Fiona Ross News

  • Little bit of May news!

    • Hi everyone! Well, goodness I have a lot of things to share with you - but firstly, I hope you are all well? Thank you to all of you for sharing and supporting my work - I cannot begin to explain how much I appreciate it.

    • My Moments In My Notebook' album launch  gig is very soon! June 4th at the award winning venue, Soul Mama, London. What a line up! A stunning line up of guests including Mexico woman of the year, drummer Migdalia van der Hoven Hannah Horton Sax Charlotte Keeffe Music Lara de Belder Diana Torti Mary Sho and Laura Impallomeni. I will playing with all the musicians on my album - except one! Loren Hignell (saxes) Simon Todd (percussion) Derek Daley (bass) Warren Woodcraft (drums) Dave Boa (trumpet) and Gibbi Bettini (guitar). Sadly Marley Drummond is busy on tour, but he will be in my heart! I cannot wait to share my new music with you all. If you are planing on coming, Please do buy tickets in advance, it helps us all so much. Tickets here

    • My new album is released on May 30th, digitally and physically. You can pre order here and thank you to everyone who has! As this is a special double album to celebrate my 100 songs, they are limited edition and once they are gone, they are gone! 

      I have been really, really overwhelmed by all the kindness and support. 30 press articles and 127 playlist adds on Spotify since I released by 2 singles three weeks ago, which is truly incredible. You can read all my press here but here are a few quotes:

      ‘With Moments in My Notebook, Ross cements her place as one of the most fearlessly original voices in contemporary jazz and singer-songwriter storytelling. She’s 100 songs deep, and she’s just getting started.’ Darryl Sterdan, Tinnitist

      'Ross continues to lead with authenticity and grace. Let Your Soul Shine is not just a single—it’s a gentle reminder of our inner brilliance, arriving at just the right moment.' SONO Music 

      ‘she doesn’t just sing a song; she inhabits it. ‘ JYLA

    • My next gig just before my album launch is at the wonderful Highworth Jazz Festival. I am thrilled to have a couple of special guests for this too and will be joined by Hannah Horton and Kim Cypher, along with Dave Boa (trumpet) Derek Daley (bass) Marco Piccioni (guitar) Marley Drummond (drums). Although this is not an album launch gig, as it is the day after my release, I will be performing a few new songs including my two new singles.

       You can buy tickets here

      Here is one of my new singles - I Don't Want Money

      • Finally, thank you all so much for all of your support and everything you do. I do hope you enjoy my new album!

        Love Fi x

      • New singles out now!

        • I am excited to release two singles today from my upcoming album!

          Firstly, 'Let your Soul Shine'. I often spend my days having conversations with people who are incredible, but don’t believe they are. People that inspire but truly don't understand how wonderful they are for a range of reasons. On one of these days, I went for a walk and visited a community market that was being held on a field - Plumstead Make Merry. The first stall I came to was a stunning African Arts stall full of handmade arts and crafts items. There was a sign hanging up that I was instantly drawn to. It said ‘Let Your Soul Shine’. I stood there for ages just looking at the sign thinking about what a beautiful saying that was. I then moved on walking around the market stalls and managed to get a little confused and lost as to where I entered but fell upon this same stall again and the same sign. I felt like someone was trying to tell me something, so I bought it. I walked home and sat down at the piano and wrote this song. All in one go. No thoughts, changes, I just sat down and it came out the way you hear it on this album.

          The video below features two beautiful people - Iris Baker, my wonderful neighbour, talking about the community event and Briolette Lyn Dowling-Toole, flying her kite.

          • Secondly, 'I Don't Want Money' with Dave Boa on trumpet and Gibbi Bettini on guitar. For all the creatives out there who just want to make music. We constantly have to consider the cost of it all. The costs of recording an album, getting paid for gigs, promotion, album sales etc. Wouldn’t it be nice to forget all of that and just make music?

          • March 2025 news!

            • Hello and welcome to my March news!

              Hope everyone is well?! I have many things to share with you - thank you so much for taking the time to sign up to my newsletter and read this! As you all know, I think, I have been busy working on my 8th album and I am excited to finally share some dates with you all.

              Firstly, I am releasing two singles from my new album on April 25th.  Why 2? Well….as you know, my music is inspired by many different genres and I have rarely fit neatly in a box. With 21 songs on my new album there are a lot of different feels, grooves and emotions and I couldn’t decide which one to release as a single, as no single song really tells you what the album is like.  The new album is a double, so I thought, ok, let’s just release two songs.

            • I will share links soon along with a pre order link for my new album which is coming out on… May 30th!! I am thrilled to have my album launch gig now confirmed for June 4th at the brilliant new award winning venue Soul Mama in London. 

              Tickets are now on sale here

              Lots of gigs dates being confirmed now and I am also excited to be going on a mini tour of Ireland next year too! Do check my website for dates and links as it is being updated regularly as ticket links go live. 

              Fiona Ross Gigs 

              My next performance is at the Highworth Jazz Festival and I am so very excited about a very special guest that will be there. More on that in my next newsletter!

            • In other news…the latest Women in Jazz Media magazine, came out on March 8th and I do hope you will have a look. So many incredible people involved in the magazine and I loved interviewing China Moses, Tatiana Tate and Lydia Liebman for this edition. You can find the magazine here

            • As always, much more I could say, and I will in my next newsletter, ha! I am really looking forward to sharing my new music with you all and hope you enjoy it! Some of the new songs will tick a jazz box and some definitely do not but they all tick the box called ‘Fi’. I will leave you the listener to decide what that means to you and I hope that at least one song ticks one of your boxes and connects with you.

              Do feel free to get in touch if you have any questions - it may ( actually, definitely will) take me a while to reply, but I will! 

              Thank you all, as always, for your amazing support.

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