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The internationally acclaimed performer and recording artist, Barb Jungr brings her acclaimed interpretations of Bob Dylan songs to The Rrazz Room in San Francisco (October 2011, Mon 10, Tues 11 & Wed 12), The Metropolitan Room in New York (October 2011, Tues 18 to Sat 22 (7pm) / Tues 25 to Sat 29 (7pm), Catalina's Bar and Grill in LA (November 2011, Tues 1 & Wed 2) and Austin Cabaret Theater (November 2011,Thurs 3 & Fri 4). The show follows the release of Man In The Long Black Coat, (Linn Records). The album has had 5 and 4 star reviews in the UK, and will be released in the US on September 27, 2011. Man In The Long Black Coat will be distributed in the US by Naxos of America, Inc.

Barb Jungr's celebration of the 70th birthday of the iconic songwriter. Widely regarded as "the foremost interpreter's of Bob Dylan's back catalogue" (The Independent), Barb's new recording, which features several tracks not released by her before (Sara, Man In The Long Black Coat, It Ain't Me Babe and With God On Our Side) marks the culmination of a decade-long affair with the work of Bob Dylan; as Barb states "Once I had started singing Dylan's songs I couldn't stop".

Barb Jungr is enjoying another busy year of concert engagements throughout 2011, following the release of the acclaimed new album, The Men I Love, and a hugely successful series of live dates at home and abroad in 2010, including her first tour in St Louis, Cleveland and San Francisco last December.

Variously described by critics as magnificent, mesmerizing and magical and favorably compared to Nina Simone, Peggy Lee and Edith Piaf, Barb Jungr has, in recent years, built a formidable reputation on the international cabaret stage. With her stunningly evocative interpretations of songs from what she champions as the 'Great New American Songbook' (includes, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, Bruce Springsteen and many more), Barb has taken the art of cabaret singing and imbued it with new vitality and relevance for the 21st century.

Barb is wholly passionate about songs and singing, and this is never more apparent than in her live shows where she holds audiences spellbound with her revelatory interpretations and dramatic style of delivery. Slick and entertaining to the last, she balances these grand gestures with her innate sense of humor and comic timing.

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