Name: Hallelujah On Desolation Row
Start: 2025-11-14T19:45:00+00:00
Location: Warwick Arts Centre

Celebrating the early 2025 release of her new album, “Hallelujah on Desolation Row,” acclaimed singer and writer Barb Jungr, “our greatest interpreter of Dylan’s songs,” brings her award winning interpretations and challenging new arrangements to this all-new collection of Dylan and Cohen’s iconic songs.
Having curated the first ever UK festival of Bob Dylan — Visions of Dylan, at Farnham Maltings — Barb now embarks on an album release and series of shows celebrating two of the most legendary contemporary songwriters of the western world.
One of the most extraordinary British performers of her generation, Barb Jungr’s formidable talent as a singer, composer, and lyricist is only outshone by her ability to reinterpret familiar songs and reveal new depths of meaning and beauty. Internationally acclaimed, Jungr continues to evolve her signature style while her transcendent artistry both live and recorded continues to delight audiences.
Working with her longstanding pianist and collaborator Simon Wallace, and a double bass, Barb will include her groundbreaking arrangements of two of the most important songwriters of this and last century. Songs include Hallelujah, Desolation Row, Tonight Will Be Fine, Tower of Song, Mississippi, and more.
In 2014, Barb followed her award-winning, internationally acclaimed collection of Dylan songs, “Every Grain Of Sand,” with “Hard Rain”, laying herself bare to Dylan’s and Cohen’s political and philosophical songs. “Hard Rain” gained a plethora of 4- and 5-star reviews for its uncompromising and powerful renditions. Bob Dylan’s manager called it “some heavy music.” Praise indeed. She performed this repertoire in a 3-week, sold-out, rave reviewed run at New York’s 59E59 Theatre. Jungr’s dedication to reinventing Dylan’s and Cohen’s repertoire has contributed to her formidable reputation as perhaps the best performer of their songs in the world.
“Bob Dylan, jazz, northern soul, Nina Simone and continental Europe’s cabaret music perform a subtle dance in Jungr’s consciousness” – The Guardian
“The brilliant jazz singer on world-beating form. Barb Jungr proves she’s a genuine jazz marvel… A true musical alchemist” – The Telegraph
“Barb Jungr interprets Dylan and Cohen’s work with a ferocity and truthfulness that demolishes every cover version you’ve ever heard” – The New York Times