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Week 1 - Sept 14-16
Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer, aerialist Uma Mimnagh, hoop spinner Jonas Woolverton, human beatbox Reggie Watts, accordion powerhouse Jason Webley, international singing sensation Meow Meow, Sxip Shirey's metal pipe contraption

Week 2 - Sept 21-23
gothic circus musicians Beat Circus, folk rocker Erin McKeown, Cirque Du Soleil's "Red Bastard," rock opera powerhouse Corn Mo, Una Mimnagh's "ceiling walk," sequinned sex bomb Meow Meow, Sxip Shirey’s flute & 5 curious objects

SXIP'S HOUR OF CHARM
Presented with Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer*

Weekends, September 14-30, 2007
Zero Arrow Theatre

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Co-produced by Thirsty Girl Production

Regularly described as indescribable, Sxip's Hour of Charm is an exhilarating sampling of the most exciting performing artists in the country today!

A long-time staple at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in New York, Sxip's Hour of Charm is three weekends of music and performance that will delight, confuse and enlighten even the most cynical of Boston's seen-it-all audiences.

Each show is hosted by Sxip Shirey and features 6-8 different acts, including songwriters, circus artists, human beat boxers, story tellers, comics, aerialists and more. The darkly enchanting cast of characters changes from week to week.

Co-presented in Cambridge by Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer, performances of Sxip's Hour of Charm take place Fridays and Sundays at 8:00 pm and Saturdays at 7:00 and 10:00 pm in the A.R.T.’s Club at Zero Arrow Theatre, the cabaret setting with cash bar created for The Dresden Dolls' The Onion Cellar and recently used for A Marvelous Party! the Noel Coward Celebration.

*Please note that the schedule of performers is subject to change without notice, and Amanda Palmer performs only on the first weekend.

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMERS

Week One (September 14—16)

• Amanda Palmer, performing both Dresden Dolls and new solo material
• aerialist/ceiling walker Una Mimnagh
• Jonas Woolverton spinning on, inside and around the elegant rolling steel hoop, "The Cyr"
• human beat box vocal looping and comedy from Reggie Watts
• accordion and song powerhouse Jason Webley
• International Singing Sensation and “sequinned sex bomb waiting to detonate” Meow Meow
• Sxip Shirey recounting his recent trip to a mad Serbian Brass band festival and performing on his famous metal pipe contraption with 5 red marbles and 5 glass bowls

Sxip Shirey	Amanda Palmer	Jonas Woolverton	Una Mimnagh	Reggie Watts	Meow Meow

Week Two (September 21—23)

• the weird American gothic avant circus music of Beat Circus
• the ebullient, sly and arresting folk rock stylings of Erin McKeown
• the “foolery” of The Red Bastard (also known as Eric David, of Cirque Du Soleil) a grotesque yet disarmingly charming buffoon whose enormous ego is matched only by his colossal red ass
• the hilarious and moving accordion rock opera powerhouse Corn Mo (who used to be in The Polyphonic Spree, and opens regularly for They Might Be Giants and Ben Folds Five)
• the return of that sequinned sex bomb and singing sensation Meow Meow
• Una Mimnagh’s beautiful and dangerous "ceiling walk"
• Sxip Shirey’s composition for Industrial flute and five curious objects.

Sxip Shirey	Erin McKeown	Una Mimnagh	The Red Bastard	Meow Meow	Beat Circus

Week Three (September 28 —30)

• AJ Silver, the sexiest rope-spinning cowboy ever to come out of the Bronx
• songwriter Dayna Kurtz, a genre-defying smoky alto singer/songwriter
• the sweet, sexy, raunchy storytelling of Greg Walloch who uses his own cerebral palsy to challenge preconceptions of human disabilities with his hilarious and provocative comedic monologues
• the return of Una Mimnagh performing knotted spinning falls on the single hung rope ("corde de lisse")
• Sxip Shirey’s stories of quantum mechanics and red blood cells, plus the performance of a work for circus organ, obnoxiophone and tampon applicator
• Emily Grogan, multifaceted rocker and singer of confessional, soul-bearing narratives

AJ Silver	Una Mimnagh	Dayna Kurtz	Greg Walloch	Emily Grogan	Sxip Shirey

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