Sarah Ellen Hughes: Album Launch!

Thursday 16th February, Tickets £10, Doors 7pm, Music 8.30pm (2 sets, approx finish 11pm)

A apecial night with Sarah Ellen Hughes' album lauch at London's top live jazz club Hideaway!

An unmissable performance by breathtaking singer Sarah Ellen Hughes, as she introduces her new album and certainly some exclusive material! Highly acclaimed by jazz critics as a brilliant jazz voice and ranging from the pure classical to more bluesy notes, Sarah’s coming to our stage is nothing less than a promise of a very swinging, unique night.

Award-winning vocalist Sarah Ellen Hughes has established herself as a notable presence on the London jazz scene and beyond. Sarah began her career with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), with whom she was lead vocalist from 2005-2008. Since then she has earned many accolades including winning the 2010 International Jazz Singing Competition, “Jazz Voices,” held in Lithuania.

Championed by distinguished vocalists Claire Martin and Ian Shaw, Sarah’s first album “Darning the Dream” was released in 2010, to critical acclaim. The recording features some of the UK’s finest musicians including Jim Hart and Dave O’Higgins, plus two duets with Ian Shaw. It was selected as UK Jazz Radio’s “CD of the month” for a record three months running in early 2010. Following the success of her debut CD, Sarah is currently working towards releasing a second album. This recording is a collection of Sarah’s arrangements of jazz standards, as well as her own compositions, and features a new collaboration with saxophonist Dave O’Higgins.

Sarah began singing at a young age, but the basis of her musical skill came from learning the flute and piano through her teenage years.  She achieved highly on these while still at school, but it was joining a jazz orchestra on flute (by accident really - trying to kill time while waiting for a driving lesson!) that really turned her head to the style of music that would become her passion.  Sarah decided that singing would be the way forward, rather than flute, although she was pleased to occupy the flute chair in NYJO sporadically during 2007/8.