This is the official DList profile for Seth Bedford and Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau.
our first official music video! By Eric Power...
Composer, arranger, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and visual artist Seth Bedford blends the musical idioms of Weimar kabarett, American jazz, Tin Pan Alley, French chanson, tango, New Wave and a variety of other musical sources to create a sound that defies categorization. As a performer, he's taken on the music of Eurythmics, Josephine Baker, Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill and William Bolcom among others to blur the lines of where popular music stops and art music begins. As a composer, he's written music for cabaret, theater, film and the symphonic concert hall, and is currently at work on his first full length theater piece, The Seaside Inn: A Vaudeville Opera. He is also the artistic director and vocalist for Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau, an 8-piece acoustic cabaret orchestra performing primarily in New York's Greenwich Village and East Village.
A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and native Texan, Bedford studied cello and composition and now works as a freelance composer and performer as well as a violist and accordionist. He currently resides in New York City with his boyfriend, 18 hats, and 14 musical instruments.
Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau was founded in 2005 in Austin, TX. In 2006, Seth Bedford relocated to NYC and reestablished the ensemble in its current lineup of two violins, viola, bass, piano, trumpet, accordion, and voice, with sometimes mandolin, toy piano, junk percussion and other instruments.
The band has since released its first full-length album, Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau and frequently performs at New York City's Duplex Cabaret Theatre. Musically, Huxley Vertical is a combination of French chanson, Weimar kabarett and American Jazz and vaudeville for a sound uniquely antique and modern at the same time. The band performs acoustically whenever and wherever possible.
The album, along with Seth's album composed for the Austin-based Elastic Wasteband, is available now. See the link for CDBaby.com and Apple iTunes below.
September 18, 8pm
Seth and Veronique
Chrononaut at Queen Bee's, San Diego, CA
Cost TBA
September 20, 9pm
Seth and Veronique
Echo Curio
Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
Seth and Veronique present ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂVeronique ChevalierÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs Red Velvet Vaudeville Variety CabaretÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ
Featuring The Unextraordinary Gentlemen (UXG), Eli August, and performance artist April Hava Shenkan.
Cost: TBA
October 14, 8:30pm
Seth with guest Brent Weldon Reno (Fein and Dandee)
Porno Bingo at Pieces
8 Christopher St., NYC
Free, and bingo proceeds go towards the charity of the week.
October 22, 7pm
Seth and Veronique
The Can-Can Cabaret, Seattle, WA
Seth and Veronique with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys in an evening curated by SeattleÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs Mistress of the Macabre, Miss Oblivious.
October 23-25 Time TBA
Seth and Veronique perform SteamCon, a steampunk Convention
Seattle Airport Marriott Hotel, Seattle, WA
Seth and Veronique perform as one of the cabaret acts, and Seth will be appearing as a panelist for ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂWhat is steampunk music?ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ
November 11, 8pm
Seth and Veronique
The Seattle International Cabaret Festival, Venue TBA
November date and time TBA
Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau
The Seattle International Cabaret Festival, Venue TBA
Well the ladies I'm doing it with video EVERYTHING they do for their label-- Queer Control Records-- so I'm positive there'll be something to make it seem like you were there, haha.
I totally dig your music, there's something primal, in a Gypsy artistic soulful sort of way, that strikes a chord. You'd love the trio I saw the other month in the Marigny (Faubourg Marigny) District in NO. Damned if I can remember their name, but consisted of an Oboe, Cello & Violin, playing French & Slavik folk pieces, at a Sushi bar.
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