SoCo Carnivale heads toFremantle

Tue 19th Jan, 2010 in Local News

The time has come to summon your creative juices and start making your fancy-pants outfits for SoCo Carnivale – a fancy dress party inspired by the spirit of New Orleans Carnivale, coming to the Fremantle Arts Centre 26 February 2010.

SoCo Carnivale is a confetti-drenched, royal encounter of bee-bop, honky tonk and Cajun thunder, featuring mammoth orchestral party collective The Polyphonic Spree. Also joining this fancy dress French jazz parade is The New Orleans Bingo! Show; direct from New Orleans Mardi Gras.

The Polyphonic Spree ( Tim DeLaughter and his touring party of eighteen) take their colourful, thoughtful sound-party wherever they go; in February they will be bringing it to Australia

Adding to the Big-Easy feel will be curious spectacle The New Orleans Bingo! Show; a multimedia stage experience including original black and white silent films, dancers, ingénues, audience interaction, bingo games and slapstick comedy. Ringleader – or shall we say ringMaster – Clint Maedgen, describes the show as “A wild nightmare hidden in a heart-shaped box of chocolates. I last saw it riding a fiery stallion, headed down that golden highway of dreams.” – Sounds a little cryptic, but definitely intriguing…

It sounds like it’s going to be one crazy night: fancy dress great music and carney-fun; we can’t wait!