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. 

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. 

Reyna Von Vett (aka Cora Vette) performed for more than one million guests over three years as Tanya in Mamma Mia! at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. She now runs a burlesque company called Black Box Burlesque  and also has a troupe of male burlesque performers called Cora Vette's Hot Rods.

She has written two burlesque musicals, the critically acclaimed Victorian Comic Burlesque Operetta, Leadville or BUST! and a Pot Opera called Reefer Mania: Denver's Gone To Pot. As Cora Vette, she is your naughty hostess with the mostest. She is clad mostly in sparkle vinyl clothing that she makes herself creating costumes that have the longevity of a car seat and are ready for thousands of rear-end hours that she can happily provide.

She  travels the country hosting national burlesque festivals - The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Show Me Burlesque Festival in St. Louis, Hot Rods And Heels in Dallas, The Texas Burlesque Festival in Austin and the Southwest Burlesque Showcase in Albuquerque to name a few. She also frequently travels to New Orleans to host "Boylesk" at the House Of Blues in the French Quarter.
Cora Vette: Mouth of a sailor - Voice of an angel.

Black Mariah- Began performing burlesque as a soloist in 2004 in Knoxville TN. Began performing with a brand new troupe in its conception and Debut in 2006, in Knoxville called White Lightnin’ Burlesque. She moved to Dallas and has been performing there for 6 years. Mariah now owns her own burlesque based business, “Fastenating Things”, making some of America’s finest and most beautiful pasties in addition to also designing and producing many award winning burlesque costumes. Clients like Ginger Valentine ( NOBF 2011Queen of Burlesque), Michelle L’Amour, Angela Ryan, Angi B Lovely (2012 Queen of burlesque), to name a few. Black Mariah has been known for Fire tease for a number of years but has recently added Fire eating to her repertoire. She is known as “The Incindiery Black Mariah”)

Deanna Danger, “The Warrior of Burlesque,” and her sometimes dangerous, always crowd-pleasing performances have graced stages from her home, Richmond, Virginia, up and down the east coast from New York to Georgia and Chicago. She has performed with many of the east coast’s best acts including, Jo "Boobs" Weldon, Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey, and the World Famous Pontani Sisters. She has appeared in the 2010 New York Burlesque Festival, the 2011 & 2012 Asheville Burlesque & Sideshow Festival, the 2012 Southern Fried and Windy City Burlesque Festivals and took home the 1st Place Crystal Corset Award at the 1st Annual Pennsylvania Burlesque Festival in 2012! Deanna Danger is also the owner/headmistress of Boom Boom Basics Burlesque & Performing Arts Studio, a go-go dancer, aerialist, an accomplished model, and the headmistress of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School’s Richmond, VA branch.

The foxy firebrand of the South, this performer has twirled her tassels across the United States and Canada, and headlined Iceland's first burlesque show. She resides in Nashville, TN where she produces, performs and teaches burlesque at Nashville's only burlesque school, the Delinquent Debutantes. Please welcome to the stage, the wild, wild Freya West!

​Iris Le’Mour, also known as the “Exotic Flower of Burlesque”, is a native born Texan infamous for her dangerous curves that have been known to drive men and women into a state of carnal frenzy. She possesses the four B’s that are necessary for a woman to succeed – beauty, brains, boobs, and booty. Staying true to the Texan girl in me, I keep everything big – big hair, big smile, big props, and BIG personality. I entered burlesque with a bang debuting in the Nouvelle Burlesque Competition and walking away with the title. I also won 2nd Place in the Newcomer Division of the 2010 Texas Burlesque Festival, took Most Sensual Award at Dallas Burlesque Festival 2012 and I am the current reigning Miss Burlesque America. These are hopefully the first of many awards I hope to receive. With each show I try to grow into a better performer, doing my best to learn everything that those have come before me have to teach. I have an insatiable hunger for the music, stage, and, who could forget, the sparkles of Burlesque. I see myself being involved in the Burlesque scene for as long as they will have me in it.

Raised on The Muppet Show and Carol Burnett, with a fancy for little
shiny bits, Lola LeSoleil's brand of burly-q blends the right mix of humor and glamour to raise the most stubborn of eyebrows.
Atlanta's award-winning stripteuse and instructor draws upon 20+ years of dance and performance to leave you with a smile on your face...and possibly a cocktail dribbled down your shirt.

Baltimore's Sicilian princess, Maria Bella, is founder of Gilded Lily Burlesque. She is a producer, trumpet player and burlesque performer whose acts are a mix of classic, cabaret and neo-burlesque. She uses cultural imagery, exotic flair, fantasy and world dance technique to bring clever concepts to the stage.

Hang onto your britches! This gal is always on the go, and could be coming to a town near you! With a 1920's shimmy that'll make you quiver and a modern woman's mindset that'll make your knees buckle, how could you resist catching her in action! This international burlesque sensation has a slew of underground fetish, alt, and pinup images that would eat any man alive...so you best believe there is a disclaimer for the real thing!

Shan de Leers spent many a year wandering the outskirts of the burlesque scene before finding her way to Nashville's Delinquent Debutantes finish school. There she studied hard & honed her skills preparing to take the stage as her home. & did she ever! Quite literally BUSTing upon the stage & popping a pastie right off the bat! Since her debut shes been a regular guest performer with Nashville's Music City Burlesque & has taken on the role of teacher at Delinquent Debutants. With the MCB ladies she has showcased at Southern Fried Burlesque Fest & in Saint Louis's Show Me Festival.She is the recipient of the Best Newcomer Award at the Memphis Burlesque Showcase 2012. Hailing from Music City, this here is a lovely little gal who packs a powerful pop. Born of new world alarm & old school class, the southern dame whos a little bit of charm & a lotta bit of ass.

Ab Horrence was born and raised in the bustling metropolis of Toronto, Canada. It was on stained bar counters that he was first exposed to burlesque and he immediately attached himself to this sexy, grassroots community. A disillusioned theatre practitioner, he brought the humour and pathos of the stage to the stage of burlesque. He has been shimmying for six years and has had the pleasure of working alongside some of Canada's premier burlesque talent at shows such as The Great Burlesque Exposition 2012 in Boston and the Toronto Burlesque Festival fundraiser in 2011. He was so well received at the ABurlyQ! Festival 2012 that he was taken on as a honourary troupe member for Gilded Cage in Albuquerque and was invited to perform at the first Alabama Burlesque Festival.

Jasper St. James is a fabulous boylesque performer from The Pastie Pops Burlesque Revue in San Antonio, TX. He has been changing the city of San Antonio one tassle twirl at a time and has become one of San Antonio's leading male performers. In a short amount of time, Jasper has had the honor of performing all across the state of Texas and was crowned the "Audience Choice" winner at the 2012 Texas Burlesque Festival. This past August, Jasper co-produced the 1st Annual San Antonio Burlesque Festival.

I am a boylesque performer with Salome Cabaret based in Knoxville,TN. Some of my signature elements are: creative costuming, mixing my own music, comedic routines, and surprising reveals. I performed as musician for 10+ years before trying my hand at burlesque. I love burlesque because it allows me to express all aspects of my creativity including: visual, musical, kinetic, and conceptual.

Aaron Lind and Ginger Licious of New Orleans bring acrobatics and yoga into the sexiest of light. Aaron is a certified AcroYoga instructor and has been a practitioner for decades. Ginger Licious is a born dancer and acrobat that fell onto Aaron’s feet and together their mutual fondness for play and performance has developed into acrobatic burlesque acts that defy gravity and put a whole new spin to head over heels.

With awards from Great Southern Exposure and Southern Fried Burlesque Festival tucked under their garter belts, the gals of Belles and Whistles promise a performance like you've never seen! Burlesque classmates Fonda Lingue – The Diamond Dame, and the Lady of Legitude, Lola LeSoleil bring you their scanty spin on Golden Age burly-q. And with more than 6 feet of gams between them, these "sisters from another mister" are guaranteed to give you cause for pause!

Siren Santina and Tiger Tangerine are members of Knoxville, Tennessee's Salomé Cabaret. Both have classical training in theatre arts and have chosen to use their talents in an unexpected way. By placing Keystone-Cop-worthy slapstick seduction in the era of their favorite artistic masterpieces, the duo have created a new burlesque genre called “historical re-entrapment”. With their divine comedic and seductive powers combined, their duet performances are sure to make your naughty bits chuckle.

Bourgeois Betty is an egotistical drama queen with a bad attitude and a drinking problem. Wherever there is a showtune to be destroyed or an open bar to drink at you know you can always find Bourgeois Betty.

Although new to the Burlesque scene, Caramel Knowledge is no stranger to the stage. For the past several years, Caramel has danced at many venues across Southern California including the prestigious Santa Monica Broad Stage. In 2012 she performed at the Southern Fried Burlesque Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, Texas Burlesque Festival in Austin, Texas and the Toronto Burlesque Festival in Canada. Deeply passionate about vintage dances from the 20’s and 30’s, Caramel has also studied many traditional, folkloric and popular dances. Attracted to the glamour and rich heritage of burlesque and shake dancers, Caramel’s performances range from sexy and refined to comedic and a little bit naughty.

She, from Central Illinois, whose parents put her in ballet at a young age in an attempt to release an exuberant amount of energy... And he, from the outskirts of Atlanta, whose parents enrolled him in gymnastics in an attempt to find a safer environment for his dare-devilish antics... Have come together and inspired each other to present to you a cornucopia of various talents and skills that will inspire and awe audiences of all shapes and sizes.

Salomé Cabaret is a burlesque and variety troupe from Knoxville, TN. The group is anchored by co-founders Kisa von Teasa and Siren Santina and also includes a rotating cast and crew of twenty members. Salomé Cabaret cast members have performed in 35 states and four countries as part of burlesque festivals, competitions, and general performances. SFBF 2013 represents Salomé’s first festival entry as both a large group and in a “variety” capacity.