My 60-second performance in the Seven Second Delay world record show on WFMU!
~news about NYC ukulele-powered indie rock band Sweet Soubrette~
Friday, October 1, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Uke-Ooh-La-La Photos and Art!
The Uke-Ooh-La-La show on Feb 11 was documented by some amazing artists.
PHOTOS: Darren Mayhem, a photographer best known for her live coverage of Roller Derby matches and NYC burlesque performers, took some amazing photos during the show. (For the complete NSFW set you need a Flickr account, but it's totally worth it.) http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenmayhem/sets/72157623335726033/
DRAWINGS:
Robin Hoffman, a Brooklyn artist who often sketches the people who perform at Jalopy (and who has exhibited her work there) captured almost all of the performers who were in the show. Some great drawings!
http://blog.ukulelechicken.com/2010/02/uke-ooh-la-la-021110/
PHOTOS: Darren Mayhem, a photographer best known for her live coverage of Roller Derby matches and NYC burlesque performers, took some amazing photos during the show. (For the complete NSFW set you need a Flickr account, but it's totally worth it.) http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenmayhem/sets/72157623335726033/
DRAWINGS:Robin Hoffman, a Brooklyn artist who often sketches the people who perform at Jalopy (and who has exhibited her work there) captured almost all of the performers who were in the show. Some great drawings!
http://blog.ukulelechicken.com/2010/02/u
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Featured interview: Women Who Rock the Underground, Vol. 4: Sweet Soubrette
Check out my featured interview on music blog Knocks from the Underground's "Women Who Rock the Underground" series! I am now officially a "woman who rocks."
Sunday, December 13, 2009
New videos posted!
Check out the Videos page for new video postings! "Stick Around" with marimba, "Safety in Numbers" and "Homewrecker" with Cirkestra, "Unlucky in Love" film noir style, and "Greenpoint" as a pageant winner. Enjoy!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Free Download: "Tears That I've Cried"
Sweet Soubrette is one of 50 artist/bands selected for inclusion in the first week of Microsoft’s new Playlist Seven program! For you, this means a free download of the track “Tears That I’ve Cried.” For Sweet Soubrette, it means a chance to become a featured artist on Playlist Seven, which would be an amazing opportunity!!
Even if you already have this song (it’s on the album Siren Song), please support Sweet Soubrette by downloading “Tears That I’ve Cried” from Playlist Seven. If it's one of this week's top 7 downloads, Sweet Soubrette will move on to become a Featured Artist on Playlist Seven!
Please let your friends know about the free download and help Sweet Soubrette become a Featured Artist.
Enjoy! Thank you!!
xo
Ellia
Sweet Soubrette
Free download link: www.reverbnation.com/playlist7?artist_id=69995
Even if you already have this song (it’s on the album Siren Song), please support Sweet Soubrette by downloading “Tears That I’ve Cried” from Playlist Seven. If it's one of this week's top 7 downloads, Sweet Soubrette will move on to become a Featured Artist on Playlist Seven!
Please let your friends know about the free download and help Sweet Soubrette become a Featured Artist.
Enjoy! Thank you!!
xo
Ellia
Sweet Soubrette
Monday, August 31, 2009
Fame in the Small Time
Last weekend I was walking down the street when someone stopped to ask me for directions. I told the guy I wasn't sure where the row of restaurants he was describing could be. Then he said, "Hey, you don't work with the Bindlestiffs, do you?" I said yes I did. He said, "Soubrette, right? I've seen you play." Probably in 2006, from his description. "I think we're facebook friends," he added. Fame! It's a small town, really, especially for those of us who perform in variety shows.
I gave him an alternate restaurant recommendation and he sent me a facebook message later that night to say Kashkaval was perfect and he hoped every time he stopped a stranger on the street in the future it turned out to be me.
This marks the second time someone has spotted me when I'm going about my non-glamorous everyday life: the first was a guy in the Park Slope Food Coop who had seen me play a show in Staten Island, of all places (my only show in Staten Island, I might add).
It makes me think of my first ever uke performance, which was going to be in a Valentine's Day 2006 open mic at the now-defunct CB's Gallery, where I arrived just in time to miss it. Only after I had gotten good and liquored up did the show's emcee announce me as a surprise (to no one more than me) opening act.
My memory of the performance itself (mercifully brief) is a blur of swimming faces, bad tuning, and awkward fingers, but the moment afterward is crystal-clear: when I went backstage to put the uke away, Nick Jones (lead singer of serialized pirate puppet show rock opera band Jollyship the Whiz-Bang), a performer I knew through the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, looked at me and pronounced: "Welcome to the small-time."
I gave him an alternate restaurant recommendation and he sent me a facebook message later that night to say Kashkaval was perfect and he hoped every time he stopped a stranger on the street in the future it turned out to be me.
This marks the second time someone has spotted me when I'm going about my non-glamorous everyday life: the first was a guy in the Park Slope Food Coop who had seen me play a show in Staten Island, of all places (my only show in Staten Island, I might add).
It makes me think of my first ever uke performance, which was going to be in a Valentine's Day 2006 open mic at the now-defunct CB's Gallery, where I arrived just in time to miss it. Only after I had gotten good and liquored up did the show's emcee announce me as a surprise (to no one more than me) opening act.
My memory of the performance itself (mercifully brief) is a blur of swimming faces, bad tuning, and awkward fingers, but the moment afterward is crystal-clear: when I went backstage to put the uke away, Nick Jones (lead singer of serialized pirate puppet show rock opera band Jollyship the Whiz-Bang), a performer I knew through the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, looked at me and pronounced: "Welcome to the small-time."
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