Helen McDonald Profile

My latest theatre performance, I have performed a play I wrote about 3 great black singers Billie Holiday Ella Fitzgerald and Niana Simone I tell their stories and sing the songs they sang . I have a trio of musicians supporting me in the one woman production. I tell their struggles and ultimately their rise as the most influential singers of Jazz.. A Family show that I obtained an Arts Council Grant.
"Time Travelling with the Jazz Queens by Helen McDonald
I sing Jazz Soul and Funk and play in an afrobeat band called Yaaba Funk. I'm a singer songwriter too.
I play Djembi a west African drum and other hand percussion. I also Dance and do the martial arts Capoeria and Tai chi.