VAL SINCLAIR – INTERNATIONAL VOCALIST
Previously based in Cambridge, UK, and now living near Shrewsbury, VAL SINCLAIR became well known as the resident vocalist for 8 years with the UK’s amazing ‘Galaxy Big Band’.
She describes herself as ‘a rather ordinary, home-loving person, who just needs to sing the blues’. However, working with the best of musicians, her performance is nevertheless extraordinary, revealing a woman with a passion for music, a huge fun-filled personality and a vocalist who is at ease with many music genres. Colleagues say “she is a very professional musician with a warmth that players and audiences are drawn to – she brings out the very best in everyone”.
She has performed at numerous proms and festivals, worked in every kind of venue, from major theatres and concert halls, to the smallest intimate music room. She performed her own concert in the glorious setting of Hereford Cathedral and 2018 saw her working in the USA with Mark Warner’s band, followed by a swift plane journey to perform a concert in Switzerland on MS Oscar Wilde. She performed with Cambridge’s ‘We Are Sound’ and its ‘In The Dark’ series, for 19 sold out concerts in the UK.
While her preference is to perform in the UK, her career has taken her to Europe, Asia, Scandinavia and the USA.
She particularly enjoys performing locally and was delighted to play in June for the ‘Pontesbury Festival’ Concert, the village where she lives. She said “After all the years that I’ve been working, I’m always humbled and amazed that I still sell out, especially in the village where I live. You’d think they’d have had enough of me by now”. 😂