It is with so much love and appreciation in our hearts that
we want you all to know how much we have loved bringing you the Underground
Gypsy Cabaret.This is a night that has
always been as exciting for us as producers and performers as it has been for you
as our audience.We have loved every
single moment of it and every single one of you.
It is with an equal sense of melancholy that we must bid you
all farewell as we bring the Underground Gypsy Cabaret to a final close.While this is the end of the night, this is
not the end of the fun and mayhem.Amanda and Kelsey will continue to take the belly dance world by storm,
bring you fresh visions of their art through their Black Box Belly Dance
Affair, and Brian and Leisl will always be thrusting newer and more exciting
events of artistically theatrical proportions at you as they continue to put
the polish on a new circus of excitement that will be revealed in Spring (the
season of rebirth).
Keep an eye, ear and heart out for what is to come next from
all us!There will be more fabulous
nights ahead for all.
Sincerely and forever yours,
Underground Gypsy Cabaret
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Underground Gypsy Cabaret returns to Salt Lake City for
Friday the 13th of April
The Underground Gypsy Cabaret
returns to Bar Deluxe on Friday, April 13, 2012.
Utah’s fastest growing and most exciting club night, the UndergroundGypsy Cabaret features local and touring underground musicians and an
assortment of dance, cabaret, burlesque and cirque performers creating a one-of-a-kind
entertainment adventure. Throughout the
night, the audience will experience a variety of exciting and exotic performers
that can include belly dancers, contortionists, aerial and trapeze artists,
burlesque, magic and illusion, juggling, fire dancing, sword swallowing, and
more, all presented to the best live original music! It is an evening of unbridled passions,
pulsating rhythms and undulating melodies spun together with the elemental
energies of Gypsy magic. It is a night of pure celebration.
The music for The Underground Gypsy Cabaret is driven by Utah’s own
underground Gypsy edge band Juana Ghani whose performances are, according to Beth
Clifford of City Weekly, “celebrations of the people they are, the cultures
they love.” Oliver Arditi of
LiveUnsigned says Juana Ghani creates “soulful, open, inviting, generous music,
both spiritual and sensual, full of love, death, sex, grief, passion and
vodka.” Juana Ghani's music is a
marriage of Old World traditions and Rock-n-Roll energy all wrapped up in the
dreams of Gypsy legend. It is at once
lively and dark, always teetering on the edge of sanity and taunting
Imagination's greatest landscapes.
Gypsy fusion band Rakatanga brings an intoxicatingly energetic
performance to the Underground Gypsy Cabaret.
Rakatanga’s music and
performances are steeped in the spices of Ukraine and Spain and cooked up with
a universal rock-n-roll heat that brings audiences to their feet.
Opening the Underground Gypsy Cabaret with their signature authentic Middle
Eastern beats will be the renowned drum ensemble, Tabla Arabia.
Mistress of Ceremonies for the evening will be the notorious Kitty
channeling Mae West. Featured performers
for this Underground Gypsy Cabaret include belly dance beauties Amanda Borba
and Kelsey Covington, the breathtaking aerial artist Banrion Phoenix, mistress
of swords Amina, underground goddess Pamela Offret, the serpentine stylings of
The Snakeboy, the sensual strength of pole artist Xandra Motley and many more
exciting, spine-tingling acts.
Glen Warchol of the Salt Lake Tribune declared the Underground Gypsy
Cabaret to be “Big Fun in a city short on that commodity.”
The Underground Gypsy Cabaret is sponsored by Ogden’s Own Underground
Herbal Spirits, SLUG Magazine, Utah Musicians Radio and is supported by
XMission.
Bar Deluxe is located at 666 South State Street in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Tickets are$7 at the door. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. Must be 21-years or older to attend.
Friday, January 20, 2012
One week later and I think we're finally recovered. What a show that was! SOLD OUT!!! Thank you to our bands Haywire Outfit, Juana Ghani and Hectic Hobo. Thank you to our performers Jeremy Young, Amanda Borba, Kelsey Covington, Pamela Offret, NiKo, Hope Phoenix, Crepsley the Magician, Lunar Collective, Xandra Motley. Thank you to our sponsors Underground Herbal Spirits, SLUG Magazine and Utah Musicians Radio. And most of all, thank you to everybody who came out to party with the Underground Gypsy Cabaret!
The next show is starting to take shape now. We have so many exciting things in the works. You won't want to miss it. This one will be a Friday the 13th, too, so make sure and mark your calendar. (Hint: April!)
Thank you, also, to all the wonderful people who took so many fabulous photos of the night. Check 'em out here:
Underground Gypsy Cabaret returns to Salt Lake City for Friday the 13th
The
Underground Gypsy Cabaret returns to Bar Deluxe on Friday, January 13, 2012.
Salt Lake
City, Utah - The Underground Gypsy
Cabaret will return to Salt Lake City's Bar Deluxe (666 South State Street)
on Friday, January 13, 2012 and will feature underground bands Juana Ghani, Hectic
Hobo and Haywire Outfit. (http://undergroundcabaret.blogspot.com)
The
brainchild of belly dance sensation Amanda Borba and musical mastermind Brian
Bonell, and brought to life with the help of creative partners Kelsey Covington
and Leisl Bonell, The Underground Gypsy
Cabaret is a unique club night created to feature local and touring
underground musicians and an assortment of dance, cabaret, burlesque and circus
performers. Throughout the night, the
audience will experience a variety of exciting and exotic performers that can
include belly dancers, contortionists, aerial and trapeze artists, burlesque,
magic and illusion, juggling, fire dancing, sword swallowing, and more, all to
live music! It is an evening of unbridled
passions, pulsating rhythms and undulating melodies spun together with the
elemental energies of Gypsy magic. It is a night of pure celebration!
The music
for The Underground Gypsy Cabaret is
driven by Utah’s own underground acoustic Gypsy edge band Juana Ghani who, according to indie music reviewer, Oliver Arditi
of LiveUnsigned, creates “soulful, open, inviting, generous music, both
spiritual and sensual, full of love, death, sex, grief, passion and
vodka.” Juana Ghani's music is a
marriage of Old World traditions and Rock-n-Roll energy all wrapped up in the
dreams of Gypsy legend. It is at once lively and dark, always teetering
on the edge of sanity and taunting Imagination's greatest landscapes.
Bringing the
night of Friday the 13th to an ecstatic climax is Salt Lake City’s
vagabond Gypsy Americana band Hectic Hobo
presenting a live show that immediately engages the audience, sucking them in
and not letting them go until the last cymbal crashes and someone throws water
in their face. Hectic Hobo is the fun
that everyone wants to have but doesn’t dare.
Theo McNamatar of The Regal Seagull has said, “Hectic Hobo makes you
feel you’ve been at a Devotchka concert on an Irish pirate ship. And you will do anything to keep from getting
back to port.”
Opening the Underground Gypsy Cabaret will be Salt
Lake City’s own underground jazz band HaywireOutfit.
Featured performers for this Underground
Gypsy Cabaret include the dazzling Master of Ceremonies Jeremy Young, underground
goddess Pamela Offret, the breathtaking aerial artist Hope Phoenix, belly dance
beauties Amanda Borba and Kelsey Covington, the entrancing fusion of the Lunar Dance
Collective, the macabre sorcery of Crepsley the Magician, the sensual strength
of pole artist Xandra Motley and many more exciting, spine-tingling acts.
Glen Warchol of the Salt Lake Tribune declared the Underground Gypsy Cabaret to be “Big Fun in a city short on that
commodity.”
The Underground Gypsy Cabaret is
sponsored by Ogden’s Own Underground Herbal Spirits and SLUG Magazine.
Bar Deluxe
is located at 666 South State Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tickets are
$7 at the door. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. Must be 21-years or older
to attend.