PROJECTS
Alice Mary Jelaska
Solo project - original songs & music, and some of the slightly more obscure jazz and folk numbers of the first half of the 1900s. Contemporary folk, synth and old jazz styles, songs about family, loss and land. Performances for Brixton Yoga retreats, 'Inspire' Festival at St Barbe's Museum, at Shambala festival, Rollright Fayre, Library Club Soho, Jamboree, Servants Jazz Quarters.
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Djanan Turan

Alice has worked closely with singer songwriter Djanan Turan since 2014, performing with her across London, UK, Europe and Turkey. Alice recorded clarinet on Djanan's single 'Dancing Feet' and clarinet and vocals on her latest album release 'Loves Company' (released September 2024).
Gabriel Moreno
Alice has been performing and collaborating with Gibraltarian singer songwriter and poet Gabriel Moreno since 2022, on clarinet, backing vocals and synth - for performances across the UK, including at Purbeck Folk Festival, Wilderness, Ely Folk Festival - and on recordings including Gabriel's album 'Wound in the Night', released 2024.
The Kings Cross Hot Club

Since its inception over twenty years ago The Kings Cross Hot Club has evolved into a unique collective of musicians, with a focus on Gypsy swing, jazz manouche and swing musette typical of the period 1925 to 1950.
Alice has been solo clarinettist and vocalist with the group since 2012, and managed the band from 2014-2022, performing with them all over the UK, in some of London's top venues & clubs - including The Garrick, Savoy, 100 club, The Hideaway - at festivals such as Twinwood and the Secret Garden Party, for swing & balboa dancers, live painting events, cinematic experiences, at the Olympic Torch Relay (London 2012), for a theatre tribute to Edith Piaf, and much more.
Alice has been solo clarinettist and vocalist with the group since 2012, and managed the band from 2014-2022, performing with them all over the UK, in some of London's top venues & clubs - including The Garrick, Savoy, 100 club, The Hideaway - at festivals such as Twinwood and the Secret Garden Party, for swing & balboa dancers, live painting events, cinematic experiences, at the Olympic Torch Relay (London 2012), for a theatre tribute to Edith Piaf, and much more.
Ama Bazar

Alice led this collective of diverse musicians from 2012-2018. Their repertoire focussed in particular on folk dance, from klezmer to flamenco, tango to salsa. Their music had a bright, positive & energetic edge with a foundation of danceable rhythms, but always giving reflective space both for performers and listeners. Often thrown unexpectedly into their performances were moments of instrument-switching and tango-dancing. Their warmly eclectic and embracing ethos strongly reflected the broad-minded, international and versatile mix of musicians who played with the group.
Members included: Alice Mary Williamson (clarinet + voice), Alice Barron (violin), Anisa Arslanagic (viola + violin), Tim Sharp (accordion + piano), Ulises Diaz (percussion + voice), Pablo Dominguez (guitar, bass + percussion), James Adams (guitar, bass + percussion)
Members included: Alice Mary Williamson (clarinet + voice), Alice Barron (violin), Anisa Arslanagic (viola + violin), Tim Sharp (accordion + piano), Ulises Diaz (percussion + voice), Pablo Dominguez (guitar, bass + percussion), James Adams (guitar, bass + percussion)
Biram Seck // Jant
Between 2012-2015 Alice regularly collaborated with Senegalese singer Biram Seck and his band Jant. Alice and Biram experimented mixing the sound of Biram's songs with the mellow lines of clarinet and viola to create, in Biram's words, 'a truly classical African music'. With his husky humble tones leading, the sound created was a very earthy yet uplifting, transcendent experience.
Biram had much success as a vocal artist - with his first WOMAD appearance back in 2003 with Suuf, the Bristol-Dakar project that was signed to BBC Radio 3's Late Junction Records - as well as with the fantastically spirited sounds of band Fofoulah.
He continued to find that the musical sensibilities of Bristol form a chemistry with the influences he brought from his home town of Dakar and his family's griot roots in the Fouta region of northern Senegal.
"I would like you to consider my songs appeals for unity, education and civilisation. I love music because it is a means of communicating ideas to broaden minds and build an integrated world."
Biram had much success as a vocal artist - with his first WOMAD appearance back in 2003 with Suuf, the Bristol-Dakar project that was signed to BBC Radio 3's Late Junction Records - as well as with the fantastically spirited sounds of band Fofoulah.
He continued to find that the musical sensibilities of Bristol form a chemistry with the influences he brought from his home town of Dakar and his family's griot roots in the Fouta region of northern Senegal.
"I would like you to consider my songs appeals for unity, education and civilisation. I love music because it is a means of communicating ideas to broaden minds and build an integrated world."