With Darlingside’s lovely David Senft at Cambridge Folk Festival
VAL SINCLAIR is well-known in the UK as a professional vocalist who is at ease with many music genres but was initially known for blues, jazz and big-band. She has also performed in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Having moved from Cambridge, Val is now based near Shrewsbury. She works with a number of bands, more recently the newly formed Mood Indigo, (it’s hard to anticipate what they might play next from their eclectic mix, they are so talented and certainly not repetitive. A great mix for concert). The Devon-based Pat Brandon Quartet (plays blues, main-stream jazz and latin). We also have the ‘Blues in the Night Concert’. For the more smaller and cosy venue we have the ‘Cool Daddy Combo’’ (jazz/blues) and ‘Shades of Indigo’ (eclectic mix of genres)
Any performance promises sophistication, fun , and superb musicianship, all wrapped in a warm and professional package. Ideal for that very special occasion and well equipped to make concerts a joy for listeners
Val Sinclair recorded the album ‘Blackbirds on the Loose’ with Turquoise (the Cambridge based band). The album has a great mix of genres and shows how very eclectic and talented these musicians are, and reflects the many hours of song arrangement and rehearsal that went into it. The band was also involved in the album production, along with Andy Guy of the Shrubbery Recording Studio in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, who did an amazing job of recording, mastering and mixing.
“A gorgeous voice and the Blackbirds album is “like a delicious box of chocolates” BBC’s Sue Marchant.
‘Cool Cool Daddy’ – Have a listen to the first track on the Blackbirds album . We love the quirky piano intro by Pat Brandon which compliments the album title.
This is our version of the James Taylor song ‘Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
I was delighted when Costa Rica won Prince William’s Earthshot prize in 2021. Here is the song I wrote following my visit to that amazing country. Once again, there’s not a hint of jazz or blues in it!!
Dawn in Costa Rica
OUR HOME-GROWN SONG ‘LAVENDER AND LACE’ WAS REVISED AND RE-ENTERED INTO THE UK (INTERNATIONAL) SONG-WRITING COMPETITION FOR 2023 WHERE IT WAS GIVEN THE TOP 5* MARK AND WENT INTO THE SEMI-FINALS IN BOTH THE ‘ADULT CONTEMPORARY’ AND ‘SINGER-SONGWRITER’ SECTIONS. WE WERE DELIGHTED WITH A SEMI-FINAL PLACE, FROM OVER 10,000 ENTRIES.
Click here to listen to the revised Lavender and Lace – once again as far away from blues and jazz as you can get!!