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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...

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...

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.

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 event was the first television/radio simulcast in Vancouver history.

This event also had another aspect. 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 has had the opportunity to work with musical greats such as Freddie Hubbard, BB King, Lenny Breau, Rev Gary Davis and many more.

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.

When it was decided to put a Dalannah Gail Bowen web site together we bounced around some ideas about how to welcome people to the site, and one of the lyrics from Up From The Skies, a song on the Mamma’s Got The Blues album, kept running through my head.

It seemed like a more appropriate invitation than Welcome to the official site of the music art and

activism of Dalannah Gail Bowen... which is

probably what the webmaster had in mind.

So please be welcome, enjoy

and say hello...

Du Maurier Jazz Festival

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Eli's Mile High Blues Club

Oakland, California

Cafe Du Nord with Freddie Roulette

Oakland, California

Vancouver Art Gallery

International Tourism Convention

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Whistler Music Festival

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.

Recent Performances include:

Talking Stick Festival

BC Place

Starry Night

Easter Sunday Gospel Explosion

Songs of Mahalia Jackson

Stanley Theatre

Blues For Xmas

Commodore Ballroom

Gibson's Jazz Festival

Maple Ridge Jazz & Blues Festival

CBC Radio "The Performers"

Vicki Gabereau Show

Pender Harbor Jazz Festival