the burlesque poetess(s)


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~ Sunday, May 5 ~
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Canto/lifepigraphs via New Yorker/O Magazine

Power of suggestion: The asymmetrical

Compared with other cultures we live in
a touch-phobic society that’s made affection
with anyone but loved ones taboo.
Like a degree but quicker; like a job but more fun;
like a boyfriend but forever. At ten minutes
a man gets more successful,
everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets
more successful, both men and women like
her less. Break glass in case of
could be more confidence.

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~ Wednesday, May 1 ~
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jojolazar:

One-Room Uke Schoolhouse with jojo Lazar
Starts: 05/07/2013
Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions
$140 members / 120

Just starting out, continuing, or need a refresher group to practice ukulele with? This 6 week course begins with a supportive fast paced intro/review of ukulele basics, designed around your skill level. Some students can focus on learning initial tunes ‘n tricks while others can hone their fingerpicking, strum patterns, and learn new styles. This class will cover vaudeville standards, rock, folk, and whatever you fancy to build a songbook and style all your own.

Contact jojo Lazar – jojolazar.com - burlesque.poetess@gmail.com
May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, 11

http://passim.org/school/one-room-uke-schoolhouse-jojo-lazar

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jojolazar:

One-Room Uke Schoolhouse with jojo Lazar
Starts: 05/07/2013
Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions
$140 members / 120

Just starting out, continuing, or need a refresher group to practice ukulele with? This 6 week course begins with a supportive fast paced intro/review of ukulele basics, designed around your skill level. Some students can focus on learning initial tunes ‘n tricks while others can hone their fingerpicking, strum patterns, and learn new styles. This class will cover vaudeville standards, rock, folk, and whatever you fancy to build a songbook and style all your own.

Contact jojo Lazar – jojolazar.com - burlesque.poetess@gmail.com

May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, 11

http://passim.org/school/one-room-uke-schoolhouse-jojo-lazar

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~ Monday, April 22 ~
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jojolazar:

The Burlesque Poetess @ Twisted World: Divine Decadence [my FB event page/sched]
FEAT. guest jew harp & multi-strumentalist poet performer AMERIGO MACKERAL!April 26-28, Doubletree Hotel, Somerset NJ

set times for your busking nakey ruffian

FRIDAY…April, 26, 20138:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Acoustic Stage

10:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Lobby Stage.

SATURDAY…2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Mirabelle Stage

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Upstairs Stage

And a guest appearence in one miss rollerhoops’s set likely as well?!

ABOUT: Celebrate the Decadence of Decades and World Visions!
Twisted World: Divine Decadence is an 18+ festival that spans 3 days of avante garde performances, bands, writers, artists, vendors, costuming, and more.

We are multicultural, multi-genre, sex-positive, feminist, and welcoming of all genders. Our staff members all have a track record of being the best at what they do. Our attendees aren’t numbers – they are a part of our community.

We envision a world where all people can come together and celebrate what makes us different…together.

www.thetwistedworld.comhttps://www.facebook.com/TheTwistedWorld.RFP
http://www.facebook.com/events/333108596745124/ 

(photo by Hans Wendland/Soft time cd release)

jojolazar:

The Burlesque Poetess @ Twisted World: Divine Decadence [my FB event page/sched] FEAT. guest jew harp & multi-strumentalist poet performer AMERIGO MACKERAL!

April 26-28, Doubletree Hotel, Somerset NJ

set times for your busking nakey ruffian

FRIDAY…April, 26, 2013
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Acoustic Stage

10:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Lobby Stage
.

SATURDAY…
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Mirabelle Stage

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Upstairs Stage

And a guest appearence in one miss rollerhoops’s set likely as well?!

ABOUT: Celebrate the Decadence of Decades and World Visions!
Twisted World: Divine Decadence is an 18+ festival that spans 3 days of avante garde performances, bands, writers, artists, vendors, costuming, and more.

We are multicultural, multi-genre, sex-positive, feminist, and welcoming of all genders. Our staff members all have a track record of being the best at what they do. Our attendees aren’t numbers – they are a part of our community.

We envision a world where all people can come together and celebrate what makes us different…together.

www.thetwistedworld.com
https://www.facebook.com/TheTwistedWorld.RFP http://www.facebook.com/events/333108596745124/

(photo by Hans Wendland/Soft time cd release)

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~ Friday, April 12 ~
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jojolazar:

WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS on tour with JAGGERY!

***SOFT TIME TRAVELER TOUR***

4/13 - Royal Room Seattle, Seattle -> http://www.facebook.com/events/123273141196789/

4/14 - Hollywood Theatre Portland -> http://www.facebook.com/events/446651692079856/ PreSale tickets will be here -> http://hollywoodtheatre.org/

4/15 Cafe Du Norde , San Fransisco ->   http://www.facebook.com/events/580883078591665/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3416004

4/16 Queen Bee, San Diego -> http://www.facebook.com/events/389215141177859/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/348969

4/17 - Rogue Bar, Scottsdale -> http://www.facebook.com/events/324559277666422/

4/19 - JAM Fest - DeLeon Plaza Band Stand, Victoria, TX -> https://www.facebook.com/events/145884895585565/

4/20 - Swan Dive, Austin -> http://www.facebook.com/events/555289794491148/

jojolazar:

WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS on tour with JAGGERY!

***SOFT TIME TRAVELER TOUR***

4/13 - Royal Room Seattle, Seattle -> http://www.facebook.com/events/123273141196789/

4/14 - Hollywood Theatre Portland -> http://www.facebook.com/events/446651692079856/ PreSale tickets will be here -> http://hollywoodtheatre.org/

4/15 Cafe Du Norde , San Fransisco -> http://www.facebook.com/events/580883078591665/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3416004

4/16 Queen Bee, San Diego -> http://www.facebook.com/events/389215141177859/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/348969

4/17 - Rogue Bar, Scottsdale -> http://www.facebook.com/events/324559277666422/

4/19 - JAM Fest - DeLeon Plaza Band Stand, Victoria, TX -> https://www.facebook.com/events/145884895585565/

4/20 - Swan Dive, Austin -> http://www.facebook.com/events/555289794491148/

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~ Saturday, March 23 ~
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mlle:

L’anarchie pour fraggle rock (by burlesquepoetess)

jojo wld like to invite you to Walter Sickert & The Army of Brojen Toys’s soft time traveler cd release TONIGHT!!!!!!!

Saturday, March 23, 2013, 9:00pm
Soft Time Traveler: Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys with Ruby Rose Fox, The Field Effect, The Rationales
Saturday, March 23 
Doors at 8 PM; Show at 9 PM; 18+ Show
Advance Box Office Price $14

Tickets: http://bit.ly/10bf8ws


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~ Tuesday, February 26 ~
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jojolazar:

Your ukulele “professoress” for all occasions! Goofy -or- melancholy and everything inbetween… Passim School of music is continuing to assist in my corrupting the world w. the mighty ukulele!

http://www.clubpassim.org/school/continuing-ukulele-circle

Continuing ukulele circle w. jojo Lazar
Starts: 03/12/2013
Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM, 5 Sessions
| $120 / 105 (members)

So you’ve learned to play some tunes on uke, but want to expand your abilities, chords and strum vocabulary— beyond! In this environment you can challenge yourself, make personal goals, (try a new size/type of uke? play standing?) and develop your own songbook. This unique group will teach you some intermediate strumming/fingerpicking, more complex songs, techniques in transposing contemporary music and a bit more music theory as relates to ukulele. 5 weeks of a supportive fun atmosphere for post-beginner level students interested in a unique collaborative environment. Vaudevillian standards and rock songs I can/will teach you, but what you want to do next is up to you!

Any questions feel free to contact me, burlesque.poetess@gmail.com /
jojolazar.com

March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9

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~ Wednesday, February 13 ~
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jojo, The Burlesque Poetess
@ Wicked, the revenge of the renaissance faire THIS WEEKEND!
(feb 15-17, Doubletree Somerset NJ & Bridgewater-Somerset hotel)

i’ll be teaching a group uke lesson Sat. afternoon at 3p, det’s soon— and i’ll be busking you lovingly out of the con hither and yon on Sun. as always!

…appearing as curious Boopkowitz artifact at:
THE TIME TRAVELER’S RESORT (Bridgewater-Somerset)

SET TIMES / SATURDAY
2p - Burlesque Poetess musical/comedy etc. @ Salon C&D  (TTR hotel)
3p - group beginning uke lesson - Kennedy Ballroom (TTR)
8p/whoknows! - The ‘Neverending Party’ @ The Concierge Lounge, a Speakeasy Soiree, set time unknown but shld be rated RRRRacy!

AND SUNDAY
12:30p - Burlesque Poetess bidding you adieu from Salon C&D
Then busking err’where! Then back to beantownz :/

Wicked’s full sched. as a google .doc is accessible here: http://wickedfaire.com/pleasures

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jojo, “The Burlesque Poetess” (Army of Toys, Tiny Maccabees Prod.’s)— is known for wielding ukulele and frilly verse with a glam future-past songbook that ranges from vaudeville standards to original wax cylinder waltzes. She draws blind contour caricatures and writes gift inapproetry on the spot, as well. You may have seen this tiny tart being a broken toy, girl so loud or tiny instrument busking in the gutter— and being a generally feisty Betty Boopkowitz about greater Boston and the Steampunk ports of the Eastern seaboard. Speak easy, mister. (http://jojolazar.com)

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~ Thursday, January 10 ~
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mlle:

Sleep deppin’ super emo cover of *Soul Love from last month along with a drawing i did in dec ‘02. Wow, art a decade a part. (‘sordid details following’ was the og title on deviantART. i drew this in my purse journal on a train haha)— aren’t you lucky i’ve been obsessed this long? (*this silly voice recording iPhone mp3 ‘demo’ features an apologetic awkward D chord on my low-G tenor uke, and giggling, for which i cannot apologize)

Live every day like it’s bowieday? Like it’s always Herr Bowiepantalons’s (6)66th, i say!

Thine burlesque poetess is going to be Madame Psychosis’s grannycore/flygirl hype(r)woman at a genderfucked show this SAT. 1/12 where i am likely premiering my GRANNYCORE call to arms ma-bob on ukulele. Well, version 1.0 too much Nirvana Bleach album edition, anyway! Just wanted to whet your appetite w some awkward me on uke/bowie celebratory-ness, and then invite you to come on out to some super glitttery silly fun!

FB EVENT PAGE:

The dance party your mother warned you about.

Four of Boston’s weirdest, gender-bendingest, most meta-poetic musical situations present a night to kick off twenty-(lucky)-thirteen in a way that will make you shimmy like the world ended in December.

9pm Madame Psychosis (http://jadesylvan.com/music/madame-psychosis/)
9:45pm What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? (http://www.whattimeisitmrfox.com/)
10:45pm Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assasins (http://www.sarahrabdau.com/)
11:45pm Johnny Blazes and The Pretty Boys (http://johnnyblazes.com/)

It hurts to imagine a person trying to live through twenty-thirteen not having kicked it off with this show. Come celebrate the luckiest year with Johnny et al at Johnny D’s.

Get tickets HERE.

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~ Wednesday, January 2 ~
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jojolazar:

TWENTY THIRTEEN! YEAR OF THE ROCK-KELE!

well, anyway, 2013 - the year i teach -you- to teach yourself how to do whatever you want on the ukelele, forevs. for reals. with pleasure and a lot of laughing, it’s a really fun course. lookin forward, guys! i am honoured and privileged to be an instructor at Passim School of music! my last course was full of phenom’ ppl and i can’t wait to see what comes next.

Beginning/Intermediate Ukulele
jojo Lazar
Starts: 01/15/2013
Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions | $140 / 120 (members)
http://passim.org/school/beginningintermediate-ukulele

Learn the very versatile and more than a tad vaudevillian tiny instrument in a relaxed classroom setting.

This unique 2-part class gives you a fun and thorough 4 week introduction to the ukulele (tuning, posture, strums, chords, reading charts, standard and rock tunes, fingerpicking) followed by 2 weeks devoted to your own song projects. After a few sessions you won’t be a beginner, you’ll simply be a ukulele player! —one ready to be the life of any party or speak easy.

January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 26

http://passim.org/school/beginningintermediate-ukulele

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~ Monday, December 17 ~
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mlle:

We are 3 days away from our less than $500 goal! let’s make our first offic’ band VIDEO! **our kickstarter** also ends on the Mayan end of the world, when we’re throwing a Last day on earth party at Oberon with the ORG kids! 12/20. Here’s my prize package (3 of 5 left!):

(12.1.12) INTRODUCING - The ARmy of BRoken TOys

http://youtu.be/tzMV9lO8-vg
http://kck.st/Umgzjo

We wanted to take a few minutes, over the next few days, to introduce you to each member of the band and highlight a bit about them and their their unique contributions to our “Dada-esque steamcrunk carnival of just plain good ‘not-always-so-clean’ fun”! Each new band member will come with a BRAND NEW reward!

jojo’s NEW REWARD

$10: jojo - #TWEETKU - {a twitter poem from jojo + Title Track - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD + ETHER ART CARD} jojo the Burlesque Poetess will TWEET YOU A POEM authored just for YOU!!! (https://twitter.com/poetesss) you’ll also get a digital download of the title track…with bonus art & kickstarter-exclusive content and a digital art card

If you can’t donate, please rebroadcast! Yours in tiny zeppelins, jojo

—-> http://kck.st/Umgzjo

Commissioned inapproetry pour vous, mes amis ;)

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