[Dixielandjazz] Rosie Wants YOU - Gig opportunity for Dixieland Bands

[Stephen G Barbone]

Yes indeed, here is an idea whose time has come. Great way to get  
gigs.  Hire a chick singer/stripper like Rosie and do what she suggest  
in paragraph 2. Note also, the last 2 paragraphs. The venue wants very  
much to book a "burlesque dancer as a front woman backed up by a  
Dixieland  band. "Yeah" says ge, "that's a great combo."


 From the Brooklyn (NYC) Paper - Nov 23 - by Juilet Linderman
Call her Rosie the Rambler!
Sultry burlesque temptress Rosie 151 is taking the stage at the “Dr.  
Who”-themed Prospect Heights steampunk bar Way Station on Dec. 1, part  
of a year-long residency as frontwoman of six-piece Depression-era  
bluegrass outfit, The Red Hook Ramblers.
“The drums, horns, the bass of the tuba and trombone just lends itself  
to bump and grind,” said Rosie, who will sing, dance and, of course,  
do the strip-tease. “But the songs are about marijuana and making  
whoopee — nobody knows who wrote them — and even I blush a little  
while singing!”
Maybe so, but the buxom Brooklynite is no shrinking violet — she’s  
been entertaining throughout the burlesque circuit for six years. But  
singing is a challenge she’s willing to take on full-bore — and  
scantily clad.
“For some people, burlesque is over-saturated right now, so our  
performance is more like an all-around good time,” Rosie said. “It’s  
great jazz music of some bygone era, and it’s me singing, and of  
course, a little bit of burlesque. There’s not too much of anything,  
and a little bit of everything.”
Way Station proprietor Andy Heidel thinks an eclectic musical lineup  
is the key to a successful watering hole.
“I’m booking blues, jazz, soul, bluegrass, Dixieland — stuff I like to  
see,” Heidel said. “Having a burlesque dancer as the frontwoman,  
backed up by a Dixieland jazz band? Yeah, that’s a great combo.”
Red Hook Ramblers at the Way Station [683 Washington Ave. between St.  
Marks Avenue and Prospect Place in Prospect Heights, (917) 279-5412],  
every first Thursday beginning Dec. 1, 9 pm. Free.


I don't know about other musos, but I have a weekend gig in January as  
a sideman in a Dixieland Band at a "Gentlemen's Club" in Harrisburg  
PA. Hey, does anyone see a trend? The venue? See:

http://sohclub.com/

Be sure to surf the site, especially "entertainers".

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband