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Lauren Kinsella

Lauren Kinsella is an Irish vocalist based in London. Lauren performs in many different cities and has spent time studying in Dublin, Sweden and Switzerland before moving to London. She holds a BA in Jazz Performance from Newpark Music Centre, Dublin and is currently pursuing the Jazz Masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She is involved in various projects such as Thought-Fox, winners of the Young Musicwide Award 2010-2013 of which she leads, Lupo with Swiss vocalist Sarah Buechi, Blue-Eyed Hawk with trumpeter Laura Jurd and the Lauren Kinsella / Alex Huber duo. Lauren also collaborates in duos with musicians including Mark Sanders, Gwilly Edmondes, Ian McLachlan, Francesco Turrisi and Dan Nicholls among others.

Lost Bees

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lost Bees; 5th Neck of the Woods; Fairy Tale; Shore; Haiku; Suspensions; Water; The Answer; In The Same Sphere.

Roamer: Lost Bees

by Ian Patterson
November 11, 2022

Roamer is vocalist Lauren Kinsella, drummer Matthew Jacobson, bassist/guitarist Simon Jermyn and saxophonist/flautist Matthew Halpin—four of Ireland's most lauded creative musicians. Formed in 2016, the quartet's activities have been frustratingly intermittent in the interim, though it is hardly surprising given that its members are based in London, Cologne, Berlin and Dublin. One early highlight came in ...

Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021

by Geno Thackara
December 31, 2021

Insert the usual cliches here as you see fit: strange times, “new normal," all that stuff. Still, even while some of us give up on terms like “normal" and get used to the idea that there may never be a post-Covid world, great music and art never stops. Amidst another bumper crop of more things than ...

Wait for Me

By Snowpoet

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Roots; The Wheel; A Chance to Hear the Rain; Sky Thinking; FaceTime; Early Feelings; Tiers; With You; Here's the Thing; Burn Bright; Floating Practice; Wool Cotton Lace & Snow.

Two Poetic Duos

by Geno Thackara
February 15, 2021

Siril Malmedal Hauge and Jacob Young Chasing Sunsets Oslo Session Recordings 2020 Siril Malmedal Hauge and Jacob Young are no strangers to finding beauty in simplicity. They made a sleeper highlight of 2018 when they first teamed up for Last Things (Oslo Session Recordings), and their second outing offers more of ...

Dorothy & George Jacob: Putting Bray On The Jazz Map

by Ian Patterson
April 16, 2019

Twenty years is old for a car and really old for a dog, but in jazz festival terms twenty years is perhaps not so long in the tooth. For a jazz festival twenty years means established, with the major storms of the early years weathered, a brand that people recognize and a heap of good will ...

Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real

by Phil Barnes
February 18, 2019

There's always a temptation to describe things we like as “the real jazz/soul/music..." out of a passion for a new musical discovery, but what does it actually mean? At the level of pure pedantry no piece of music can be more “real" than any other, yet what this unfortunate formulation is meant to signify is that ...

Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet at Duncairn Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
April 4, 2018

Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet Duncairn Arts Centre jny:Belfast, N. Ireland March 22, 2018 Coming so soon after Belfast's annual jazz festival, Brilliant Corners, the appearance of Sirkis/Bialas IQ at Duncairn Arts Centre was a real treat for jazz fans. Better still, the concert was free, sponsored as it was by ...

Lauren Kinhan: A Sleepin' Bee

by Dan Bilawsky
October 3, 2017

Leaning on touchstones as a creative resource can be tricky business. If an artist puts too much stock in the original, they end up with a second-rate likeness of the archetype. But if they move too far away from the model, the tether breaks and the connection is completely lost in the wind. It takes a ...