JIM MULLEN, GUITAR & ZOE FRANCIS, VOCALS

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Friday 3rd July, 2026

Room Five, Aylmer Square, White River Place, St Austell, PL25 5AZ 

Multi-award-winning guitarist Jim Mullen and vocalist Zoe Francis will perform at Room Five this July.

Jim will be joined by fellow guitarist, Neil Burns, and Kevin Sanders on double bass. Both are prolific musicians in the Southwest and the UK.

Jim Mullen has had a career spanning more than fifty years. He has toured the globe performing with artists including Brian Auger, AWB, Kokomo, Robert Palmer, Jimmy Smith, Gene Harris, Mose Allison, Jimmy Witherspoon, Frank Wess, Georgie Fame, Peter Bernstein, and Claire Martin.

Jim shared a fifteen-year partnership with much-loved saxophonist Dick Morrissey throughout the 70/80’s in the great British band Morrissey Mullen.

Jim has recorded many albums under his own name in various trio and quartet bands.

Zoe Francis lived for a time in New York, where she attended Barry Harris’s workshops and jam sessions in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

Zoe Francis met Jim Mullen in 2013. Since then, they have toured and recorded four albums together, including a live album, “The Very Thought of You”, recorded at the 606 Club.

Zoe has performed in venues around the UK, including Ronnie Scott’s and in Europe.

Photo credit: Mick Clough