It's my job to market and promote the diverse work of this charity which looks after a 550-acre estate within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with a Grade 1-listed Georgian villa that's home to mindfulness retreats, a dairy and vineyard, a natural burial site, working farms and rare cirl buntings.

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 MCMama 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… Show more 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 MCMama 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 MCWhat 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 Show less

I'm a former newspaper writer, now working in analogue and digital PR for clients drawn from the creative, eco and music industries.I blog, tweet and use a pen and pencil to boot!