Consummate entertainer Storm Large made her Kennedy Center debut in 2011, singing for the first time with the band Pink Martini backed by the National Symphony Orchestra. Now, Storm makes her triumphant return to the venue as one of four special guest soloists for the NSO Pops’ “Let’s Be Frank” celebration of the Frank Sinatra centennial, first performed at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops on April 10. The concerts will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall on Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6 at 8pm. Ticket prices range from $30-$95; click here to purchase or call 202-467-4600 for the box office.
Storm will be joined by three more of today’s finest entertainers – Tony DeSare, Frankie Moreno, and Ryan Silverman in a musical extravaganza that will transport audiences back to a golden age of music. There could be no better way to celebrate Frank Sinatra’s influence on American culture than with four of today’s brightest stars on stage with one of the country’s premiere pops orchestras.
The 2014-15 season has been a busy one for Storm. October 2014 marked the release of Le Bonheur, Storm’s debut album on Heinz Records. On this utterly unique album, described in The Huffington Post as “compelling, beautiful and enchanting from start to finish,” American songbook classics like Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” and Richard Rodgers’s “The Lady is a Tramp” shimmy up next to Black Sabbath’s “N.I.B.” and Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love,” each re-imagined in sparkling Technicolor arrangements. Audiences were “Taken by Storm” during an extensive U.S. tour in fall 2014, which showcased songs from the album alongside some Storm originals. Storm continues to perform as guest soloist with orchestras across the country, putting her stamp on Kurt Weill’s dark satire The Seven Deadly Sins. As the Napa Valley Register wrote after another show-stopping performance, “Natural talent like hers comes along only once in a stadium full of wannabes.”
I knew early on that I wanted to take my place among the stars. One day, my mother saw me reading The Washington Post at a very young age. Who would have known that it would be the building blocks of my journey? Since that day, I dedicated my life to learn all that is learnable. I read everything from encyclopedias, to books, to dictionaries, to magazines. I’m also an avid consumer of television, with my favorite genre being game shows. If you’ve seen me on Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Wheel of Fortune, then you know that this interest has served me well!
My unique style of reporting began back in junior high school, when I started to chronicle the events that shaped my life. Whether it was the annual family vacation or the local science fiction convention, I shot numerous pictures and recorded my thoughts so I could truly appreciate the history. During my senior year at Friendly High, I wrote what was to be my first masterpiece, “Advanced Space Academy – A One Week Journey.” I sent the eleven-page article back to the U.S. Space Camp staff. The article was highly praised for being “one of the best written articles in the history of U.S. Space Camp.” From then on, I knew what I wanted to do for rest of my life — to be a reporter.
Since then, I have trained in Broadcast Journalism at Bowie State University (2008) in Bowie, MD earning a B.S. in Communications. I gained experience in news production and editing through field experiences with Bowie Community Media Corporation, Prince George’s Community Television, and Bowie State University Television. I also wrote scripts for a variety of quiz shows for over five years.
As a lifelong movie buff, I now see close to 100 films every year. I took this love of movies to the next step when I became a co-host for Eclipse Magazine TV in the fall of 2005. While at EMTV, I interviewed celebrities, worked red carpets, and attended a wide variety of movie screenings. In January 2009, I took a leap of faith and started my own entertainment news magazine, The Rogers Revue. Shortly afterward, my life-long journey of studying the silver screen and writing about what I learned finally earned me a place in the Washington Area Film Critics Association.
All of this has led me here, giving you the latest entertainment news for the DMV and the entire nation, and I am truly excited for whatever will come next.
