THE NEW SOUNDS PROJECT And JAZZ CIGARETTE Among The Butterfly Clubs June Events

The Butterfly Club announces its Club news and calendar for the month of June.

Club news 1:

The Australian National Academy of Music and The Butterfly Club have announced a strategic creative partnership. This is taking the form of collaborations such as joint presentation of acclaimed British Cellist Matthew Barley on Thursday 11 June, through joint promotions and by
staging an Emerald Hill open day on Sunday 20 September.

Club news 2:

Presenting a new way to end your working week: “Meow” – My End Of Week discounted drinks for arty cats, every Friday from 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm. The ideal way for people from all areas of the arts and entertainment industries to meet and mingle.

Cabaret cocktail of the month:

Presenting ‘Morphium’, a dark and whimsical cocktail in honour of Kim Smith’s visit to Australia and return to The Butterfly Club.

Ali McGregor in Jazz Cigarette

Ali McGregor is one of Australia’s most versatile singers. From the stages of Opera Australia to cabaret in the Spiegeltent and as a regular guest on ABC’s Spicks and Specks her voice and her presence are unequalled.

With Jazz Cigarette she returns to The Butterfly Club to prepare for her Adelaide Cabaret Festival debut with three of Melbourne’s hottest young jazz musicians – Sam Keevers on Piano, Ben Robertson on Double Bass and Raj Jayaweera on Drums.

This show is filled with standard jazz ballads, downright sassy blues and unique interpretations of modern day classics. With songs made famous by singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, and Britney – Jazz Cigarette both soothes and tantalises in the best possible way.

Date / time: Wednesday 3 June at 8.00 pm

Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 70 minutes approx

More info: www.alimcgregor.com

Bree Langridge in The New Sounds Project (with guest artists)

Bree Langridge takes us along the transition of single life to solid ground, utilising the works of new composers.

Dates: Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 June (four performances)

Times: 7.00 pm Thurs to Sat; 6.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

World War Wonderful

World War Wonderful knocked audiences dead in the recent Melbourne International Comedy Festival winning the Groggy Squirrel ‘Readers Choice Award’ for most popular show.

When the world’s in perpetual warfare someone should be making a profit! Join musical trio The Wonderful Sisters as they dance and dazzle their way through a classic 1940s style USO show. Their angelic voices and toe-tapping tunes will have you lock-n-loading before you can say ‘Left wing conspiracy!’ Because all’s fair in love and war ... but nobody ever mentioned peace.

From the genius behind Give My Regards To Broady. Starring Karin Muiznieks, Erin Newington and Louise McCrae.

Dates: Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 June (four performances)

Times: 9.00 pm Thurs to Sat; 8.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

The Australian National Academy of Music and The Butterfly Club present:

Matthew Barley’s Wanderings

With performances – some perfectly planned, some beautifully unplanned – tucked away in every conceivable corner of the South Melbourne Town Hall and The Butterfly Club, this magical performance event wanders off in all directions, spaces, dimensions and times.

Date / time: Thursday 11 June at 7.00 pm

Ticket price: Free

Duration: 80 minutes approx

More info: www.anam.com.au or www.matthewbarley.com

Baggas presents It's Not Me, It's Definitely You

A show about dating, love and putting your lover in a fire.

Charming songstress, cartoonist and lady of amusement, Michelle ‘Baggas’ Baginski, remounts her self-described ‘kookaret’, to continue looking for a meaningful, ongoing relationship with an audience.

A creative mix of song, visual art and flirty banter will lead her, and you, to her ideal partners in life, love and performance. Bring flowers.

Dates: Friday 12 to Sunday 14 June (three performances)

Times: 7.00 pm Fri & Sat; 6.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 55 minutes approx

More information: www.baggas.com.au

Vaudrey, Middleton and Hodson present:

Reasons We Love in Life

When three wildly different musicians write a show with no restrictions the result is a meeting place where Bach drinks with Miles Davis and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.  Vaudrey, Middleton and
Hodson perform original songs and arrangements.  Three musicians, seven instruments and a passion for chord IV, colliding in the reasons they love in life.

Dates: Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June (two performances)

Time: 9.00 pm

Ticket price: $15

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

Beautiful Rubble

2008 City Of Perth Most Innovative Act Award

2008 Melbourne Fringe Highly Commended

Beautiful Rubble perform an incomparable set list, from Spanish laments and baroque ground basses to Tex-Mex improvisations and Eastern harmony.

From brash classical theatricality and haunting falsetto to gypsy-tinged free improvisations, Beautiful Rubble has for the past three years been developing innovative musically-based performance projects.

Core members are Anastasia Russell-Head (harpsichord) and Fernando Ariel Gallardo (voice) alongside special guests Tarko Sibbel (saxophone) and Laura Vaughan (Viola da Gamba).

Dates: Sunday 14 and 21 June (two performances)

Time: 8.00 pm

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

Miss K presents Hot Spell

The mercury is rising and Miss K is searching for reason.

Is it The Greenhouse Effect, the Apocalypse or the heat radiating from her undies?

As the city hits boiling point it’s impossible to stay sane.

The only thing that seems certain is that heads will roll … but whose?

Dates: Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 June (four performances)

Times: 7.00 pm Thurs to Sat; 6.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

Dolly Diamond in Like a Moth To a Flame

Dolly the UK Diva now taking up residence in Australia brings her one woman show to The Butterfly Club.

Join her as she sings her way through a medley of songs all live and unleashed. Just like Garland and Minnelli she sings the blues away and rattles when she walks.

Dates: Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 June (three performances)

Times: 9.00 pm

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXot7nxNJpE

Duration: 60 minutes approx

Kim Smith in Morphium

Emerging enfant terrible of New York cabaret, Kim Smith, returns to Australia with his latest offering, Morphium.

Featuring the music of Hollaender, Eisler, Spoliansky and others, Smith charts a dark and whimsical path through the arrivals and departures of a neo-Weimar musical misfit.

Returning to The Butterfly Club where his cabaret career begun, Smith was winner of a 2009 New York Backstage Bistro Award, alongside Charles Aznavour and Liza Minnelli. He was also recently announced as a nominee for the 2009 MAC Best Male Vocalist Award.

Dates: Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June (two performances)

Time: 10.30 pm

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 55 minutes approx

More info: www.kimdavidsmith.com

Loveline - The Cabaret

What hasn’t been said about love? The greatest writers, musicians, painters and Richard Mercer have said just about all there is … now it’s our turn.

Three girls, a little less than sane turn to The Loveline for advice on their increasingly pathetic love lives.

Featuring Sophie Weiss, Tineke Sibbel and Melanie Velissaris.

Dates: Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 June (four performances)

Times: 7.00 pm Thurs to Sat; 6.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

Jacob Diefenbach in Facing the Music

Facing the Music is a darkly comical and shameless self-referential look at what it takes to ‘make it’ in the music biz.  With Facing the Music, Jacob is taking his greatest step into the world of cabaret to date, playing the struggling / eternally insecure and self-questioning artist – at once desperate to please, jaded, reflective and, at times, hysterical (it's not much of a stretch).

Deeper still, Facing the Music is about the dynamic and complex exchange between artist and audience; the magic that happens when the two are in perfect harmony ... and the disasters that transpire when they don't.

2008 Green Room Award for ‘Best Original Songs’

2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival ‘Best Cabaret Award’

Dates: Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 June (four performances)

Times: 9.00 pm Thurs to Sat; 8.00 pm on Sun

Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 60 minutes approx

More info: Listen to the title track at www.myspace.com/jacobdiefenbach

Regular Nights:

Meow

Presenting a new way to end your working week: “Meow” – My End Of Week discounted drinks for arty cats. The ideal way for people from all areas of the arts and entertainment industries to meet and mingle.

Dates / times: Every Friday from 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm

Tickets: Free

Bookings: Just rock up

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Dr Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school. The perfect antidote for boring, typical art classes. Host Mel Knight brings fun, excitement and a bit of cheek back to life drawing with kooky contests and bodacious burlesque beauties. We don't mind if you draw for your supper or just for fun, we are happy to have you! So forget your easels and messy mediums, just bring a sketch pad and your pencils!

Dates / times: Wednesday 24 June at 8.00 pm (last Wed of every month)

Tickets: $15

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

Duration: 2 hours approx

More info: www.drsketchymelbourne.com

The Butterfly Glee Club

Forget yoga. Forget All-Bran. Forget colonic irrigation. If you really want to do something that makes you feel good inside – just sing. And what better place to sing out than at The Butterfly Glee Club, the hippest sing-along choir in town. Come along and sing as loudly or softly as you like – there are no solos and no karaoke microphones – just a big ol’ group sing. The Butterfly Glee Club is conducted by the gorgeous and talented Vicky Jacobs (MulTi Green Room Award Nominee for Musical Direction) who never tells anyone off and lets all singers drink as much wine during rehearsal as they like!

Dates / times: Wednesdays at 6.30 pm (note: time will change to 6.15 pm from the start of July)

Tickets: $10

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door

More info: go to www.myspace.com/butterflygleeclub or email glee.club@optusnet.com.au

Duration: one hour approx

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