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Been back in SF after a couple years on the road off and on with Cabaret New Burlesque in Europe.
I am one lucky piano playing singing MC!
Late April finds me in Kansas City , MO for the 3rd Annual Kansas City Burlesque Festival @ the Folly Theater! An original old burly house!
I love Mcin and singing at shows/festivals and I am uber excited for this one as I am a second generation
burlesque musician- my folks are both Missourians and my Dad used to back dancers in territory bands on tour throughout the midwest-chicago.
I am still playing piano/singing at various haunts around town in SF, play accordion and ukulele at special events,
art modeling for the artistic children ( hey they pay me to get nekkid before 9am), write music, and my new AWESOME baby- I am the vocalist/accordionist for a neato new band - Pachuco Cadaver- A Captain Beefheart Tribute. Beefheart was an original- Dada Swamp Blues Avant Garde Experimental Rock and Roll w -Jazz like structures and Surreal Imaegry. I am hoping to fuse my fading burlesque career with this new project.The band includes members of the Extra Action Marching Band, Polkacide,
Kitten on the Keys, Flipper, Jean Jeanies, and The Dead Kennedys! Cuz a Girl's Gotta Boogie!
Think of us for your next event or show- it's all horns/drums/guitar/vocals. It's crazy fun to shake your stuff to trombone/tuba/baritone sax! We are starting to book dates in SF!
And EVEN more AWESOME news!
June 21st- Fete de La Musique en France and Summer Solstice
DJ Delachaux ( whom many of you may remember from teaseorama!) holds a cool electro swing
dance event called TRAPEZE in SF.
My wonderful fave Burlesque friendly Parisian DJ's Bart and Baker are coming to SF and it just so happens to be On my FRIGGIN Big Ass Birthday!
My Golden Jubilee will be held at Rickshaw Stop in SF
featuring the UBER TALENTS of Bart and Baker, Michelle L'amour!Roky Roulette! The Muddfappers!
and many more special performance guests!
Put on your fun Frenchified frocks and come dance and celebrate my BIG BIG Birthday in SF!
SCHEDULE:
April 24, 2013
Rite Spot Cafe
17th and Folsom
9-11 PM Great Menu, Libations, Art
April 25, 2013
Piano Bar Happy Hour
6-9 PM
500 Divisadero
April 26, 27
3rd Annual Kansas City Burlesque Festival
Kansas City, MO
Folly Theater
May 12 Pachuco Cadaver Captain Beefheart Tribute
Cuz A Girl's Gotta Boogie
SF Boat Club opening for Zappa Tribute Mother's Day
May 23rd Madrone Art Bar
June 21 TRAPEZE presents @ Rickshaw Stop
Golden Jubilee of Kitten on the Keys
Paris Themed Dance Party in honor of Kitten's B-day!
Featuring Bart and Baker PARISIAN Electro Swing
Michelle L'Amour Chicago/INT Burlesque Starlette
Roky Roulette SF International One Of A Kind!
The Muddflappers Kitten and Miss Rodney Fapperosity
Suzanne Ramsey
Kitten on the Keys
www.kittymusic.com
Music Available on iTUNES and CDBaby
Friday, August 24, 2012
Marian and Vivian Brown the San Francisco Twins
Kitten on the Keys will be hosting a benefit for the twins @ Red Devil Lounge 8/30 , after the Madrone Art Bar Happy Hour
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Sunday, October 02, 2011
As bare-breasted, high-kicking musical entertainment, burlesque owes its origins to Paris cabarets, but “New Burlesque” performers like Dirty Martini, Kitten on the Keys and Mimi Le Meaux are the stars of a renewed interest in the art form that comes straight from the clubs of New York and San Francisco. These ladies are XXL, in cup-size and attitude, and play on American culture iconography from cowboys to ‘50s starlets, with cascades of platinum ringlets, and cleavage stuffed with greenbacks, Kentucky Fried Chicken and fistfuls of glitter.
Striptease and tassel-twirling seem as natural to the performers of the Cabaret New Burlesque as pulling clothes ON seem to the rest of us. Comprised of the above mentioned three, joined by Julie Atlas Muz, Evie Lovelle and, the one male, Roky Roulette, the company has strutted its voluptuous forms across stages in France since 2004, but it is the success of Mathieu Almaric’s film “Tournée” (Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes last year), a fictionalized road movie capturing them on tour across France’s west coast, that explains their breakthrough to a larger public in Paris since late December. The crowd at the Théâtre de la Cité International, where the Cabaret is currently playing to sold out crowds before moving briefly to the CentQuatre, knows what it is in for, eager to see the larger than life stars of Almaric’s film in the flesh (the more the better).
The assembled company certainly obliges. Led by emcee Kitten on the Keys, who sports a mind-boggling array of boas, stilettos, head-dresses, and gowns, each ensemble more outlandish than the next, while lending some titillating humoristic and musical interludes, the rest of the troupe takes it off, again and again, with his or her own style, whether grotesque/fantastical (Julie Atlas Muz), Rita Hayworth elegant (Evie Lovelle), rockabilly (Roky Roulette) or overtly political (Dirty Martini’s “Patriot Act” number). But it is far less any indirect eroticism of the acts (the thrills are knowingly tongue-in-cheek) than their performance quality that is the measure of New Burlesque, and this show measures up very well in the genre : dazzling in sequins, lamé and satin but not too polished, a whisper of mystery but a good dose of self-deprecating humor, physiques corresponding to perceived notions of physical beauty and others rather more, well, full-formed, plenty of atmosphere and audience interaction, a bit raunchy in its jokes but poised in its striptease sequences. Gender wars and feminist theory take a back seat for an hour of unadulterated entertainment.
Photo Credit: Eve Saint-Ramon
Striptease and tassel-twirling seem as natural to the performers of the Cabaret New Burlesque as pulling clothes ON seem to the rest of us. Comprised of the above mentioned three, joined by Julie Atlas Muz, Evie Lovelle and, the one male, Roky Roulette, the company has strutted its voluptuous forms across stages in France since 2004, but it is the success of Mathieu Almaric’s film “Tournée” (Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes last year), a fictionalized road movie capturing them on tour across France’s west coast, that explains their breakthrough to a larger public in Paris since late December. The crowd at the Théâtre de la Cité International, where the Cabaret is currently playing to sold out crowds before moving briefly to the CentQuatre, knows what it is in for, eager to see the larger than life stars of Almaric’s film in the flesh (the more the better).
The assembled company certainly obliges. Led by emcee Kitten on the Keys, who sports a mind-boggling array of boas, stilettos, head-dresses, and gowns, each ensemble more outlandish than the next, while lending some titillating humoristic and musical interludes, the rest of the troupe takes it off, again and again, with his or her own style, whether grotesque/fantastical (Julie Atlas Muz), Rita Hayworth elegant (Evie Lovelle), rockabilly (Roky Roulette) or overtly political (Dirty Martini’s “Patriot Act” number). But it is far less any indirect eroticism of the acts (the thrills are knowingly tongue-in-cheek) than their performance quality that is the measure of New Burlesque, and this show measures up very well in the genre : dazzling in sequins, lamé and satin but not too polished, a whisper of mystery but a good dose of self-deprecating humor, physiques corresponding to perceived notions of physical beauty and others rather more, well, full-formed, plenty of atmosphere and audience interaction, a bit raunchy in its jokes but poised in its striptease sequences. Gender wars and feminist theory take a back seat for an hour of unadulterated entertainment.
Photo Credit: Eve Saint-Ramon
Friday, September 30, 2011
La Cigalle, Paris Oct. 3rd - 5th-
http://www.lacigale.fr/en/
Bensacon France Oct. 7th and 8th
http://www.letheatre-besancon.fr/
London, England Oct.11- 13
http://www.charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/
Nevers France Oct. 20
-MCNN Theater France-
Nice France Oct. 21
http://www.nileguide.com/destination/nice/things-to-do/theatre-national-de-nice-tnn/346543
Poitiers, France Nov. 3 -5
TAP Poitiers, France
Agouleme, France Nov. 8-10
http://www.theatre-angouleme.org/
Sables D'Olonnes, France Nov. 11 -12
St. Medard - Le Carre, France Nov. 18 -19
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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