Effigies, Burlesque Festivals & Phat Man Dee!

Hello beautiful people, this last month I have spent  interweaving my multiple communities in music and dance. If you missed my show in the Pufferdome at Starwood at Wisteria in Ohio, or on the main stage at Summerfest at Brushwood in New York, then you missed me playing with digeridoos, middle eastern percussion masters, New Orleans Pagan jugband bluesmen, salsa musicians, burlesque dancers, sword dancers, glass walkers and more..... I was blessed with the opportunities to bring my favorite Pgh based musicians and dancers to meld with the larger traveling community of artists that I really only see at festival time. I love any chance I get to bring world class artists to Pittsburgh, but I enjoy showing off our world class Pittsburgh based artists to the rest of the world just a little bit more......

That said, I have one show in Pittsburgh this week on Aug 3, I hope you may attend. One of the dancers I brought with me on my journeys is the indefatigably brilliant Macabre Noir. She is a performer held in high regard, and her art is very popular. I am excited that she is doing a gallery show, she usually sells out of her work as soon as it's created. I will be singing at her opening at Most Wanted Fine Arts located at 5015 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Macabre is doing a duo show with another artist named Danielle M. Bartone. Both women create 3 dimensional pieces that examine Archetypal Females. Performing at the opening will be members of Macabre Noir and Lillith Deville's newly formed burlesque and sideshow group Kabaret Vulgare. I will be sing, Penny Dela Poison, Deville D'Eggs, and Macabre herself shall perform!

  The following day on Saturday August 4, 2012, I am heading to Cleveland, Ohio, where I am really hoping some of my new fans and old friends from Starwood, many of whom are based in and around Cleveland, can attend.... I am helping emcee the Second Annual Ohio Burlesque Festival curated by Bella Sin of La Femme Mystique and going down at the Beachland Ballroom located 15711 Waterloo, Cleveland, Ohio 44110. Showtime is
Our Headliners are Go Go Amy (NYC) and Crystal Swarovski (L.A.). The charities benefiting from this years event are The Cleveland Food Bank and MS Society.
Other acts include dancers from all over the United States and for specific details please visit their facebook page or the website.
For ticketing info, please click here!

After these events, I am going on a little trip with my mom, we are driving her back to the Navajo Nation where she teaches special needs children and then I have a private party I must play in Detroit, I don't know the details, all I know is that it's on a river, weird people will be there and I think it's formal, invite only, there may be fire.....it will probably get a little odd...  

On Tuesday August 14,  I am returning home to play with Kabarett Vulgare again, but this time as a fully fleshed performance at the Shadow Lounge. Kabarett Vulgare's Odditease Pittsburgh Premiere shall be joined by NYC band Tigriss. Kabarett Vulgare is a sideshow cabaret that combines traditional American sideshow and Vaudeville into a Weimar Cabaret format and includes Macabre Noir (2012 Pittsburgh Freak of the year), Phat Man Dee (Chanteuse & Legendary Weirdo), Penny De la Poison (Temptress of Tease), Gypsy (The seer of fate), Apex and Kiyla Kitty (Gemini twins of the Hoop), Bella Sin (Cleveland's queen of burlesque), Tadashi (Japanese master of the blade and flame). Hosted by Lilith DeVille (The Mouth of the South)!
Doors @ 9 p.m., show at 10 p.m., must be 21+ to attend, $8 to enter.
Shadow Lounge is located at  5972 Baum Blvd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206

I would love to see you at any of these performances. Blessings upon you and your families and may we play together and make art and music in a kinder, stranger world.