THE SALON PERDU MEOW MEOW & JUSTIN BOND "Heavy Petting" AUG 10 AMANDA PALMER with Vermillion Lies & Reggie Watts AUG 11 BUST MAGAZINE 15th Anniversary Concert AUG 12 LAURA CANTRELL "Let Us Now Praise Famous Women" AUG 19 STEAL THIS TICKET! Steve Molitz, Jon Gutwillig, DJ Logic... AUG 24 UTE LEMPER “Angels Over Berlin” AUG 26 TORTURED SOUL AUG 31 THE CITIZENS BAND "The Panic is On" SEP 7-9 NEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW SEP 11-13 WAU WAU SISTERS "All U Can Eat" SEP 14 DAVID YAZBEK SEP 15 MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Sings Edith Piaf! SEP 16 THE SIPPY CUPS SEP 20 YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW with INDIGO SEP 21-22 BENEVENTO-RUSSO DUO with BJORKESTRA SEP 23 MOR KARBASI SEP 28 THE DODOS with AU SEP 29 THE BIRD AND THE BEE SEP 30 ANTIBALAS! OCT 5 MIKE RELM & TIM FITE OCT 7 NELLIE McKAY OCT 12 SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB OCT 13 JOLLYSHIP THE WHIZBANG OCT 20 DEERHOOF with FAT WORM OF ERROR & NYMPH OCT 21 THE FELICE BROTHERS NOV 2		THE DELUXE FISH CIRCUS SEP 6, 20, OCT 11, NOV 1 HUMOR ABUSE SEP 7 SUSAN MARSHALL & CO SEP 16-28 PINCHBOTTOM SEP 13, OCT 18 NORVAK PODEROSO DEMENTE SEP 14 MEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW SEP 11-13 MIKE EDISON SEP 15 CHRISTIAN HOWES OCT 2 SUSQUEHANNA INDUSTRIAL TOOL & DIE CO OCT 10 THE PEACH TARTES SEP 27, OCT 4 & 11 ISSUE PROJECT ROOM PRESENTS OCT 12, 19 BEAUT OCT 17 AMY G OCT 18 THE GLAMAZONS OCT 24 & 25 AN EVENING WITH CAROL LIPNIK OCT 30 YOUR NEW BEST FRIENDS OCT 21-25 THE JAMES GANG NOV 1, 2
OPENING NIGHT MEOW MEOW & JUSTIN BOND The Spiegelworld Return! Sunday, August 10 @ 10pm A Spiegelworld Command Engagement! Celebrating the opening of the third annual Spiegelworld Concert Series, Meow Meow & Justin Bond take the stage together for the first time. Meow Meow returns for her first full-length Spiegelworld concert after unforgettable appearances in seasons past. She has wowed audiences with her own brand of vamped-up kamikaze cabaret and exotica performance art around the globe. She has worked with London's Opera Factory, Australia's Elision Ensemble, Johannesburg's Robyn Orlin (Paris/Berlin), New York's Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), The John Cage Trust, John Jesurun, Mikel Rouse and Thomas M. Spiegelworld favorite and Tony nominee Justin Bond returns for a command evening of comedy and song with his back-up band The Freudian Slippers. A rare and intimate Salon Perdu engagement following past sold-out performances with a downtown icon. BOOK NOW! AMANDA PALMER - Monday, August 11 @10pm Spiegelworld Exclusive! Amanda Palmer of the "brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls, beings her electrifying solo repertoire in a reprise of her legendary Spiegeltent engagements across Europe and in celebration of her forthcoming album, “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” produced by Ben Folds. BOOK NOW! BUST MAGAZINE 15th Anniversary Celebration! Tuesday August 12 @ 8pm - 1am The magazine for women with something to get off their chests is celebrating its 15-year anniversary in publication. www.bust.com/15yearpress/biography "BUST has the same qualities as found in all great women: it's smart, honest, funny, and dirty." says SNL's Amy Poehler. Over the years, the magazine has helped redefine feminism with its punk-rock ethos and fierce and funny contribution to women's media. To celebrate its quinceañera the birthday girls of BUST are hosting a blow out bash, sponsored by Dr. Martens. Funny lady Amy Sedaris will emcee and featured performers will include Leslie Hall, Free Blood, Murray Hill, the Pontani Sisters, The World Famous BOB, Morningwood and the aerial acrobatics of Lady Circus. JD Samson of Le Tigre/MEN will be DJing! *Exclusive pre-party area from 8pm - 9:45pm to be hosted in the DJ Tent, East Wing of the Garden and surrounding booth areas. First 500 attendees will receive a BUST goodie bag! Salon Perdu, is where the main performance will take place from 10pm-1am. BOOK NOW! LAURA CANTRELL plus Very Special Guests presents "Now Let Us Praise Famous Women" - Tuesday, August 19 @ 10pm A Spiegelworld Exclusive! Laura Cantrell leads an impressive crew of musicians and featured vocalists presenting an evening celebrating "lost" heroines of American Music. Having made an art form of finding and re-presenting forgotten gems with her band or on the radio, Cantrell now turns her attention to some of the most inspiring yet obscure, misunderstood, or disregarded female artists of the 20th Century. Laura will be joined by guests in celebratory interpretations of songs from across the landscape of American music, conjuring the gingham, glitter and greasepaint of yore. BOOK NOW! STEAL THIS TICKET! A Musical Tribute to Abbie Hoffman with Steve Molitz (Phil Lesh & Friends, Particle), Jon Gutwillig (Disco Biscuits), Michael Travis and Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident, EOTO), DJ Logic (MMW), and very special guests. - Sunday, August 24 @ 10pm A Spiegelworld Exclusive! Making his Spiegelworld debut, Molitz leads an all-star cast in celebration of the anniversary of Hoffman's crashing of the New York Stock Exchange in 1967, creating a frenzy by throwing dollar bills onto the trading room floor from the viewing deck above, considered one of Hoffman's greatest social commentaries on America's insatiable obsession with excess. This Counter Culture celebration, promising a Late Night of live improvised dance music, performance art, mischief and mayhem. The festivities kick off with a set from EOTO, followed by DJ Logic, and closing with the Agents of Mayhem (Molitz, Gutwillig, Travis, Hann, DJ Logic, and very special guests). BOOK NOW! UTE LEMPER “Angels Over Berlin” - Tuesday August 26 @ 10pm By Popular Demand! Ute Lemper and band returns to the venue that best suits the visionary worlds of this acclaimed singer. If you missed her unforgettable sold-out 2007 Spiegelworld premiere engagement – do not miss your chance! BOOK NOW! TORTURED SOUL - Sunday August 31 @ 10pm Making their return Spiegelworld engagement in celebration of their highly anticipated new album, Tortured Soul is music that will move you. It's a new concept in the world of house music that has achieved international acclaim: it's live. The instrumentation is simple and organic ­ drums, electric bass, vintage keys, and soulful vocals. Tortured Soul filters club sounds like Afro Beat and Samba through a lens of jazzy House and American Soul to reflect intense grooves evocative of Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, the New Deal, and Fela Kuti. BOOK NOW! THE CITIZENS BAND presents “The Panic is On” Sunday 7 thru Tuesday 9 September @ 10pm Spiegelworld Premiere! Spiegelworld is proud to welcome visionary cabaret co-horts The Citizens Band for a three-night blow-out residency. The Citizens Band is a sexy, ribald musical troupe renowned for their dazzling song and dance performances. “The Panic Is On,” their sixth original show, finds the troupe trapped in makeshift bomb shelter where they're forced to find common ground and hope in a terror filled world. Performing a spirited mix of classic songs and original compositions they ponder such issues as fear mongering, war, immigration, xenophobia, poverty and their own dreams for political change. BOOK NOW! NEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW - September 11-13 @ 8pm, Saturday September 13 @ 10pm NYC Premiere! Dressed in black, white and red like the leering faces on a good poker hand, the Bingo! Show is a multimedia stage experience that includes original black-and-white silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games, slapstick comedy and shady characters who remind you that every stage door opens into a dark alley. Ringleader Clint Maedgen, a Louisiana native and sixteen-year New Orleans resident, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of downtown New Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable chops; The band is a Brechtian cabaret funneled through New Orleans' Ninth Ward via the noir surrealism of Twin Peaks. In recent years, Bingo! Show has toured with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, aiming to update, twist and preserve the unique quality that is New Orleans style showmanship. But as in the finest dime museums, sideshows and collections of oddities since the dawn of vaudeville, seeing is believing. So step up to the ticket booth, surrender a nominal sum and allow yourself to be astonished, amazed and amused by America's best-loved musical gameshow cabaret - The New Orleans Bingo! Show. BOOK NOW! WAU WAU SISTERS “All U Can Eat” - Sunday September 14 @ 10pm They made Princes William and Harry squirm (TWICE!), played the Grammy red carpet, WON Fringe Report's BEST CABARET EDINBURGH FRINGE 2004, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT 2008 at Brighton Fringe and set the BRITISH TABLOIDS abuzz (google wau waus + princes!) and now this charming but daring and utterly hilarious duo, returns to NYC’s South Street Seaport Spiegeltent after two years of sold out international shows to perform a brand new show, ALL U CAN EAT!! With a 20-piece hare-brained orchestra and special guests and music from their appearance in John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking film “SHORTBUS”, The Wau Wau Sisters deliver an hour of mishaps and mayhem in an all-new show. Straddling the hilarious gap between performance art and burlesque, comedy and camp the show starts at a pitch, boasts a smorgasbord of downtown's finest performers, including NEAL MEDLYN and PETE KOHL of TRAGEDY - 12 waiter/disciples in all, and builds to a bacchnallian finale, A LAST SUPPER that will send every preacher who’s ever preached running for cover 6 ft under!! The act that the New York Times calls “irreverent, sacrilegious, lascivious, foulmouthed, and uninhibited” this delicious show in this divine venue may be the only hope for keeping NYC down, dirty, and delirious!!! DON'T MISS THEIR LAST NYC APPEARANCE BEFORE THEY HIT THE ROAD FOR ANOTHER YEAR!! w/music by super duper special guest, beautiful crooner SCOTT MATTHEWS (Shortbus soundtrack ) AND THE AMBITIOUS ORCHESTRA; Italian rogue performer CARMINE COVELLI; Unnervingly handsome acrobat AIDAN O'SHEA. "Like The Vagina Monologues....on acid!" - Ptown News Weekly "I've seen you twice now, and you're REALLY good!!" - Prince William "Miraculously, no one dies!" - The Guardian BOOK NOW! DAVID YAZBEK and His Warmest Regards - “An Evening with the Monkey Man” - Monday, September 15 @ 9.30pm Spiegelworld Debut! "The songwriter David Yazbek is a daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination. The nihilism in his deceptively rollicking songs is sometimes so pungent that you wonder how much of his own bile he can stomach before he shrugs and allows those pins to bop him on the head." - Stephen Holden, NY Times Making his highly anticipated Spiegelworld debut, David Yazbek is a long-time cult favorite - a recording artist, vocalist and pianist known for his thrilling live performances and irreverent style. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee, whose shows The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels have played in over 20 countries. His first album, The Laughing Man, won the N.A.I.R.D. Award for Best Pop Album of the Year. He is also a Grammy-nominated record producer and an Emmy-Award winning TV writer (for Late Night with David Letterman). BOOK NOW! FAMILY CONCERT! THE SIPPY CUPS - Saturday, September 20 @ 12pm & 3pm A high-energy rock and roll experience for families! Join San Francisco "kindie-rock" sensation The Sippy Cups as they bring their fantastic family show to SpeigelTent! Dubbed "every parent's favorite kid rock band and quite possibly the illegitimate offspring of The Cat in the Hat and Joey Ramone" by the SF Chronicle, the band has staged matinees at America's most renowned rock clubs and performed at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. Blending kid- friendly covers from the Velvet Underground, Ramones and early Pink Floyd with their own like-minded originals, the show features an interactive, circus-style rock & roll party for kids of all ages. In this special performance the show will be opened by NYC-area Music Together teachers and directors for a family sing-a-long from this best-loved family music program. Honoring the program's 25th anniversarythis is sure to be a wonderful combination of participation and entertainment for the whole family! BOOK NOW! MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Sings Edith Piaf! - Tuesday, September 16 @ 10 pm Spiegelworld Exclusive! A rare, intimate evening with one of contemporary rock’s most endearing artists. Interpreting the music and spirit of Piaf, Martha brings the house to its knees, proving the seemingly endless facets of this treasured folk-pop artist’s many talents. BOOK NOW! YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW w/ Special Guest Indigo Sunday September 21 @ 10pm & Monday September 22 @ 10pm By Popular Demand! A Spiegelworld return engagement following last year’s unforgettable sold-out performance and featuring belly dancing phenomenon Indigo, The Yard Dogs Road Show is a hobo cabaret, a living patchwork of vaudeville and rock and roll. They lead the modern hobohemian on a visual and sonic journey through part of history that may or may not have existed – followed by an ambitious return to the emotional challenges of our punch-drunk contemporary world. It’s a true story on stage: sword swallowers, dancing dolls, fire eaters and sunset hobo poetry - all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon heavy band. BOOK NOW! BENEVENTO-RUSSO DUO w/ Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra Tuesday September 23 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Premiere! An evening of music not to be missed – the acclaimed organ and drum pioneers Benevento-Russo Duo take the stage at Spiegelworld with Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra for an unforgettable evening of instrumental music plus very special guests. The Benevento/Russo Duo formed in 2002 when Russo and childhood chum Marco Benevento combined forces in NYC’s underground club scene. With hardly any written material at first, the band made a virtue out of necessity by converting loose sketches into improvisations. They are an indie-rock band that jams - a jazz-combo that rocks. Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra is an 18-piece, genre-bending jazz orchestra that has successfully fused the pop music world with the stylistic and improvisatory concepts of modern jazz. Arranged and conducted by the saxophonist Travis Sullivan, The Bjorkestra performs the music of visionary pop artist Bjork, spanning her entire catalogue as a solo artist, truly creating a big band sound for the 21st Century. BOOK NOW! MOR KARBASI Presented in Association with World Music Institute Sunday September 28 @ 2.30pm Spiegelworld Premiere! Described by London’s Jewish Chronicle as a purveyor of “Spine tingling Gypsy Music”, young London-based Israeli singer and pianist Mor Karbasi sings in Ladino, Spanish, Hebrew and on rarer occasions, English. Mor is single-handedly bringing Ladino songs from as far back as 1492 to a wider public. Her writing has been considerably assisted by her interesting lineage. She is directly descended from both Moroccan and Persian Jews. She has been and indeed is, an avid supporter of Flamenco which provides a strong flavour throughout all her songs. BOOK NOW! THE DODOS with Special Guest Au - Monday September 29 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Premiere! Throw together a country-blues-loving guitarist and a metalhead drummer and you get the Dodos, a fascinating psych-folktronic duo. Following an appearance at this year’s Siren Festival and the release of their second album Visiter, San Francisco’s The Dodos band bring their ecelctic sound influenced by West African Ewe drumming, progressive metal and country blues fingerpicking enhancing the syncopated rhythms coming from the acoustic guitar to create one of today’s most unique sounds. BOOK NOW! THE BIRD AND THE BEE - Tuesday September 30 @ 10pm Spiegelworld NYC Exclusive! Making their Spiegelworld debut, The Bird and the Bee are an indie pop/electronica duo from Los Angeles, CA comprised of Inara George on vocals and Greg Kurstin, who have carefully built a musical concept that hides new surprises within every nook of Tropicalia, Shibuya-kei and French Pop. The Bird and the Bee have bravely managed to break the aging mold of indie-pop while beckoning enticingly from the genre’s periphery BOOK NOW! ANTIBALAS! - Sunday October 5 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Premiere! True, some bands are simply meant to lead, and Brooklyn’s Antibalas--as tough and diverse as the city that birthed them nearly a decade ago--has continued to do just that. The group, whose name means “bulletproof” in Spanish, has indeed proved they possess the mettle to not only survive but also thrive by employing a musical arsenal that has become known worldwide. Initially using the revolutionary blueprint of afrobeat as a launching pad, the dozen-strong members of Antibalas weave a rich tapestry of latin, jazz, classical, funk and soul into their horn-driven mix. BOOK NOW! MIKE RELM & TIM FITE - Tuesday October 7 @ 10pm A Spiegelworld Exclusive! Spiegelworld is proud to present two of today’s most unique and progressive music and multi-media performers. The singular skratch musician phenomenon Mike Relm continues on the road much less traveled. Sharing the stage with nothing more than two turntables, a DVJ, a mixer, and a microphone, Mike Relm defies any preconceived notions of what a solo DJ can achieve musically and visually. Making his Speigelworld return, Tim Fite is a lo-fi lone wolf from Brooklyn, living somewhere between folk and hip-hop, and with his latest album - a harsh indictment of consumerism and the American dream of selling out - he has made himself into a cultural gadfly. BOOK NOW! NELLIE McKAY “Songs of Fear and Longing: Nellie McKay Covers the Classics!” - Tuesday October 12 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Debut! Making her long awaited Spiegelworld debut, Nellie McKay has become one of downtown’s most eclectic favorites Critics and audiences aren't the only ones struggling to describe Nellie McKay's music. The accomplished singer, songwriter, actor and activist struggles with labels as well, calling her approach 'schizophrenic voodoo.' Schizophrenic because she jumps genres - from Tin Pan Alley pop and cabaret to reggae, rap and jazz - voodoo because these elements mysteriously gel with her evocative, playful, and bold lyrics. BOOK NOW! SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB - Monday October 13 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Debut! Engaging, riveting, sad and humorous; demanding the audience to participate both live and while listening to their albums; Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been branded with every musical description possible. This seems fitting, as SCAC describes their music as American (Is that not what America is and has been, a mixture of every one and thing resulting in something new?); and after a decade of working and living as SCAC, they have created their own genre. BOOK NOW! JOLLYSHIP THE WHIZBANG - Monday October 20 @ 10pm Spiegelworld Return Engagement! The return of one the most notorious and naughty pirate puppet rock band in the world. No other pirate puppet rock band is quite like this. They are the true leaders of the phenomenal movement of pirate puppet rock bands worldwide. Brooklyn’s nautical rock wunderkind Jollyship the Whiz-Bang is (alternately or simultaneously) a puppet troupe, rock band, and theater production company. They have performed in festivals the world over, invited on the renown of their legendary live shows, which incorporate music, puppetry, video and comedy in elaborate spectacles. BOOK NOW! DEERHOOF with FAT WORM OF ERROR & NYMPH - Tuesday October 21 @ 10pm Deerhoof makes a rare and intimate appearance at Speigelworld. By turns cuddly and chaotic, San Francisco’s Deerhoof mixes noise, sugary melodies, and an experimental spirit into sweetly challenging and utterly distinctive music where every moment proves irresistible. BOOK NOW! THE FELICE BROTHERS - Sunday November 2 @ 10pm The Felice Brothers travel the world performing homegrown and gritty Americana on the city stages as if they were hosting a sing-along on their front porch in their native Catskills, NY, or playing the backroom of a dusty tavern. The sound seeps with instinctive authenticity rooted in tradition, while their panhandling antics and penchants for illegal subway performances carries the final product from the backwoods to the Concert Halls of America and Europe. BOOK NOW!		FISH CIRCUS “Wet Hot Saturday Nights with Fish Circus and Friends” September 6, October 11, @ 8pm & September 20, November 1 @ 10pm $15 All the world was fair and beautiful, and then there was FISH CIRCUS, tearing society a new one. If you loved food fights as a kid, you'll love FISH CIRCUS as an adult. Los Angeles based band FISH CIRCUS brings their wacky upbeat adventures to the shores of New York for an intimate and awkward love fest of music and dance, featuring a few of their outrageous friends. BOOK NOW! HUMOR ABUSE - Sunday, September 7 @ 8pm $15 What happens to a boy whose Dad is a clown ? Humor Abuse. Created by Lorenzo Pisoni (Pickle Family Circus, Cirque Du Soleil, now in Equus on Broadway with Daniel Radcliff) and Erica Schmidt (As You Like It at The Public, Debbie Does Dallas at the Jane Street) , this solo performance tour-de-force is about coming of age in the circus; learning the tricks of the trade -- literally -- and surviving the relationship between father and son. BOOK NOW! SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY “Sawdust Palace” September 16- 20, 23-27 @ 8pm, September 21 & 28 @ 7pm NYC Premiere! Elegance and humanity balance the unexpected in Susan Marshall & Company’s surprising Sawdust Palace, a 90-minute suite of 20 “acts” created to be performed in a spiegeltent but suitable for any thrust or theater in the round. In this mix of tender and entertaining dances, the sensuality and sexual tension always present in Susan Marshall & Company’s work gets blended with a heavy dose of vaudeville, cabaret and humor. The music for the show ranges from live piano selections to popular cabaret and contemporary electronic, while the acts include aerial dances, feather plucking, and intricate waltzes all articulating a contemporary viewpoint in a music hall setting. Despite the absurd and sometimes feverish proceedings, these dances possess the same rich emotional subtext for which the company’s work is best known. BOOK NOW! PINCHBOTTOM presents Pince-Derrière: PRETENÇIÓN un cirque de burlesque, un burlesque de cirque - Saturday September 13 @ 8pm & October 18 @ 10pm $20 Pretençión is a feeling, an idea, the place where Mystery sits at a table with Elegance, and Imagination orders a round of drinks before dinner. It is a world where those drinks are served by a pompous clown. Join Pinchbottom (the "best burlesque" in NY -New York Magazine, The Village Voice) on a sensual quest for Pretençión, an imaginary element that turns burlesque performers from "Ordinarios" (ordinary people) into self-important "Extraordinarios" (extraordinary people): infuriatingly magical, unendurably spellbinding artistes who peel away the mundane with every layer of clothing. Step into the world of Pretençión -- but be careful not to trip on the magic. Pretençión: un burlesque de cirque, un cirque de burlesque. BOOK NOW! NORVAK PODEROSO DEMENTE: A Hypnotelekineticparanormal Show Presented by Celebrate México Now 08 Festival - September 14 @ 3pm & 8pm $20 A delightfully wacky fusion of pantomime, clowning, and theatrical cabaret, Norvak Poderoso DeMente (Norvak, The Powerful Mind Reader) is the creation of Andrés Aguilar and Artús Chávez, graduates of the Clown College of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus. In his Hypnotelekineticparanormal Show, Norvak Poderoso DeMente demonstrates his hypnotic, telepathic, clairvoyant and telekinetic capabilities, but he is constantly interrupted by a volunteer from the audience, Don Domingo, who resists being hypnotized and ultimately reveals a life-changing secret. Since its premiere in 2006, the show has enjoyed month-long runs at ‘El Péndulo’ and Centro Cultural Helénico in México City, and has been presented at the 9th Festival of Pantomime, Circus and Clown RODARA (Puebla, Mexico), Festival of Tenerife Clownbaret (Canary Islands, Spain), and Apallasa’t (Barcelona, Spain). BOOK NOW! NEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW - Thursday September 11 @ 8pm, Friday September 12 @ 8pm & 10pm, Saturday September 13 @ 10pm $18 NYC & Spiegelworld Premiere! Dressed in black, white and red like the leering faces on a good poker hand, the Bingo! Show is a multimedia stage experience that includes original black-and-white silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games, slapstick comedy and shady characters who remind you that every stage door opens into a dark alley. Ringleader Clint Maedgen, a Louisiana native and sixteen-year New Orleans resident, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of downtown New Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable chops; The band is a Brechtian cabaret funneled through New Orleans' Ninth Ward via the noir surrealism of Twin Peaks. In recent years, Bingo! Show has toured with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, aiming to update, twist and preserve the unique quality that is New Orleans style showmanship. But as in the finest dime museums, sideshows and collections of oddities since the dawn of vaudeville, seeing is believing. So step up to the ticket booth, surrender a nominal sum and allow yourself to be astonished, amazed and amused by America's best-loved musical gameshow cabaret – The New Orleans Bingo! Show. BOOK NOW! MIKE EDISON Presents “No-Holds-Barred Literary Battle Royale” - September 15 @ 8:00pm $15 Author Mike Edison (I Have Fun Everywhere I Go) referees an unprecedented spoken word battle among some of New York’s most dangerous authors including Adam Rapp and a host of others. Backed by a dangerous A Team of rock’n’roll and jazz musicians, each reader will tell stories or read from their work in a mano a mano face-off, the winner to be decided by the audience. BOOK NOW! CHRISTIAN HOWES plus VERY SPECIAL GUEST Caroline Leonhardt - Thursday, October 2 @ 8pm $20 Spiegelworld premiere! Considered by Les Paul to be “the greatest jazz violinist alive,” violinist Christian Howes celebrates his latest release entitled Heartfelt, his spectacular debut on Resonance Records. Rather than exhibiting the charming delicacy of a Stephane Grappelli or the jaunty Swing era bounce of a Joe Venuti, Howes is a wildly inventive post-bop burner with monstrous facility, a wide expressive range and a take-no-prisoners approach to soloing. Here he parlays his Herculean chops, blistering intensity and haunting romanticism into a winning combination that is eminently accessible. Joined by Steely Dan lead background singed and revered jazz vocalist Caroline Leonhardt, this evening's elements will set the Deluxe ablaze with two of the best in NYC's jazz scene. BOOK NOW! SUSQUEHANNA INDUSTRIAL TOOL & DIE CO. “The Medicine Show” - Friday, October 10, @ 8pm $15 BOOK NOW! THE PEACH TARTES Pitch a Spiegeltent! with World Famous *BOB* and her Big Top! - September 27, October 4 & 11 @ 10pm $15 The Peach Tartes, New York's Juiciest Burlesque Troupe, are joining forces with The World Famous *BOB* (and her famous "big top") to pitch a tent at Spiegelworld and give New Yorkers the burlesque circus they have been waiting for.... Step right up! Step right up! Don't be afraid to step right up! We've got it all: Peanuts! Popcorn! Pasties! Souvenirs! Soda Pop! Fringe Galore! Glitter! Feathers! Tassels! Cotton Candy! G-Strings!...and much much more! Elephants that tap dance! Clowns that bump and grind! Aerialists that will drive you out of your mind! For children of all ages (except those under age) Starring the Peach Tartes and the World Famous *BOB* BOOK NOW! ISSUE PROJECT ROOM PRESENTS… Sunday October 12 & 19 @ 8pm $15 Two evenings with the best and brightest in contemporary music from the area’s finest center for new sounds. BOOK NOW! BEAUT with THE VONDELLS & THEE MAJESTY - Friday, October 17 @ 8pm $10 BOOK NOW! AMY G in “Round She Goes” - Saturday, October 18 @ 8pm Saturday NY’s slapstick sweetheart from 2006 Absinthe, called “a comic powerhouse” (The Australian), returns with a solo expose. Once a serious artiste, this world tour sees Amy G tearing up the stage on rollerskates, with a ukulele (it’s all the rage) and doing her best to keep it together while letting it all hang out. With so much spin, where she stops nobody knows. Some explicit material with mild to seething cultural significance.. “Expert and inspired” - (New York Times) BOOK NOW! THE GLAMAZONS - Friday and Saturday, October 24 & 25 @ 10pm BOOK NOW! An Evening with CAROL LIPNIK & SPOOKARAMA and JOSEPH KECKLER - Thursday, October 30 @ 8pm $15 What better way to spend Devil’s Night than with the otherworldly vocalists Carol Lipnik and Joseph Keckler? These artists, each possessed of multi-octave voices and their own savvy brands of spookiness, present a fun packed double bill of unusual music-- a lunatic's cabaret. Known for his thunderous baritone and androgynous beauty, singer and monologist Joseph Keckler's songs are wild, sensuous and emotional, showcased as highly theatrical, madcap production numbers. Drawing from sources as varied as Bessie Smith and Verdi, Keckler plays with a full band and is joined by classical violinist and electronic artist Danny Digital and 21st century dragster Glenn Marla. Experiencing a performance conjured by New York cult songstress Carol Lipnik and her band Spookarama is like attending a séance in a deserted Coney Island amusement park at night. Like some strange siren medium, Lipnik channels the spectrum of human emotions with her hauntingly beautiful voice . Her poetic image-rich, genre defying songwriting echoes influences as diverse as Weimer-era German cabaret, swamp blues, psychedelic folk, and turn of the century parlor songs. With Dred Scott’s crazed carnival keyboards and Jacob Lawson’s masterful gypsy violin. BOOK NOW! YOUR NEW BEST FRIENDS - Tuesday – Saturday October 21-25 @ 8pm $15 John Gilkey, Daniel Passer and Wayne Wilson are America’s newest, brightest, shiniest comedy sensation!) Direct from the stages of Las Vegas and Cirque du Soleil comes a brand new comedy revue featuring high caliber dance and musical numbers. Franco Dragone declares the company his resident group of anti-clowns, presenting all of the material that was forbidden from the stages of Cirque and LE REVE, revealing the kind of impertinent foolishness you missed. BOOK NOW! THE JAMES GANG - Saturday and Sunday, November 1 & 2 @ 8pm $15 Spiegelworld premiere! The James Gang brings their cutting edge retro mix of classic and soul and vaudevillian theatricality ot the Deluxe, fusing current music with older classic sounds from the 20’s right through to the 60’s - a fresh original sonic landscape. TJG are four magical entertainers whose live shows include singing, dancing, unicycles & performing magic. BOOK NOW!