Upcoming shows
Royal Albert Hall, London
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live In Concert
Led by longtime Bacharach music director Rob Shirakbari
with The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra featuring
Dionne Warwick, Rumer, Ed Harcourt, Georgia Van Etten, Woody Mankowski, and Jana Varga.
Wickham Festival (with Hejira)
Jana fronts a 7-piece band ‘Hejira’ in celebration of the music of Joni Mitchell.
Cafe #9, Sheffield
Double header with Izzie Derry - ‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
Priory Visitor Centre Coventry
Acoustic double header with Izzie Derry
‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
The Grove
Acoustic double header with Izzie Derry.
The ‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
Upstairs At The Red Lion, Manningtree
Acoustic double header with Izzie Derry.
‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
Other Space Arts, Windsor
Acoustic double header with Izzie Derry
‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
WaterBear Music Bar
Acoustic double header with Izzie Derry
‘Intertwined Tour’
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
Green Note, London
Jana Varga and Izzie Derry join forces for a UK co-headline tour, bringing together two distinctive voices in an intimate and powerful celebration of storytelling through song. Exploring themes of love, heartbreak, freedom and belonging, this is more than just a show—it’s a meeting of musical minds and a shared journey of collaboration, connection and sisterhood. Together, Izzie and Jana craft a live show that is both intimate and uplifting. Witness the powerful and lush sound, as they harmonise and reimagine each other’s songs in arrangements created especially for this tour. Their individual stories unite in a shared narrative transporting you into their world right from the first note.
Dunmow Music Club
Acoustic duo with Sam Watts
Note: This event is a multiple bill (3 acts)
Totnes (with Hejira)
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band ‘Hejira’ performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist and musician Jana Varga. Following the release of the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ in the late 1970’s, Joni toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire.
Expect an evening of the ‘great’ songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, 'A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, 'Edith And The Kingpin’ and more!
Tickets
TBA
Cardigan (with Hejira)
Tickets
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Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band ‘Hejira’ performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist and musician Jana Varga. Following the release of the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ in the late 1970’s, Joni toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire.
Expect an evening of the ‘great’ songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, 'A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, 'Edith And The Kingpin’ and more!
Oxford (with Hejira)
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band ‘Hejira’ performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist and musician Jana Varga. Following the release of the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ in the late 1970’s, Joni toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire.
Expect an evening of the ‘great’ songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, 'A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, 'Edith And The Kingpin’ and more!
Tickets
TBA
St Leonard’s On Sea
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Intimate solo show at Mike’s Shop on Norman Road.
74 Norman Rd, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 0EJ
Dusty In Memphis
Music journalist and author Paul Sexton presents the next in his Live Archive series, exclusive to the Sound Lounge. After celebrating the life and work of Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Robertson and Dolly Parton, this fourth instalment goes a slightly different route by honouring a classic album, and what a record it is: Dusty Springfield’s unforgettable 1969 release ‘Dusty In Memphis.’
Living up to its name as ever, the night features a combination of audio from Paul’s extensive archive together with live interpretations of tracks from the LP by several featured artists. These include the fine singer-songwriters and friends of the Sound Lounge Jana Varga (fresh from the release of her excellent second album ‘Chicory’ and tour dates opening for Rumer) and Hannah Robinson, another frequent SL visitor in Robbie McIntosh’s band, and whose current ‘Holding Up The Sky’ EP we strongly recommend. Hannah has also been on the road recently, singing and playing with the great John Illsley of Dire Straits.
Nantwich
Nantwich
Jana brings new songs from the album Chicory. An evening in duo with pianist Dave Ferris.