Lauren Kinsella Trio

Award winning Irish vocalist Lauren Kinsella is joined by saxophonist Tom Challenger and drummer Dave Smith in her new innovative trio that explore themes of conservation and the complexity of nature through song writing and improvisation. Their music is described as "required listening" (Morning Star) celebrating Kinsella's "refreshingly open-spirited, knowingly risk-taking (Londonjazznews) approach to vocal composition and group interplay.

Having premiered Radicle (a plant’s first root) at the London Jazz Festival (2018), the group are currently on their first Winter UK tour ‘20.

“For me, coming to the capital from Sheffield, I found a message for the city council and its profiteering PFI partners Amey and their wholesale destruction of the city's beautiful trees. Lauren Kinsella sang Radicle (a plant's first root), with her brave and transformative suite to the life, union and ecological necessity of trees, accompanied by saxophonist Tom Challenger and drummer Dave Smith. Kinsella's message flew with the wind, directly to the Steel City, its notes curling around its trees' blessed branches.”

-Morning Star

“A bold, intelligent and unusual improvising vocalist who seems to have found a very distinctive approach.”

-MusicOMH