Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret
Excitement! Drama! Romance! And… knitting? A scintillating cabaret, featuring the lost knitting songs of WWI and WWII from Canada, Britain, America and France. Bring your knitting (or crochet) and stitch along to these funny, poignant, toe-tapping, needle-clicking tunes. Come out and have a ball! ‘Stitch in Time’ presents over a dozen historic songs, including ‘More Power to Your Knitting, Nell!’, ‘The Knitting Itch’ and ‘Knocking at the Knitting Club’.
★★★★★ Glam Adelaide, ★★★★★FringeReview.ca, ★★★★ “Best musical” CBC.ca, ★★★★★ Southside Advertiser
“Divine voice, highly recommended” FringeReview.co.uk, “Cute, charming and funny” PlankMagazine
Wear your knitting – prizes for the best-knitted outfit!
Presented by: Melanie Gall with Emma Knights Productions
Melanie Gall is an internationally-acclaimed vocalist. She holds five opera degrees and has performed in Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean. She has sung at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and recently performed a Vera Lynn concert for the Jazz series at Royal Albert Hall.
Melanie has written and toured a dozen different shows, and she has won several awards, including the ‘CBC Award for Best Musical’ at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and sold-out laurels for three consecutive years at the Edinburgh Fringe. Melanie has recorded several albums, including Sweeter in a Sweater, with songs about knitting from WWII. Melanie is also the author of "Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood," the first-ever biography of 1930s Hollywood sensation Deanna Durbin.
Bring your knitting or crochet along and show off your creations!