Dalannah Gail Bowen is a versatile high-energy vocalist whose experience as a performer ranges from intimate nightclub and café shows to fronting big bands and concert tours. Gail started her musical career working in an all-female band out of Winnipeg, Manitoba opening for The Guess Who and The Monkees. Since then, Dalannah's career has given her the opportunity to play with many of the greats in the jazz and blues industry.

Dalannah has spent time in San Franscisco and Oakland, playing with musicians as diverse as  Carl Lockett, the Sy Klopps Blues Band (Steve Miller's rhythm section) and Grammy-award winner Dr. Ed Kelly.

Other Recent Shows...

Pender Harbor Jazz Festival

Du Maurier Jazz Festival

TD Vancouver International

    Jazz Festival 

Whistler Music Festival

Eli's Mile High Blues Club

    Oakland, CA

Gaye Delorme Celebration

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

International Women’s Day Concert: Honouring Our

    Grandmothers

Pantages Theatre

Easter Gospel Celebration

2008 PERFORMANCES

National Aboriginal Day

(live national simulcast from Winnipeg)

TD Vancouver International

    Jazz Festival

Pender Harbor Blues Festival 

Vancouver Folk Festival

    (with Faith Nolan)

Gibson's Jazz Festival

Fearless Festival Vancouver

Women in Blues Vancouver

Weave Exhibit Opening Soundscape

Opened for Joe Bonamassa,

    Bedouin Soundclash and

    Black Mountain

All Of Me: Dalannah In Concert

Vancouver Aboriginal

    Musicians Showcase

Performances...

Dalannah has opened for B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Sammy Price, Pee Wee Clayton, Taj Mahal, Rick Danko, The Temptations, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves and many others...

She has also worked with Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Big Joe Duskin, Lloyd Glen, Walter "Shakey" Horton, King Curtis, Lenny Breau, Carl Lockett, Rick Danko, Jerry Doucette, Jim Byrnes, Freddie Hubbard and Pat Coleman to name a few...

Behind the scenes...

Dalannah Gail Bowen has been a vocalist for forty years. Her life as a musician started in 1965 when she worked for the great Frank Wiener who operated the well-known Hungry Eye in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The all-girl band, The Feminine Touch, worked the circuit and had their first big gig after just three months opening for The Monkees. They were the opening act, on many occasions, for The Guess Who and toured Canada and the United States.

A year later Dalannah, then know as Gail, went on the road with the Colored Rain and ended up in Edmonton where the band worked the club scene with such groups as Papa Bear's Medicine Show, Black Snake Blues Band, The Privilege, Taj Mahal and a newly-formed band out of England called Led Zeppelin. It was a great time to be a musician.

In 1976, Dalannah came to Vancouver where her special style of blues and jazz were well received. Performances included venues like The Cave, The Commodore, Oil Can Harry’s and Rohan's.

In 1977, working with the late Gary Switlo, Paul Hovan and Betty Chabba, Dalannah was part of a project called “Ladies In Lights” which profiled women in music.

This was the first television/radio simulcast in Vancouver history, but this event also had another purpose. It was a benefit for The Children’s Christmas Stocking Fund. The impact on Dalannah was immediate and since then she has dedicated her life to addressing social issues through music. For 25 years, Dalannah has created & produced musical signature events that raise funds for charitable organizations. Socials issues such as anti-apartheid, poverty, health, childrens needs, the aboriginal elders and people in need have all benefited from funds raised by Dalannah through musical endeavors.

Dalannah Gail Bowen has received an honorary Juno for her work, an International Women’s Day Award and many other acknowledgements. In 2005, The Yale Hotel honored her with a reception honouring her community work as a musical activist.

Dalannah was a recent nominee for the prestigious Minerva Foundation’s 2007 “Women In Music” award.

Jan. 5, 2009        7:00 P.M.

"IN THE HOUSE"

Blues Concert 

1998 William St.

Vancouver BC

Jan. 8, 2009        9:45 P.M.  

"MAMMA’S GOT THE BLUES"

Dalannah Gail Bowen

& Straight-Up

The Yale Hotel   

Vancouver, BC

Jan. 17, 2009       9:00 P.M.

Blues Summit IV

Delta Chelsea Hotel

33 Gerrard St West

Toronto, Ontario

Feb. 14, 2009      12:00 P.M.

Women's Memorial March

Carnegie Theatre

Vancouver, BC

Feb. 20, 2009     8:00 P.M.

An Intimate Evening

with Dalannah Gail Bowen

Rhizome Cafe

Vancouver, BC

Feb. 28, 2009      8:00 P.M.

Speaking of Maya

Black History Month Celebration

St. James Community Square

Vancouver, BC

Mar. 7, 2009        7:30 P.M.

International Women's Day

"Honoring Our Grandmothers"

St. Andrew's Wesley Church

Vancouver, BC

Mar. 8, 2009 

Waterford Festival

with the Mount Seymour Gospel Choir

Mar. 12, 2009 

Women of The Blues

The Yale Hotel   

Vancouver, BC

Mar. 19, 2009 

Forget Me Not

Alzheimer Benefit 

The Yale Hotel   

Vancouver, BC

Mar. 21, 2009 

Strathcona Spring Fair

Mar. 28, 2009

Japantown Festival 

Japanese Education Centre

Sistahood Festival  

Heritage Hall

May 30, 2009          

Poet's Cove    

Pender Island   

Time: TBA

June 6, 2009              

In The House Festival 

1149 Semlin Drive   

4:00 p.m.

June 13, 2009     

Gibson's Jazz Festival 

Creek Big Band   

7:30 p.m.

July 1, 2009         

Vancouver Int. Jazz Festival

Railspur Park,

Granville Island

3:00 p.m.

July 5, 2009        

Golden Spike Festival

Port Moody, BC

Time: TBA

A recent performance of Speaking of Maya. From l-r: Judith Maxie, Vanessa Richards, Dalannah, Denis Simpson, Joy Coghill and Hector Johnson

“Bille Holiday meets Howlin’ Wolf...”

Songs of Mahalia Jackson

  (at St. Andrew’s Wesley

    Church)

Aboriginal Women’s Showcase

Cafe Du Nord

    with Freddie Roulette

    Oakland, CA

Vancouver Art Gallery

International Tourism

    Convention

    Halifax, Nova Scotia

2009 PERFORMANCES