Paolo Garbanzo, has performed for crowds all over the US and Europe. He's been a member The Flying Karamazov Brothers, earned the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Juggling Association, and performs his shows in three languages. In 2007 he won the International Jester Competition, making him an official Jester of Muncaster Castle in England, and the first American in history to be an official Jester of an English castle. Committed to comedy, skills, and his audience, he continues to grow as a performer and producer.
Goth-folk musical duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. Their latest album, Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities inspired by the natural world and the metaphysical realm, featuring songs that explore subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, and parasites.
Madame Onça is The Hardest Working Woman in Show Business. She is an artist, author, tarot reader, MC, event and tour producer and entertainer based out of Richmond, VA. She has taught ane performer across the US and in Europe and has produced countless world dance and variety arts festivals, shows and workshops. Onça's tarot deck, the World Spirit Tarot, is known diversity and inclusivity and is currently its in second printing.
The Indescructible Lady
Steel your hearts and behold, York's Circus Sweetheart, Damsel of Danger, Strong Woman, award winning performance artist: Krystal Younglove The Indestructible Lady.
Bringing you a squeamish inducing delight. From bone shattering animal traps, walking on glass, eating fire, invulnerability to the bed of nails, feats of strength, and hammering nails into her head… she certainly made a career out of all the things your mama told you not to do.
Bringing you a squeamish inducing delight. From bone shattering animal traps, walking on glass, eating fire, invulnerability to the bed of nails, feats of strength, and hammering nails into her head… she certainly made a career out of all the things your mama told you not to do.
The Baroness Alexandra Haavin (aka Donna McClaren in 'real life') is back! Known for her big hats and even bigger voice, she has been a part of the Steampunk scene in the mid-Atlantic since 2012. The Baroness has done Scotch and Absinthe tastings at multiple events, run panels including themes on character building and survival after the shows are done, but is best known for her Tea Duels. This classic Steampunk competition involves two steaming cups of tea and cookies - and a lot of laughs along the way! Curious? All will be revealed at the next Tea Duel!
("STEAM as in water, CORD as in rope, IA as in I, A") is a one-man Steampunk musical act. Stephen Cornelius, the man behind the music, uses the instruments he has lying around his apartment to regale listeners with melodic Steampunk stories featuring both mirth and mayhem.
What started as a few songs turned into a full album (and a few virtual concerts) after receiving an unexpected "gift" of half a year off during 2020. When Covid hit, live events (including theatre) were shut down for the forseeable future. During the time off, he wrote and recorded songs, shot a few music videos, and even built a set of orchestra chimes. Now that in-person gatherings are resuming, Stephen can't wait to share his music with the Steampunk community!
What started as a few songs turned into a full album (and a few virtual concerts) after receiving an unexpected "gift" of half a year off during 2020. When Covid hit, live events (including theatre) were shut down for the forseeable future. During the time off, he wrote and recorded songs, shot a few music videos, and even built a set of orchestra chimes. Now that in-person gatherings are resuming, Stephen can't wait to share his music with the Steampunk community!
This Way to the EGRESS are equal parts unruly vaudeville, ebullient world-beat, and three-ring circus all the while playing an amalgamation of worldly influences which defies genres.
If Tom Waits and Patti Smith made a musical lovechild, then sent that kid train-hopping until it was old enough to come back home and form a band…… sure enough that band would be like EGRESS. Whether you know them as the “dance band to ring in the end of the world with” or by their “raise a glass and drop a beat” attitude, EGRESS will leave their mark on you. They are known to catapult the audience with their rambunctious stage show while generating enough energy to light up a small city. Their electrifying M.O. has brought them to share the stage with amazing acts like The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Dresden Dolls, and World Inferno Friendship Society. The groups otherworldy-ness have gifted them with the ability to perform everywhere; from 2nd line parades through the French -Quarter in New Orleans, to festivals throughout the US & the UK, all the way to tiny pubs nestled in back alley’s and to sold-out crowds at prime music venues like the 9:30club in Washington D.C.
Formed in 2008, This Way to the EGRESS is a 6-piece accordion led ensemble hailing from the Tri-State area (Pennsylvania, NYC, NJ) comprised of Taylor Galassi(lead vocals, accordion, piano); Sarah Shown(vocals, piano, violin); John Wentz(tuba); Jaclyn Kidd(guitar, banjo) and Dave Best(drums) and an ever-rotating cast of horn players. With a wide variety of musical backgrounds and a diverse array of influences, EGRESS crafts intricately arranged audible cocktails which will be sure to make you move. Together they form a tapestry of worldly influences and an alchemy of sounds modern and past, familiar and forgotten.
If Tom Waits and Patti Smith made a musical lovechild, then sent that kid train-hopping until it was old enough to come back home and form a band…… sure enough that band would be like EGRESS. Whether you know them as the “dance band to ring in the end of the world with” or by their “raise a glass and drop a beat” attitude, EGRESS will leave their mark on you. They are known to catapult the audience with their rambunctious stage show while generating enough energy to light up a small city. Their electrifying M.O. has brought them to share the stage with amazing acts like The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Dresden Dolls, and World Inferno Friendship Society. The groups otherworldy-ness have gifted them with the ability to perform everywhere; from 2nd line parades through the French -Quarter in New Orleans, to festivals throughout the US & the UK, all the way to tiny pubs nestled in back alley’s and to sold-out crowds at prime music venues like the 9:30club in Washington D.C.
Formed in 2008, This Way to the EGRESS is a 6-piece accordion led ensemble hailing from the Tri-State area (Pennsylvania, NYC, NJ) comprised of Taylor Galassi(lead vocals, accordion, piano); Sarah Shown(vocals, piano, violin); John Wentz(tuba); Jaclyn Kidd(guitar, banjo) and Dave Best(drums) and an ever-rotating cast of horn players. With a wide variety of musical backgrounds and a diverse array of influences, EGRESS crafts intricately arranged audible cocktails which will be sure to make you move. Together they form a tapestry of worldly influences and an alchemy of sounds modern and past, familiar and forgotten.
Kaitlyn is a Bellydance Artist and a native of Eastern NC. She has been dancing & performing since the age of 8.
As a professional Bellydancer, she has taught workshops, toured and performed all over the USA & Internationally. She has performed in sold out shows in places such as Los Angeles and Shanghai, China. Currently she is the Creative director of Apsara and Aljamaea Bellydance troupes, an instructor, event producer, choreographer and Licensed Esthetician residing in New Bern, NC
As a professional Bellydancer, she has taught workshops, toured and performed all over the USA & Internationally. She has performed in sold out shows in places such as Los Angeles and Shanghai, China. Currently she is the Creative director of Apsara and Aljamaea Bellydance troupes, an instructor, event producer, choreographer and Licensed Esthetician residing in New Bern, NC
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.