Music, hosting and poetry
Mama Tokus is:
She hails from that wellspring of blues and UK R&B, the Thames Delta (think Ian Dury, Dr Feelgood and Zoot Money).
Mama Tokus can perform at your theatre / venue / cabaret show / jazz or blues gig / party / festival / arts centre / gay night / conference / supper club / performance poetry session in the following ways:
Music is an integral part of my working and playing life. I'm a singer, songwriter and cabaret artiste, plus I also find time to be the promoter at the B-bar and a Festival Director of the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival
Earlier this century, I co-wrote and recorded a disco/house/groove tune called Say U Wannit.
It went out on vinyl and is available for purchase in iTunes here - readallabout it on this site right here
or you can buy it as an MP3 download online here - make sure you get the Original Mix.
It also went on a cool'n'groovy compilation by Dimitri from Paris, available from Amazon like this:
- entertaining, edifying funky and funny, writing/playing original tunes and sly interpretations
- a nu-music-hall performer
- a poetess - hosting the regular Apples & Snakes performance poetry night Forked
- a hostess and MC
She hails from that wellspring of blues and UK R&B, the Thames Delta (think Ian Dury, Dr Feelgood and Zoot Money).
She is influenced by:
Dinah Washington (pictured); Sarah Vaughan; Tina Turner; Barrelhouse Annie; Burt Bacharach; Earl Okin; Cole Porter; Noel Coward; the Rolling Stones; WAR; Georgie Fame; James Booker; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; The Meters…and many more groovy people.
Mama Tokus can perform at your theatre / venue / cabaret show / jazz or blues gig / party / festival / arts centre / gay night / conference / supper club / performance poetry session in the following ways:
- Solo, to backing tracks
- Duo, with keyboard player
- Trio with keyboard player and sax/harmonica
- 6-piece, with keyboards and singers
- 8-piece Mama Tokus Soul Revue, with keyboards, bass, drums, singers and soloists
- Solo as a performance poet
- Solo as an MC
What the people say:
“Like Dr John in a three-way with Shirley Bassey and Eartha Kitt” – The People’s Republic of South Devon culture news website
“Had a journey through the magical musical religion of Mama Tokus last night and it was out of this world! Brilliant evening” – a happy punter after a Mama Tokus show
“Mama Tokus: who has to be seen to be believed! Unique, original, authentic, funny and well...different!” - Don Eales, London media activist
“The glorious, garrulous queen of the (South West) swamp delta blues, Mama Tokus” – Apples & Snakes performance poetry organisation
Music is an integral part of my working and playing life. I'm a singer, songwriter and cabaret artiste, plus I also find time to be the promoter at the B-bar and a Festival Director of the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival*****
As well as performing with my super-funky outfit The Sons of Bitches, Mama hosts the regular performance poetry session Forked! at the B-bar, as well as Tuk-Tuk Cabaret in the same venue.
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Earlier this century, I co-wrote and recorded a disco/house/groove tune called Say U Wannit.
It went out on vinyl and is available for purchase in iTunes here - readallabout it on this site right here
or you can buy it as an MP3 download online here - make sure you get the Original Mix.
It also went on a cool'n'groovy compilation by Dimitri from Paris, available from Amazon like this:
