 “SYRENS OF THE SOUTH PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS: THE FIRST ANNUAL SOUTHERN
FRIED BULESQUE FEST!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: Southern Fried Burlesque Fest
When: Thurs, March 10 – Sunday, March 13, 2011
Tickets: Weekend passes and tickets can be purchased at www.southernfriedburlesquefest.com
Where: Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center
130 Clairemont Ave
Decatur, Georgia 30030
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Syrens of the South is known for putting on amazing shows and bringing in the best performers from all over the country - now they’re taking the next step and producing the First Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest! The festival offers a full weekend of shows, classes, and special events. For example, Syrens will be kicking off the festival with the Atlanta Premiere of the award-winning documentary "Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque", including a Q&A after the screening with Dirty Martini and Director Gary Beeber.
Friday Night brings you The Free Range Burlesque International Showcase, featuring performances by Miss Exotic World 2004 and No. 1 in the "Burlesque Top 50" for 2009 and 2010, Dirty Martini; The Headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, Jo Boobs; Burlesque Legends Tiffany Carter and Gyna Rose Jewel, as well as other amazing performers from all over the world!
Saturday Night is the main event: The Southern Fried Burlesque Pageant has performers competing for Best Duet, Best Variety, and the first ever Southern Fried Burlesque Queen! After the awards ceremony, you can let your hair down at the Dirty South Showcase with performers from all over the Southeast, headlined by The “Godfather” of Atlanta Burlesque, Torchy Taboo!
There will be additional panels, events, and classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for all skill levels. Whether you want to learn from the beginning or fine tune your craft, this festival will have activities for all levels and aspects of burlesque, including How to Make Headdresses, How to Be a Pin-up Model, Make-up and Hair tutorials, Burlesque Business and Marketing classes, MC/Hosting instruction, and Dance classes from seasoned burlesque performers, teachers, and legends, so you can leave the festival with all the tools you need to be the next Burlesque Superstar! Don’t worry guys -all genders are welcome to attend classes!
Burlesque is the art of the striptease, with a focus on the tease. The performers occasionally strip to pasties, but there is no nudity in any of our productions. This show is a revival of an American art form that has become an international movement.
Contact:
Katherine Neslund
Syrens of the South Productions, LLC
syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
www.syrensofthesouth.com
(404) 333-8169
Southern Fried Burlesque Fest
southernfriedburlesquefest@gmail.com
www.southernfriedburlesquefest.com
 “SYRENS OF THE SOUTH PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS: TITS FOR TOYS FOR TOTS HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: Tits for Toys for Tots Holiday Spectacular
When: Friday, December 17, 2010
Doors: 9pm, Show at 9:30pm
$15 in advance, $20 at the door or $10 with a new unwrapped toy worth $5 or more
Where: The Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
290 Martin Luther King, Jr Dr SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30312
Syrens of the South prides itself on bringing you all the best this holiday season, with visions of sugar plums dancing out of your imagination and on to the stage with their Tits for Toys for Tots Holiday Spectacular and to tie it all off with a great big bow, their annual Toys for Tots Drive!
They invite you to celebrate the spirit of the season with laughs, fun and games as they invite new friends and old to the stage to ring in the holiday season in style with special guests Bellydance sensation Oracle as Showgirl Savannah Rouge, The Master of Puppets Tim Monteith, The Sultry Song Bird La La Lucious and burlesque performances by The Double Ds of Dixie D’lilah Dlite, Ruby Redmayne, Lola le Soliel, Southern Exposure’s King of Boylesque Fonda Lingue with Drag King Devin Liquor, The Syren of the South Katherine Lashe and more! With a grand finale of sending off their fabulous marine with the toy donations at the end of the night! There will also be a raffle with fabulous prizes to benefit the first annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest in Atlanta March 10-13, 2011!
Admission to the Winter Wonderland Show is $15 in advance, $20 at the door or $10 with a new unwrapped toy worth at least $5 for the toy drive. You can purchase tickets at www.syrensofthesouth.com!
Burlesque is the art of the striptease, with a focus on the tease. The performers occasionally strip to pasties, but there is no nudity in any of our productions. This show is a revival of an American art form that has become an international movement.
 Wanna come out and strut your stuff? Are you a sultry song bird that wants to share your voice with the world? Do you like to juggle and ride a unicycle? If you said yes to any of these or perhaps have another skill you would like to share with us please set up an appointment to come audition for one of Atlanta's premiere burlesque companies, Syrens of the South for our 2011 season!
We're looking for:
Burlesque
Magicians
Puppets
Clowns
Acrobats
Aerialists
Stilt walkers
Hula hoopers
Jugglers
Musical Acts
MCs
Pick-up Artists/Panty Wranglers
We are looking for independent performers as we are not a troupe so you can perform when it's best for you and your schedule. There's no obligation and we do not limit your involvement in other productions as we are non-exclusive.
All auditions will be set up in 15 minute intervals beginning at 2pm. If your act requires recorded music you must bring it on CD. If you would like to set up an audition time please email syrensofthesouth@gmail.com before 5pm on Dec 17, 2010 to set up your time. All audition times are first come first serve and once we are full we're full. Please do not set up an appointment if you do not intend on coming. If you need to cancel after the cut off time, which is never a good idea, please call (404) 333-8169.
 “See New York’s Best Burlesque for One Night Only!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: Dangerous Curves: Burlesque On The Go-Go! Fall Tour
When: October 31, 2010, 8pm
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Where: Eyedrum
290 Martin Luther King, Jr, Dr, SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
Syrens of the South is pairing up with New York City's best known, most popular and award-winning burlesque stars, Anita Cookie, Clams Casino, Darlinda Just Darlinda, GiGi La Femme and Minnie Tonka! These ladis are hitting the road and bringing their signature acts to stages throughout the country for a three-week tour that takes them from the Midwest through the South and up the Eastern Seaboard including Atlanta, GA, on Halloween!
The Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque On the Go-Go Fall Tour will be the follow-up to their incredibly successful 2010 coast-to-coast, 23-city Spring Tour including Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Denver, Las Vegas, Dallas, Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Richmond. Dangerous Curves Ahead packed houses across the country and received oodles of critical acclaim: The Nashville Scene said "It’s a veritable aureole speedwagon as the Outer Boroughs’ most buxom babes go from zero to 38D on their road trip across America!" and the Phoenix New Times called the show, "An excellent night of twirling tassels and bawdy jokes."
Dangerous Curves Ahead showcases a group of the hottest and most innovative performers in the international burlesque scene. These burlesque starlets have rocked and shocked stages from London to Vancouver to Key West and are multiple award-winners at the annual Burlesque Hall of Fame Pageant in Las Vegas. Along with selling out venues across the US, they have produced standing-room only shows in New York City on stages ranging from Off-Broadway theaters to the trendiest clubs.
Catch us while you can!
xoxo,
The Curvettes
Advance tickets can be purchased at www.syrensofthesouth.com.
Contact: Katherine Neslund
syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
www.syrensofthesouth.com
 “Come celebrate three years of Syrens of the South Shows!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: 3rd Anniversary Burlesque & Vaudeville Spectacular
When: August 21, 2010, 7pm & 10pm
Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Where: Eyedrum
290 Martin Luther King, Jr, Dr, SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
Syrens of the South has been bringing you the best burlesque from all over Atlanta and the U.S. for three years. With previous guests including Atlanta's Best Burlesque Troupe 2009 Blast Off Burlesque, Burlesque Hall of Fame's Best Duet 2006 Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey (just named Mr Exotic World 2010) and the Queen of Queer Burlesque and Atlanta's Best Burlesque Performer 2008 The Lady, Miss Vagina Jenkins; Syrens of the South is sure to continue to bring you a variety of shows with amazing special guests and this anniversary show will be no different!
Performers for the anniversary show include:
Asheville's Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival Producer and World renowned entertainer and teacher Onca O'Leary (http://www.hardestworkingwomaninshowbusiness.com/);
Knoxville's Salome Cabaret (http://www.salomecabaret.com/) including the amazing Kisa von Teasa (http://kisavonteasa.weebly.com/) who performed in the Best Debut category at the 2010 Burlesque Hall of Fame;
Syrens of the South Producer and internationally recognized performer and teacher Katherine Lashe (http://www.katherinelashe.com/);
Miss Viva Las Vegas 2010 Runner-Up and Texas Burlesque Fest 2010 Audience Pick Ursula Undress (http://www.ursulaundress.com/);
The Master of Puppets and Pastor of Muppets, the amazing Mr. Tim Monteith (http://www.mistakenidentities.biz/);
The Vivacious Vixen and Sultry Songbird Lala Lucious;
Atlanta's newest burlesque sensation and recent Syrens of the South ABCs & 123s of Burlesque graduate Miss Ruby Redmayne;
more amazing performers to be announced!
Syrens of the South will also have an amazing array of vendors for you to peruse before and after the two shows. Items for sale will include jewelry, corsets, costume pieces, and hats, in addition to the performer t-shirts and photos. If you are interested in being a sponsor or vendor please send an email to syrensofthesouth(at)gmail(dot)com with "Anniversary Sponsor/Vendor" in the subject line.
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 “SYRENS OF THE SOUTH, HAVE PASTIES, WILL TRAVEL!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: Vegas or Bust!
When: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Doors: First show at 7pm, second show at 10pm
$10 in Advance, $15 at the door
Where: Little Tree Studios (Behind The James Joyce)
2842 Franklin St
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
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Every year the best burlesque performers in the country gather together the first weekend in June to attend the annual Burlesque Hall of Fame Reunion Weekend and Reigning Queen of Burlesque Pageant! How do they get there? How are the performers picked?
Performers from all over the world dust off their pasties, put on their best dress and take it off in front of a camera to submit to this event! March 13, 2010 at Little Tree Studios, we will be filming for many of the Atlanta performers to give them a chance to shine in Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada! Tickets sales will go to pay for the video footage and editing so even if you can't make it buying a ticket is like making a donation to these girls to help their dreams come true!
Not only will the videos be used to submit to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, but also to New York Burlesque Fest, Texas Burlesque Fest, New Orleans Burlesque Fest, Paris, Amsterdam, etc... so this is an opportunity to help spred the Atlanta love all over the country, and in some cases, THE WORLD!
Speaking of the World. Atlanta's very own, The Lady, Miss Vagina Jenkins has been accepted to perform in the London Burlesque Festival in April and needs help raising some dough to get there. We will be having a raffle at the end of the 7pm and 10pm shows to help raise money for this very special lady to send her across the pond to show off the amazingness of Atlanta burlesque like a missionary going to a 3rd world country.
So come on down and support your local burlesque performers and help them shine all across the country and the world!
Burlesque is the art of the striptease, with a focus on the tease. The performers occasionally strip to pasties, but there is no nudity in any of our productions. This show is a revival of an American art form that has become an international movement.
Contact:
Katherine Neslund & Lydia Velazquez
syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
www.syrensofthesouth.com
 Come one come all to the Syrens of the South’s Mechanical Masquerade of Marvels and Merriment! Here now marks the first in the series of semi-monthly events brought to you by the marvellous mistresses of petticoats, frills, and thrills – the Syrens of the South. Come enjoy this maiden voyage away from the standard burlesques and enter into a world of neo-Victorian anachronistic characters. An evening filled with brass, leather, steam and SCIENCE! Modelled after the fantastic sub-genre of fiction, fashion, and music often called Steampunk or Victoriana. This event series promises to highlight fine vendors, entertaining amusements, and music that would make Jules Verne proud.
With song selections playing through the night by the illustrious host of the evening, the notorious Doctor Q, the evening promises to cater to all types from any time period. For those with finer tastes, there will be performances sprinkled through the evening to delight and defy the sharpest of imagination. And the lords and ladies may even wish to peruse the displays by the artists, vendors, and sponsors such as Anachrocon, the Clockwork Cabaret, Extraordinary Contraptions, Gentlemen’s Emporium, Penny Dreadful Productions and more.
So hop upon your horseless carriage, time travelling machine, airship, or otherwise and be sure to attend the festivities to dance, shop, and enjoy the cavalcade of clockworks and carousing in your finest threads or scavenged and assembled attire. And remember, the finest threads have a chance of winning our costume contest with prizes donated by Abney Park, Cherie Priest and more!
On Dec 2nd from 8-10pm, at The Burlesque & Cabaret Meet-up at The James Joyce Irish Pub, you can bring your donations for Toys for Tots and pick up your discounted tickets to the Winter Wonderland Show on Dec 12th. If you are unable to make the shows on Dec 12th and would just like to drop off donations for Toys for Tots, that's fine too!
“SYRENS OF THE SOUTH PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: THE WINTER WONDERLAND SHOW AND TOYS FOR TOTS TOY DRIVE!”
Who: Syrens of the South Productions
What: Winter Wonderland Show!
When: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Doors: Student showcase and first show at 7pm second show at 10pm
$15, $10 with a new unwrapped toy worth $5 or more
Where: Little Tree Studios (Behind The James Joyce)
2842 Franklin St
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
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Syrens prides itself on bringing you all the best this holiday season, with visions of sugar plums dancing out of your imagination and on to the stage with their Winter Wonderland Show, their student showcase, and to tie it all off with a great big bow, with their annual Toys for Tots Drive!
They invite you to celebrate the spirit of the season with laughs, fun and games as they invite new friends and old to the stage to ring in the holiday season in style with special guests Jahara Phoenix Dance Company, Tim Monteith, Chad Sanborn, Ursula Undress, Renea’ Le Roux, Katherine Lashe and Talloolah Love just to name a few! With a grand finale of sending off their fabulous marine with the toy donations at the end of the night!
The beginning of the night for one show only is the student show case with this season’s new students. The ladies and gentleman have been working hard coming up with new acts and learning from the best of burlesque in Atlanta in order to turn out a great show! We hope you come to see the new meat, and stay for the main course!
There will be a cash donations bar to help get everyone into the holiday spirit! Admission to the Winter Wonderland Show is $15, or $10 with a new unwrapped toy worth at least $5 for the toy drive. Tickets are on sale at www.syrensofthesouth.com!
Burlesque is the art of the striptease, with a focus on the tease. The performers occasionally strip to pasties, but there is no nudity in any of our productions. This show is a revival of an American art form that has become an international movement.
Contact:
Katherine Neslund & Lydia Velazquez
syrensofthesouth@gmail.com
www.syrensofthesouth.com
So much to catch up on.... We got a great review on Examiner.com from the show we did for Mon Cherie's Rockabilly Lounge, here's a segment: " Syrens of the South featured several amazing burlesque performers, and they also threw in a magic show by a handsome vampire magician for the ladies! Hostess for Syrens of the South Katherine Lashe was also a pleasure to watch. Her mix of humor, allure, and sarcasm resembled the lounge lizards of the past, but she brought the style back to life.
My favorite performance throughout the night was Renea' LeRoux. She did burlesque as the Queen of Hearts, in a beautiful costume she designed herself. Not only is the buxom beauty nice to look at, but she gives these coy and almost evil glances that really add to her performance. She's definitely one to look out for!"  This past weekend we opened for Unknown Hinson at Variety Playhouse and it was an amazing experience. Coming up: We have two shows on Halloween so check out the calendar for all the details! One from 6-11 for you early types and one from 10-dawn for you late night types!
Also, there's a poll for the top 50 burlesque performers and you can nominate any five performers, MCs, teachers, etc.... and we'd love to see some local Atlanta talent in that top 50! Katherine Lashe, Talloolah Love, Renea'le Roux, Ursula Undress, D'lilah D'lite, Rosie Palms, John Carney...they're all great choices from the Syrens of the South family.
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