Join us for a night of Motown, Soul and Funk with ‘Summit Soul’ featuring Polly Gibbons. Summit Soul is a band who’s members have toured and performed all over the world, both as sidemen and bandleaders.

Joining Summit Soul tonight is the powerful vocalist Polly Gibbons, who’s rich and soulful vocals have found her supporting Gladys Knight and George Benson on their UK tours. Expect classic tunes by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and The Jackson 5

Nominated twice as “Best Jazz Vocalist” by JAZZ FM and the BBC, Polly Gibbons makes a rare appearance performing soul classics at Boisdale. She is a regular performer at Birdland in New York, Ronnie Scott’s and the 606 in London and has received great critical acclaim as an exponent of soul and R & B styles as well as her interpretations of the American Songbook.

Polly Gibbons is unmistakably a class act, getting classier fast.” -★★★★ The Guardian

“Gibbons is a jazz talent whose voice is also steeped in vintage R&B with shades of Aretha Franklin… A programme that sensitively mixes standards and originals.”  – The Sunday Times

“Polly is as much Joss Stone and Aretha as she is Sarah Vaughan and Ella” Blues and Soul Magazine

“Polly Gibbons…a truly exceptional…talent, possessing a voice of such sizzling intensity and raw emotion you could fry an egg on it” Jazzwise;

“There’s a rare sense of joy in her voice, not to mention a depth of….feeling….remarkable” Evening Standard

“I hear echoes of Ella, Lena, Aretha, even Janis. But Gibbons is a full-blown phenomenon of her own.” Seattle Post Intelligencer