With young aspirations to be America’s first black concert pianist, Nina Simone - the High Priestess of Soul - has left an indelible mark not only on the world of jazz, gospel, pop and folk music but also society, being official singer of the Civil Right’s Movement due to her emotive protest songs. To hear some of the artists great tracks, look no further than the blogosphere – and even then don’t look back further than a week. Lester Jonze has recently posted a video of her title, When I Was in My Prime, and Adventures in Babywearing posted the Feeling Good video. It is a testament to Simone’s talent that her music continues to be so popular in the mainstream, decades after their initial release.

By the time of her death at the age of 70 in 2003, Nina had recorded over 40 live and studio albums and notched up an impressive number of live concerts – that were considered to be more akin to ‘happenings’ by her fans – as well as countless, more intimate gigs. One of these, her performance at the legendary London jazz club Ronnie Scott’s, is being shown on Sky Arts over the coming weekend, featuring such favourites as My Baby Just Cares For Me, I Loves You, Porgy and Moon Over Alabama.

There is more information over at the Sky Arts website, which you can reach by simply getting click-happy on this here blue text. Those embracing folks over at Sky Arts also provide a space for you to share your thoughts or provide a review of the performance for the benefit of other Simone fans. If you have something to say, head link-wards and say it.