Current projects –
Shireen Francis ‘Island' Project -
own seven-piece Caribbean Jazz – Rhythm & Groove Band, currently working on a CD.
"Sisters of Swing"
Featuring three London based Jazz vocalists -Joan Viskant, Patti Revell and Shireen Francis mostly singing The Great American Songbook – accompanied by the Echoes of Ellington Big Band.
"Sweet Communion"
Gospel/Jazz collaboration with Italian Gospel artist Tyna Casalini.
"Shireen Francis Quartet"
Jazz with Barry Green on Piano, Julie Walkington onbass and Ben Reynolds on drums
- Venues and festivals played include -UK Jazz
Festivals -
Soho Jazz Festival; London Oris Jazz Festival; London
Racing Green; Ealing and Richmond
Festivals abroad -
Ingolstadt Jazz Festival (Munich); Bratislava Jazz Festival;
Slovenia Jazz Festival; Devonshire House, Jamaica.
Venues -
Ronnie Scott’s; The 606 Club; Royal Festival Hall; Royal
Albert Hall; Pizza on the Park; Blackheath Concert Hall; Smollensky’s
on the Strand; 100 Club; The Fleece (Boxford).
Residencies -
The Dorchester Hotel; Quaglino’s, The Bank and Pont de
la Tour restaurants; Conrad Hotel at the Chelsea Harbour and venues in
Provence, Cannes and Antibes with the Château de Berne Big Band.
Plus a regular annual seven-week residency at Mulgrave Castle in Whitby,
entertaining high-profile guests such as Hugh Grant, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Elle Macpherson, Prince Felipe of Spain and other European Heads of State
in an intimate setting
