Sir Larry Dale Sowell IS Top Shelf

Larry Dale Sowell has held leading performances with the Backdoor Theater, Ragged Blade Theater Company and selected performances at the La Nuit Comedy Theater in New Orleans. He has also toured with the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus.

Larry performed as Sid in the GWFAPA Children's Theater production of Sid the Serpent. While a member of the US Air Force, he sang the national anthem at area ball games and civic functions.

Larry also toured as lead soloist for the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada’s first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric classical music under the direction of Brainerd Blyden-Taylor. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard of AfroToronto writes, "Tenor Larry Sowell's heart-rending 'Lord, Who Am I' shines at the part of the program when you've thought you've seen what everybody can do." Susan Pena of Reading Eagle of Reading, PA writes "Larry Dale Sowell's voice is clear and powerful."

Other performance credits include The Roy Thomsom Hall Choral and Organ Series in Oratorio, Canada; An Indigo Christmas at the Toronto Center for the Arts, Voices of the Diaspora at George Westin Recital Hall in Ontario, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Open House Gala in New York City, the concert Series at Howard University and the U.S. Library of Congress Concert Series in Washington D.C.