[OutVoice] HOWL Festival Hit East Village Again This Weekend

[Zecca Esquibel]

Party Time! Once again, the elaborately costumed Howl Festival
will land in New York City's Thompkins Square Park this weekend
featuring dozens of Downtown's most notorious LGBT singers and performers
time-warped into the music and styles of 1890's Bowery decadence.
And, once again, yours truely will be whipping up backing tracks for
several of the performances! Hope to see you there.

Zecca

Here's the official release:


HOWL! FESTIVAL AND THE JACKIE FACTORY PRESENT
HOWLUCINATION '08:"LOW LIFE CITY"
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7
5-7 PM, FREE ADMISSION
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, NYC
mothernyc.com/lowlife
howlfestival.com

CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF BRILLIANT BOWERY PERFORMANCE

On September 7, JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY
DYNELL will present their second annual HOWLUCINATION to crown this
year's HOWL! FESTIVAL. HOWLUCINATION is a new spectacle created by the
JACKIE FACTORY each year as an evening event for HOWL!. The new LOW
LIFE CITY follows on the heels of their first HOWLUCINATION at HOWL! -
last year's scandalous LOW LIFE.

LOW LIFE CITY is a two hour theatrical showcasing the East Village -
and especially, The Bowery, in a lavishly costumed production starring
dozens of downtown's finest. A time-travelling, bawdy and witty
cavalcade of talent, this show is not recommended for children!

This year's superb cast is now complete - MCs PAUL ALEXANDER (of "The
Ones") and HATTIE HATHAWAY, Bowery Belle DEBBIE HARRY, icon JOEY ARIAS
with master puppeteer BASIL TWIST, burlesque supernovas DIRTY MARTINI,
MISS DELIRIUM TREMENS and JONNY PORKPIE and NASTY CANASTA of
PINCHBOTTOM BURLESQUE, GOON SQUAD featuring MISS GUY, drag divinity
SWEETIE, butoh ensemble VANGELINE THEATER, WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*, LOGO
song star ADAM JOSEPH as The Irish Tenor, slapstick duo DUELLING
BANKHEADS, sister act ACID BETTY and EPIPHANY, sensationalist AMBER
RAY, Bay Area artiste FAUXNIQUE, BLACKLIPS eminence POISON EVE,
members of THE PIXIE HARLOTS, and New Bowery treasures TRINA ROSE,
HEATHER LITTEER aka JESSICA RABBIT DOMINATION and TIGGER!

For pictures from last years edition visit LOW LIFE @ HOWL 2007 on FLICKR

HOWLUCINATION '08: LOW LIFE CITY was inspired by the seminal LUC SANTE
book "LOW LIFE: The Lures and Snares of Old New York." It continues a
body of work born at JACKIE 60 a decade ago, with past editions in
London, Minneapolis and of course, last year's HOWL! For the show's
producers, East Village residents for over two decades, this annual
show is a Valentine to the neighborhood's past, present and future stars.

Dress Up and join us in the park! Wear NYC demimonde evening glamour
(1860-2010), Gangs of New York, Victorian/Edwardian rags, newsboy
caps, B'hoy for Butch Women, corsets and vintage lingerie, Bowery
Belle ringlets, Opium Den loungewear, Vampyre of Gotham, black
parasols, Bowery Twink, velvet, 19th century Clownwear, Top Hats or
Bowery Punk.

THE HOWL! FESTIVAL was named in honor of the groundbreaking poem by
ALLEN GINSBERG and began in 2002. HOWL celebrates the East Village and
Lower East Side's role as a preeminent locus of culture, with
signature events like the group reading of HOWL and ART AROUND THE
PARK. Centered in Tompkins Square Park, the festival attracts more
than 100,000 visitors bringing to the clubs, galleries, parks,
streets, and theaters of Manhattan's Lower East Side.