Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong has been singing professionally since 1964. In 1975 she began her pioneering Voice Workshops based on ethnic styles of singing - where singing is as natural as speaking. She has sung and run workshops all over Europe, N America and Australia working with Community Groups, Theatre Companies, International Voice and Theatre Festivals and in every kind of setting from hospitals to the National Theatre Studio London. She has made 10 solo albums, written her autobiography As Far As the Eye Can Sing and edited a collection of essays Well Tuned Women with Jenny Pearson. Her latest book is with Janet Rodgers, Acting and Singing with Archetypes. Frankie is the president of the Natural Voice Network and was awarded the Gold Badge in 2018 from EFDSS. ” . . . one of the UKs most distinctive and respected singers. Whether accapela or with understated and sympathetic accompaniment . . . she gets under the skin of her chosen material, brings the songs vividly to life and invites the listener to consider the political subtext which underlies many of them . . . Armstrong’s tour de force, an unaccompanied and highly charged ten minute interpretation of Tam Lin that must be considered as one of the best versions of the song ever recorded.”
Dave Haslam, Rock and Reel