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Annie is a versatile jazz vocalist and event host. She has a warm, smoky voice, a witty and engaging stage presence and beautifully expressive delivery. She loves jazz, blues, Latin, swing and bebop, especially the music of Anita O’Day, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. Her repertoire includes everything from The Great American Songbook to The Beatles and Bacharach. She won the Angela Carrington prize in 2009.

Annie has sung at jazz clubs including The Pheasantry and the Vortex and a variety of jazz events including the Ealing Festival, the Streets, and other community jazz festivals.

Annie, Juliet Wood, Marissa Wessler and Sue Jarvis are the singers at the monthly Jazz Night at the H-Bar upstairs at The Raven on Tower Bridge Road. Annie performs with a trio at The Boleyn Tavern in East Ham, and the Leyton Engineer in Leyton, (both part of the Remarkable Pubs group), and as part of a duo at The Angel and Crown in Bethnal Green.

Since 2008, Annie has run little bread Big Jam, a popular instrumental and vocal jazz jam with a residency at The Royal Inn on the Park in Hackney. (Another Remarkable Pubs venue). From the beginning of 2018 until the Lockdown, she was one of the Group of Four who ran the Jazz Club at the Ilford Liberal Club every Thursday.

Annie is available for gigs, parties, receptions, weddings and corporate events. She can provide any line-up from duo to octet depending upon your requirements. As well as singing, Annie is available to host events, musical or not. Contact her for details and to discuss your requirements.

Social Media Links

Linktree: linktr.ee/anniedehaneystevenjazz

Facebook:      facebook.com/indigoshades

and Web:        www.indigoshades.com

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Blowing my own Cornet

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New presenter Annie, lives in east London and plays in two north London bands; cornet for one and, latterly, sop (the Devil’s cornet) for the other. Brass band was her first love, but she is as often found hanging around with jazz as a singer and event host.

On Air – every Friday at 7.30pm UK time

Annie and Indigo Shades

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Welcome.

Annie is a versatile jazz vocalist and event host.

She has a warm, smoky voice, a witty and engaging stage presence and beautifully expressive delivery. She loves jazz, blues, Latin, swing and bebop, especially the music of Anita O’Day, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. Her repertoire includes everything from The Great American Songbook to The Beatles and Bacharach. Annie won the Angela Carrington prize in 2009.

Annie has sung at jazz clubs including The Pheasantry, the 606 Club and the Vortex and at a variety of jazz events including the Ealing Festival, the Streets, and other community jazz festivals. She performs regularly with her own band and is often invited to sing with other groups.

Since 2008, Annie has run little bread Big Jam, a popular instrumental and vocal jazz jam with a residency at The Royal Inn on the Park in Hackney.

Since spring 2018, Annie has been the singer with the gypsy jazz band, Bow Django.

Annie is available for gigs, parties, receptions, weddings and corporate events. She can provide any line-up from duo to octet depending upon your requirements. As well as singing, Annie is available to host events, musical or not.

Contact her for details and to discuss your requirements.

Bow Django

Based in Bow, influenced by Django Reinhardt and Quintette du Hot Club de France, Bow Django’s music is seasoned with swing and infused with Latin.

Bow Django comprises guitarists Ienne and Chris, bassist Casper, clarinettist Jenny, violinist Peter, and vocalist Annie.

The band was formed when a group of friends got together to play gypsy jazz in an African cafe in Bow in about 2018. However, it really got going in the ‘tween and post-Lockdown periods when the group met in Victoria Park each Friday for a couple of hours to play for themselves and a dedicated group of distanced audience.

The natural choice for parks, street parties, cafe culture and libraries, their music – uptempo and infectiously optimistic – can’t fail to get your feet tapping.

Bow Django @ Greenwich Market 2023
Bow Django @ Greenwich Market 2023
in Victoria Park, London
Honeysuckle Rose – Bow Django

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