The Los Angeles 2012 Line Up features
Edwardian Ball Creators & Co-Hosts
ROSIN COVEN & VAU DE VIRE SOCIETY
presenting an original staging of ”The Iron Tonic” by Edward Gorey
plus
DJ Xian
Delachaux
Creature Feature
Frisque
The Society’s Variety
Cowboy Girls
Caramel and Cream
VdV Aerial Acts
and in The Ballroom
John Brothers Piano Company
Eric McFadden (Just Added!)
Justin Paul (Playloop/PEX)
Mad Dog (Vau de Vire)
LushBunny (Disorient, Mosaic Lounge)
Dayhota (LA)
Added Attractions
S&G Clothing
(http://sandgclothing.com/)
Dark Garden Corsetry
SuperTall Paul’s Listening Lounge
Shovelman
Majinga the Magician
Malvoye the Mentalist
and of course… YOU!
Emcee’d by
Vegas E. Trip
LA Art Curation by Debi Cable
Kevin Rolly – photography (web) Lilli Muller – body installation (web)
Raquel Lopez – fabric installation (facebook) Gabe Leonard – artwork (web)
Sean Boones – live painting! (facebook) Amy Kaps – performance art (web)
James Stewart – red art paintings (web) Ashley Bowers – live painting, artwork (facebook)
Michael Pukac – live painting, artwork (web) Gypsy – live painting, artwork (web)
Michael Stubbs – artwork (web) Shira Loa – sculpture (web)
Joseph Fernandez – sculpture (facebook) Nicole Fornier – photography (web)
David Haskel – sculpture (facebook) Jason Sarrow – blacklight /crystal installation
Ryan Patterson – “Lets Play Dead” installation (website) Chango – sculpture (facebook)
Debi Cable – artwork and installation (website) Richard Wilks – big sculpture(website)
ANNOUNCING! Our 2012 Performers & Features!
Featuring… Edwardian Ball Creators & Co-Hosts
ROSIN COVEN & VAU DE VIRE SOCIETY
Performing an Original Presentation of Edward Gorey’s “The Iron Tonic”
Plus…
Shadow Circus Creature Theatre
Emcee Kingfish of the Hubba Hubba Revue
And don’t miss…
NEW! Tours through the Museum of Wonders (The Edwardian Odditorium) (Both Nights)
NEW! Leisure Listening Lounge hosted by SuperTall Paul Newman (Both Nights)
NEW! Animated FLIP-BOOK Photo Booth (Both Nights)
Bicycle-Powered Carnival Rides by Cyclecide (Friday Only!)
Ballroom Dancing (Saturday Only!)
Barbary Midway Gaming (Friday Only!)
Vendor Bazaar & Piano Saloon (Both Nights)
And much more in store…!
ROSIN COVEN
HOUSE BAND & FOUNDERS OF
THE EDWARDIAN BALL
Rosin Coven, your Edwardian Ball Hosts, dreamt up this spectacle long ago in a dust-covered martini bar in the middle of a bleak desert. They proudly continue the tradition of bringing a Gorey story to life each year in partnership with Vau de Vire Society. Nine musicians blend violin, two cellos, bass, guitar, harp, vibraphone, trombone, trumpet, drums & lush vocal harmonies in a strangely beautiful mix of classical, jazz, chamber, tango, klezmer, sultry lounge, theatrical cabaret, and cinematic dreams. Also known as the “World’s Premiere Pagan Lounge Ensemble,” they continue to surprise even themselves.
VAU DE VIRE SOCIETY
CO-HOSTS OF THE BALL
Spawned from the depths of San Francisco’s thriving Dance and Circus sub-cultures, the Vau de Vire Society has ravaged and titillated the live entertainment scene causing jaws to drop in awe and admiration around the Bay Area and beyond. This Avant-Cabaret community consists of classically-trained dancers, some of the nations most acclaimed acrobats, aerial artists, contortionists and circus side-show acts, an array of unique fire-performers, a handful of thespians and a barrage of the most enticing go-go’s. The group has been cross-pollinating genres by collaborating with an eclectic variety of world-renowned musicians and Dj’s in creating original stage shows and festival productions for the non- pretentious. Most notable collaborators include Cirque du Soleil, San Francisco Symphony, Peaches, the Alkaline Trio, The Dresden Dolls, Fishbone, Rosin Coven, Crystal Method and many other widely respected artists.
DJ XIAN
Philosophies:
Trancendalism, post-modernism, existentialism, gestalt psychology, morphic residence, Will, Becoming, archetype alchemy, deconstructionism, inhibitionalism, flow, doing the right thing, overcoming odds, socially functional antisocialist, ambiguity, absurdity, inversio verborum, pseudointellectual mastubatory sophistry, pseudosciences, asexuality, identity sans gender, reflecting others, metaphysical education, contradiction, stoicism, occult history, symbology, perceptual reletavism, masks, onion layering, logic, psyche division as coping mechanism, reaction formation, making people smile, destroy all illuminati, lucid dreamimg, neuro linguistic programming, dichotomy, resonance, transpersonal responsibility, autopilot modes, zero bullshit tolerance, catalyst, catalysis, psychotaxis, dissociation disassociation, manifestation, pragmatism, social duty, benevolence, golden rule, eastern vs. western, quantum vs. newtonian, dynamic entropy, windego, zen, taoism, self-determinism, the internetz, contradiction, synchronicity, net whoring, guilt, xeper, xepera, xeperu, etc ad nauseum.
CREATURE FEATURE
CREATURE FEATURE is a two-fiend band from Lost Angeles, California, that specializes in the macabre, the hidden, the whimsical, the concealed, the nightmarish, the unseen, the morbid, the unexplainable, the ghoulish, and the unfathomable.
CREATURE FEATURE is the deviant brain child of two sinister composers named Curtis RX and Erik X. Formed on Halloween of all days, these two maniacal groundskeepers in the torture garden of auditory delight have taken it upon themselves to draw from their twisted childhood’s and invent a band that transcends bands, a band that becomes everything you believed in as a child, a band that becomes Halloween 365 days a year, a band that forces you remember why you used to sleep with the lights on, a band that becomes the perfect merger of music and film.
http://www.creaturefeaturemusic.com/
PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL
Headlining Friday night’s World’s Faire in San Francisco is none other than “chap hop” superstar Professor Elemental, traveling direct from the UK on a so called “flying-machine”!
Professor Elemental has created a unique neo-Victorian blend of hip hop and comedy, and is the man behind the world’s first steampunk rap album. His music charts subjects such as steam-powered flight, underwater discovery, and nice cups of tea. With a heart of brass and a pair of goggles, he embodies the spirit of invention and exploration.
Watch! “Fighting Trousers” on YouTube!
www.professorelemental.com
DJ FACT.50
For the past ten years DJ FACT.50 has been working the bay area’s club and art house scene. He specializes in many different styles of music, but his current obsession is Electronic versions of classic old world genres of music. Such as Swing, Hot-Jazz, Tango, Ragtime, Cabaret, Neo-Classical, and many others..
JOHN BROS. PIANO COMPANY
ERIC MCFADDEN
A virtuoso of the six-string, Eric McFadden has been amazing audiences world-wide for years. His command of so many genres is accentuated with meticulously crafted songs that range from rock, gypsy blues, country, punk and funk.
Eric toured Europe, Japan, Australia and the U.S. as mandolinist/guitarist with Funk legend George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic for over 3 years, and continues to collaborate with Clinton on outside projects. He spent a year and a half touring the world with Eric Burdon & The Animals, and recently finished recording on his new record.
In addition, Eric McFadden has collaborated with many top artists, such as Les Claypool, Nels Cline, Widespread Panic, Bo Diddley, Jackson Browne, Joe Strummer, Keb Mo, Reverend Horton Heat and members of The Meters, among others.
Eric is also a member of supergroup, Stockholm Syndrome, which also includes notable players such as Dave Schools, Jerry Joseph, Wally Ingram and Danny Louis.
Eric continues to tour internationally both solo, with his primary band, The Eric McFadden Trio, which features bass phenomenon James Whiton (Tom Waits) and rotating cast of drummers including the great Paulo Baldi (Cake, Les Claypool).
Eric has released several albums through the French label, Bad Reputation. His 2011 release, “Bluebird on Fire”, has received much acclaim, including a 5 star review in Crossroads Magazine.
phYne presents the latest Eric McFadden release: “Inside Out”, on itunes now! “Inside Out” is a 15 song compilation, which includes 4 previously unreleased tracks.
DARK GARDEN CORSETRY
Dark Garden’s crew of dedicated corset makers, helmed by Autumn Adamme, has been making the world a curvier place to be since 1989, offering a safe space for people of all shapes and sizes to be fabulous. Their corsets, costumes and gowns are world renowned for exceptional quality and fit, not to mention beauty.
DELACHAUX
Delachaux originally spliced together his unique ‘nu-burlectro’ style with ecclectic DJ sets that swirled everything from Weimar Berlin and brassy beatnik to torch-lit tiki and retro atomic go-go. Mixing festive cine-sexy melodies over infectiously slick beats, Delachaux has become one of San Francisco’s most unique DJ/producers and one of the sonic maestros behind the Edwardian Ball. He can also be found cranking victrolas at such San Francisco fandangos as Louche, Kinky Salon, and Bohemian Carnival.
LUSHBUNNY
LUSHBUNNY (aka DJ LUSH, Ryan Jesena) has been a staple in Los Angeles’ underground scene for years, he has cultivated his own unique genre-bending style and together with his energetic sets, has propelled him as a taste-maker in the electronica industry. Lushbunny carefully crafts his sets with a style that infuses energy and storytelling. When he dons his trademark bunny suit, and takes on the Lushbunny persona, he becomes an iconic symbol that strikes the party with lightning and pulsating beats. Curating tracks from an extensive playlist of tech house, house, electro, dub, downtempo, and breaks, has taken him to play in Coachella, Burning Man Arts Festival, Elysium Festival, Lake Balboa Music Experience, Bass Station, Space Island, 16Bit & Beyond, LA Decompression, PEX Summer Festival, Golden Globes Afterparty, Supperclub-LA, Times Square, and in countless other venues from New York to Los Angeles.
http://www.facebook.com/Lushbunny
JUSTIN PAUL
JUSTIN PAUL is an acclaimed DJ, producer and creator of the PLAYLOOP music brand. His success is attested to more than his DJ performances and producing; it is for his contribution to the global scene via PLAYLOOP and helping to empower The Philadelphia Experiment (PEX) artist collective. His DJ sets are known for being musically eclectic, spiritual and somewhat unexpected. This is one of the many reasons he is booked to play at some of the nations most elite clubs, festivals, and shows opening for the likes of AIR, Bassnectar, Deadmau5, Disco Biscuits, LCD Soundsystem, Nick Warren, Orbital, Prodigy, Rusko, Thievery Corporation, Trentemøller, Zero 7 and more.
Justin Paul and the labels original music and remixes have been featured by Beatport, DanceTracksDigital, DJ Times, Global Sessions BBC radio, iTunes, Junodownload, Resident Advisor and by DJs around the world.
DJ DAYHOTA
A Chicago veteran of house/tech-house-music, Dayhota has entertained at clubs worldwide: Centro-Fly and The Limelight in NYC, Motor in Detroit, Rain and Ice in Las Vegas, Sno-Drift and Ruby Sky in San Francisco and Level and Nikki Beach in South Beach (Miami). Her sound has graced the international speakers at top-flight venues like The Guvernment and The Docks in Toronto, Batofar in Paris, Zapata and The Lab in Germany, Macarena in Barcelona, Seven in Melbourne and The Underground Café in Sydney to name a few. She has also had the pleasure of gracing the decks at the infamous COACHELLA in 2007. In an industry dominated by male influence, Dayhota and fellow DJs Heather, Colette, and Lady D paved the way for future female DJs, shaping DJ culture by forming the all female DJ collective SuperJane.
http://www.facebook.com/DJDayhota
SHOVELMAN
Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero. Armed with a collection of pawnshop effects pedals and an old barn-shovel turned slide-guitar, Shovelman plays ol’ fashioned folktronica-grooves looped straight out of the ground. The sounds of Mississippi deltablues from the electro-psychedelic future, collide with the antiquated rubble of lyrical one-man-band hoboetry. Shovelman has opened for Primus, Beats Antique and The Yard Dogs Roadshow performing on stages at festivals that include Lightning in a Bottle, Health and Harmony, Earthdance and The Oregon Country Fair.
“Shovelman’s music would be playing on the radio if Tom Waits and Les Claypool ever went on a road trip together…… and were lost.” – Chip ‘So Wat TV’ Santa Cruz.
MAJINGA THE MAGICIAN
Majinga the Magician’s show “The Magique Bazaar” is the longest-running monthly public magic show in the San Francisco Bay Area (since 1998). Seen on NBC and at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, he is the first American to perform the Chinese art of “Change of Face” mask magic and combine it with his own style of magic illusion.
SOUR MASH HUG BAND
“An irresistible mix of old-time, gypsy, bluegrass, jazz, Irish, andragtime.” –The San Francisco Chronicle
“A true treasure of the Bay Area – that has toes tapping and peopledancing for miles around.” San Francisco Bay Times
A cabaret band that combines virtuosic central European violintechnique with 1920s/30s jazz and Yiddish theatre, the Sour Mash HugBand evokes an era that never quite existed. Paris in the 30s, Harlemin the 20s, New Orleans in the 90s, its hard to say. The band isespecially known for their original tunes reminiscent of Kurt Weilland Danny Elfman. The band started in Eugene, OR 10 years ago as anold-time band with the classic line-up of claw-hammer banjo, fiddle,guitar, and bass. After a couple years in Oregon they took to theroad, and toured the country by bike, freight train, hitchhiking, anda broken down old van. This took them to San Francisco, Bellingham,New York and finally to New Orleans which became their home away fromhome. For the past five years the band has split their time between aquiet spot by Lake Merritt and a couple of less quiet shotgun shacksin New Orleans, while spending summers in Romania and Hungary studying the music they love. Being exposed to many varieties of music intheir travels the musicians have developed a unique cabaret styledrawing on New Orleans jazz, old-time fiddle music, muzicalautareasca, and Yiddish theatre.
www.myspace.com/sourmashhugband
THE FOSSETTES
The Fossettes are the fusion of a succubus, an Amazon priestess, and a pair of red-headed sirens. They have come together to channel the inspiring work of those who have come and passed before them, in particular the vision of Bob Fosse, from whom the group lovingly derives its name. The four original members (Erin Kraemer, Julianna Seligman, Elizabeth Castaneda, and Melissa Castaneda) hail from the four corners of the cosmos and have been collaborating since 2005. They began performing as the Fossettes in May of 2009 and have been dancing the nights away ever since.
SHADOW CIRCUS CREATURE THEATRE
Shadow Circus Creature Theatre is a puppetry troupe headed by creator and puppet maker Dave Haaz-Baroque. For three years, Dave and his production team have been bringing their giant creatures to the Edwardian Ball, mainly for the purpose of having them eat unwary performers. They provide creature effects for various local events as well as performing adult-geared puppet shows around the Bay Area. The puppets of Shadow Circus are regular guests on KOFY TV’s ‘Creepy KOFY Movie Time’ and the team has recently begun to branch out into short films and animation.
THE DISPLAYED LABORS SIDESHOW
The Displayed Labors Sideshow has been entertaining and horrifying legions of people for over the last five years. Combining old school sideshow with an insatiable blood lust, founding members Courtney Crimson and Chi-Kitty hit the bay area like napalm. These two have single handedly set fire to the minds of many with a take no prisoners approach to audience interaction. Displayed Labors is notorious for revealing never before rehearsed acts of danger live and on stage, including their signature performance, “William Tell”. Armed with fury and a questionable suitcase, DLS promises to leave scars, not only on their bodies, but in the minds of many. If you have seen them once, you can not get enough. If you have never seen them, you will never forget them. Ladies and gentlemen…. Step into the sideshow.
EMCEE KINGFISH
of the HUBBA HUBBA REVUE
Kingfish (Jim Sweeney) is a veteran San Francisco showman, impresario and social drinker. He’s also the producer of San Francisco’s biggest, wildest, burlesque & variety show, “Hubba Hubba Revue,” winner of the SFWeekly’s 2009 award for “Best Burlesque Show.” An ardent supporter of social gatherings on the grandest scale, Kingfish is a lifelong Edwardian, and wishes everyone a splendid time at this year’s Ball.
FLYNN CREEK CIRCUS
FLYNN CREEK CIRCUS is a rurally based circus-theatre company pushing traditional arts to an innovative edge. We strive to stimulate wonder and radically inspire the community be demonstrating disciplined artistic and athletic risk.
KLOWN KORPS KOLLECTIVE
Emerging in third place from the aftermath of the infamous Circus Metropolus blimp catastrophe of 2010, the Klown Korps Kollective specializes in immersive, interactive capers, custom-fit tomfoolery, and quasi-profound, unsanctioned acts of anti-terrorism (including the klown-fi band Gooferman). Honored as the first-ever circus troupe to be DARPA- and FDA-certified as 100% Klown, the Klown Korps is responsible for postponing the inevitable demise of planet Earth through trickery associated with the Mayan calendar, and for the signature hair-dos often associated with Trojan Vibrations.
The Klown Korps will be supporting Friday night’s Edwardian World’s Faire as Midway operators, and policing Saturday’s Edwardian Ball in the form of nefarious and highly respectable Keyfstoner Kops (with their mobile Sensation Station precinct headquarters).
www.klownkorps.com
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F’RISQUE
F’risqué was forged in the midst of San Francisco’s thriving creative metropolis. This eclectic group of professional performers has been classically trained in various forms of dance, theater and circus. Each artist strives to maintain their individuality while also engaging in the collaborative process, allowing for an intricate fusion that has evolved into a unique style. Off stage, this dynamic group of artists are also fitness professionals ranging from personal trainers, to Pilates instructors, to dance teachers. Blending their vast experience and varied expertise, F’risqué has become an intersection for ideas and creative expression.
F’risqué’s ultimate goal is to entertain and inspire through the medium of dance.
JILL TRACY
“Belle of the Ball”
Hailed by LA Weekly as “the cult darling of the underworld,” Jill Tracy, “Belle of The Edwardian Ball,” returns for another provocative performance that brings the waltzing dance floor to life.
With her signature concoction of dark parlour and classical piano, haunting lyrics and seductive style, she creates a sound that conjures up glamorous shades of dark cabaret, early cinema, and film noir— but with a distinctively modern flair.
“Best of the Bay” award winner, Jill Tracy was described in the SF Bay Guardian as “inimitable …a shining beacon of almost beatific grace.” Los Angeles Times recently named her a “modern musical icon.”
NPR’s All Things Considered calls her “utterly intriguing…transporting you into a magical world solely of her creation.”
http://twitter.com/jilltracymusic
KINETIC STEAM WORKS
Kinetic Steam Works is a Bay Area collective dedicated to steam powered kinetic art, repurposing the artifacts of clockwork modernity while creatively blending Art & Industry.
MIZ MARGO
DJing in SF for 10+ years, spins everything from goth/deathrock to cabaret, to indiepop to electro, to ???, one of the founders/promoter/DJs of Dark Sparkle/After Dark, can be regularly heard around the city at clubs like Death Guild, Pop Roxx, Black Tuesdays and sundry other events….
Leisure Listening Lounge hosted by SuperTall Paul Newman
The Leisure Listening Lounge is a journey into another world. Like an amusement ride 12 people step in, buckle up, and take off together. Hosted by SuperTall Paul Newman a multi-instrumentalist, loop master, and street performer; the audience is reminded of the sacred yet fleeting nature of this very intimately shared moment. NOW, is really happening and will never happen this way again! A complete song is magically created as layers of instruments, beatboxing, and vocal harmonies build into a familiar tune instigating synchronized movement and unified smiles. Due to the quiet nature of the instruments used there is virtually no sound without the headphones. A strange yet marveling sight as spectators around the room eagerly wait their turn with curiosity as to what is happening on “the inside.” You have just experienced, and helped create, this moment in the Leisure Listening Lounge.
www.facebook.com/supertallpaul
CYCLECIDE
Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo is a club of alter-bike mechanics, mariachi-punk musicians and cycle crazed clowns who love building bikes and creating custom works of interactive art. Together we form a traveling pedal-powered carnival that is fun for people of all ages.
The Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo has been independently operated and touring for over ten years now. We travel in a converted school bus full of clowns and their alter-cycles and pull a trailer loaded with pedal-powered rides. We’ve toured across the United States and down into Mexico and have been featured performers at festivals such as Coachella, Stage Coach, Bumbershoot, Tour De Fat, Burning Man and Maker Faire, to name a few.
We remain passionately devoted to the idea of the bicycle as a piece of interactive kinetic sculpture that can make music, breathe fire, even save the world!
MALVOYE THE MENTALIST
A piece of American history from side shows and traveling carnivals, Malvoye the Mentalist is a fully automated antique fortune telling booth, that shares versions and visions of the future. Malvoye’s powers of mentalism are summoned to give you your own very unique and astonishingly accurate fortune.
Malvoye knows all, Malvoye sees all.
WILL CHASE ARTS
Will Chase Arts has been responsible for the most eye-popping, mind-blowing, and visually-stimulating curated art shows known to humankind … at least in the Bay Area, anyway. Whether it’s in a formal gallery, an art event, or a knock-down-drag-out party, the galleries we create draw on any of the 1,500 artists in our database. And we’re not talking about the crap you find in 49 Geary, either … these are the best in local emerging artists that by all rights you should be hanging on the walls of your home, office, or prison cell.
EMCEE VEGAS E. TRIP
VALENTINE
Hoofer, crooner and gender-blending thespian, Jef Valentine has appeared locally in “Cabaret”, “Rocky Horror Show”, “Pearls Over Shanghai” and “Picture of Dorian Gray”, to name a few. He holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Distance Tap Dance (9.6 mi) and still has the blisters to prove it. According to the San Francisco Weekly he “lends the drag drollery an unexpected air of gravitas”. What is the cause of his red, shiny nose? Could it be “Oom-Pah-Pah”?