History & Collaborations
Molly graduated the Loire Vocal Jazz summer school tutored by the late, great Tina May and has learned from workshops with acclaimed jazz vocalists Anita Wardell and Liane Carroll.
In 2013, after performing a solo set of jazz standards and playing ukulele at a Burlesque night in Louth, Molly got an email,
" We had a brief chat in Cobbles on Friday night after your set. I'm Graham and I play in a Gypsy swing band with John LeVoi and various others known as The Hot Club of Lincoln.
You've got a great voice Molly and a really good feel for swing by the sounds of it. It was a pity your stint was so short on Friday....I was getting tired of watching girls undressing ;)... "
Since then, Molly has performed alongside guitarists Graham Eadie & luthier John Le Voi, bassists Pete Barnaby and Warren Jolly, singing Django Reinhardt- inspired gypsy jazz with The Hot Club Of Lincoln.
The Hot Club Of Lincoln, 2016
Molly performs in a duo with Lincolnshire pro jazz guitarist Pat McCarthy and they are joined by musicians from the national jazz scene to provide bands for events requiring a larger line up, including bass, trumpet, saxophone, piano, clarinet and drums.
Follow MollyAmour&PatMcCarthy on YouTube for regular live jazz duo performances.
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In 2023, at wonderful festival Django In The Bay, Molly met bassist Kate Whittaker and they formed a line up which randomly happened to have a female majority. Known as Hot Flamingo, this collective regularly champions women in jazz and performs hot, swinging gypsy jazz with a rockabilly influence from guitarist JD England, featuring many talented musicians including luthier and guitarist Antoine Gourdon, violinists Xenia Porteous, Emily Chaplais and Andy Aitchison, singer and guitarist Toby Mottershead, Clarinetist Charlie Fothergill and since gathering in Samoreau 2024 for the Festival Django Reinhardt, accordionist Leen De Keijzer has also become a Flamigo 🦩
Hot Flamingo at The Dorothy Pax, Sheffield
Molly has always been surrounded by song and sung along with a family of talent including Grandad Dave Gough (crooner in the 1950s), Granny Betty Clark (singer/actor of 1930’s musical theatre), Dad Paul Gough (singer/guitarist/banjo player) Mum Jane Clark (folk singer/songwriter), Auntie Ruth Clark (folk singer/lyricist), Auntie Vere Conolly (singer/music director) Uncle Len Morter, (singer/keyboardist /songwriter) Uncle John Conolly (folk singer/guitarist/songwriter), cousin Lauren Morter (singer/songwriter), cousin Tom Conolly (singer/guitarist/songwriter) brother George Gough (alcohol fuelled vocalist/pianist) and son Arthur (5 year old singer/percussionist/choreographer)
Molly in the pram at a folk jam in Penistone
Solo set at Under The Stars Festival, Penistone
2013 Molly & Dad, Paul Gough, performing jazz standards, many songs that Grandad Dave Gough used to perform with the Big Band at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens in the 1950s.
