Nicole Faraday: My Life in Song

Award winning Bad Girls, Casualty, Emmerdale and Eva Cassidy star Nicole Faraday will perform a cabaret tribute to the female singers and favourite songs she grew up listening to that have inspired her vocal style and repertoire, accompanied by the inimitable Gus Glen.

Nicole Faraday is best known for her TV role as Snowball Merriman in two series of ITV’s Bad Girls, alongside series regular roles as Veronica on Emmerdale and Dr Heather Lincoln on Casualty amongst other roles on the BBC, ITV and Sky. She has starred in feature films including Kill Kane, Top Dog and Ask The Cheat opposite actors such as Nick Moran, Martin Trenaman and Vinnie Jones.

She originated the role of Shell Dockley in Bad Girls the Musical in the West End and on both the movie and original cast recording – winning a TMA for Best supporting Actress as well as a WOS nomination.

As a singer Nicole has toured the UK and Ireland three times as Eva Cassidy in the number one tour of “Over the Rainbow” biopic theatre and has performed with a twenty two piece orchestra several times at the Albert Hall. She sang the songs of Maggie Reilly at two internationally acclaimed Tubular Bells Live! Mike Oldfield concerts alongside original Oldfield musicians and has toured nationally and internationally as Agnetha with ABBA GOLD.

Nicole has performed her own cabaret tribute to female singers who have influenced her vocal style, from Doris Day to Karen Carpenter at venues all over the UK including the Pheasantry on the Kings Road, Lauderdale House and Batteresa Barge and she also performs every year as a headlining act at Ella International Lesbian FesJval in both Majorca and Davos.

She has performed at Brighton Pride for Bar Broadway, performed with her band on the women’s stage in Leicester Square at London’s Gay Pride and at private and public events all over Europe.

This summer she will be performing on the main stage at Bourne Free Pride and has joined the lineup for the biggest ever Bad Girls fan Convention at the Hilton Elstree in September.