Cousin Alice in Ram Jam Club
COUSIN ALICE
Ram Jam Club Sat 23rd July 2016, 9pm
Singer/songwriter COUSIN ALICE
creates a completely unique sound - gritty, sweet, and heartfelt,
delivered with a shot or two of humour. Likened by one listener as "a
cross between Tom Waits, Peggy Lee and Marianne Faithfull", Alice
seduces audiences with her smokey voice, antique banjo-ukelele and
battered array of musicians (the cream of London’s blues and jazzers),
performing a collection of jazz standards, pop, nostalgia, original
songs and the blues. Holding the crowd in the palm of her hand, be it a
large music venue or intimate cabaret club, Cousin Alice is a magnetic
performer.
Raised in New Zealand, of Barbadian/Welsh/English
parentage, Alice is based in London. She has been enthusiastically
received in New Zealand, the Caribbean and Europe. Her residencies
include the famous Café de Paris and Boisdale’s of Belgravia. She’s
swung through many a ballroom, banquet and bar, to name a few - The
Savoy, Hampton Court Palace, The Groucho Club, Berkeley Square Ball,
The Times/BFI London International Film Festival, Holder’s Season in
Barbados and has appeared at an eclectic mix of London nightclubs - the
sequined underworld of the Voluptè Lounge, 1920’s themed Black Cotton
Club, Soho’s Black Gardenia and Stranger Than Paradise. Over the summer
of 2009 Cousin Alice was in Rio De Janeiro where she established
exciting projects with local producers and DJs, resulting in
remixes/arrangements of her compositions. Inspired by these
collaborations and the vibrant city there will be more to come.