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Julia Titus is an actress, poet, singer and songwriter. Among her gifts are the voice (and verve!) to put over the songs of the great blues & vaudeville performer of the 1920s, Bessie Smith.
Smith sang about the things her audiences were living and feeling, decades before hip-hop artists rapped about black working-class life. With lyrics both dark and humorous, Smith and her sister blues-women advanced the revolutionary idea that black women's lives mattered.
The phenomenal Bessie Smith, billed as the "Empress of the Blues", hit the big time a hundred years ago. She recorded many discs with piano and trumpet backing. Here's a chance to hear that combination, with two of the best in the field, Mike Denham and Steve Graham.
Expect to hear classics including 'Careless Love', 'Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out', 'Gimme A Pig Foot (And A Bottle Of Beer)', and of course 'Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight', all delivered with verve and style. The programme will include a few Gospel numbers, another uplifting genre in which the three musicians delight!
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Paul
July 6th 2016
Very entertaining, the whole band had a variety of songs very emotional and enjoyable.
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St James's Memorial Hall Lower Borough Walls, Bath, United Kingdom
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JULIA TITUS Biography
Julia Titus is an actress, poet, singer and songwriter born in the UK and has been singing for many years in various bands as backing singer and lead vocalist and performing in many plays. Julia has performed in many countries and has worked with such people as Vin Gordon, Lindel Lewis, Mafia and Fluxy, Sam Kelly, John Maddocks and his Jazzmen to date and has shared the same stage with people like Jah Cure, TKO, Judy Boucher, Bomani and Winston SoSo.
Apart from writing and performing her own songs and poetry Julia currently sings with a number of Bands including: Ma Bessie and her Pigfoot Band and The Hurricane Force Steel Band.
Her self penned tribute to the families and victims of the 911 disaster called “I forgot to say I love you” is remixed for the album in a funky style. “When I sing this song people hold hands and cry together” It means exactly what it says in the title and was first recorded after a dear cousin of mine was shot dead by Police in Jamaica. This songs breaks all boundaries of colour, religion, geography and status I could go on but everyone can relate to losing someone
She lives simply and honestly with those around her whilst she encourages them to realise the power they hold within themselves, the great positive things they are able to do and the intense comfort that music can be to them as it has been to her. “Suffer” How many people have to…
Read MoreApart from writing and performing her own songs and poetry Julia currently sings with a number of Bands including: Ma Bessie and her Pigfoot Band and The Hurricane Force Steel Band.
Her self penned tribute to the families and victims of the 911 disaster called “I forgot to say I love you” is remixed for the album in a funky style. “When I sing this song people hold hands and cry together” It means exactly what it says in the title and was first recorded after a dear cousin of mine was shot dead by Police in Jamaica. This songs breaks all boundaries of colour, religion, geography and status I could go on but everyone can relate to losing someone
She lives simply and honestly with those around her whilst she encourages them to realise the power they hold within themselves, the great positive things they are able to do and the intense comfort that music can be to them as it has been to her. “Suffer” How many people have to…
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