The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe announced recently that Jane McDonald, much loved singer, Loose Women host and star of BBC show The Cruise, comes to venue on Saturday 24th October 2009. Fresh from sell out appearances across the UK Jane’s smash hit live concert is set to thrill local audiences with her own unique mixture of music and laughter. Complete with her fabulous band and backing singers, not forgetting those amazing frocks, she has been delighting audiences around the country all year and looks forward to yet another memorable evening. This is definitely an event not to be missed.

Jane also released her highly anticipated new album ‘Jane’ in August 2008- on her own label JMD.

The album comprises of five self-written songs and a selection of classic hits, it exemplifies what Jane McDonald does best: she can make a song, any song, entirely her own. Lead-off track is Doctor's Orders- the fabulously camp 70s disco hit by Sunny. The album also includes songs such as – Not A Day Goes By, perhaps the most requested song on Jane's website. Written in the wake of her grandmother's death, she has adapted the lyrics to transform this touching ballad into a song that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever lost someone close. The album's centrepiece, it is accompanied by a choir and a 65 piece orchestra. Sweet Talker shows another side of Jane altogether, an up tempo country rock-influenced number full of impish mischief. And then there is You Do It All For Me, which represents another gear change, a swaggering bluesy number and, in Jane's own estimation, "a rather raunchy song, and quite sexy. People will not believe it's really me singing it, but it is, I promise you!" People will not believe it's really me singing it, but it is, I promise you!" There are also her interpretations of Dusty Springfield’s Song For You, Barry Manilow's Even Now and One Voice, the Northern Soul classic Nine Times Out Of Ten, and Neil Sedaka's The Hungry Years.

Jane’s live show features many of these numbers together with a host of other great favourites, and a blend of warmth and humour which makes her one of Britain’s favourite entertainers.

In the 10 years since Jane McDonald first came to public recognition, captivating audiences with her Yorkshire charm on the BBC documentary series The Cruise (‘Return To The Cruise’ on BBC 2 in August 2008), she has sold hundreds of thousands of albums, toured every inch of the country, earned herself a place in the Guinness Book of Records (for being the first artist to top the album charts without a prior release), performed for Royalty; sold out the MGM Grand Las Vegas and also scooped Yorkshire Woman of the Year. She is also now a regular on ITV's Loose Women, her face familiar to millions, and is, in effect, nothing less than a national treasure. No small leap for someone who never even aimed to progress out of the northern cabaret circuit that she effortlessly dominated in her early years.

‘I seem to have played out much of my life in front of thousands of people," she shrugs, "and I feel very lucky to have been given such a rare opportunity. What’s happened in my life has been a dream come true. And best of all," she adds, now laughing, "variety is coming back in a big way. Look at Saturday night TV! Variety dominates! I'm quite trendy now."

This is true, but only up to a point. Trend is a fleeting thing. Jane McDonald inspiration to so many is here to stay.

Tickets for Jane McDonald went on sale recently and already are selling fast.
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