Life is for living: The Peggy Lee Project at The Sage, Gateshead

For tickets and more information visit The Sage website.

Gwyneth Herbert: Vocals

Alyn Shipton: Bass

Menno Daams: Trumpets 

Ian Smith: Trumpets

Alan Barnes: Reeds

Matthias Seuffert: Reeds 

Adrian Fry: Trombone

Martin Litton: Piano

Martin Wheatley: Guitar

Bobby Worth: Drums

One of the UK's most original singer-songwriters, Gwyneth Herbert, joins forces with the members of the Buck Clayton Legacy Band to explore the jazz repertoire of Peggy Lee. The band's arrangers, Matthias Seuffert, Adrian Fry and Menno Daams, have taken Lee's work with Jack Marshall, Quincy Jones and Billy May to create new charts for what has been recognised as one of Europe's leading mainstream bands.

Gwyneth brings her own unique gift for storytelling in song to reinterpret tales of love lost and found, as well as the life affirming qualities of music itself. Expect vibrant playing from what Jazz UK called this "knockout band" plus tears of pain and joy from songs both familiar and less well known. Gwyneth and co-leader Alyn Shipton will also introduce the event with film and audio clips of Peggy Lee herself.

With a pre-concert talk at 7pm. Free to ticketholders.