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Herne Hill Music Festival: Jazz with The Junction - Anita Wardell

0	LONDON: The Half Moon
P	Friday 6th October, 2023
N	7:30pm

Event information

Winner of the BBC Best of Jazz category in 2006 and a British Jazz award for Best Vocalist in 2013, Anita's formative years were spent soaking up the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter classics, and exploring her father’s collection of big band albums by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and many more. During her teens, she started to get to grips with the complexities of modern jazz and discovered Clifford Brown, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. At the same time she learned her vocal craft from greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Murphy, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Jon Hendricks and Eddie Jefferson.

She gained her music degree at Adelaide University, and then moved back to the UK where she studied at the Guildhall school of music and drama. Jazzwise Magazine called her “energetic and inventive” while The Guardian proclaimed her “a model of the Jazz singer’s art”, highlighting her clarity, improvisational skills and emotional resonance.

Anita will be performing with:
Harry Brunt
Harry is a London based saxophonist and composer. He has performed at a host of venues and festivals across the UK and internationally, including Kansas Smitty’s, Vortex Jazz Club, Pizza Express Live, Lovebox Festival, EFG London Jazz Festival and Rototom Sunsplash European Reggae Festival. In addition to this, Harry has worked with artist including Jean Carne and Tony Momrelle (incognito) and Cassandra Jenkins.
Honey Boulton
Alexander 'Honey' Boulton specialises in swing and bebop styles of guitar, as well as jazz banjo. After recently returning to the UK from his home town of Wellington, New Zealand, he has been busy solidifying his place in the musical landscape that is the London jazz scene.

Luke Fowler
After spending his formative years in Australia, Luke moved to the UK where he has spent the last 15 years. He opened a Jazz Venue in South London called the Junction which soon became a hub for some of the best musicians in the UK. After Graduating with a Masters in Jazz Performance at London’s Guildhall School of Music, Luke has been busy running a series of projects which he has presented around London