Jazz chanteuse and songwriter Christine Bovill performs live at Òran Mór in Glasgow.
Christine Bovill plays Òran Mór on Thursday 22 October, a Glasgow-born jazz singer returning to her home city. She's built a reputation as a songwriting jazz chanteuse, and this is a solo billing — just her on the bill.
Her background helps explain the sound. She grew up in a Glasgow family where folk music was the flavour of the age, but she followed her own inclinations towards jazz and cabaret and has been developing them ever since. For a while she lived two lives: teaching English by day and singing in the jazz haunts of the city by night. Eventually she quit the classroom to pursue entertainment full-time, and that's when her songwriting took over. The focus shifted to the lyric, and she's described as bringing a pure and majestic voice to songs of life's triumphs and tragedies.
It's a Glasgow singer playing a Glasgow venue, so it's a homecoming of sorts. The set will be built around her own songs, the kind of material that puts the lyrics and the voice at the centre of the room. If you're into jazz singing that leans into the storytelling side of things, this is exactly that.
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Tickets are £20, and the show starts at 7:00 PM at Òran Mór, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX.
