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Joyce Breach at The Pheasantry
Courtesy of Joe Paice | Posted on January 27, 2015
Where
The Pheasantry
152 Kings Road
London
Map
020 7439 4962
When
Sat, March 7, 2015
20:00
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Musicians
Graham Harvey
pianoAbout
Award winning singer Joyce Breach is one of the finest interpreters of classic American popular song. Before moving to New York in the 1990's, she was a well-known singer of long-standing reputation in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA when she began to develop a more national profile with her first CD for Audiophile Records, released in 1992. The velvet-voiced singer, as celebrated writer Rex Reed recently referred to her, is known for her excellent musicianship and taste, and her sophisticated interpretations of the songs of Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart and Sondheim among others. She is the last of a breed of singers from a less-frantic era, following in the footsteps of Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day and Peggy Lee, but very firmly in her own style. In 2002, 2003, and 2004 she played to sell-out crowds at London's Pizza on the Park where she recorded her first live CD, Live in London, on Audiophile....