Onalea :: Performance Dates
One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre presents:
Doing Leonard Cohen
Nov 25-29 8pm nightly at the Big Secret Theatre
Tickets and info 403 264 3224 www.oyr.org
Sylvia Plath Must Not Die/Doing Leonard Cohen
Dec 2-13 Toronto's Young Centre for the Performing Arts 416 866 8666 www.youngcentre.ca
Berliner Kabarett: From Berlin to Hollywood
Step back in time to 1920’s Berlin, to pay tribute to poet/playwright Bertold Brecht and composers Kurt Weil and Hanns Eisler in a performance by the Land’s End Chamber Ensemble with special guest Onalea Gilbertson.
Beat Niq Jazz and Social club Jan 12-18
Ticket info soon...
BLANCHE
The bittersweet life of a wild prairie dame
CD RELEASE AND SHOW!
Engineered Air Theatre Calgary AB
October 11 @8pm October 12 @ 2pm
Tickets $20/$15 Students, Seniors
email: onalea@onalea.com to reserve tickets
In BLANCHE the songs are poetic family movies from the bittersweet life of a wild prarie dame. Written and performed by Onalea Gilbertson (vocals, piano, guitar) and featuring special guest collaborators, Morag Northey (cello) & Jonathan Lewis (violin, clarinet, soundscape).
ONALEA IN CONCERT
WITH THE DANDI ORCHESTRA
Friday August 29 at Zsa Zsa's supper club
(607 7th Ave SW, the old Quincy's)
A part of C-Jazz'sCarnivale festival.
Russ Broom: Guitar
John Hyde: Bass
Brent Van Dusen: Percussion
Gerry Hebert: Sax/Clarinet
Al Muirhead: Trumpet
Jonathan Lewis: Violin/Accordion
Repertoire to include old style standards ala Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Shirley Bassey, Uma Sumac and more...
BLANCHE: A poetic song cycle by Onalea Gilbertson
Sunset Theatre Wells BC August 15-17, 2008
August 15,16 @ 8pm
August 17 @ 3:30pm and 8pm
Onalea and the Dandi Trio performed at the Harbourfront Festival in Toronto, June 28 & 29 2008.
Onalea and the Dandi Trio open for
The East Village Opera Company
January 25, 2008
Jubilee Auditorium
OYR's High Performance Rodeo
Tickets and info:
www.oyr.org 299-8888
SYLVIA PLATH MUST NOT DIE
(Onalea plays Sylvia Plath)
One Yellow Rabbit High Performance Rodeo
January 8-12 2008 Vertigo Playhouse Theatre
Check www.oyr.org for showtimes
Tickets: 299-8888
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Starring Onalea Gilbertson as Edwin Drood
Doug McKeag as the Chairman
Elinor Holt as Princess Puffer
Vertigo Mystery Theatre Nov 17-Dec 16 2007
Tickets: 221-3708 www.vertigotheatre.com
Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Produced by Dandi Productions
October 20, 2007
Roald Dahl's Jack and the Beanstalk
Victoria Symphony Orchestra
Produced by Dandi Productions
October 27, 2007
SCORCHED EARTH
Banff Summer Arts Festival 2007
World premiere of BLANCHE
Written and performed by Onalea,vocals, piano guitar. With special guests Morag Northey, Cello
& Jonathan Lewis: violin, clarinet, electronic soundscape
SHE: PARLOR SONGS WITH A PARISIAN FLAIR
Onalea and Morag Northey
Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu in Quebec
Produced by Carter McRae
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
May 11 2007
Special guest with the Calgary Choral Society
Jubliee Auditorium, Calgary
WHY FREUD FAINTED
By David Rhymer with Vanessa Porteus
Alberta Theatre Projects Playrites Festival 2007
World Premiere
FIVE HOLE: TALES OF HOCKEY EROTICA
One Yellow Rabbit and the Rheostatics
2007 High Performance Rodeo Calgary
World Premiere
BERLINER KABARETT
Onalea with the Land's End Chamber Ensemble
November 16-18, 2006
Beat-Niq Jazz and Social Club
THE MYSTERIOUS MAESTRO
Dandi Orchestra Productions
Sunday Nov 5, 2006
Victoria Symphony Orchestra
DREAM MACHINE (An oratorio on the beat poets)
One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre
October 17-29, 2006
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
DIE WILDE NACHT
Onalea with the Dandi Orchestra
Theatre Junction
September 30, 2006
Grand Theatre, Calgary