Currently Claire performs with her regular jazz and pop band. They can be found in venues all over the south east. Most recently playing at The White Horse.
Claire trained at LAMDA as an actress/singer. She has played varied singing parts from Nancy in Oliver at the Richmond theatre (with standing ovations) to Little Miss Naughty in the Mr Men (No. 1 Tour or the UK). She played the lead in the brand new musical ‘The Mirror Never Lies’ performed at RADA’s Theatre. She has always taken the lead singing parts in pantos, including Dandini in Cinderella and the evil Queen Rat in Dick Whittington (this time to hisses and boos!) During the Edinburgh Festival, Claire played an improvised Cunegonde in an avant-garde Candide. At Hever Castle open air theatre she was employed as the soloist carrying all the songs in Oh What a Lovely War. A production at the Canal Cafe Theatre of Witches and Bitches went down a storm – a series of songs sending up male and female relationships. A few years she revived it taking it back up to London. She has even appeared as a stuck up white secretary in a Reggae Musical at the Wimbledon Theatre.
Along with her musical repertoire, in 2016 Claire was asked to join Greensand Jazz Band. Originally an instrumental jazz trio, Greensand expanded into a 3 – 4 member band, including sax, keyboards and often bass. Claire sings vocals ranging from jazz favourites like Ain’t Misbehaving to bossa nova versions of Beautiful Love.
Claire has her own singing solo act/show, performing a wide variety of ballads and jazz, swing, soul and pop. Another venture was working with Sust, improvising vocals to his very popular Drum & Bass tracks. Some of the tracks have been played by BBC Radio.
Claire has been in various bands, from 60s – 70s rock, 80s, 90s and the noughties classics with Claire and the Eclectics ( 2008-2010), to Jazz ballads accompanied by sophisticated pianists in her duo Autumn Moods (2005 -2007).
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