Sultry Songs from Storm Large
Storm Large sings sultry songs with her band Le Bonheur and has been called “an intoxicating and unmissable cocktail of power and vulnerability” by The London Times.
She will be singing:
COLE PORTER “Under My Skin”
RODGERS & HART “Lady is a Tramp”
JACQUES BREL “Ne Me Quitte Pas”
STORM LARGE “Angels in Gas Stations”
As well as selections from Tom Waits and Randy Newman.
Friday, May 12, 7:30 pm
Price: $29, $39
At Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce St.
About Storm Large & Le Bonheur
Storm made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011, singing four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She continues to perform with the band, touring nationally and internationally, and she was featured on their CD, Get Happy. Storm has also sung with Grammy winner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton.
She debuted with the Oregon Symphony in 2010, and has returned for sold out performances each year thereafter. Storm made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2013, singing Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the Detroit Symphony as part of the Spring for Music festival. The NY Times called her “sensational,” and the classical music world instantly had a new star.
In the 2013/14 season Storm and her band, Le Bonheur performed in many new cities around the country, including Las Vegas, Boston, Minneapolis in a evening called “Taken By Storm” In June 2014, she appeared at the Ojai Festival with the exciting new orchestra, The Knights and the vocal ensemble Hudson Shad. Later in the summer she debuts at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.
In the Fall of 2014, Storm & Le Bonheur released a record designed to capture their sublime and subversive interpretations of the American Songbook. Entitled simply, “Le Bonheur” and released on Pink Martini’s, Heinz Records, the recording will be a collection of tortured and titillating love songs; beautiful, familiar, yet twisted…much like the lady herself.