Real treat awaits music fans

Music fans are in for a real treat when the incredible Storm Large and her ensemble, Le Bonheur, will blow into town for a show at the Barkley Theatre on Nov.21.

Storm Large has had a remarkable career which includes stints at a number of West Coast clubs, a fling with reality television — “Rock Star: Supernova” — as well as engagements with various symphonies and as vocalist for the band Pink Martini.

With her new ensemble, she creates a cabaret of sorts where she reinvents and totally reimagines some classic gems from the Great American Songbook including Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “It’s All Right With Me,” and Richard Rodger’s “The Lady Is A Tramp.”

She’ll mix these interpretations with a cover of Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love” and some of her own compositions such as “A Woman’s Heart” and her vastly popular anthem “Eight Miles Wide.”

In addition to her most recent CD, “Le Bonheur,” she’s also released “Ladylike Side One” and “Crazy Enough,” also the title of a memoir published by Simon & Schuster which won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction and was Oprah’s pick for Book of the Week.

She’s performed at venues across the globe from Carnegie Hall to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, from the Adelaide Festival in Australia to Joe’s Pub in New York.

We were lucky enough to see her in New York last January at a small club called SubCulture and it was a stunning, bravura performance, simply one of the best we’ve ever seen.

In addition to the evening performance, the artist will present an informal conversation with interested audience members—Taken by Storm—in the Art Center’s bar at 3:00 p.m. on the day of the show.

This is free and open to the public. This will be a great chance to get to see the artist up close and personal and perhaps hear some of her slightly irreverent stories.

Tickets are $17 for CAC members, $20 for non-members and can be picked up at Jeff’s Copy Express on Maine Street, ITT @ NAS Fallon or by calling Churchill Arts at 775-423-1440. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Kirk Robertson covers the arts and may be reached at news@lahontanvalleynews.com.