Eileen Johanna performs songs from the Great American Songbook. Well loved Jazz classics by Gershwin, Porter, Ellington and Berlin, including many of the songs popularized by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.

Eileen's vocals range from strong and passionate to delicate and intimate, while the backing of Adam Chilvers on guitar, Pete Brandt on double bass and Anthony Flynn drums has a subtle understated elegance reminiscent of classic 1950's Jazz bands.

Eileen has been performing with her current Jazz band line up since 2004. In that time they have played at many weddings, parties, clubs and corporate events throughout the South of England.
 
 

Previous clients / venues include:

The Bath Festival
The Michael Tippett Centre
The Assembly Rooms, Bath
Bristol Zoo
Coutt's & Co, Bristol
Moles Club, Bath
Priston Mill
Bath Forum
Rookery Manor
Byzantium, Bristol
Glencot House, Wookey Hole



Cirencester Rugby Club
La Fleur de Lys, Shaftesbury
Compton House, Axbridge
The Matara Centre, Kingscote
The Blue Rooms, Bath
The Wessex Fayre, Cannington
The Folk House, Bristol
The keynsham Music Festival
The Jazz and Blues Bar, Cheltenham
The Severnshed, Bristol
The Holiday Inn, Taunton
Eileen Johanna has worked as a professional vocalist for over fifteen years. She has sung across many genres of music from Folk to Trip Hop, Drum 'n' Bass to Jazz. Since returning to her home town of Bath in 1998 she has sung in the three part vocal harmony group 'Bird' and the acoustic folk duo 'Mesmeric', as well as working as a singer on many dance projects. She joined forces with Adam Chilvers and Pete Brandt in 2004 to form 'The Eileen Johanna Jazz Band' who specialize in performing the songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. In 2005 she graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA (Hons) degree in Music.
 
Bristol based Adam Chilvers has been playing guitar for twenty five years. He has played in many Bristol bands spanning the genres of Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Country and Pop. Having spent a number of years on the London music scene, Adam has now settled back into his native city of bristol working as a full time musician and guitar instructor.
www.myspace.com/adamchilvers
 
Pete Brandt has been a well known face on the Bristol and London Jazz scenes over the last fifteen years. He has been playing double bass for twenty five years and over that time has developed a very individualistic style influenced by both Jazz and Classical music. As well as performing he also works as a composer in film and television. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA (Hons) degree in music in 2004.