the fête of frekkess! Thurs., October 22nd @ 9pm

the fête of frekkess!

Thursday, October 22nd, 9-11 pm
thru the swingin doors at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom
485 Dean St. @ 6th Ave.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
2, 3 to Bergen, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic / Pacific

$6 suggested

The freaks come out in fall! Contortion! Butoh! Yodelling tranny! Musical Saw! Must be seen to be believd! Celebrate your inner freak and get yr spook on w/ NYC's finest vaudevillians. Hosted by celebrity impersonator Ron B as Miss Tina Turner, and featuring butoh dancer Azumi Oe, yogic contortionist The Amazing Amy, musical saw artist & clown John Leo, rapper Breezy, ventriloquist April Brucker, comedienne Kitten Withuwip, comedian Marcus Vinicius, strongman Tanya Solomon, and cuntry outfit the Low & the Lonesome feat. Jason Bertone on the upright bass, Lana Carroll on pedal steel & vox and Juan dos Pistoles on gitar & vox! Plus, light opera with Bryn Kelly & Joshua Bastian Cole!

Yr hostess Ron B as Miss Tina Turner

Ron B is an actor and activist. A member of the Screen Actor's Guild, she has appeared in Law & Order, Angels in America, several plays, and about town as Tina Turner.











& performances by

Azumi Oe, butoh dancer
w/ Zak on synthesizer

Azumi Oe was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. Since arriving in New York, She received Butoh training from Vangeline, Katsura Kan and Ko Muroboshi. Recently she performed as a principal dancer of the Vangeline Theatre at Abrons Arts Center, The Kitchen, Theatre for New City, Judson Memorial Church, Governors Island. She also explores solo work at the New York Dance Qube, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, and other places. Azumi is excited to collaborate with other dancers, musicians, film makers, and any kind of artist, with the hope of growing as a creator.

Kitten Withuwip

Kitten is a drag comedienne with a flair for the dramatics. She has been seen at The New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Caroline's, and plenty of other places around town. Her sense of humor can appeal to all and she is pleased to be performing for the Mongrel Vaudeville audience.



The Amazing Amy, yogic contortionist
w/ John Leo on improvised musical saw

The Amazing Amy (Harlib) is 54 years old and proud of showing what she can do despite her age. She has spent a life time studying all forms of movement and physical theater and became attracted to Chinese martial arts, acrobatics and Yoga in the early 1980s and parlayed that into a solo performance career that took her to Taiwan and back to her native NYC environs to perform in a wide variety of venues until 1994 when injuries forced her to retire with a disintegrated disc in her spine, torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders and arthritis that necessitated a total left hip replacement in 1998. All that time Amy never stopped her Yoga and so hated not performing, that she's using her extreme flexibility and zany imagination to relaunch her career starting this year! Already The Amazing Amy has appeared at the Downtown Clown Revue, The Bindlestiff Family Circus Open Variety Show at the Galapagos Arts Space, The Lava Dance Co. Night of Renegades Variety Show, the Hi Christina Arts Space, the Triskelion Arts Space's Cirque Off, The Ruby Streak Trapeze Studio's Velveteen Rainbow Fall Showcase and opens regularly for the Start Trekkin' Comedy Improv Group at The Tank Emerging Arts Space in Manhattan.

Amy is also a lifelong, avid reader of SF and fantasy literature, art and graphic novels - and loves to indulge in her passion for reading and cinema (especially the silent clowns). She lives in Chelsea and welcomes intelligent feedback and discussion about the genre and the arts. Other enthusiasms: cats, Star Trek and Star Wars, archeology / anthropology / paleontology, folklore and mythology, genre films, science for intelligent laypersons, and memoirs / narratives as literature. Have Yoga will be flexible and travel - please contact Amy for bookings at aharlib@earthlink.net and visit her website (where future performance listings are posted) at www.idanz.com/aharlib

Breezy, rapstar

Whats up this Breezy from Queens. I started rapping 4 1/2yrs ago. The name of my team is T.L.F. which stands for trustloyaltyfamily. Check me out at Chyna Club on Thurdays or Club Prime. My links are myspace/718breezy check my blogs for videos and myvideos so you can watch ya boy!

April Brucker, ventriloquist

April Brucker is a twenty-two year old actress/ writer/ standup comedian/ ventriloquist/ voice artist based in the heart of New York City. This 5'4" dynamo’s 110 pound body is home to approximately 50 voices, many of which she uses in her act. Skilled as both a regular stand up comedian as well as a ventriloquist, April appears around New York City as herself and sometimes accompanied with her badly behaved blonde look-a-like puppet side kick May, performing their original and brutally honest brand of comedy. With an act that can boast of both good writing and good delivery, April has appeared at such Clubs as Pips (April’s home club and the toughest room in NYC before it’s closing.) She was the first comedian in the clubs history to be passed on her first night. In addition, April has appeared at New York Comedy Club, Boston Comedy Club, Sal’s Comedy Hole (featured comedian), Underground Lounge (featured comedian), The Laugh Lounge, Nelani’s Night Club, the Telephone Bar, The Peoples Improv Theatre, The Improv, RB’s West Side, The Comedy Cellar, the Village Lantern, Fat Cats, Juvie Hall and many others.


Tanya Solomon

is a clown and variety performer, recently returned to NYC after several years in New Orleans, where she produced and hosted the Wonder Farm Cabaret. She has worked with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore, and Whirlybones Variety Arts Collective, among others, and performed at festivals in the US and Europe. Tanya is currently attending a master class in physical comedy taught by her dog Iggy. www.youtube.com/drflummox

The Low & the Lonesome straight out from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn cuntry players Jason Bertone (upright bass), Lana Carroll (pedal steel, vox) and Juan dos Pistoles (acoustic guitar, vox) have got your heartache right here.



Bryn Kelly, light opera singer
with Joshua Cole Bastion
Bryn Kelly is a Brooklyn-based theater artist. Opera is kind of a hobby, but she has been known to stand on line for three hours to see Renée Fleming at the Met. She is concurrently in like four crazy shows right now, and if you're really interested in all that, ask her about 'em!

Joshua Bastian Cole is a recent transplant to Brooklyn by way of North Carolina. He is an FTM actor, singer, and dancer. Cole was recently published in Visible: a Femmethology, and was recently interviewed for a Time Out New York in a piece about trans singles.

In a few months, you can catch Bryn and Cole in an upcoming production of White Boys in Paradise, a new play by Tom Legér.

comedian Marcus Vinicius

my family and i are from brasil. i grew up mostly in new jersey right across the river from manhattan. i moved to brooklyn in the summer of 04.

i learned the art of comedy from being introverted, neurotic, and self deprecating.
i can be seen wandering the streets of new york and performing comedy anywhere they allow me.

if you wikipedia my name you will see that tacitus described me as
"mild in character and an elaborate orator."

The Seven Deadly Sins, August 27th @ 9 pm

Julian of Nowherr presents

The Seven Deadly Sins!

Thursday, August 27th, 9-11 pm
thru the swingin doors at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom
485 Dean St. @ 6th Ave.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
2, 3 to Bergen, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic / Pacific

$6 suggested

Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride--done up by Brooklyn's hottest vaudevillians. Hosted by queer diva provacateur JZ Bich and featuring conjurer, comedian and nonsense poet Vanishing Vinny, butoh dancer Azumi Oe, Hans, CAConrad as American Gluttony, rap duo The Competition feat. Mistalow and CEO, dance/theatre troupe Desert Sin performing Onania, puppetteer Candy Sue Ellison, Busty Kitten, Jasper James, country music outfit The Low & the Lonesome, and more!

JZ Bich


is a multifaceted international artist provocateur. She was born and raised in the Balkans but hails NYC her home. JZ is one of the producers of HyperGender Burlesque. She has produced several festivals, plays and burlesque series at WOW Cafe Theatre and elsewhere. Village Voice commented her work with the Barbarians Burlesque Company as something that "might just help us save our sanity." Known for her unique blend of queer activism, academia and art, JZ Bich has been performing all over New York City since 2003. She is known on two continents and in four countries. In the summer of 2007 she MC'd the Pride Fest in Zagreb, Croatia. In NYC, she performed at the closing of the Meow Mix, Rififi's, Joe's Pub, Slipper Room, HERE, Kittynights, Delancy Lounge, Cattyshack, Snapshot, Bowery Poetry Club, the Zipper Factory and more. As a one half of HyperGender Burlesque duo JZ Bich has performed at the New York Burlesque Festival and Boston Burlesque Expo. In Boston HyperGender won the most comedic for its act inspired by the lesbian pulp novels of the 50s. JZ Bich has just finished a run of her play Love in the Time of Terror and is currently working on her living art project "Taking over America" - a multimedia story of becoming a citizen.

Vanishing Vinny:



Part conjuror, part mentalist and all devious showman. This award-winning whimsical neo-vaudevillian has astonished audiences all over the world. His unique brand of sleight of hand and poetic nonsense will redefine the way you know the word "magic". Contemporary conjuring at it's finest. But catch him quick before he vanishes...





Azumi Oe

was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. Since arriving in New York, she received Butoh training from Vangeline, Katsura Kan and Ko Muroboshi. Recently she performed as a principal dancer of the Vangeline Theatre at Abrons Arts Center, The Kitchen, Theatre for New City, Judson Memorial Church, Governors Island. She also regularly explores solo work at the New York Dance Qube. Azumi is excited to collaborate with other dancers, musicians, and any kind of artist, with the hope of growing as a creator.

CAConrad
(photo by Nathaniel Siegel)

is Philadelphia's ONLY Vegetarian Sin Eater: http://VegetarianSinEater.blogspot.com, and he is the recipient of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Books, 2010). CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He invites you to visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and also with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

Rap duo the Competition feat. Mistalow and CEO.













Mistalow has an affinity for fast cars, strong liquor, and world change. Low is a former lyricist who has turned to production in order to chase his life long dream of educating people through sound manipulation. He is a proud member of the Destrux (pronounced DEE –Strucks) Clique, a believer that God raised Jesus from the dead, and a lover of both films by Wes Anderson and Nike SBs. He also enjoys long walks in the park, musical rarities, and heavy legged women.

CEO
". . . If you're askin' for real talk, well this as real as it gets/ I'm the shit, you can tell from the smell when I spit." A line that resonates long after you stop listening to '100 Bars and Walkin'. If there is one thing Little Dude is not lacking it is confidence. Little Dude (real name Jacob Quimby) is the breath of fresh air the hip-hop game is looking for. In an era diluted with dance crazes, and simple lyrics, Little Dude is not ashamed to brandish his lyrical prowess and bravado. Born and raised in a Laconia, NH (a small city in the center of the state) Little Dude wasn't a rapper right away. Always excelling in English and writing, he knew he was destine to express himself, but initially, hip-hop was more of an escape than a tool. Once arriving at college, it was a chance battle at a party that exposed his skills. Upon winning that battle, it was clear what he was born to do. Quickly he grew a name for himself, freestylin' at parties, and on campus radio shows. Shortly there after he formed a group, BNB. BNB is a group consisting of himself, Big Cal (aka Big Ron, aka Ronald Harvey), GBZ (aka Johnny Cash, aka Gil Burnett) and Poppa Silk (aka Dslik, aka Douane Anderson.) After several outside influences all but disbanded the group, it was Little Dude who was left to go forward alone. Never intending on being a solo artist, Little Dude reluctantly began recording the tracks that are now floating around the internet. With a new found passion, and a new direction, Little Dude is all but ready to make a full push a stardom. Keep your eyes on this page, as there are only bigger and better things expected from Little Dude, and his BNB camp.

Desert Sin's objective is to weave narratives through movement while embracing the beautiful & the grotesque within.












Founded in 1999 by Djahari Clark, Desert Sin continues to use experimentation, artist collaboration, impassioned creativity and a general joy of living to maintain itself as an inspirational and ground-breaking dance/theater company. Fusing the intricacies of Middle Eastern dance origins with a wide array of other art forms, drama, and effects, a style emerges like no other creating a superior theatrical experience. As a theatrical dance company, we develop characters and stories with innovative interpretations that reflect the world in which we live. Djahari has produced two full-length productions through Desert Sin: “Musée des Femmes” and “Sita’s Fire”. “Musée” ran two years in Hollywood, CA and Off-Broadway for 2008 here in New York. Desert Sin is currently in collaboration for their new production, “Twitchers”, opening this October at The House of Yes in Brooklyn. Visit www.desertsin.com.


Candy Sue Ellison


started exploring puppetmaking as a founding member of the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, where she made puppets of all sizes for the company's production of Albert Jarry's Ubu Roi and the first English production of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's play Tumor Brainiowicz. Since then, her interest has shifted to American folklore, balladry and traditional tales--particularly murder ballads. The wrathful story of the downfall of Western Swing icon Spade Cooley is a true one that has all the makings of folklore in the oral tradition and continues to fascinate Candy each time she tells it.


Busty Kitten





was born of a fiery headed siren and a 6′ 4″ woodpecker, landing smack on her tush with her mouth full and her eyes hungry. She crossed the country in a covered wagon and won accolades for wiggling, jiggling, and bouncing skills. Her favorite places are air planes, subway trains and platforms, bicycles (especially tandem!), and the shower. She loves waving hello, eating carrots, things that go vroom, shiny lights, giant coffee cups, red everythings, and tiny spoons. When she grows up, she wants to be a deep sea diver, a ballerina, a tarantula, a motorcycle mama, and your favorite cafe owner.

Jasper James



Brooklyn's hawtest glam diva, nuff said.













Tanya Solomon













is a clown and variety performer, recently returned to NYC after several years in New Orleans, where she produced and hosted the Wonder Farm Cabaret. She has worked with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore, and Whirlybones Variety Arts Collective, among others, and performed at festivals in the US and Europe. Tanya is currently attending a master class in physical comedy taught by her dog Iggy. www.youtube.com/drflummox

The Low & the Lonesome


Jason Bertone (bass), Juan dos Pistoles (acoustic guitar, vox), Lana Carroll (pedal steel, guitar, vox), Naomi Clark (drums) and Donna Lichaw (electric guitar, melodica, accordian, vox) play country & western music and wail their heart out down by the Gowanus canal. Sounds like dark country comin out a fuzzy radio…on a boat. On a train. If you can imagine what that feels like.

Blue Moon in June, 6/25

Julian of Nowherr presents
Blue Moon in June

Thursday, June 25th 8-10 pm
thru the swingin doors at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom
485 Dean St., Brooklyn NY

Hosted by postpunk pop diva Jasper James


and featuring

Queer diva provocateur JZ Bich; escape artist, sideshow performer and contortionist Jared the Conjuror; country music outfit The Low and the Lonesome; magician Gary the Great (Gary Ferrar); R & B sensation Colin Steele; electro-drag cabaret singer / shamanist Yozmit; Pete Tino, the Human Floor; performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte, pop-rap phenom Badboss and more!

$6 suggested donation

JZ Bich

is a multifaceted international artist provocateur. She was born and raised in the Balkans but hails NYC her home. JZ is one of the producers of HyperGender Burlesque. She has produced several festivals, plays and burlesque series at WOW Cafe Theatre and elsewhere. Village Voice commented her work with the Barbarians Burlesque Company as something that "might just help us save our sanity." Known for her unique blend of queer activism, academia and art, JZ Bich has been performing all over New York City since 2003. She is known on two continents and in four countries. In the summer of 2007 she MC'd the Pride Fest in Zagreb, Croatia. In NYC, she performed at the closing of the Meow Mix, Rififi's, Joe's Pub, Slipper Room, HERE, Kittynights, Delancy Lounge, Cattyshack, Snapshot, Bowery Poetry Club, the Zipper Factory and more. As a one half of HyperGender Burlesque duo JZ Bich has performed at the New York Burlesque Festival and Boston Burlesque Expo. In Boston HyperGender won the most comedic for its act inspired by the lesbian pulp novels of the 50s. JZ Bich has just finished a run of her play Love in the Time of Terror and is currently working on her living art project "Taking over America" - a multimedia story of becoming a citizen.

R & B sensation Colin Steele

Colin Steele began singing on the Venice Beach boardwalk with his brother, Theon, at age 10. At age 12, while living with his father and brother in Chicago, Colin began recording for house music record label DJ International. He played Jermaine Jackson in the ABC miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, and sang lead on a remake of “In the Still of the Night” in Sister Act 2 with Whoopi Goldberg. He has recorded and performed in Los Angeles, New York and Paris. In the summer of 2004 Colin joined the cast of the off-Broadway smash hit musical Naked Boys Singing. He lives in New York City.

Back for his second performance in Mongrel Vaudeville, Jared the Conjuror

is an escape artist, sideshow performer and contortionist. With an arsenal of restraints, pointy things, and lollypops he will make you want to close your eyes, yet entice you to watch closer all at the same time!




Yozmit

is a singer/ interdisciplinary performance artist/ costume designer incorporating sound/movement/visual element of human body to research and express the unknown mysteries of her universe. He started his professional career as a fashion designer but rediscovered himself as a performing artist through the practice of traditional Korean music(Pansori, Gayageum Byungchang), Corporeal Mime and modern dance. She studied and performed with Thomas Leabhart's Corporeal mime group 'MICE', Rachel Rosenthal Company, Laurie Cameron Company, Seo Hoonjung Pansori group, Takuya Muramatsu from Dairakudakan, Hou Ying from Shen Wei Dance Arts. He is also a scholarship recipient of American Dance Festival(ADF).Currently, She is based in Brooklyn, NY, working on her solo album and Abstract Cabaret Perfomance Series(performance art meets electro drag cabaret with shamanism). His work is shown at The Box and other venues in NYC. In addition to her work as an artist, she is also involved with HIV/AIDS prevention work, transgender civil rights work and NYC composting project as part of her 'awareness project'.

El Juglar Kyle Petersen (aka the Brooklyn Juggler)

is a professional juggler and variety performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Kyle has over 12 years of unicycle experience, and 10 years of juggling experience and specializes in ball juggling, club juggling, cigar box manipulation and unicycle. Auxiliary skills include spinning plate, shaker cups, devil sticks and stilt walking.





Country music outfit the Low and the Lonesome

is Jason Bertone (bass), Julian of Nowherr (guitar, vox), Lana Carroll (pedal steel, guitar, vox), Naomi Clark (drums, washboard) and Donna Lichaw (guitar, melodica, accordian, vox). The Low and the Lonesome play country & western music and wail their hearts out down by the Gowanus canal.


Badboss

wasn't born overnight! It took trial and error. Sam Massey, also known as Badboss, has self-taught himself how to produce pop, techno, rap, hip hop and rock music by vigorously studying pop and rap cultures. His old songs sounded like they needed a huge amount of fine tuning. A little less than a year later Badboss is signing deals with music licensing companies to get his music in film/tv. Talk about self-motivation. Badboss recieved songwriting education from Ty Cohen and other established songwriters in the music industry. They told him he had huge potential and they looked forward to seeing him succeed in the music industry. Badboss kept building up his fan-base and getting his name out through local performances. Currently Badboss has about 1000+ fans worldwide, and that’s expanding everyday. He's been in press releases on the Urban Music News Network and Mi2n news network. Badboss says "no matter how big I get I will continue to work my butt off to achieve my goals". Now that's not something you'd expect to hear from a 17 yr. old kid, huh?


Magician Gary the Great

Gary has been performing magic since kindergarten show-and-tell (and he still uses that trick!). His magic has been featured on Nickelodeon's "Naked Brother's Band" and he is the official magician for several N.Y. pediatric units. He has trained with Jef Johnson (of Slava's Snow Show) and has a B.A. in theater arts from Hofstra University. Gary teaches magic to underprivledged children through the Family and Children's Association. He has also been the magic advisor for TADA! Youth Theater and The Looking Glass Theater.

Pyrenean-born Nicole Peyrafitte

is a performance artist who sings, paints, films, writes & cooks. She draws on her eclectic heritage to perform songs ranging from French cabaret to jazz standards and contemporary poetry. Her voice work is often integrated into multimedia stagings based on her visuals (paintings and/or videos) and writings, & involves the onstage preparation and cooking of a dish, to be shared with the audience. Her work addresses the experiences of negotiating her identity across two continents and four languages. She performs domestically and internationally. Nicole has two CDs out: “The Bi-Continental Chowder /La Garbure Transcontinentale” released in 2006 and "Whisk!Don't Churn!" (both released with Ta’wil productions).

Videos from the Parlor Tricks Show

Check out our YouTube channel to see videos from Pussy Says What, Jasper James, Chris Martin, Colin Steele, Jared the Conjuror, the Dynamic Maximum Ion and more!

http://www.youtube.com/MongrelVaudeville

Vaux-de-Ville in the News

Thanks to Kristen Sollee at Shadowtime NYC for reviewing Tuesday's show:

http://www.shadowtimenyc.com/2009/04/mongrel-vaudeville.html

and to Courtney, who posted a review on Feminister:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/014968.html

Videos should be up soon, stay tuned!

Debut Show: Parlor Tricks

Where: Freddy's Bar & Backroom, 485 Dean St., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
When: Tuesday, 21st April 2009, 8-10pm
FREE!

Hosted by The Mistress Astarte

A dancer, actor, and model, the Mistress Astarte is bold, sexy and the embodiment of glamour. She has performed and been a guest performer throughout New York and Florida with appearances at the Web, Suite, Detention at Stone Wall, Posh Bar, Club Metro in Florida, the World Famous Lips bar and Restaurant in Chelsea, and had a cameo appearance in the movie A Four Letter Word. She was also a dancer with the all male drag ballet company Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo under the alias Ephroysina Drononova. Recently she was photographed by photographer Fernando Espinosa for the Garbage of Eden Spring 2009 collection. She is happy to be joining the Mongrel Vaudeville Cast and looks forward to being your mistress for the evening!

and Featuring:

Dancing duo Pussy Says What? in "Tea for Two"
Kitty katz meet Lester Lanin meet Bob Fosse meet Vivian Leigh. Dare to be entertained!









Surreal Advice Column
by Inbred Hybrid Collective

Inbred Hybrid Collective was established in 2005. Our mandate is: to stimulate a consciousness of the external factors affecting our human existence. The type of interventions associated with Inbred Hybrid Collective, achieved as artistic concept, constitute a provocation for the public to reflect upon the influence that this immersion has had upon them.

Comedy by H. Alan Scott


The Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye cited him as the “hot gay Mormon.” Scott co-hosts SRSLY LOL at Metropolitan bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY with Bryan Wilson and Garry Hannon. Every other Tuesday at 9PM you can find him surrounded by attractive guys in tight jeans.

Magic by Steven Henriquez


From making a select card appear in his pocket, giving you the sensation of touching your body without laying a finger on you, or burning cards only for them to reappear in the book of matches used. Steven Henriquez will have your jaw dropping and mouth watering from beginning to end.

Contortion by Jared the Conjuror

Jared is an escape artist, sideshow performer and contortionist. With an arsenal of restraints, pointy things, and lollypops he will make you want to close your eyes, yet entice you to watch closer all at the same time!

Music by Jasper James

Jasper James is a post-punk, pop-diva; serving up crunchy bass lines, psychedelic synths, thumping beats, and powerfully impulsive vocals.





Cabaret by the Dynamic Maximum Ion

The Dynamic Maximum Ion channels thee most engaging of vaudevillians--the male impersonator. Ladies, gentlemen, trollops and ruffians alike will be charmed by this
dapper dandy.










Jonathan Bitchman from Switch N' Play!

Jonathan Bitchman joined Switch N' Play, a Brooklyn-based drag
alliance, in 2009. Hailing from the wilds past Hellgate Canyon, over
the Crazy Woman Mountains, and the lulling whiskey stills of Butcher
Holler, it all started for Jonathan Bitchman back in 2004 in Missoula,
Montana, as co-founder of the state's first and still only drag king
troupe, Two Finger Productions. He has worked closely with the
Asheville, NC -based transgender activism and performance group
Tranzmission, as well as on the NYC burlesque circuit with World
Famous *BOB*. He likes elk and bison jerky, cold beer, and floatin'
down the river.
(photo by Syditious)





Paranormal Ventriloquist Chris Martin

Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon 2007) and The Small Dance, an echapbook put out online by Scantily Clad Press. He has been known to act as a rap medium for strange, often post-apocalyptic old men.

Colin Steele

R & B singer Colin Steele has performed as Jermaine Jackson in the ABC miniseries The Jacksons and in the Off-Broadway smash hit musical Naked Boys Singing.
and more!

Next show, "Blue Moon in June," Thursday 25th June 2009.

Performers Wanted for Parlor Tricks show!

Performers wanted for short performances (10-15 minutes) in a vaudeville / variety show in April. The aesthetic is after the turn-of-the-century American vaudeville, with some saloon atmosphere courtesy the intimate setting of Freddy's Backroom, a fabulous local bar. Looking for dynamic, freakish, beautiful, compelling performances from: contortionists, jugglers and other circus folk, magicians, old timey musicians (acoustic), dancers, burlesquers, drag kings or queens, comedians, rappers, puppeteers, actors and miscellaneous tricksters. Trannies, queers, genderqueers, crossdressers encouraged! This month's theme: Parlor Tricks.

Where: Freddy's Bar & Backroom, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
When: April 21st, 2009, 8-10pm
Contact: Julian of Nowherr at mongrelvaudeville at gmail.com

Next perfomance June 25th, 2009