Claire Roberts / Noel Fortune Quintet
At a glance
About this event
Noel Fortune and Claire Roberts form a quintet who play tight grooves, up-tempo swing and hard-bop melodies.
Barcelona-based vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts is one of Europe's rising jazz vocalists. With Irish and Welsh heritage, she first began touring with 1940s band The Swing Commanders, before emerging as a powerful and expressive jazz vocalist in her solo career. Claire has performed in some of the UK’s most prestigious jazz festivals (EFG London Jazz, Manchester jazz, Llais Festival) as well as sharing a stage with Barcelona's finest improvisers in Spain, touring to Seville, Valencia and Tenerife. Together with trumpeter and bandleader Noel Fortune, they form a quintet who play tight grooves, uptempo swing and hard bop melodies. The flexibility, control and beauty of Claire's voice is what makes her one of Barcelona's leading Jazz vocalists.
Lineup:
Claire Victoria Roberts, Voice
Noel Fortune, Trumpet
So-Young Yoon, Piano
Derek Whyte, Bass
Michael McCarthy, Drums
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28 Thomas St
Venue details
Arthur's is the nearest pub on the route to The Guinness Storehouse, one of the city's foremost tourist attractions. It is popular both with locals and tourists. Naturally it has the freshest pint of Guinness in all of Ireland.
