Katie Thompson
PR and media executive at Tokus TV
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Industry
- Entertainment
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Katie Thompson's Overview
- Current
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- Promoter at The B-bar
- Mama Tokus at Mama Tokus
- PR and media executive at Tokus TV
- Recommendations
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1 person has recommended Katie
- Connections
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322 connections
- Websites
Katie Thompson's Skills & Expertise
Katie Thompson's Summary
I'm "an entertaining, edifying, funky and funny" performer - Mama Tokus: singer of sassy, self-penned blues and soul songs, performer of poetry and events MC.
But in a parallel existence...
I'm a promoter and entertainments booker at The B-bar - a theatre bar, performance and arts space in Plymouth's historic Barbican area.
I'm a qualified journalist with 20 years of professional writing experience, mostly on local newspapers but now in PR.
I am a seasoned digital PR user, comfortable using social networks, blogs and other devices to get the message out through the medium.
I spent 7 years running my own media company.
I created and promoted the Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival, which is connecting venues throughout the Barbican and hosting international, national and local acts.
Specialties
Singing, writing, composing, performing, hosting and MCing
Katie Thompson's Additional Information
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Katie Thompson's Experience
Mama Tokus
Mama Tokus
September 2007 – Present (4 years 9 months)
Mama Tokus is:
* entertaining, edifying funky and funny, writing/playing original tunes and sly interpretations
* a nu-music-hall performer
* a poetess
* a hostess and MC
Mama Tokus writes and sings nu soul, blues and R&B tunes (old, proper Ray Charles-style R&B, that is), nu-music-hall ditties and humorous (but always groovy) tunes – memorable originals and interpretations.
Buy her album On The Ragtime from her website: www.mamatokus.com
She hails from that wellspring of blues and UK R&B, the Thames Delta (think Ian Dury, Dr Feelgood and Zoot Money).
She is influenced by:
Dinah Washington; Sarah Vaughan; Tina Turner; Barrelhouse Annie; Burt Bacharach; Earl Okin; Cole Porter; Noel Coward; the Rolling Stones; WAR; Georgie Fame; James Booker; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; The Meters…and many more groovy people.
Mama Tokus can perform at your theatre / venue / cabaret show / jazz or blues gig / party / festival / arts centre / gay night / conference / supper club / performance poetry session in the following ways:
* Solo, to backing tracks
* Duo, with keyboard player
* Trio with keyboard player and sax/harmonica
* 6-piece, with keyboards and singers
* 8-piece Mama Tokus Soul Revue, with keyboards, bass, drums, singers and soloists
* Solo as a performance poet
* Solo as an MC
What the people say:
“Like Dr John in a three-way with Shirley Bassey and Eartha Kitt” – The People’s Republic of South Devon culture news website
Katie Thompson's Languages
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Spanish
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