A God-Awful Small Affair : a Cabaret Tribute to David Bowie

David Bowie Tribute Show!


Acclaimed Boston Vintage Jazz singer, Niki Luparelli and the Gold Diggers for an intimate liaison through the David Bowie Songbook.


“Want to see Bowie done cabaret style? We’re pretty sure that no one’s better for that than Niki.” – BostonBandCrush.org

"Something mixed between Marilyn Monroe, Betty Boop, and Kathy Griffin"- Scene Reports

"Incomparable Chanteuse Extraordinaire"- Telegram.com

"Short of having Frank Sinatra himself walk out onstage I couldn't have asked… Show more for a more
1950s-era Vegas night out.- The Noise Magazine, Boston

"Wow, you smell really good." Davy Jones

"You're $%^&*@ hilarious." Steven Wright, comedian

"If you run for mayor, if I'm still alive, I'll campaign for you." Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci

Winner 2011 Sexiest Musician, 2011 and 2012 Best Jazz act in Pulse Magazine
Niki was also just chosen to be Miss December in the Narragansett Beer 2013 pinup Calendar.


Bette Midler from her bathhouse days meets Marilyn Monroe meets Dean Martin.
Meet Niki Luparelli, the elusive cabaret triple-threat of classically-trained/abused voice, hilarious patter, and drag-queen good looks.

Add the finest musicians that alcohol can buy and you have Niki Luparelli and the Gold Diggers, the hottest Old Hollywood, Old Vegas, Vintage Nouveau Glam band around.

With Dapper Dan Burke on piano and vocals, Lower Clef Geoff on upright bass and cello, Legs and Eggs Gregg on drums, and Johnny English on sax.

From Boston, (where she was nominated “Best Female Comedian 2012 in the Boston Examiner) to the World Famous Madame Jojo’s in London, Niki sucks them in with her voice, then punches them in the face, verbally, and not quite so abusively.
She appeared in the 2004 Las Vegas Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Festival 2002-2007, and was once told by Piers Morgan at the Hammerstein ballroom that she was "the most annoying woman [he'd] ever met.” Niki’s response was “I’m number 1!”
Opened for Frank Stallone, Gary Lewis (formerly of the Playboys), and Peter Tork (of the Monkees), and has been told by many fanny-pack wearing slot players after her gigs at Foxwoods Casino, that she is totally "going to make it."

Niki is also Boston's top Marilyn Monroe impersonator, half of musical comedy duo the Steamy Bohemians, and co-host/producer of the critically acclaimed traveling vintage variety show, Jerkus Circus, which has appeared at Lucky Cheng’s and the Slipper Room.


She has been putting on David Bowie tributes twice a year in the hopes that David will either come out of his self-imposed exile to meet her, or sue her. Her soul love for Bowie comes through her interpretation of his work with such devotion and intensity that she should probably just be institutionalized before someone loses a glittery third eye.

A few articles about past Bowie shows
http://digboston.com/experience/2011/07/oh-you-pretty-little-things/
http://www.cambridgeday.com/2011/07/04/its-bowie-plus-sexy-dancers-and-fun-and-minus-bowie/

Review in the Boston’s Noise Magazine
http://www.nikiluparelli.com/#!__noise-review

Review of Niki’s vaudeville routine in London
http://www.eroticreviewmagazine.com/content/finger-in-the-pie-cabaret

website
www.nikiluparelli.com
@trickyniki
www.facebook.com/nikiluparelliandthegolddiggers

Dapper Dan Burke
http://www.gambleandburke.com/

Lower Clef Geoff
https://www.facebook.com/LowerClefGeoff

Legs and Eggs Greg
http://sunsister.bandcamp.com/




It has been said that Bowie was obsessed with the Berlin Cabaret scene while he lived there in the 70s working on what later became known as the Berlin Trilogy of albums (Low, Heroes, and Lodger). It can be argued that cabaret changed his writing and performance style forever.


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