Pirate Jenny's Begins Season On An Anti-Sentimental Journey

Pirate Jenny's, London's unique monthly musical cabaret and chanson night, has been regularly presenting grownup songs for grownup people in the capital since December 1994. Now Jenny celebrates the approach of her first decade with a move to a new venue, the intimate DRILL HALL 2 (16 Chenies Street, Bloomsbury, London - +44 (0)20 7307 5060 - http://www.drillhall.co.uk/ ) in the heart of central London. The first show of the Autumn season is an outstanding bill mixing international Brechtian-inspired theatre song with new English songwriting featuring Hilde Hildebrand, Des de Moor and Marcus Reeves, and will be presented on Tuesday, September 21st. Showtime is 8:00 pm. Tickets GBP 7.00/5.00.

Headlining the evening is German-born singer and actor Hilde Hildebrand returning to Pirate Jenny's in the company of her regular musical director and pianist Kees van Zantwijk. Now based in Amsterdam and renowned there for a series of acclaimed music theatre and multimedia shows such as the recent Mehr-Meer and Belin Emigrant, Hilde is a compelling and witty cabarettiste who effortlessly evokes the world of 1920s Berlin in all its theatricality, melancholy, subversion and eroticism, while still finding a contemporary relevance. Expect songs from the likes of Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Franz Schubert...and Janis Ian. For more information, see http://www.xs4all.nl/~enterart .

Pirate Jenny's founder and host Des de Moor is acknowledged as one of Britain's leading artists working in the cabaret-chanson tradition, a powerful and unique singer and performer with a repertoire encompassing his own salty English chansons and innovative interpretations of other peo-ple's material, including a line in original and faithful English versions of mainland European songs. Over the next four months he'll be presenting four different themed sets of songs at the Drill Hall with the exemplary assistance of Jenny's resident maestro David Harrod, starting tonight with an unsentimental journey into the work of Bertolt Brecht. For more information, see http://www.desdemoor.com/ .

The Drill Hall shows also feature contributions from up-and-coming British singer songwriters, starting tonight with singer and actor Marcus Reeves. A regular performer on the London fringe, with a self-penned musical Cut out and keep performed in scratch form at Battersea Arts Centre, Marcus is tonight presenting his original songs which combine influences from music theatre, glam rock, Andy Williams and Neil Diamond. For more information, see http://www.reevescorner.co.uk/.

 

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