I sing jazz standards with varied line ups including:

 

  • Swing Amour, fresh Gypsy Jazz group based in and around Leeds, UK

 

  • Gypsy swing collective Hot Flamingo based across the Midlands, UK.

 

  • The Hot Club of Lincoln featuring John Le Voi and Graham Eadie on guitar. 

  • With jazz guitarist Pat McCarthy as a duo and with larger line ups joined by musicians from the national jazz scene.

 

Singing Herstory

 

Molly graduated the Loire Vocal Jazz summer school tutored by the late, great Tina May and has learned from workshops with acclaimed jazz vocalists Anita Wardell and Liane Carroll.

 

In 2013, gypsy jazz guitarist Graham Eadie found Molly performing a solo set of jazz standards and playing ukulele at a Burlesque night. 

 

Molly joined Graham's band The Hot Club of Lincoln, with luthier John Le Voi and bassist Pete Barnaby, singing Django Reinhardt- inspired gypsy jazz.

The Hot Club of Lincoln, 2015

Pete Barnaby, bass

John Le Voi, rhythm guitar

Graham Eadie, lead guitar

Molly performs in a duo with jazz guitarist Pat McCarthy and they are joined by professional musicians from the national jazz scene to provide bands for events requiring a larger line up, including bass, trumpet, saxophone, piano, clarinet and drums.

Hot Flamingo

In 2023, at wonderful gypsy jazz festival Django In The Bay, Molly met bassist Kate Whittaker and they formed a line up which happened to have a female majority. Known as Hot Flamingo, this collective regularly champions women in jazz and performs hot, swinging gypsy jazz with a rockabilly influence from guitarist JD England, featuring many talented musicians including luthier and guitarist Antoine Gourdon, violinists Xenia Porteous, Emily Chaplais and Andy Aitchison, singer and guitarist Toby Mottershead, Clarinetist Charlie Fothergill and since flocking together in Samoreau 2024 for the Festival Django Reinhardt, accordionist Leen De Keijzer from the Netherlands and Bruno Gil from France have also become Flamigos.

 

Hot Flamingo are delighted to have been asked to perform at Festival Django Reinhardt in Fontainebleau, France.

Swing Amour

Swing Amour is a dynamic gypsy jazz ensemble including Leeds Conservatoire graduates bringing authentic 1920s-30s Parisian swing-manouche venues across the UK. This collective draws on decades of professional experience from the UK function scene and international touring circuits.

Featuring Danny Lowndes on guitar, Layth Ibrahim on bass, Chris Lloyd on accordion and Andy Byrne on guitar.

 

Molly has always been surrounded by song and sung along with a family of talent including Grandad Dave Gough (crooner in the 1950s), Granny Betty Clark (singer/actor of 1930’s musical theatre), Dad Paul Gough (singer/guitarist/banjo player) Mum Jane Clark (folk singer/songwriter), Auntie Ruth Clark (folk singer/lyricist), Auntie Vere Conolly (singer/music director) Uncle Len Morter, (singer/keyboardist /songwriter) Uncle John Conolly (folk singer/guitarist/songwriter), cousin Lauren Morter (singer/songwriter), cousin Tom Conolly (singer/guitarist/songwriter) brother George Gough (alcohol fuelled vocalist/pianist) and son Arthur (debut age 4)

Molly in the pram at a folk session in Penistone

Solo set at Under The Stars Festival, Penistone

2013 Molly & Dad, Paul Gough, performing jazz standards, many songs that Grandad Dave Gough used to perform with the Big Band at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens in the 1950s. 

📸 Jaqueline Vessey