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. After performing blues, jazz and big-band for many years, she reinvented herself and launched the ‘Blackbirds on the Loose’ album with her Cambridge band ‘Turquoise’. The album has a great mix of genres and shows how very 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.
Val has performed in Europe, Asia, Scandinavia and the USA.
Having moved from Cambridge, she is now based near Shrewsbury. She works mainly with ‘Mood Indigo’, 7/8 piece. (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 festival and concerts). The ‘Blues in the Night Concert’ is for those who just love the blues. For the more smaller and cosy venue we have ‘Shades of Indigo’ (a smaller version of the larger Mood Indigo band. The Cool Daddy Combo’’ is specifically for the jazz and blues audience.
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 and festivals a joy for listeners.
‘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 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!!