THE “BLOOD ORCHID” PROJECT 2019/21
“Barbara uses a lifetime of artistic talent and her powerful, wide-ranging vocal abilities to lay bare the gamut of emotions.”
Barbara’s concert project for the 2019/21 seasons is titled, Blood Orchid: How Women Feel (Pour la version française, cliquez ici.) (View a short (1:26) promo video.)
BLOOD ORCHID: How Women Feel
is a concert that blends songs and stories that explore a wide range of emotional experience from the outrage of the #Me-too movement, to the joys of deep sexual bonding. From the heart break of lost love to the mystic pleasure of ancient times. Blood Orchid is a heart’s journey traced through the powers of music and story.
Blood Orchid includes cover songs written by or made famous by well-known women singers such as – Edith Piaf – La Vie En rose & Ne me quitte pas; Bonnie Raitt – I can’t make you love me; Nina Simone – Everything Must Change; Nana Mouskouri – Every Grain of Sand; Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now; Eartha Kitt – I wanna be evil; Mercedes Sosa – Gracias a la vida; Rickie Lee Jones – Company, and many more.
Barbara will also sing several of her own compositions in this show:
Body
Lullaby for a deep sleep
Blood Orchid
The life of my dreams
Bright woman of dark ages
Why the name, “Blood Orchid?”
Orchids have great beauty… in some cases, almost a spiritual quality. But they are also very earthy and sexually complex. Orchids are survivors – they may go back as far as 100 million years and therefore are among the oldest known flowers on the planet. Their roots can live in soil, but many take their nutrients, almost magically, from the air. Orchids are a complex blend of earth and space; beauty and subterfuge; hardiness and great fragility. At this point, there is no plant known as the Blood Orchid.
BIO:
Barbara performs powerful folk and pop songs that are both entertaining and highly emotional. With her wide-range, classically-trained voice, vulnerable stage presence and elegant storytelling ability, she is known as “a hugely gifted singer, a born communicator.” Lewis creates concerts the are based on a theme. Recent concerts have been, Passionate Heart-A celebration of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and My Canada-Singing the Soul of a Country.
Contact Barbara Lewis Music – barbara@barbaralewis.com
Manager – Jerry Black – darkvirtue.jb@gmail.com