Storm Large

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 8pm

This performance is presented without an intermission.

LE BONHEUR

James Beaton: Piano
Scott Weddle: Guitar
Matt Brown: Bass
Greg Eklund: Drums

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. 

Storm Large first gained national attention as a finalist on Rock Star: Supernova in 2006, captivating audiences with her powerhouse vocals and magnetic stage presence. Though eliminated just before the finale, she built a devoted global fan base that remains loyal to this day. She returned to the national spotlight in 2021 as a contestant on America’s Got Talent.

In the 1990s, Storm made her mark in San Francisco’s club scene before relocating to Portland with plans for a culinary career. Fate had other plans—when a last-minute cancellation at Dante’s in 2002 led to a weekly gig with her new band, The Balls, she quickly developed a cult following and reignited her music career.

She made her debut with the Oregon Symphony in 2010 and has returned annually for sold-out performances. Her 2013 Carnegie Hall debut with the Detroit Symphony, performing Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, earned raves from The New York Times, which called her “sensational.” Other major engagements include performances with the Philly Pops, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and return appearances with the Houston, Detroit, Toronto, and BBC Symphonies, as well as the New York Pops and the Louisville Orchestra, with whom she recorded the 2017 album All In.

Storm has been a featured guest with Pink Martini since 2011, debuting with the band in four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center. She continues to tour internationally with them and appears on their album Get Happy. She has also performed alongside legends such as k.d. lang, Rufus Wainwright, John Doe, and George Clinton.

Her theatrical credits include starring as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at Portland Center Stage in 2007 and later creating Crazy Enough, her one-woman autobiographical musical memoir, which enjoyed a record-breaking 21-week sold-out run in 2009. She later brought the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Adelaide Festival, and Joe’s Pub in New York. Her memoir of the same name, published by Simon & Schuster in 2012, was Oprah’s Book of the Week and won the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.

On screen, Storm appeared in Rid of Me (directed by James Westby) and starred alongside Katey Sagal and Michael McKean in Harps and Angels at the Mark Taper Forum.

In 2014, she released Le Bonheur on Pink Martini’s Heinz Records, a bold and sultry reinterpretation of the American Songbook. Storm continues to tour with her band, Le Bonheur, and as a featured guest on Michael Feinstein’s Shaken & Stirred tour, sharing the stage with icons like Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey.