Siren Santina is a burlesque performer, producer, and instructor from Knoxville, Tennesse. She is the co-founder and Creative Director of Salomé Cabaret and makes up one-third of Tennessee's teasing triplets, The Fister Sisters. Siren has been flipping fringe and twirling tassles since 2006, during which time she as performed at burlesque and vaudeville festivals across the country including notable events such as The Colorado Burlesque Festival, The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, and The Burlesque Hall of Fame’s “Movers, Shakers, and Innovators” showcase. In 2011 she made it reign at the Southern Fried Burlesque Festival in Atlanta, GA, where she was crowned the first ever Southern Fried Burlesque Queen. In her spare time Siren enjoys making jewelry and reading about mummies. Also, she really likes cats.

Photo Credit Stephanie Saujon-Baltz

Bourgeois Betty studied theatre at Florida State University and has an odd fascination with the fashion of Napoleon Bonaparte and his empire. Betty is better known as a professional lush and karaoke superstar, which are easily combined to create a very healthy past-time. As a member of Augusta Burlesque, Augusta's only burlesque troupe, she can usually be found standing around and yelling at her costars, audience or director or scamming drinks at the bar. Betty won the Best Variety category at the first ever Southern Fried Burlesque fest in 2011 and is very happy to return for a "farewell" performance. 

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The Incredible, Edible, Akynos is a New York based burlesque entertainer, curator and performer of exotic entertainment. Performing on the New York burlesque stages since 2007, she has performed in The New York Burlesque Festival, Toronto Burlesque Festivals and Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festivals. She's been seen on such stages as Symphony Space, The Zipper Factory and The Triad Theater. She has produced three successful burlesque and variety revues, and has traveled internationally to perform and produce live burlesque productions. She won the Best Soloist and Legend's Choice award at The Boston Burlesque Expo in 2009 and placed 1st runner up in  the Miss International Showgirl Competition in Negril, Jamaica in the same year. The less than five foot dynamo has been performing since she was 12 and has been on the adult entertainment scene for more than ten years. She is currently writing her senior thesis at Goddard College which explores Sex Work and Performance history in the context of race, feminism, size-ism. She is currently one of the newest members of the popular Brown Girls Burlesque Troupe. 

Miss Aurora Natrix, The British Bombshell
Miss Aurora Natrix has been titillating audiences for years with her sultry burlesque moves and ornate costumes. Born in the UK and transplanted to Miami, Florida, she co-founded South Florida's first revival Burlesque troupe, Doll Parts (2004 to 2007). Since then she has gone on to join Miami's Premier troupe, the Shameless Burlesque (2008-present) and Barely Elegant Burlesque (2011 - present). Filled with swarovskis, glitter, and feathers (oh my), Miss Natrix’s shows pay tribute to the classic revues of yesterday but with a twist of her own. She’s filled with class, sass, and brass but couldn’t be any of that without her ass!

As a solo artist she has had the pleasure to perform at many festivals, events, and private parties including headlining Fetish Factory's Exotique Ball three times, in addition to touring the country with the Pretty Things Peepshow, performing with Montreal's Blue Light Burlesque, and NYCs Wasabassco Burlesque. When not teasing the audience with a flick of a boa, or taunting them behind ostrich fans or a parasol, Miss Natrix works diligently hard hand crafting her costumes, props, and corsets as well as running her very own millinery and accessory line.

Just about three years ago, Donna Touch’s love of dance, wild creativity, drive to learn, and disciplined nature, led her to the perfect outlet – Burlesque! Since then she’s competed in the 2010 & 2011 Viva Las Vegas burlesque competition, voted #34 in The Burlesque Top 50 of 2010 presented by 21st Century Burlesque, performed in the 2010 and 2011 Windy City Burlesque Fest,1st Reno Rockabilly Riot, 2011 Montreal Burlesque Festival,  2011 New Orleans Burlesque Festival and the 2011 New York Burlesque Festival and produced the burlesque show part of theIndy Road Rocket Rumble. Now also a Kiss Kiss Coquette, you can catch her performing regularly in the Kiss Kiss Cabaret. Remember… you can look, but Donna Touch! 

As the winner of the 2011 SFBF Best Costume and Second Runner Up, Miss LeSoleil is delighted to return to the Southern Fried Burlesque Festival.

The year she’s shared stages with the likes of Indigo Blue, Dirty Martini, and Unknown Hinson. And to think - this is only her 2nd year as a performer

Miss Orchid Mei gracefully combines traditional Chinese dance with influences from classic burlesque femme fatales. Favored for her class and grace, but notorious for her costumes, Orchid takes the stage draped in hand made vintage glamour inspired costumes that are meticulously inlaid with Swarovski rhinestones from the inside out. Winning the title “Most Beautiful 2007” and “Most Classic 2010” at the Boston Burlesque Exposition, being featured in Jane Briggeman’s second book dedicated to the legends of burlesque; “BURLESQUE:  A Living History”, and having done shows for Cointreau, Mumm, and the Dresden Dolls, Miss Orchid has left audiences agape internationally, from coast to coast, and back up a mile high. 

Üla Überbusen began singing and dancing in professional theatre when she was seven years old, long before her Busen was Über.  She burst into the burlesque scene as an original member of the innovative neo-burlesque and vaudeville troupe, Salomé Cabaret in Knoxville, TN. She has toured nationally, performing on stages in over half of the fifty states. Her “Cat People” act was a crowd favorite in the 2011 Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival in Asheville, NC. She has shared the stage with NYC favorites, Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go Go and guest performed in The Party Show Tour with Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey. A recent transplant to Brooklyn, she has already been busy shakin it in many of NYC’s acclaimed shows, including Mr. Choades Upstairs/Downstairs, the Kickoff for Johnny Porkpie’s Monday Night Burlesque, Bushwick Burlesque, Brick City Burlesque, Kitty Nights, D20 Burlesque, Shaken and Stirred, and Original Cyn.

As a performer, Üla is known for her outrageous comedic antics, a charming singing voice, her absurd animal impersonations and a penchant for inappropriate kitty cat love  www.UlaUberbusen.com 

'Stache suffered a severe mid-life crisis five years ago which resulted in his performing boylesque.  He lives in the Washington DC area and has also performed in Baltimore; at the Toronto Burlesque Festival in 2010 and 2011; at the Great Southern Exposure Festival where he has been crowned "Prince of Southern Exposure" the past two years; and recently at the first annual Purrlesque Festival.  'Stache would like to mention more of his accomplishments, but his memory fails. 

Stage Slave Gavin has been a member of Purrrlesque out of Greensboro, NC since 2010 and is a certified yoga instructor. He has performed his unique brand of bro-lesque up and down the east coast including the GSO Fringe Festival and Purrrlesque Follies. He employs the old-fashioned elbow grease that enables all of his fellow performers to shine--in his direction if he can! A willing participant for any farce or charade, he loves to be the fine butt of jokes, will allow himself be subjugated at the drop of a feather, and even be the token dude for a gal's number! He can cross-dress, but he dare not drag! His unique package of bro-lesque is double-bagged for your safety, as he would rather tickle your fancy than reveal his secrets. He has been taught classical group choreography, but be prepared for the reactions from the outfits he'll stuff himself in! Duets are perfectly paired by his presence. Solos are his pleasure, as he may please himself with the audience. You may come to find him quite a diva, but then, you will have loved him first! You really could make your own stage slave, but isn't it hotter when he makes you wish you had? 

I'm a dancer, actor, and visual artist from San Antonio Tx. I have been performing for ten years. I use my professional training in my burlesque and often challenge myself by making more complex performances. I work as a stage hand, model, dance/drama instructor, and make up artist. I started burlesque a year and a half ago when I was 19 and since then have been consumed by this amazing world of men and women who bare it all and are fabulous. 

Cougar Cantrell (aka Tammy Kanoa) was first introduced to the Burlesque scene in 2006, when invited to come see a show in Knoxville Tennessee. From that point she was hooked! She fell in love with the talent and confidence these women emulated on stage. For the next 2 years, she came to every Salome Cabaret show, and in 2008 was asked to help be stage kitten and handle props. Then in 2009 she was approached by the ladies of Salome and asked to join. Her debut performance occurred on Halloween and from that point on, she has been a permanent member.
 
Kel D’Patience (aka Kelly Hendrickson) is Cougar’s right hand gal when it comes to helping a girl out with her Rama Lama number. Nobody else can give such a “Nurse Ratched” performance in the way she does.

Demona Lure and 'Stache recently renewed their collaborative partnership after taking a two-hiatus. They are based in Washington DC and have performed with the DC Gurly Show, The Wierdo Show and were awarded Best Duet at the 2011 great Southern Exposure Festival. At that festival, 'Stache was also crowned Prince of Southern Exposure for the second year in a row. 'Stache has also performed solo routines in Baltimore and at the Toronto Burlesque Festival.

Katerina Von Dutch and Bourgeois Betty are members of Augusta Burlesque and enjoy pairing for numbers due to their differences; Katerina is the polite undercover hooker while Betty is the loudmouthed diva. This will be Katerina's first time competing at the Southern Fried Burlesque Fest and her first time burlesquing outside of Augusta. Betty has been here before and is excited to share the stage with her favorite costar. 

Blonde and Bitchin' is a tasty little trio comprised of delectable dancers Bebe McQueen, Bettie B. Cupp and One Chance Fancy.  

Born on the same day at the exact same time, Bebe, Bettie, and Fancy have been dancing since they could walk, each nurturing a fascination of glitter, sequins, and feathers. The three temptresses finally crossed paths at the Delinquent Debutantes Burlesque Finishing School in Nashville, Tennessee in 2010. They bonded over their mutual love of expensive stockings, cheap champagne, bearded men, and football shimmies! 

After shaking their moneymakers all over the beautiful state of Tennessee, Bebe, Bettie, and Fancy are taking their show on the road! First stop: ATL for the Southern Fried Burlesque Fest!

Salomé Cabaret is a burlesque and vaudeville collaboration anchored by permanent cast members The Fister Sisters. This closeknit family is made up of Siren Santina, Kisa von Teasa and Bette Noire. Each of the Fister children, being the most talented and entertaining orphans available, was handpicked by Mamma Fister and invited to join a clan inspired by Josephine Baker's famous "Rainbow Tribe".  Since childhood the Fister family has shared a passion for music, dance, and comedy and in 2006 they decided to put all their ta-ta's in one basket and take it to the vaudeville stage.  During their extensive travel they found welcome additions to the Fister Family and, combined with these new additions, formed Salomé Cabaret. 

Thrilling, exciting, over the top, outrageous, crazy, and cool are just a few of the ways to describe Slow Burn Burlesque. Pushing the boundaries of bold and bawdy behavior, Slow Burn is a New Orleans burlesque show unlike any other.  Members of Slow Burn burlesque have performed nationally and internationally, from Lafayette to San Francisco to Switzerland and beyond. The subject of a new feature length documentary film, Save Our Souls, Slow Burn Burlesque is proud to combine satire and sensuality in their live monthly shows, which feature striptease, comedy, drag, sideshow, and much more.  Learn more and watch the trailer for Save Our Souls at www.slowburnburlesque.com. 

Are you looking for salvation? Let Reverend Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls heal your troubled souls and uplift your yearning hearts! The right Reverend & her "Angels of Mercy" are just the dolls to quench your desire like cool water for a parched spirit; let the rev and her luscious libations serve you up a sexy cocktail of dynamic dance, rubanesque ribaldry & sassy sensualism. "It's like a Fellini film come to life 

Chad Sanborn is one of the most popular magicians working today. His style is elegant and engaging, mixing equal parts wit, charm, charisma and style. He combines these into a show that can only be described as modern vaudeville.     Chad's magic has been experienced by adults both nationwide and internationally. Magic has opened up doors and allowed him to entertain in various theaters and comedy clubs as well as corporate and private events.

Not surprisingly, Chad's most recent adventures have taken him off the stage and into film and television. Chad has worked on such TV shows as Drop Dead Diva, and Vampire Diaries. And the upcoming feature films The Three Stooges, Hall Pass, and a remake of Paramount Pictures, Footloose! Chad was recently asked by the Cartoon Network to consult on a short film called Houdini Dog. Not only did he develop tricks for the show, he was also the hands that performed them! 

Born to perform Madame X is only happy when people are watching her every step, sly wink or comic smirk. This busty maven of the stage keeps her audience spell bound wondering what outrageous act she will come up with next. After years of performing and teaching dance, she created Curvature Cabaret to showcase the offbeat and twisted side of variety. Madame X is the head deviant in Curvature Cabarets fight against average entertainment, copycat idols and the path of the straight and narrow. CurvatureCabaret.com 

Jugglers Luke Eden and Jonathan Jackson comprise Safety Third Juggling. The passing pair perform in circus shows, on the streets, at festivals, at private parties and at business events.

Safety Third is a modern-day, multimedia professional group, and are experienced performers for commercials, music videos and art projects. The dynamic Safety Third fire-juggling, rolla-bolla passing act has been featured on NFL.com in the web series Everything To Prove.

We work with many local artists in our native Athens, Georgia, including the areal artists at Canopy Studios; and we perform regularly at many local venues. We also work regularly with the Atlanta-based Imperial Opa Circus.

We are a skilled passing act perfect for the stage. Our high-energy act will amaze all audiences with dazzling feats of dexterity and danger.