Barb Jungr (born 9 May 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and theatre writer, who has recorded versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Sting, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen.
She formed the Three Courgettes with Michael Parker and Jerry Kreeger and performed new wave versions of gospel songs in the Kings Road and Portobello Market in the late 1970s.
They hosted the BBC Radio 2 series We Stayed in with...Jungr and Parker[4] with specials recorded at the Edinburgh Festival and produced by Sonia Beldom.
Jungr wrote about these experiences for the Guardian Diary, Folk Roots, and The Singer, and in 1994 enrolled in a masters program at Goldsmiths College in ethnomusicology for which she received a Distinction.
[10] In the early 1990s, Jungr developed themed shows which have become her speciality: "Hell Bent Heaven Bound" (with Ian Shaw, Christine Collister and Michael Parker) was Perrier Pick of the Fringe, "Money the Final Frontier" (with Helen Watson, Christine Collister and Michael Parker) was invited to the Canadian Music Festivals.
[17] In March 2014, Jungr released Hard Rain: the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and toured the UK with a season at the 59E59 Theater in New York.
[18] Other collaborations include composer Jonathan Cooper on his "Moon Behind the Clouds" song cycle,[19] the cabaret show Girl Talk with Mari Wilson and Claire Martin, and Gwyneth Herbert which toured intermittently for ten years [20] and the trio Durga Rising with tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and pianist Russell Churney.
[22] In early 2016, Jungr was a featured artist in James Gavin's Lincoln Center songbook series celebrating Peggy Lee.
[29] She created the voice course at London Metropolitan University and formed and ran the Raise the Roof Horseman Choir (which she founded) for several years.
[30] In 2012, she created the song cycle "Deep Roots Tall Trees" for the Core Theatre at Corby, with local musicians, songwriters, and poets, which culminated in a concert at Corby football ground in August 2014 incorporating local musicians, the Deep Roots Tall Trees Choir, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antony Weedon.