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YolanDa Brown

ANNOUNCES

UK TOUR DATES

May –Nov 2014
Feb-March 2015

www.yolandabrown.co.uk

  • “Brown remains both an influential role model, and a skilful artist with a future”. John Fordham – Guardian
  • “Yolanda Brown – sax appeal”  Independent
  • Bright young saxophone talent – sounding somewhere between Stan Getz and Courtney Pine (minus the showboating chops)”– Time Out

 Award winning double MOBO Winner – YolanDa Brown  –  has been described as  the UK’s most exciting jazz talent.  Not only is YolanDa the UK’s premier saxophonist – she is as much an entrepreneur as she is a musician.

YolanDa has recently teamed up with the University Of East London to create a new music award for students offering four grants to their Music Students . She has a long-standing connection with UEL and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2010.

YolanDa is proud to announce a  22 date nationwide  tour – May 2014-March 2015.  Taking in  1st and 2nd  November – Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, London and

Maidstone  on  8th November.  Plus the Jazz Café  7th February 2015.

“I love nothing more than being on the road and meeting new people. Having just given birth to my first baby, I am really looking forward to returning to stages around the world and sharing my music, emotions and stories…”  Says YolanDa.

With two albums under her belt to critical acclaim – ‘ April Showers, May Flowers’  reached No.1 on the UK Itunes Jazz Charts in 2011.  In 2013, YolanDa  released ‘April Showers, May Flowers Live Sessions’ – which contained a live album and live DVD.

YolanDa has been listed in the Evening Standard as one of the top 30 black students in the UK selected by Gordon Brown.  She is also a celebrity ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and is also a Patron of The Mayor Of London’s Fund for Young Musicians –  which provides outstanding progression and development opportunities to young people  – who demonstrate significant musical talent and commitment.

A tour not to be missed.

Tour Dates
All tickets available from the venue direct.

MAY 2014
9th Boisdale Canary Wharf
tickets.boisdale.co.uk
Tickets: £10 – £40 Doors Open at: 7pm

16th Newbury Spring festival, Berkshire
www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk
Tickets: £19.50 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

22nd Cinnamon Club, Cheshire
www.thecinnamonclub.net
Tickets: £15.00 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

23rd Stables, Milton Keynes
www.stables.org
Tickets: £16.50 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

24th Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey
www.artscentre.je
Tickets: £14 – £17 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

JUNE 2014
19th Eden Court, Inverness
www.eden-court.co.uk
Tickets: £11 – £18 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

20th  Alnwick Playhouse, Alnwick
www.alnwickplayhouse.co.uk
Tickets: £19.50 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

21st  Carnegie Hall, Fife
www.onfife.com/
Tickets: £17.50 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

26th Portsmouth Festivities
www.portsmouthfestivities.co.uk
Tickets: £12 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

28th Iford Festival, Bath
www.ifordarts.co.uk
Tickets: £34 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

29th Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
www.thegulbenkian.co.uk
Tickets: £12 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

JULY 2014
5th Hop Farm Music Festival, Kent
www.thehopfarmmusicfestival.com
Tickets: £35 – £135 Doors Open at: All Day

AUGUST 2014
29th The Customs House, South Shields
www.customshouse.co.uk
Tickets: £19 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

SEPTEMBER 2014
15th  Windsor Festival
www.windsorfestival.com
Tickets: £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

OCTOBER 2014
10th  Connaught Theatre, Worthing
www.worthingtheatres.co.uk
Tickets: £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

11th  Millfield Theatre, Edmonton London
forms.enfield.gov.uk/peo
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

17th  Norwich Playhouse
www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

NOVEMBER 2014
1st  Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, London
www.pizzaexpresslive.com
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

2nd Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, London
www.pizzaexpresslive.com
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

8th  Pizza Express Jazz Club Maidstone
www.pizzaexpresslive.com
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

FEBRUARY 2015
7th Jazz Cafe Camden, London
mamacolive.com/thejazzcafe/
Tickets: £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

MARCH 2015
6th  Birnham Institute, Dunkeld
www.birnaminstitute.com
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

7th  2015 The Lemon Tree Aberdeen
http://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/venues/the-lemon-tree
Tickets: £15 – £20 Doors Open at: 7.30pm

Note To Editors
YolanDa  was born in Barking in the early 1980s. Her father was in advertising, her mother a head teacher.

By six, she was already something of a musical prodigy. Her first instrument was the piano, but, never much caring for the theoretical side, she gradually lost interest, and gravitated instead to the violin, and then the drums.

The next few years saw a fleeting interest in several more instruments, the oboe and the recorder among them.  But by 13 she had settled for the saxophone, with which she felt most comfortable, and also most naturally inclined towards – so much so, that she refused her parents’ offer of lessons, and simply did precisely what it is that defines all musical prodigies: she taught herself.

YolanDa has played sax with everyone from Alexander O’Neal to Mica Paris, Soweto Kinch to The Temptations. She began increasingly to tour further afield – in the US, in Italy and Spain – and for 18 months even hosted her own talk show on Sky.

And through it all, she kept up with her studies, pursuing a Ph.D. in Management Science at the University of Kent.

In 2011 was invited to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace. She went, had tea, and a lovely time.

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