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2022 Festival Headliners & Feature Performers
Lady Sapphire Noir
Heading our way from sunny Los Angeles, California is the dark,sultry jewel of burlesque herself @ladysapphirenoir!!
This powerhouse performer is a multi award winning burlesque singer, dancer and published pinup model. She is known for her big sexy sultry voice, love of vintage/pinup style and her signature color royal blue. Prior to performing burlesque, her experience includes being lead singer for several bands including a progressive rock band, a jazz ensemble, classical choral ensemble and gospel choir, pinup modeling. Performs many neo-burlesque acts that include singing, humor, pop culture characters, but has a classic old Hollywood style. The unique voice of this sparkling dark jewel seduces and captivates audiences internationally.
Titles and awards include: The Reigning Miss Pin Up Perfection, 2020 Burlypicks Solid Gold Master of Nerdlesque World Champion, 2020 Burlypicks Canada Solid Gold Master of Singing and Master of Nerdlesque, International Burlypicks Master of Singing 2016 World Champion, California Regional Burlypicks Master of Singing 2016, 2017 Best Hybrid at the Great Burlesque Expo, 2017 Thursday Audience's Choice and Most Original at Texas Burlesque Festival.
We are beyond excited to have such talent, tease, poise and power gracing our stage as one of our 2022 headliners!
Here for one night only on Saturday, June 25th. Tickets are on sale now at www.capitoltheatre.ca Get on getting yours before they're gone!!
The Dancing Legs
The Dancing Legs are three multidisciplinary artists who perform and express ourselves through the art of Drag. Burlesque originally gave us the platform to express our art and our characters, we have used that platform to experiment with Drag. We are happy to call the Kootenays home and grateful to feel all the support from our community. For us Drag is a way to break the gender barrier and be whoever we want to be. We aim to inspire others to follow their hearts and be their true self; whoever, and whatever that may be. We use pure happiness, fun, sass and dance to spread our message of self-love. Let's be honest, life's a drag without a little spice!
Let's have a kiki!
Silk E Gunz
SHE’S SASSY…
SHE’S SEXY…
SHE’S SILK E GUNZ!
Causing a captivating calamity wherever she goes, Silk E always delivers a rip-roaring good time. This rock n’ roll sexpot toured regularly with the Cheesecake Burlesque Revue (2011-2018) to jam-packed theatres throughout Western Canada. She has brought her unstoppable energy to numerous international festivals as a troupe member and as a soloist, including Vancouver, New Orleans, Edmonton, Calgary, Quesnel, Nelson, Toronto, Philadelphia, New Brunswick, Alaska, Ibiza Spain, Savannah, Minneapolis, and the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas. Silk E Gunz has also achieved the winning title at Burlypicks Solid Gold Canadian Championship 2020, Second Runner Up for Overall Canadian Performer at the Golden Variety Challenge Canada 2020, Winner of the World Tasseloff Title at Burlypicks Solid Gold Championship 2020, as well as Best Virtuoso “Virtual Act” at the Savannah Burlesque Festival 2021. Silk E Gunz has been a burlesque dance choreographer for the past 15 years, creating acts for stage and for burlesque dance class showcases. This dynamic dynamo is guaranteed to tease and titillate you until you scream for more! Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, she’s the Sexiest Six Shooter in Town!
Sasparilla Foxx
She’s been dancing her whole life, and since 2011 the glamtasic sassbomb Sasparilla Foxx has been WOWING the burlesque world! She’s a POWERHOUSE on and off stage. A captivating dancer, she delivers diverse performances from high kicking, high energy crowd pleasers, to slow, sultry sexiness, all the way to dazzling drag! She’s also the Creator, Producer and Artistic Director of Quesnel’s Itty Bitty Burlesque Festival. She is the Founder and Head Mistress of the Foxxie Follies burlesque collective. Sasparilla Foxx has produced monthly shows in two different cities! She loves providing budding burlesquers with the tools to take their visions from the studio to the stage. Through her dance studio, The Foxx Academy of Sass and otherwise known as Gold Pan City Dance, she cultivates the creative community in Quesnel and beyond, and has founded and mentors several troupes in the central BC area including Bottoms Up Burlesque, The Foxy Firecats, The Chits, Puss N’Hoots and Prince George Burlesque. She regularly tours Northern BC as a performer, teacher and choreographer, and has performed across Canada. Some highlights have been headlining the Calgary International Burlesque Festival in 2017 and headlining 1st annual Kootaney Burlesque Festival in 2018. Sasparilla Foxx also has the follow 2020 Burlypicks titles under her garter belt: -1st place Overall in Canada -3rd place Overall World Champion -1st place tie Master of Lip Sync in Canada -1st place Master of Lip Sync World Champion -1st place Master of Collaboration in Canada She is beyond thrilled to be back in Nelson at what she likes to call the "BESTival!" If you missed her in the past, get ready to fall in love because Sasparilla Foxx is going to shimmy, shake, bump and grind her way across the stage and straight into your heart!
Scarlet Mary Rose
Scarlet Mary Rose brazenly considers herself to be “Born for Burlesque”. At a very young age, Scarlet knew the power of panties and cheekily insisted on wearing them as necklaces. One part Doukhobor and one part Draft Dodger, SMR’s burlesque mission, appropriate to her ancestry, is Peaceful Naked Protest, freeing people to express their true nature, regardless of size, age or identity, through the power of stripping and laughter
She has been performing since she was but a wee bud, unfurling her petals at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Today, stemming from the beautiful Kootenay mountains, SMR has been the creatrix of her own
shows, The Scarlet Rose Revue (a neo-vaudevillian variety show), The Heavy Petal Burlesque (burlesque cabaret),and currently,The Burlesque Revolution since 2005.