of Prohibition and the golden age of jazz, fused with the sounds of Cajun and bourbon-soaked blues that played out in the less refined blind pig dives of the 1930s. His swampy accordion playing weezes and groans to accompany his powerful soulful singing of an intriguing collection of songs from his travels, ranging from swing era jazz and americana to french musettes and russian polkas.

ADAM BEATTIE AND THE CONSULTANTS

Adam Beattie and the Consultants are pure folk and blues cross-pollinated with folk-rock, dirty blues and a tiptoeing layer of post-punk sounds. The core of the bands arrangement is Adam Beattie’s calm and understated lead vocals akin to that of Adam Green but with the deeply planted wise roots of the likes of Leonard Cohen. Their lullaby like melodies with words are full of meaning without being self-indulgent, notably ‘A song of 100 years’. Their music transcends into punchier folk rhythms such as “All I Know”.

GARANCE LOUIS & THE MITOCHONDRIES

Grace is a song writer and accordionist from rural southern france.
Her band “The Mitochondries” are a rag tag ensemble of gifted rougues she aquired from the street corners of London. Together they make a very beautiful,quirky and rickety musical family. They mix destroyed dynamics and unexpected changes with traditional folkloric styles…You could call it a kind of “dirty tango, rock n roll, post-musette, tramp jazz, progressive gypsy…”

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BROOKE SHARKEY

Inspired by gypsy blues and country folk music, Brooke Sharkey is a dedicated troubadour who has carved out an exciting musical niche with expressive and spiralling vocals of delicate English and French ballad’s. The themes in her song-writing are achingly personal, presenting the tribulations of life and complex intimacies in all their vibrant, heart-breaking glory.

She is accompanied by Adam Beattie on double bass and backing vocal which brings an added tenderness and weight to the compositions, whilst Alastair Caplin fuels a fire in the songs with his passionate and evocative violin playing, tied together by the rich sound of Jez Houghton’s French horn.

Brooke Sharkey is cooking up a delicious ingredient for success with the strength of her songs, the talent of her fellow musicians, pooled with her unique mix of folk, gypsy-Jazz and French ballads. Brooke is one step ahead as it is often not until well into the commercial success of the likes of Laura Marling and Joni Mitchell’s did they begin experimenting with other genres and surrounding themselves with a band which takes the songs to new levels which Brooke is already fine-tuning.

Brooke Sharkey – May from brooke sharkey on Vimeo.