Kitten on the Keys LOVED the New Orleans Burlesque FEST! SUPER DUPER FUN!
Pictured with Judges Jay from Mork and Mindy and CHEERS fame and Miss Louisiana!
Kitten on the Keys heads to Paris and Switzerland late October 2009.
Come see and hear her!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Climate Theater Music Box Series Presents
The Music of Kitten on the Keys and Suzanne Ramsey
Tues Sep 8, 2009
Doors 7:30 Show 8:00
$7 - $15 Sliding Scale
Box Office: 415-704-3260
Climate Theater
285 9th St. (@ Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94109
Bawdy bar room music and old time ditties! Suzanne Ramsey aka San Francisco's own Kitten on the Keys presents a unique show- the different facets of her musical personality. Suzanne Ramsey opens playing Tin Pan Alley treasures, bawdy blues, and classic rock- songs that inspire her as a performer on piano ukulele and accordion. She transforms into burlesque character Kitten on the Keys- swathed in pink and a dirty mind.....to perform her double entendre dripped original cabaret charmers that will stir your nethers and tickle your funnybone. Kitten on the Keys recently won the SFBG Best of the Bay Award for 2009- Singer Songwriter!
www.kittymusic.com
Climate Theater Music Box Series is curated by David Kaye
www.musicboxseries.com
Kitten on the Keys BIO:
Known as Kitten on The Keys, Suzanne Ramsey has been seen on HBO, E!, IFC, Queer TV MTV, and Bravo. She embodies the spirit and style of those days of decadence gone by. Pianist ,chanteuse, and mistress of ceremonies - expect a racy ragtime romp when this little kitty sharpens her claws on a meow mix medley of mad cap gems of yesteryear with a naughty whimsical edge. She’s toured the US and Canada with Devotchka, Teaseorama Roadshow, opened for the DAMNED on the Twisted Cabaret Tour in the UK, performed in sold out shows in France, Itlay, Netherlands, Edinburgh and Helsinki , played for jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott in Las Vegas and recently performed in a feauture film “TOURNEE” (2010) with award winning French actor Mattieu Almaric. She is a true San Francisco treat! Kitten just MC'd the Antique Spigeltent THE BARBARY @ Outside Lands Festival for the Vau De Vire Society! Funtimes!
CALENDAR LISTINGS: Music
WHAT: Climate Theater Music Box Series Presents:
Suzanne Ramsey and Kitten on the Keys
Bawdy Bar Room Music, Old Time Ditties, Original Cabaret
WHEN: September 8, 2009
WHERE: Climate Theater 285 9th Street SF CA 94109
TICKETS: 415-704-3260
INFO: David Kaye Presents Music Box Series www.musicboxseries.com
WEB: http://www.suzanneramsey.net
http://www.musicboxseries.com
PRESS IMAGES: To download high-resolution digital images:
http://www.suzanneramsey.net/doesthispianopress
To View a YouTube clip of Kitten on The Keys visit:
http://www.tinyurl.com.au/x.php?1omv
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Monday, August 17th 2009
7:00 - 10:30 pm
111 Minna Gallery, SF
This month we are thrilled to have one of our all time favorite performers model for us! We can't say enough about this multi-talented vixen! She is truly one of a kind!
Come out to sketch the amazing, Kitten on the Keys!
Kitten on the Keys!
Variety Artist, Vocalist
Pianist, Ukulele, Accordion
Mistress of Ceremonies
Winner Best Of The Bay-Singer Songwriter 2009
www.kittymusic.com
http://drsketchyssf.blogspot.com/
Fabulous Hostesses Jessica and Alice
111 Minna Gallery
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Ramsey with Anubis
Come see Joshua Ellingson's artwork at
COCOLUXE
Haight Sreet Art Walk
w/ Live performance by Kitten on the Keys!
6/26/09 FREE
5-8PM
Sunday, May 10, 2009
KITTEN ON THE KEYS: “KITTEN” is strictly for adults. This is Kinky Cabaret with a capital “K”. One minute she is a Flapper-ette, then a Tin Pan Alley Toe Tapper who strums the Ukulele. Yep – she’s a busy one all-right.
Kitten is everything. She’s Marlene Dietrich, Betty Boop and Dolly Parton all rolled up in her Bra. In her new show – “Does this Piano make my ASS look Big?” Well, yes and no – it depends on the outfit that she’s wearing. And Kitten has hundreds of them. During the show she is in a Bridal Gown, puts pig snouts on her nipples and even has a pig snout attached to that place “Down There” – you know the one in the G. Spot area.
She dazzles the audience with her audacious antics. Some call her the musical “Snackcake.” Kitten even makes a gentleman from the audience come up on the stage to be humiliated. She sprays some whipped cream on her toes and makes him lick it off. Funny thing is, the guy was a reviewer for a newspaper. (It wasn’t me). He said: “Keep in mind that I’m here to review the show.” He was grinning – so he must have enjoyed the Toe Job.
This hilarious romp-slapping flapper is very frisky. While playing the piano – she entices a virgin-ette to come up on the stage and slap Kitten’s rear while she plays wildly away on the piano. Now if that’s not kinky to you – then you HAVE seen it all.
Kitten (Suzanne Ramsey) will certainly get your libido going to a ragtime beat. No need for Viagra at the show. Kitten is the ultimate Rock Star gone bad. Some of her faves are Alice Cooper and Freddie Mercury. You’ll see other favorites that hang on the back wall.
Upcoming (Ramsey) Kitten will be seen on the National Geographic channel about the History of Bras! And who has burned more than one Bra? Kitten, of course. She would be the perfect choice the N.G. Channel.
Kitten has dazzled and conquered audiences all over Europe, on T.V., and in the States. She is deliriously decadent. Watch those eyebrows. They move around a lot, so do other things on her body. But, of course – this is a family paper, so I can’t give out too many details. Oh, by the way, Kitten has also played Liberace’s mirrored Grand Piano. She’s cute and kinky. Her Original music is hard to resist. Kitten is proud of winning the “Golden Pastie” award at the NY Burlesque Festival for ‘Being the biggest tease’. And when you see the show you will agree.
THIS WEEKEND ONLY AT MAMA CALISTO’S VOICE FACTORY
TICKETS: brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006
(Near Van Ness on Mission Street)
RATING: FOUR GLASSES OF CHAMPAGNE!!!! (highest rating) –trademarked-
(((Lee Hartgrave has contributed many articles to the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook Section and produced a long-running Arts Segment on PBS KQED)))
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
My fave day in SF is this weekend!
I am delighted to be ST TICKLE ME IVORIES.....I was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
a year ago at Martunis...and NOW it is 30 years of the best drag queen NUNS on EARTH!
Come celebrate 30 years with the sisters on EASTER Sunday! Dolores Park FREE
Kitten's set just grew to include such fabulous guests acts as the return of the gender bending 1920's duo
THE MUDDFLAPPERS! Miss Rodney Austin the Chick with the Great Big D..k...
Get twitterpated with the MUDDFLAPPERS and do the Bunny Hop with the gorgeous guys of SF BOYLESQUE!
Kitten and pals go on at 12:30 main stage dolores park
Other acts include Polkacide!
"Nun World Order-Easter in the Park" on Sunday, April 12 at
12:00pm.
Event: Nun World Order-Easter in the Park
"30th Anniversary, Easter"
What: Concert
Host: SPI, Inc.
Start Time: Sunday, April 12 at 12:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 12 at 4:00pm
Where: Dolores Park
I am delighted to be ST TICKLE ME IVORIES.....I was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
a year ago at Martunis...and NOW it is 30 years of the best drag queen NUNS on EARTH!
Come celebrate 30 years with the sisters on EASTER Sunday! Dolores Park FREE
Kitten's set just grew to include such fabulous guests acts as the return of the gender bending 1920's duo
THE MUDDFLAPPERS! Miss Rodney Austin the Chick with the Great Big D..k...
Get twitterpated with the MUDDFLAPPERS and do the Bunny Hop with the gorgeous guys of SF BOYLESQUE!
Kitten and pals go on at 12:30 main stage dolores park
Other acts include Polkacide!
"Nun World Order-Easter in the Park" on Sunday, April 12 at
12:00pm.
Event: Nun World Order-Easter in the Park
"30th Anniversary, Easter"
What: Concert
Host: SPI, Inc.
Start Time: Sunday, April 12 at 12:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 12 at 4:00pm
Where: Dolores Park
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Kitten On The Keys Purrs About Upcoming One Kitten Show
By Sister Dana Van Iquity
Published: March 26, 2009
“Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big?” starring Kitten on the Keys in a one-woman performance has its world premiere on March 27 and runs for two weekends only at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. I had the opportunity to get the words straight from the kitten’s mouth.
(Bay Times) When did you first know you were Kitten on the Keys?
(Kitten) I worked in an antique and vintage clothing store for 17 years and all we listened to was Tin Pan Alley. I became addicted to the naughty double entendre songs of the 1920’s and 1930’s. I likened myself to a punk rock version of a flapper. I had a Victrola and some 78’s. One was “Kitten on the Keys” by Zez Confrey from 1922. This fast-paced ragtime romp reminded me of my dizzy brain where little kittens are frantically padding around on my grey matter. I decided that this was the perfect stage name for me! I have a Victrola with a kitty cat tattooed on my left leg. I never shave the kitty cat and I ask people if they would like to pet my hairy pussy - then I pull down my sock.
You are a master … er … mistress at burlesque. Define that term, “burlesque.” I know it isn’t about just stripping off your clothes. There is a method to the madness, no?
Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. We live in a time where people need to experience poor man’s theater and some cheeky entertainment. It is not just gals and guys showin’ their “knickers and bits” - there can be variety acts like musicians, magicians, and jugglers too.
Burlesque is a fun form of personal expression for both men and women. I think the WAY you take it off – with a sense of humor and a dash of glamour - is fabulous. I enjoy traveling the country, UK, and Europe performing my twisted songs and silly dances to audiences who are just HUNGRY for this type of entertainment. I am lucky I found super awesome like-minded folks in the late 1990’s in San Francisco – The Cantankerous Lollies and San Francisco’s famous Burlesque Orchestra. They asked me to join in the fun!
When did you discover you had a knack – a drive, as it were – for burlesque?
I have always been drawn to things that were NAUGHTY or wink wink, nudge nudge. I told some off color jokes in third grade. I was first inspired by short reels of Shirley Temple’s Baby Burlesques from the 1930’s. She was put into very adult like situations with a giant diaper. I love that golly geeee whiz energy! Then I saw Queen when I was 11, and Freddie Mercury was bumping and grinding to show tunes out of a glamorous Kimono into these teeny tiny black and white striped shorts. I was in AWE! I adore the sweet hotness of the pre-code films and musicals.
You play soooo many musical instruments – piano, ukulele, accordion, others – when did you take these up, and why?
I was one of those kids FORCED into piano lessons. I was horrible. I have ADD and did not want to play what they wanted me to play. I do not drive a car, and traveling around as a pianist with a giant keyboard on MUNI got to be old, so I was drawn to the old world feeling of the accordion - which is the HARDEST instrument to play! I call my accordion “Ol’ Wheezy.” The ukulele is so 1920’s, the eel’s eyelashes, and voh-dee-oh-doh! My fave is to strum punk rock songs as Betty Boop. I adore the film Some Like It Hot with Marilyn as “Sugar” - her white ukulele was always so cool to me!
You have just returned from Paris. Why for?
I am honored to be involved with this film in Paris. I was there testing songs, costumes, and burlesque acts for a film by Mattieu Almaric (Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Quantum of Solace). Mattieu had seen this show I MC and sing in for French and Italian theater festivals called “Cabaret New Burlesque.” He was so inspired by our frivolity and joy that he wrote a road trip script about an American burlesque troupe traveling throughout the North of France with a washed up producer. I play my musical mistress of ceremonies self in the film. The working film of the title is Tournee.
What about cabaret got you into the biz? You are a fabulous chanteuse.
Jeepers THANKS! I just like music! I was a lonely kid and my only friends were my little AM radio, my records, and stuffed animals! Music has a way of making me happy. It pulls at my many emotions. What I cannot express in words I can express through singing and playing. I was fortunate enough to take lessons from Scrumbley Koldewyn of the Cockettes.
Your CDs are off the wall. Beautifully bawdy. Where do you get your lyrics?
I like writing about fetishes and such. I have so much fun shocking people with these silly sex practices set to music. There are not enough songs about furries and plushies! I just take real life situations and get out the ol’ rhyming dictionary!I watch a lot of old films and musicals for cool songs to cover. I also have a super awesome pal named Bob Grimes, an octogenarian with the world’s largest sheet music collection. He knows my taste, and he saves the super fun and naughty double entendre flapper ditties for me!
Describe yourself without using the words “dirty,” “stacked,” “naughty,” “sexy,” or “velocipede.”
Sassy, silly, musical, squishy, lickable, frothy, spit-curled, rowdy, dizzy, and inappropriate.
Tell my readers why they simply MUST come see your latest show.
I am very proud that a dorky gal from the suburbs like me can transform and have this dual identity and live a happier life through music and art. I have always been very theatrical with silly homemade DIY props and costumes. Almost everything I write is a TRUE story. People always tell me I should write a book! But I cannot spell, so I prefer to sing and play the piano. Audiences can see a well rounded side of me - and a sensitive side to Kitten on the Keys - not just the in your face sexuality.
“Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big” is directed by Dwayne Calizo - the artistic director and founder of Mama Calizo’s - the epicenter of queer and activist art in SF, 1519 Mission St. (Van Ness & 11th Sts.). For info, 1-800/ 838- 3006 or suzanneramsey.net. Warning: This kitten’s got claws!
By Sister Dana Van Iquity
Published: March 26, 2009
“Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big?” starring Kitten on the Keys in a one-woman performance has its world premiere on March 27 and runs for two weekends only at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. I had the opportunity to get the words straight from the kitten’s mouth.
(Bay Times) When did you first know you were Kitten on the Keys?
(Kitten) I worked in an antique and vintage clothing store for 17 years and all we listened to was Tin Pan Alley. I became addicted to the naughty double entendre songs of the 1920’s and 1930’s. I likened myself to a punk rock version of a flapper. I had a Victrola and some 78’s. One was “Kitten on the Keys” by Zez Confrey from 1922. This fast-paced ragtime romp reminded me of my dizzy brain where little kittens are frantically padding around on my grey matter. I decided that this was the perfect stage name for me! I have a Victrola with a kitty cat tattooed on my left leg. I never shave the kitty cat and I ask people if they would like to pet my hairy pussy - then I pull down my sock.
You are a master … er … mistress at burlesque. Define that term, “burlesque.” I know it isn’t about just stripping off your clothes. There is a method to the madness, no?
Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. We live in a time where people need to experience poor man’s theater and some cheeky entertainment. It is not just gals and guys showin’ their “knickers and bits” - there can be variety acts like musicians, magicians, and jugglers too.
Burlesque is a fun form of personal expression for both men and women. I think the WAY you take it off – with a sense of humor and a dash of glamour - is fabulous. I enjoy traveling the country, UK, and Europe performing my twisted songs and silly dances to audiences who are just HUNGRY for this type of entertainment. I am lucky I found super awesome like-minded folks in the late 1990’s in San Francisco – The Cantankerous Lollies and San Francisco’s famous Burlesque Orchestra. They asked me to join in the fun!
When did you discover you had a knack – a drive, as it were – for burlesque?
I have always been drawn to things that were NAUGHTY or wink wink, nudge nudge. I told some off color jokes in third grade. I was first inspired by short reels of Shirley Temple’s Baby Burlesques from the 1930’s. She was put into very adult like situations with a giant diaper. I love that golly geeee whiz energy! Then I saw Queen when I was 11, and Freddie Mercury was bumping and grinding to show tunes out of a glamorous Kimono into these teeny tiny black and white striped shorts. I was in AWE! I adore the sweet hotness of the pre-code films and musicals.
You play soooo many musical instruments – piano, ukulele, accordion, others – when did you take these up, and why?
I was one of those kids FORCED into piano lessons. I was horrible. I have ADD and did not want to play what they wanted me to play. I do not drive a car, and traveling around as a pianist with a giant keyboard on MUNI got to be old, so I was drawn to the old world feeling of the accordion - which is the HARDEST instrument to play! I call my accordion “Ol’ Wheezy.” The ukulele is so 1920’s, the eel’s eyelashes, and voh-dee-oh-doh! My fave is to strum punk rock songs as Betty Boop. I adore the film Some Like It Hot with Marilyn as “Sugar” - her white ukulele was always so cool to me!
You have just returned from Paris. Why for?
I am honored to be involved with this film in Paris. I was there testing songs, costumes, and burlesque acts for a film by Mattieu Almaric (Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Quantum of Solace). Mattieu had seen this show I MC and sing in for French and Italian theater festivals called “Cabaret New Burlesque.” He was so inspired by our frivolity and joy that he wrote a road trip script about an American burlesque troupe traveling throughout the North of France with a washed up producer. I play my musical mistress of ceremonies self in the film. The working film of the title is Tournee.
What about cabaret got you into the biz? You are a fabulous chanteuse.
Jeepers THANKS! I just like music! I was a lonely kid and my only friends were my little AM radio, my records, and stuffed animals! Music has a way of making me happy. It pulls at my many emotions. What I cannot express in words I can express through singing and playing. I was fortunate enough to take lessons from Scrumbley Koldewyn of the Cockettes.
Your CDs are off the wall. Beautifully bawdy. Where do you get your lyrics?
I like writing about fetishes and such. I have so much fun shocking people with these silly sex practices set to music. There are not enough songs about furries and plushies! I just take real life situations and get out the ol’ rhyming dictionary!I watch a lot of old films and musicals for cool songs to cover. I also have a super awesome pal named Bob Grimes, an octogenarian with the world’s largest sheet music collection. He knows my taste, and he saves the super fun and naughty double entendre flapper ditties for me!
Describe yourself without using the words “dirty,” “stacked,” “naughty,” “sexy,” or “velocipede.”
Sassy, silly, musical, squishy, lickable, frothy, spit-curled, rowdy, dizzy, and inappropriate.
Tell my readers why they simply MUST come see your latest show.
I am very proud that a dorky gal from the suburbs like me can transform and have this dual identity and live a happier life through music and art. I have always been very theatrical with silly homemade DIY props and costumes. Almost everything I write is a TRUE story. People always tell me I should write a book! But I cannot spell, so I prefer to sing and play the piano. Audiences can see a well rounded side of me - and a sensitive side to Kitten on the Keys - not just the in your face sexuality.
“Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big” is directed by Dwayne Calizo - the artistic director and founder of Mama Calizo’s - the epicenter of queer and activist art in SF, 1519 Mission St. (Van Ness & 11th Sts.). For info, 1-800/ 838- 3006 or suzanneramsey.net. Warning: This kitten’s got claws!
If San Francisco were a woman, she’d be Kitten on the Keys: a coquettish fag hag with twirling tassels, sweeping vistas, and a raunchy rapier wit borne upon tinkling ivories. As such, artist Suzanne Ramsey received the highest honor a local can hope for: She was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Mainstream media tastemakers like E!, HBO, IFC, and Bravo have also succumbed to her charms; recently, cinematic bon vivant Mathieu Almaric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Quantum of Solace) approached her to portray the MC of a burlesque troupe in his new film. So it’s sure to be springtime in Paris for Ramsey, but not before she highlights her hometown roots in Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big?, Kitten on the Keys’ first one-ma’am show, which, like most of her work, is autobiographical. Despite corrective shoes and braces, a young girl from Walnut Creek dodges the pitfalls of pig farming, poor body image, and addiction by crossing the Bay Bridge and plunging into a world of fornicating plushies, toe-loving shrimpers, pony people, leather daddies, and overcozy folks on Muni. Somewhere between the interpretive liturgical dance and the song about Ramsey’s geriatric punk boyfriend (“He has hepatitis C/Wakes up lots to pee”), you will assuredly fall in love.
April 4-5, 8 p.m., 2009
Silke Tudor Article SF Weekly
April 4-5, 8 p.m., 2009
Silke Tudor Article SF Weekly
Friday, February 27, 2009
Media Release
PRESS CONTACT: Lawrence Helman PR
415/ 661- 1260 / C. 415/ 336- 8220
lhelman@sbcglobal.net
For Immediate Release: Feb. 24, 2009
To download Hi-Resolution digital images, please visit our press page:
http://www.suzanneramsey.net/doesthispianopress
(All photos by Larry Utley -- Please give photo credit.)
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory presents…
Kitten on the Keys in
DOES THIS PIANO MAKE MY ASS LOOK BIG ?
A new work (words & music) written by Suzanne Ramsey
(D.I.Y. Resident Artist - aka…Kitten on the Keys)
A World Premiere - Limited Engagement – Two Weekends Only!
March 27 – April 5, 2009 (Fri., Sat. & Sun.)
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory in SF
http://www.suzanneramsey.net
San Francisco's own Kitten on the Keys (…aka Suzanne Ramsey) is a frisky one ma’am band. Her new one woman musical: DOES THIS PIANO MAKE MY ASS LOOK BIG? follows the hi-jinks of a dorky suburban girl who is insecure, addicted, and socially impaired. Her life changes for the better with the discovery of punk rock and a burlesque rock & roll lifestyle. This world-premiere romp replete with sequins! & sass, told through original songs (written and performed by Kitten) and video, will tickle your funny bones and stir your nether-regions. Kitten on the Keys is a little Judy Tenuta, Mae West, and a dash of Shirley Temple optimism rolled into one perky package. She writes all of her own material and plays the piano, accordion, and ukulele. The show is co-directed by Dwyane Calizo & Suzanne Ramsey. NOTE: This show is for adults over 18 years old only.
DOES THIS PIANO MAKE MY ASS LOOK BIG? has a limited engagement – running two weekends only: March 27, 28, 29 - Fri./Sat., 8:00 pm & Sun. Matinee 2:00 pm,
and April 3, 4, 5 Fri./Sat. 8:00 pm & Sun. Matinee 2:00 pm at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory - 1519 Mission St. (Van Ness & 11th Sts.), in SF 94103. Tickets are $15 & $20
(no one turned away for lack of funds) -- and available at the door or at Brown Paper Tickets. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56774
For more information please call 1-800/ 838- 3006 or visit the web site at: http://www.suzanneramsey.net/doesthispianopress
To View a YouTube clip of Kitten on The Keys visit: http://www.tinyurl.com.au/x.php?1omv
To arrange an interview with performer Kitten On The Keys,
please call publicist Lawrence Helman at 415/ 661-1260
BIO - Kitten on the Keys…aka Suzanne Ramsey is an award-winning musical and burlesque artist. As seen on HBO, E! , IFC, Queer TV, MTV, Bravo, and other media outlets, she embodies the spirit and style of those days of decadence gone by. As a pianist and chanteuse, expect a racy ragtime romp when this little kitty sharpens her claws on a meow mix medley of mad cap gems of yesteryear with a naughty whimsical edge. This Internationally known versatile comedic performer MC's, sings, dances, tickles her ivories, plays the ukulele and accordion in outrageously campy costumes! She's a little Cabaret, Burlesque, and Vaudeville all rolled into in one pink, buxom package! Her coquettish voice channels a saucy Betty Boop coo with a gritty Mae West ommph! Clever, Kinky, and Cute!
Kitten on the Keys is taking off to Paris this Spring ‘09 to portray a version of her burlesque musical mistress of ceremonies self in a film by famed French actor and director Mattieu Almaric
(THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY; QUANTUM OF SOLACE). Mr Almaric has been a fan of the hit show CABARET NEW BURLESQUE that Kitten on the Keys has been performing in for several years throughout France and Italy.
She has opened for seminal punk rockers the DAMNED on the Twisted Cabaret Tour 2007 in the UK, appeared in a video by French rock band FRENCH COWBOY, performed in Midnight Cabarets at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland 2008, at the Napoli Teatro Festival in Italy with the show Cabaret New Burlesque, and in Paris Quartier D'ete Festival in Paris 2005. She traveled the US and Canada with Burlesquefest 2003 as the Musical Mistress of Ceremonies! In October 2003 she received rave reviews in Hollywood as the MC for the TeaseOrama Burlesque Convention! In ‘04- ‘06 she was the MC at the Annual Miss Exotic World Contest. Suzanne started performing with The Cantankerous Lollies and SF Famous Burlesque Orchestra several years ago. She plays piano, ukulele and accordion for goth cabaret performer Vinsantos and David J of Bauhaus fame.
In 2003, Suzanne won the SF Weekly Music Award in the New Genre/Beyond Category for her campy vaudevillian performances of her kinky cabaret ditties. Kitten on the Keys was made a SAINT by the thoughtful Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence- Kitten on the Keys is now SAINT TICKLE ME IVORIES! Her three favorite female role models are Alice Cooper, Liberace, and Freddie Mercury.
Kitten on the Keys has four CD's available on her own label, Rug Burn Records:
Kitten On the Keys (2001); Kitty Muffins (2002); It's Not A Pretty Princess Day (2004);
and Salty Meat Girl (2007).
CALENDAR LISTINGS: Theatre/ Music
WHAT: DOES THIS PIANO MAKE MY ASS LOOK BIG?
Written & Performed by Kitten on the Keys…aka Suzanne Ramsey
A World Premiere – Limited Theatrical Engagement
Two Weekends Only!
WHEN: March 27 – April 5, 2009 (Fri., Sat. & Sun.)
March 27, 28, 29 - Fri./Sat., 8:00 pm & Sun. Matinee 2:00 pm
and April 3, 4, 5 Fri./Sat. 8:00 pm & Sun. Matinee 2:00 pm
WHERE: Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory
1519 Mission St. (Van Ness & 11th Sts.), in SF 94103
TICKETS: $15 & $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
available at the door or at Brown Paper Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56774
INFO: 1-800/ 838- 3006
WEB: http://www.suzanneramsey.net
PRESS IMAGES: To download high-resolution digital images:
http://www.suzanneramsey.net/doesthispianopress
To View a YouTube clip of Kitten on The Keys visit:
http://www.tinyurl.com.au/x.php?1omv
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