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Yinka Awojobi

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Double-MOBO Award winner announces debut album and tour...

YolanDa Brown is a one-off, very much a woman of her time. As much entrepreneur as she is musician, as much gifted singer-songwriter as she is the UK's premier saxophonist.

After several years on the world’s jazz circuits, she is now poised to release her debut album, 'April Showers, May Flowers' - out Feb 13th on Black Grape Records..

  Her debut album will surely see her cult
  reputation brought to the fore.

  April Showers, May Flowers is a beautifully
  sculpted record that touches lightly on Jazz and
  Soul and RnB, each track bestowed with the
  kind of lyrical insight - on love, on life - that
  suggests its author is something of a poet, too..

Soulful Poise

It's an album of effortless unfurling grace and impeccable soulful poise, featuring 8 Saxophone tracks and - for the first time - 2 vocal tracks (Bitter Sweet and Without You) on which YolanDa showcases her beautiful voice.

YolanDa Brown is the UK’s premier female saxophonist, winning the MOBO Award twice for “Best Jazz” back to back in 2008 and 2009. Her music remains true to the jazz coda whilst continuing to embrace and incorporate other musical influences as equals.

Endorsed

She is endorsed by Yamaha and was appointed as the UK's class band ambassador in February 2011. Yamaha Class Band is a whole-class wind band teaching method, currently being piloted, until July 2012, in a collaboration between Yamaha UK and two of the UK's leading music services.

She has supported The Temptations and has also toured with- to critical acclaim- Errol Brown, Courtney Pine, David Sanborn, Kenny G and Diana Krall - as well as working in collaboration with artists such as Mica Paris and Soweto Kinch and has also performed as a part of Jools Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

She is a Celebrity Ambassador for HRH The Prince of Wales and His Prince’s Trust Charity, is a Patron of Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s MFYM fund. In 2010 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of East London.

YolanDa's UK tour begins February 14th

February

14th HMV Hammersmith Apollo (with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) £25/£30 08448 444 748
16th Palace Theatre Newark £17.50/£16.50 01636 655 755
17th HMV Hammersmith Apollo (with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) £25/£30 08448 444 748
18th Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot £15/£13.50/£12.50 01235 515 144
21st Farnham Maltings £15adv/£17 on door 01252 745 444
23rd The Stables £16.50/15 01908 280 800
24th Millfield, Enfield £19/£17 020 8807 6680
25th Thameside Theatre Thurrock £18/£12(under 16) 01375 382 555

March

4th Orchard Theatre Dartford £17/15 01322 220 000
23rd Carnegie Hall, FIFE £15 01383 602 302
27th The Lemon Tree Aberdeen £15 01224 642 230

28th Eden Court Inverness One Touch Theatre £20 01463 234 234
29th The Forum Barrow In Furness £13/£15 01229 820 000
30th Birnam Arts Centre £16/£14/£5 01350 727 674

May

24th Beck Theatre Hayes £15.50 020 8561 8371
25th Hall for Cornwall £22/£20/£17.50: Con: £18 £15.50  01872 262 466

 
  More information on YolanDa: www.yolandabrown.co.uk

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Yinka Awojobi

Founder, UKG/ UKGospel.com group of sites. 

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Has a weird obsession with international gospel music.

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