JB Rose brings The Soul of Whitney Houston to Luton Library Theatre on Friday 6 November, 7.30pm. Tickets are £20, or £18 concessions, with no booking fee.
The singer JB Rose brings a Whitney Houston show to Luton Library Theatre on Friday 6 November, and she is clear that it is not an impersonation.
The theatre’s listing has JB Rose Sings: The Soul of Whitney Houston running from 7.30pm to 10pm. Tickets are £20, or £18 concessions, on the show’s TryBooking page, which states plainly: “WE DO NOT CHARGE ANY BOOKING FEES.”
The practical details:
- Friday 6 November 2026, 7.30pm to 10pm
- Luton Library Theatre, third floor, Luton Central Library, St George’s Square, LU1 2NG
- £20 standard, £18 concessions, no booking fee
- Box office 07899 799 996, or book online through TryBooking
- The theatre is cashless and takes card payments only
- Wheelchair spaces cannot be booked online: email boxoffice@librarytheatre.co.uk
Whitney’s songs, but not a tribute act
The distinction matters to the production, and the press release sent to us makes it twice. “This is not an impersonation or a conventional tribute show,” it says. “It is JB Rose interpreting Whitney’s songs through her own artistry.”
The set list named in the release is:
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody
- I Will Always Love You
- I Have Nothing
- Greatest Love of All
- Higher Love
- Million Dollar Bill
Those sit alongside four songs of her own: Back to Love, Gold, We Are One and Luv You. The release describes the combination as “a rollercoaster of emotion, memory, celebration and possibility”.
The show is built around what the release calls her Re-Awakening Tour, and the pitch is aimed squarely at people who have spent years looking after everyone else. “There are times in life when we become so busy simply getting through it that we forget something fundamental: we matter,” it says. “The bills still have to be paid. Children grow up and leave home. Relationships change.”
The promise it makes to that audience is short. “You still matter. You are still allowed to have fun. You are still allowed to dream. And it is not too late.”
The Singing Vegan Mum
The theatre’s own listing calls JB Rose “a multi-talented singer-songwriter and social media content creator, also known as the Singing Vegan Mum”. That second name is her own branding, and it appears on her music videos.
It runs through the show as well. JB Rose works under a banner she calls BRITSOULLUSH, which the release describes as bringing together “music, wellbeing, empowerment, creativity, plant-based living and soulful living”. The listing does not call the evening a wellbeing event. It calls it “not just a concert” but “a celebration of life, resilience, and reinvention”, and it carries a line from UK Soul Music Review describing her as “a voice that lifts you, a story that stays with you”.
Her own four songs
The release links to four JB Rose releases, all on her Singing Vegan Mum YouTube channel.
What she has done before
We asked JB Rose’s team about her career, her link to Luton and why she picked the Library Theatre. The answers we have come from the press release rather than from her directly, so they are the show’s own account of her work. It says she has:
- performed on Top of the Pops with Coolio
- warmed up for Chaka Khan at the Hammersmith Apollo
- worked with artists including Omar and LaToya Jackson
- toured Europe in the drum and bass scene with Four Hero, Swayzak and James Hardway
The release also carries four short comments from people who say they have seen the show. We cannot check them, and they were supplied for publication, so take them as the promoter’s own selection. “I came to sing Whitney’s hits but I have left knowing that I matter,” says one, from Sarah Tooley. “I’ve been in the music business for years, seen it all. But BRITSOULLUSH hits different,” says another, from Hank Hamlin.
The song with three owners
The release builds a passage around I Will Always Love You, and the timing of it is sharper than it was when the show was planned. Dolly Parton wrote the song, and the release says Whitney Houston’s recording of it became “one of the most recognisable recordings in popular music”. Parton died on 25 August 2026, aged 80.
“Dolly wrote it. Whitney made it legendary. JB Rose now brings her own interpretation to it,” the release says. “It is a beautiful example of how music can travel from one artist to another, across generations.”
What it means for you
If you want to go, book early rather than turning up. The theatre is on the third floor of Luton Central Library, and it is a small room: the wheelchair spaces, of which there are up to seven, need the front row seats removed, so the theatre asks for those to be reserved as early as possible. There is a disabled and baby changing toilet on the third floor, reached with a standard radar key.
Driving in, the theatre points people to the car park behind it on Library Road, a small disabled car park next to the building, and the Point car park in Silver Street, the one Luton knows as the curly wurly. Our guide to parking in Luton covers the town centre charges and the free Sundays that do not apply in car parks.
One warning on booking. The press release gives www.lutonlibrary.net as the Luton ticket address, and that address did not resolve when we checked it on 22 September. The routes that do work are the TryBooking page linked above, the box office on 07899 799 996, and the theatre’s own site at librarytheatre.net, where the full what’s on list runs to the middle of November.
The Luton night is the first of two. The second is at the Civic Hall in Thurrock, Blackshots Lane, Grays, Essex, on Friday 18 December, on the far side of London from Luton, with tickets through tickets.impulseleisure.co.uk and a box office on 01375 401234. The release says further performances are planned beyond 2026.
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