Orcas Center Presents on Center Stage:

Adey Bell

Sunday, September 29th at 7pm
Tiered Ticket Pricing: $63, $33, $18
Orcas Center charges a $2 per ticket fee

Orcas Center’s Tiered Ticket Pricing is based on the needs of your family. The variant in pricing is not based on seat location or dates of performances, rather, what you’re able to afford to help us to maintain our facilities and create quality programming.

Tier A is the true cost per patron of putting on show at the Orcas Center,
Tier B is our standard rate, also subsidized by our generous donors,
Tier C is a rate subsidized by our generous donors.

This performance from Adey Bell is partially funded by a TourWest Grant from WESTAFF

Adey Bell

Adey Bell is a mystical vocalist, pianist, and composer from a small town in Montana, whose ethereal yet powerful music explores themes of personal transformation and spiritual awakening. Through the elegant arrangements of her albums or the energizing power of her live shows, Adey’s haunting melodies seduce us into feeling more deeply into the places within where we often fear to tread. Her rich, nimble and dusky vocal character effortlessly fuses classical, pop and jazz vocal styles, making her original compositions beyond classification.

Adey has composed, produced, and performed both as a solo artist and with her gifted ensemble, Venus Exalted. She has commercially released more than fifty songs across five studio albums, two live albums, and one film score. Adey has graced the stage at hundreds of live concerts and theater performances, including at the Orcas Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show. Come find truth, vulnerability, and transcendence in the shadows she illuminates.

“Piano-players have been my idols since I was a girl, and I always thrilled at the true seducers of the piano. . . Ray Charles, Carole King, Elton John, Billy Joel, Diana Krall…. Time moves on, and great pianists have left their audiences. And thank God, new ones come along. Such is Adey Bell. Her presence at the piano is a unique, magical performance as she weaves her stories and passions with this magnificent ‘axe.’…” – Margie Doyle, Orcas Issues, August 28, 2017

Follow Adey Bell online:

Website: https://www.oracle88.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adey_bell/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladyadeymusic

Check out “North Star” from Adey’s latest EP,  celebrating the life of Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers- bringing the end of the Vietnam War. After Dan was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in February, 2023, his son Michael asked family friend Adey Bell to compose a song in his honor. A first draft of “North Star” (originally titled “Soothsayer”) was completed in May, 2023, and was shared with Daniel in video form on his deathbed, on perhaps one of the last days he was able to talk fully. He loved it and was deeply moved by it:

Watch a recent performance of Adey and vocalist Jeffri Lynn (who will be joining her for the show) covering a beautiful song by Lisa Thiel called “Inanna”: