This past week?
GOODNESS WHERE TO START?!?
On the international front, the Amsterdam Burlesque Festival got a nice write up in the Burlesque Baby Blog this week: http://burlesquebaby.blogspot.com/2009/10/1st-annual-international-amsterdam.html
To find out more about this new festival check out the website here (it's awful creamy isn't it?):
http://amsterdamburlesquefest.com/home
Syrens of the South played to a packed Variety playhouse, I have to say, there isn't much better for a lady's birthday than that! LOOK! You can see our booth in the background! heh, the only one I could find just yet, teehee!
Miss Renea' le Roux is back in Atlanta fresh and lovely from her performance with some of the biggest names in burlesque, including the reigning Miss Exotic World, Kalani Kokonuts
Honestly, I don't think this town can do Halloween without Burlesque, every year we talk about how busy we are and it never seems to go out of fashion to have at least one burlesque event on Halloween so here's the line up of the must see's and do's of the dames of daring and darling decolletage!
Tomorrow:
Drink and Draw is figure drawing with live models in amazing cosplay outfits from your favorite comic books and movies. There are timed sketches with trivia questions and prizes in between. Come on down and hang with some of the greatest amateur and professional artists from all over Atlanta. Beer and food specials run all night long. To celebrate Halloween this month, we are having a Drink and Draw masquerade. Anyone who shows up in costume and will pose for a 5 or 10 minute sketch, eats and drinks for free! At the end of the night there will be a costume contest for anyone who comes dressed up - whether you modeled or not. The grand prize will be over $150 worth of house cash and goodies, and bragging rights until next year. Please let us know in the comments if your interested in modeling so we can keep enough spaces open. It will be a great night of drinking and art, and a great trial run for your Halloween costume. Come on out and have some fun!!
FRIDAY:
Dames Aflame Show!
Dames Aflame's "Showbiz What Sizzles!"
at Le Maison Rouge inside Paris on Ponce
Two show times: 8:00pm and 10:30pm
Proceeds to benefit The Rainbow Center.
The special Halloween production of "Showbiz What Sizzles" features brand new acts along with your favorite Dames Aflame classics. This adult-themed show attracts a diverse audience with its edgy comedy and elegant striptease.
Costume Contest! Fabulous Prizes!
Celebrate Halloween and Pride all for a good cause.
Portion of the evening's proceeds to benefit the Rainbow Center.
Tickets on sale now at TicketLeap.com.
General Admission $25.
Limited VIP seating also available.
Le Maison Rouge is located inside
Paris on Ponce
716 Ponce de Leon Place, NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
www.parisonponce.com
SATURDAY:
Double Header Party with Blast Off!!! Come ON!!! IT's not Halloween without the spook show, it just isn't, what's great about doing the spookshow on halloween is you can do the afternoon matinee and then take your kids out trick or treating afterwards!
Double header Halloween Party with the Syrens!
Bring Out Your dead!
Get Back from the Grave!
Embrace your Inner Zombie!
FIRST SHOW:
Join us for an evening of Art, Poetry, Burlesque, and Music!
Featuring The Atomic Rockets, Syrens of the South & The Tennessee Tease, and Night of the Living George!
Bubba K performing outdoors throughout the night!
Costume contest with a Cash Prize!
$10 cover includes all entertainment and Beer! Wine! at the Gratuity Bar!
SECOND SHOW:
Looking for something to do this Halloween? Come check out this amazing event at the Spring 4th center brought to you by Horrible Children and featuring talent from Syrens of the South Productions!
SUNDAY: NO ABC's AND 123's of Burlesque this week folks!!! Holidays are important to the Syrens but stay tuned next week because I will be teaching classes on vintage hair and burlesque bellydancing! See you then!
This (JAM PACKED) week with Atlanta Burlesque!
Sunday, October 25, 2009 | | Labels: blastoff burlesque, Burlesque Atlanta, spook show, spring4th, syrens of the south, variety playhouse
This Week in Atlanta Burlesque!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | | Labels: atlanta, Burlesque Camera Club, derek Jackson, Flat Head Mike, hepcat mike, Mon Cherie's Rockabilly Lounge, New York Burlesque Fest, Renea le Roux, Shawnado, syrens of the south, talloolah love
First, I always like to give the blog a little bit of oomf with pictures and videos... I just had to share this gem with you guys because... it's just too bizarre!
Gossips and reviews:
by:shawnodo
-Miss Renea' Le Roux is still doing her whistle stop tour of the North East! We hope to see her again soon if those Yankees don't gobble her up first! Be thinking about her this weekend folks as she's going to take the New York Burlesque Festival Stage in all her glam-glory!
-Blast-off is Makin' good! I Hear Ferris might start some kind of nekkid riot... Better not miss out on the fun! Details below!
- Mon Cherie's Rockabilly Lounge was a big hit, and Talloolah wanted to get with Flat Head Mike to trade hair secrets! Will she be changing her hair products some time soon?
TONIGHT:
By: Derek Jackson
I will be the model for the Burlesque Camera Club. Come out to see a costume debut, and I will be bringing rag-a-muffin!!!
If you don't know who that is, well you should be there to find out, and if you can't well, you are just going to have to see the pictures then wont you ;)
SEPT 29, 7 PM @ Studio 1 Five 0
1000 Marietta St.
across from Octane Coffee, next door to the new 5 Seasons Brewery
THURSDAY:
Blast off Burlesque made a promise they are making good on folks! They won for best burlesque troupe so they are throwing a big ol' free show to celebrate!
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Alcove Gallery
Street: 2852 East College Ave
City/Town: Decatur, GA
Phone: 4043670474
Email: info@blastoffburlesque.com
Saturday:
“Halloween Spook-tacular!”
When: October 3, 2009 Two Shows Doors at 7pm and 10pm
Where: The Little Tree Studios
2842 Franklin Street
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
www.syrensofthesouth.com
Charlie Brown, Garfield, and Pee Wee’s Playhouse all had something great which has gone out of style, the Halloween special!!! The Syrens of the South want to bring back that tradition with their very own Halloween Spook-tacular!
Atlanta is full of amazing talent and the Syrens have dug up some of the best for our Halloween Special! The all star cast includes Vagina Jenkins, Chad Sanborn and Katherine Lashe fresh from The News Orleans Burlesque Festival as well as the nationally renowned Talloolah Love, our newest star Ursula Undress, and local favourite Stormy Knight will be joining the show for her Syrens of the South Debut! We’ll have many other amazing performers besides these in this ghoulish line-up to add to the Halloween Hi jinx and everyone’s invited and you don’t even have to spend all night in the pumpkin patch!!!
Admission is $15, or $10 with a valid Student or Military ID. You can purchase tickets at www.syrensofthesouth.com!
Contact:
syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
www.syrensofthesouth.com
SUNDAY:
Due to crazy circumstances Mista' Hep Cat will be teaching his Vaudeville class THIS SUNDAY!!! WE hope you all can make it out!
“Hepcat’s Vaudeville: The Nickel Tour” with Hepcat Mike
Take the scenic route through vaudeville as Hepcat Mike (the illegitimate lovechild of Henny Youngman and Phyllis Diller) begins with early 19th century variety shows and continues the tour through polite early vaudeville, down dangerous back alleys of Burlesque, into the cinema which was both classical Vaudeville’s savior and doom. But fear not, the current neo-burlesque and vaudeville revival proves that everything old is new again. Want more? Hepcat gives the shortcuts to building your vaudeville library, with suggestions on texts for further reading and info on where to find the most jam-packed video archives for this important, ever-growing art form.
Disclaimer: Classes in the ABC's & 123's Class Series are $20 each or
$60 for a four class pass, a savings of $20. The classes do have a
minimum requirement, so please email syrensofthesouth@gmail.com by
5pm the Friday before the class. Class schedule is subject to change
due to availability.
Location: Syrens of the South Rehearsal Space at Little Tree Studios
2842 Franklin St
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
Stay fabulous duckies, and remember Talloolah loves you!
-Talloolah Love
From Behind the pasties: This Week in Burlesque!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 | | Labels: atlanta, burlesque, Burlesque Atlanta, hepcat mike, Katherine Lashe, Little Tree Studios, Mon Cherie's Rockabilly Lounge, renea' le roux, spook show, syrens of the south, talloolah love
HEY EVERYONE!!! Sweetest "T" in the South here with your weekly Jive! Have you seen the latest and greatest from Illinois? The most recent issue of Java Bachelor Pad Magazine just came out! Go here for more information: http://javasbachelorpad.com/ or you can always pick up the next issue with Syrens of the South at any of their shows and appearances!
And speaking of Illinois, did you all hear that the fabulous Miss Renea' le Roux will be doing some shows there, and in New York in the next few days? We just can't keep that philly still can we!?! Wish her a Bon Voyage and drier travels than what we have here in the city of Atlantis... I mean... Atlanta! Alright duckies, on to our weekly announcements!!!
SATURDAY:
1pm and 10pm:
THE SPOOKSHOW!!!
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 11:55pm
Location: Plaza Theater
Street:
1049 Ponce de Leon Ave
City/Town:
Atlanta, GA
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Phone:
4048731939
Description
THE SILVER SCREAM SPOOK SHOW is a 30 minute live stage show filled with magic tricks, dancing girls, jokes, spectacle and frights! We follow it with a classic horror movie on actual 35mm film!
KIDS UNDER 12 FREE AT 1:00 MATINEE! EVERYONE ELSE ONLY $8. ALL TICKETS ARE $12 FOR THE 10:00 SHOW!
The second major addition to Toho Studios' giant-monster series after Gojira (aka Godzilla, 1954), was Rodan (or Radon), a giant pterodactyl whose wings create massive, destructive winds as it flies by. There are actually two of them in this film, mates who finally get together (after the traditional destruction of various Japanese cities) and die in an oddly touching lovers' death-swoon into an active volcano. The film's best sequence is the chilling opening, in which Rodan's egg is discovered in a cave by doomed miners. The first color film in the series, Ishiro Honda's effective thriller features some interesting special-effects work by Eiji Tsuburaya and was dubbed into English by actors including Keye Luke and future Star Trek crewman George Takei. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
All the way from Alabama!
Little Tree Studios, Avondale Estates, GA- September 26th, 2009, 9pm - Come One, Come All and Join the Pink Box Burlesque and their Big Top Show! Live band, live performances.
Tempest Le Blanc and her Strong Man
Shimmy von Braun
Sunshine Devine
Foxy Renard
Mouse
Miss Kitt Belle Black
Mimi Amore
Rosalie Harlow
Mama Dixie and many more!
Live Band with band director Mr. Christopher!
Singing!
Dancing!
Tassels!
Comedy!
Amazing Feats of Sexy!
Tickets $10 at the door
littletreerehearsalstudios.com
pinkboxburlesque.com
Little Tree Studios
2842 Franklin Street
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
Contact:
Mama Dixie
pinkboxburlesque@gmail.com
Ph: 205 792 9565
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10pm:
Mon Cherie's Rockabilly Lounge!
With Special Guests: Syrens of the South
Flathead Mike & The Mercurys
Meet Mon Cherie's Pin-up Beauties and the DJ Spins a Psychobilly Freakout
$10 Cover
www.moncheriepresents.com
Start Time:
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 10:00pm-3am
Location:
Masquerade (Purgatory)
Street:
695 North Ave, NE
City/Town:
Atlanta, GA
SUNDAY:
ABC's and 123's with Talloolah Love and Hepcat Mike!
12-2pm - “Pastie Making" with Talloolah Love
Talloolah Love teaches the fine art of making your own pasties! She will teach the practicalities of making, wearing and performing with pasties!
Many of the materials required will be provided with a $5 materials charge; however you are encouraged to bring needles, thread, and scissors. Each student will be going home with their very own pasties!
2-4pm “Hepcat’s Vaudeville: The Nickel Tour” with Hepcat Mike
Take the scenic route through vaudeville as Hepcat Mike (the illegitimate lovechild of Henny Youngman and Phyllis Diller) begins with early 19th century variety shows and continues the tour through polite early vaudeville, down dangerous back alleys of Burlesque, into the cinema which was both classical Vaudeville’s savior and doom. But fear not, the current neo-burlesque and vaudeville revival proves that everything old is new again. Want more? Hepcat gives the shortcuts to building your vaudeville library, with suggestions on texts for further reading and info on where to find the most jam-packed video archives for this important, ever-growing art form.
Disclaimer: Classes in the ABCs & 123s Class Series are $20 each or
$60 for a four class pass, a savings of $20. The classes do have a
minimum requirement, so please email syrensofthesouth@gmail.com by
5pm the Friday before the class. Class schedule is subject to change
due to availability.
Location: Syrens of the South Rehearsal Space at Little Tree Studios
2842 Franklin St
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
Keep it Fabulous Darlings!
Talloolah Love
This Week in Atlanta Burlesque!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | | Labels: Awalim, Burlesque Atlanta, Evil Hate Monkey, Katherine Lashe, pinup girl cosmetics, renea' le roux, Studio Adrian, syrens of the south, talloolah love, The Garter Girls, Trixie Little
From the desk of "The Big 'T'ease": Talloolah Love
Hey everyone! So the Atlanta Burlesque and Cabaret "meetup" group is officially down for good!
Now, we have a facebook to supplement our escapades and announcements! There is still the old google group up for a while if for nothing else than to give an alternative to those who do not like face book (yes... they exist) and so that I have an easy forum to write out the weekly interest stories, but I think facebook is going to be my go-to for most of the instant messaging and bulletins for the in-between incidentals that happens. Its more user friendly and more importantly, Burlesque friendly ;) So check it out! I am currently having a logo made for the group because pictures just don't seem to cut it.
FACEBOOK
Last club meeting we discussed the following:
-Page did a wonderful costuming presentation. If you are interested in doing a presentation at the meeting please let me know. It only has to be 15-30 minutes long and it can run the gambit of all things theatrical as long as you tie it in with Burlesque, cabaret and/or vaudeville.
-Syrens of the South announced their impending trunk sale and current fabric sale! If you are interested in participating in the trunk sale which will be happening some point in September, or, if you are interested in some really great fabric priced at $2 per yard, or $1 per yard if Renea Le Roux makes you something from it, please contact Syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
- The decision to actually let the meetup fold, and create a Burlesque and Cabaret facebook group was made. The only difference is, you will want to be sure to keep up with the calendar on the Atlanta Burlesque Group here! You can keep up with the calendar, check out all of Atlanta's local talent and see reviews done on past shows.
- Syrens of the South Anniversary tickets and passes to Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey's workshops are now available, and selling already! Have you heard about the lineup of the show? Not only do they have some of the most fabulous Burlesque stars in all of Atlanta, but they also have the incredible performers from Awalim performing and a few other surprises... cause the Syrens LOVE to surprise their audience! Not to mention those workshops provided by the bawdy Baltimor-ian bunch! I can tell you now that the Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey workshops have a limited capacity, so if you want to get in there, get on it! Go to www.syrensofthesouth.com
On to This Week in Atlanta Burlesque!
THURSDAY:
The Goods Sneak Preview
When: Thu, August 13, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Where: Starlight Drive-In Theater (map)
Description: A sneak preview of the new movie The Goods with special guests Syrens of the South!
http://www.livehardsellhar
FRIDAY:
8/15/09
Mon Cherie's Club Fetish - August 14th
Price: $10
Start Time: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 10:00pm - 3am
Location: The Masquerade
695 North Ave NE
Atlanta, GA
Description:
Calling all Kinksters to Club Fetish!
It's time to take a walk on the wild side of life.
SATURDAY:
8/15/2009 |
Pin Up Night @ Solstice Cafe ~ Burlesque on the Bar! ~ Ginger Collins & the Garter Girls
Go here for more info: http://solsticecafeatlanta
THIS JUST IN!!!!
Syrens of the South caste their anchor into the Pyratecon Show Roster this past year and a great time was had by all! There was a lot of hub-bub about the port bough about these land lubbin' ladies and gents with some fancy equipment called... cam-arrrrr-a's (sorry, just couldn't resist!) Well, we just got the message from the homing pigeon that we might be gracing your libbin' rooms here soon. Check out the posted parchment here:
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Pyratecon 2009 was filmed in New Orleans the weekend of April 3-5, 2009 and
will be aired September 23, 2009 on the Travel Channel at 8 PM eastern time.
The segment that will be aired is called " Extreme Conventions". It's been
predicted that the airing of the Pyratecon 2009 segment will be the most
watched program on Travel Channel's "Extreme" series!!!
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Look out for the Jeering Jon Carney, the Ruthless Renea' Le Roux, Cruel Katherine Lashe, The Tricky Talloolah Love, and the scintillating Spookey Le Strange!
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Hey! have
you seen the new face of Pinup Girl Cosmetics? Check out their hot new logo action!!!HOW TO SHOOT BURLESQUE PART 2
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | | Labels: atlanta photographers guild, syrens of the south, talloolah love, veronica lashe
Part 2 of 4 in the Atlanta Photographers Guild series "How To Shoot Burlesque."
Veronica Lashe and Talloolah Love of the wonderful Syrens of The South were the subjects of the shoot.
They are two of my favorite performers and the photographs well they speak for themselves.
SYRENS OF THE SOUTH Mar. 8, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008 | | Labels: burlesqueatlanta, highland inn, syrens of the south
Several of last night's performances were recorded as audition tapes for Miss Exotic World, so this event featured multiple debut performances and previews in front of a packed house. Tim Montieth also debuted a number that had the audience bawling with laughter. MCs Hepcat Mike and John Carney held the show together with numerous raffles (proceeds going to the Burlesque Hall of Fame) and the "Syrens Shake Up"--where three audience members had a chance to dance and shimmy--also for donations. The Syrens each performed individually, as well as performing a "sneak preview" together. Chinita of Blast-Off Burlesque and Black Mona Lisa sang "Rent" by the Pet Shop Boys and also danced a number while Alexxx Seltzer of Black Mona Lisa sang. Renea' Le Roux, Hepcat Mike and Hotsie Totsie performed excellent numbers as well, resulting in an excellent evening of entertainment.
SYRENS OF THE SOUTH MARCH 8
Friday, February 29, 2008 | | Labels: syrens of the south
Press Release: On March 8th the Syrens will present a show at the historic Highland Inn Ballroom and Lounge, that is very special to the burlesque community as a whole as the nation-wide kick-off event to begin an eight state tour of benefits to send donations to the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Vegas (formerly known as Miss Exotic World). This is a not for profit organization focused on the preservation of not just Burlesque memorabilia, but also Vaudevillian props and costumes dating back as far as the late 1800's.
On the same day: The Syrens of the South present the second installment of their "ABC's and 123's of Burlesque" class and workshop series. The production company reprise their popular "Beginning Burlesque a How to and a History" by Veronica Lashe at 1pm, followed by the sequel to last month's pastie making course offered by Talloolah Love called "Advanced Pastie Making and Tassel Technique" explaining the ups and downs of tassel attachment with a quickie course of fundamental movements and maneuvers necessary for the tassel aficionado, beginning at 2pm.
The final class will be taught by guest instructor, Renea Le Roux, "The Southern Bell from Hell". She will present her class, "The Beginnings of a Burlesque Costume" at 3:30 pm. She will discuss pros and cons of a self made costume versus store bought, and highlight the beginnings of costume construction, necessary materials, and proven methods. Renea is nationally renowned and left her distinctive mark in Los Angeles as the premier costume designer for the finest burlesque and fetish performers on the west coast. She has earned awards in Mid-Tennessee Costumer's guild Best in Show and Best Hand Work. Her costumes have graced stages all over the world, and the Syrens are proud to bring her expertise and enthusiasm to assist accessorizing their quickly multiplying student body!
Materials you will need for Renea's class are:
Prices for the classes are $20 for 1 class, $35 for two, $50 for three classes, and if you want to see the show at 8PM in the same location, you can buy a full package for $60!
SYRENS OF THE SOUTH Feb. 9, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | | Labels: atlanta, burlesque, highland inn, syrens of the south
I think this photo sums up this great night brought to us by Syrens of the South featuring White Lightnin' Burlesque of Knoxville and Big Mamma's House of Charlotte:
MC's Lefty LeBlue (of Big Mamma's House) and John Carnie as well as DJ Swivel led us through this night of 20 performances. The list of performances went like this:
Siren Santina (White Lightnin' Burlesque)
Vagina Jenkins
Big Mamma D (Big Mamma's House)
Kisa Von Teasa (White Lightnin')
Veronica Lashe
Tim Montieth
Talloolah Love & Lefty LeBlue
Enzo
Renea' Le Roux
White Lightnin Burlesque
Tim Montieth
Bette Noire (White Lightnin)
Veronica Lashe & John Carnie
Vagina Jenkins
Enzo
Miz Kitty (White Lightnin)
Talloolah Love
Tim Montieth
Renea' Le Roux
Big Mamma D
Wow! That's a lot!
Bette Noire
Vagina Jenkins
Talloolah Love
Enzo
White Lightnin' Burlesque
SLIDESHOW with more photos
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