Leonie Evans

Leonie Evans has been performing since the age of 5 and has never stopped. As well as her own music she plays Jazz, Blues, Country, Gospel and music from Latin America. She's played and sat in on vocals, guitar or washboard with the likes of Tuba Skinny, C.W. Stoneking, Frog & Henry, Honky Tonk Sail, Blue Mockingbirds, Ragtime Nightmare, Old Fish Jazz Band, Sam Doores and many more.

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Leonie Evans guitar Vocals Washboard Double Bass jazz Blues Bristol Vocalist

"Like nothing else I've ever heard in my life" "I was just blown away with her" Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6

"Jazz and Folk flirt en route to New Orleans via Canterbury with Evans' slinky, supple vocal...One slot on Later with Jools holland is all it would take" Prog Magazine

"Leonie Evans lends old school sass... growling and emoting over louche horns and rolling percussion" Evening standard

"When Leonie Evans sang, the affect was ethereal" The Tanjara

"Utterly unaffected and altogether rather magical" Venue Magazine

"Leonie Evans' distinctive vocals were magical. An astonishingly good simulated trumpet sound in her understated stride she kept the audience in her thrall." The Bristol Post "Delicate, whimsical voice which occasionally rasps vigorously across to the back of the tent and beyond" Stephen Morris, Rock Kent