2024/2025
Barbara Lewis’s current show is: Intimate Cabaret
- Intimate Cabaret
Songs of Love, Laughter, Nature & Time
A blend of songs, stories and poetry, with a touch of theatrical zest.Recent Reviews – 2023/24: - From Michael McAuley who presented a recent performance In Montreal:
“On November 4, 2023, Barbara Lewis returned to St. Columba in Pointe-Claire to sing a fabulous “Intimate Cabaret” concert with the very talented pianist Doug Balfour as part of the St. Columba Concert Series for her third time. Barbara is a gifted singer with a warm and lyrical voice. She excels at communicating the true emotional essence of a song and its lyrics. Her choice of songs was wonderfully varied, ranging from deeply touching to toe-tapping and humourous. The audience left with smiles on their faces and gave incredibly positive feedback at the door after the concert. It was terrific evening with something for everyone!” – Michael McAuley – St. Columba by-the-lake Church, Montreal. - From Valerie McKee – Coordinator of the Stewart Hall Seniors, Centre Culturel Pointe-Claire-Stewart Hall: “Our members had the absolute pleasure of hearing Barbara Lewis and Doug Balfour perform together at the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre in Pointe-Claire. Intimate Cabaret: Songs of Love, Laughter, Nature & Time was an enchanting performance and a joyous tribute to the power of song. Funny, moving, deeply engaging, this show was the highlight of our season.” – Valerie McKee, Coordinator of the Stewart Hall Seniors, Centre Culturel Pointe-Claire-Stewart Hall
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From the Westmount Magazine article:
n early 2019, Lewis sang Blood Orchid in Mexico at Cancun’s Casa de la Cultura and in various other Canadian venues. Watch a short (1:26) video of BARBARA IN CONCERT. Listen to Barbara’s performance of Joni Mitchell’s anthem: BOTH SIDES NOW.
“…The most recent (concert) that I attended was a musical hour by renowned singer Barbara Lewis. Originally trained in opera, Ms Lewis has expanded her genres to include jazz, pop, folk and Latin. Some songs are rendered in French, some in Spanish. She had last appeared at the Atwater in September 2016.
For her 2018 date, she featured excerpts from her current one-woman show, Blood Orchid – How Women Feel, a timely “Me Too” compendium of songs written by and/or sung by women artists such as Edith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holliday and Carole King. The rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman by Helen Reddy brought the packed largely female audience to its feet.
Ms Lewis has toured North America with other of her one-woman shows such as Crossroads and My Canada, often with piano accompanist maestro Doug Balfour.” – by Byron Tobin (Westmount Magazine, Montreal) Read more here
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