Storm Large — The Holiday Ordeal Tour

Adult Content Advisory: This is an all-ages performance; however, the show contains adult content, explicit language, and humor. Recommended for audiences ages 13 and older.
Storm Large: Award winning musician, actor, playwright, and author. Storm has been one of the hardest working, genre fluid poly hyphenate performers in showbiz for more than 30 years. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova. Though it built her a huge fan base that still follows her around the world to this day, Storm prefers straight up, raw dog performing, without screens between herself and the audience.
Storm began singing around the age of 5, much to the annoyance of her conservative, waspy family in small town New England. Luckily for us, however, she never learned to shut up or shrink, as she was so constantly commanded to.
She officially got her start performing in rock and punk bands in San Francisco throughout the 90s, where she performed with George Clinton, 311, Nina Hagen, and Fishbone…to name a few. Then, after the shock of 9/11/01, Storm quit singing altogether and moved to Portland, OR to start a new life. The music industry felt vapid and sexist, so she decided to go to culinary school to become a chef. With plans to eventually start a meals on wheels program, or maybe teaching people how to create healthy meals using only food stamps.
While applying for school, she bartended at Dante’s, whose owner, Frank, (a friend and a fan) kept bugging her to sing at his club. He finally got her on stage when a long-standing weekly act canceled at the last minute, and he needed someone to step in. Thus, The Balls were born. What started as a joke act, quickly became a cult phenomenon, and reignited Storm’s love of performing. Plus, her voice and presence at nonprofit and political fundraisers proved that music was indeed a powerful force for good in the world. She’s still a kickass cook, but Storm’s service to her fellow human, is very much her big, beautiful voice.
And that call to service is exactly how Storm ended up singing with Pink Martini. Storm and Thomas Lauderdale worked together for years on multiple fundraisers and political campaigns together, so when China Forbes needed vocal chord surgery and had to hang up the mic for 6months, Thomas insisted Storm sing for Pink Martini, while China recuperated. Storm learned 10 songs in 5 languages in 4 days, before four sold out shows at The Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. That was in 2011, and 15 years, four albums and thousands of shows later, Storm is still happily singing, part time, with the little orchestra of good cheer, and has never looked back.
While touring with her band, Le Bonheur, and Pink Martini, Storm has also written a book and several musicals, one; Crazy Enough, a musical memoir about growing up with a mentally ill mother, was a runaway hit, winning awards and breaking records in Portland and beyond, it was even brought back in 2