Gwyneth Herbert at The Glee Online Stream

Jazzlines show by strikingly original performer and musical adventurer

Gwyneth Herbert is a strikingly original performer, award­-winning composer and lyricist and versatile musical adventurer who continues to redefine and challenge expectations.

With one foot in the jazz world and the other somewhere in the future, she has worked in collaboration with writers, musicians, directors, choreographers, visual artists, academics, clowns, pirates and young people to make a huge cannon of genre­-defying interdisciplinary work, as well as touring nationally and internationally with her band and releasing 6 albums to date on major, independent and self­-owned labels, including the first Blue Note UK release for 30 years.

Since the huge success of 2013’s large­ scale cross­-artform project ‘The Sea Cabinet’­ the result of an Aldeburgh Music residency, Gwyneth has seen her musical co-­written with celebrated playwright Diane Samuels open at the Southwark Playhouse, recorded a new run of BBC Radio 4’s Playlist Series singing the favourite tunes of Nell Gwyn and the Duke of Wellington, built an interdisciplinary installation about sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and a Fun Palace in Stratford Station (both with artist Mel Brimfield), and recently spent a month in Kenya collecting lullabies, sharing songs in slum schools and staging multi­tribe storytelling happenings under the Mombasa stars.