Belles & Barnstormers Ball on October 8, 2016 in San Francisco, CA : The West Coast's infamously wild psycho-deco dance party dive bombs into the Chapel with a harrowing barrage of ferocious glamour, grandiose music and death-defying debauchery. Fleet week goes airborne with a multi-media mind storm of big bass beats and barrel house burlesque as we swing into Rocktober with a gams and jams wonderland of neo-vintage flappers, vipers, vamps, and villains all hopped-up on a retro-electro night of jazz age abandon. Dawn your dapper duds and prepare for liftoff!
Fly the circus skies with audio stunt pilots:
Big Top Daredevil: THE KLOWN (SF/DirtyVolt Music)
San Francisco Wing Walker: DELACHAUX(SF/DirtyVolt Music)
Ghetto-Swing-Glitch Baron: MY PET MONSTER (Kansas City/Adaptive Music)
Live Licks with Local Swanksters: MEGAFLAME BIG BAND (SF)
Scandalous Stage Seductions with Daring Demoiselles:
Vegas Sex Grenade: VALERIE STUNNING (Las Vegas)
High Voltage Valkyrie: OLIVIA BELLAFONTAINE (LA)
Cunning Cabal of Carnality: THE WILY MINXES (Oakland)
Vau de Vire Vixen: JAY BEE (OAKLAND)
Fabled Fiends and Floozies: FOU FOU HA! (SF/Oakland)
Plus Ferocious Femcee: MISS EMMA NATION!
STRAP US ON AND RIDE THE LIGHTNING!
'From LA to Vancouver, the wandering burlesque dance party known as Trapeze has been scorching stages and seducing dance floors with an immersive kaleidoscope of salacious performers and seismic beats. Driven by San Francisco DJ/Producer duo Delachaux and The Klown, Trapeze has been christened as the official lightning rod of the West Coast-underground's burgeoning electro-swing cult and features a parade of DJs, dancers and demimondes with a cheeky, bass heavy taste for vintage, old world wonder that's been spliced, diced and hot-wired on tomorrow's sonic dope. Recently heralded by the SF Examiner, LA Weekly and Insomniac Magazine as one of underground dance music's most innovative directions, Trapeze continues to ambush swelling audiences with some of the most uniquely refreshing sights and sounds in contemporary ...read more