Leave the lights on, you’ll want to see this

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

By Sam Petri

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz are playing in your basement
Half naked people, music and booze always equal a good time, so it’s no wonder that burlesque has become popular again. At 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, those three elements will come together at the Pi Club, located in the basement of the Pink Garter Plaza, when Big John Bates plays his rockabilly tunes, the Voodoo Dollz perform their scantly clad burlesque show, and you drink way too much.

Burlesque can be interpreted into various styles, so each burlesque troupe is a little different. In this scenario, Big John Bates plays a 1950s style of rock and roll reminiscent of grease monkey bike gangs, neon lights and late night burger joints. He might be drunk and headed straight for dead man’s curve, but Big John Bates never crashes. Instead, he rocks - the only man on stage - with support from his troupe of burlesque babes, Little Miss Risk and L’il Luvroc, the leaders of The Voodoo Dollz. Tickets are $15 at the door. Don’t be a square, roll to the show.

Boondocks take the Center for the Arts
There will be a pandemonium of creative juice served on the evening of Friday the 13 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts. Not only is it the Dancers’ Workshop Annual Gala and the opening of artist Marie Watt’s “Blanket Stories,” but our good friends Boondocks will be playing on the back lawn underneath a tent. It’s good to have options.
 “There’s a lot of talented people in this community,” said Becky Eidemiller, the project coordinator for Friday Live. “We’re trying to get people to see them that otherwise might not.”

Boondocks most often performs in local pubs around the area because that’s where most of the stages are located. However, this Friday evening is a family-friendly all-ages show at the Center where the JHME will raffle off an electric guitar as well as tickets to various music events happening this summer.

Boondocks, a local, five-piece band, will play their spectrum of country-blues, electro-grass, western-swing, Americana and roots-music from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 13, as part of the Jackson Hole Music Experience’s Friday Live Concert Series. Tickets are $10 at the door but are free for children younger than 12 and members of the JHME, which is a non-profit group dedicated to enriching music education and performance in Jackson Hole.

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Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dolls will perform a rockabilly burlesque show on Thursday, June 12, at the Pi club.


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