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.


Salt Lake City, Utah - The Underground Gypsy Cabaret will return to Salt Lake City's Bar Deluxe (666 South State Street)on Friday, April 13, 2012 and will feature underground bands JuanaGhaniRakatanga,  and Tabla Arabia.  (http://undergroundgypsycabaret.com)

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.