New Yorkers: Saturday nite @ 7p.m., Renegade Cabaret returns to El Jardin Del Paraiso! Featuring Patrice at the Wheel, Lady in the Green Dress, The Man in the Hat & Barefoot Roger! 4th/5th Sts btwn Aves C & D.
Happy to be part of the 2016 LUNGS Harvest Festival!
http://www.lungsnyc.org
Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Performance location: Entrance on West 14 Street, at Tenth Ave.
While the Renegade Cabaret no longer takes place on her fire escape next to the High Line, Patty and a posse of talent who continue to find odd places to perform, will present you with a goulash of song, comedy and entertainment that was once a staple of New York, namely, spontaneous, rebellious performance.
Patty Heffley, aka Patrice at the Wheel, galloped out of the West to the middle of Gotham to live life as an artist just by being herself. She has no plans to keep her mouth shut.
Co-founder and co-producer Elizabeth Soychak, aka The Lady in the Green Dress, finds performing out of doors photosynthesizing. Her recordings can be found at on cdbaby and iTunes
Mary Foster Conklin, aka The lady in the Red Dress, grew up across the river (New Jersey) and has lived below 14th Street for decades. She loves spontaneous singing in odd places and playing the ukulele, but makes up for it by cursing a lot.
Roger Manning, aka Barefoot Roger, hails from the South (downtown) and enjoys pick’n but not-so-much grin’n and has done plenty of busk’n.
John DiPinto, aka The Man in the Hat, was born in Manhattan, of course. Hatless at birth, he has since amassed a large collection of headgear. An eclectic singer and instrumentalist, he now lives in Brooklyn with two cats who do not wear hats.
Amber the Poet – Amber the fruit and vegetable lady, who throws caution to the wind, sows juicy bon mots and a melange of vegetable tidbits whatever the weather.
Out of Line: Renegade Cabaret
http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/above-and-beyond/renegade-caberet
May 26 2016
One night in 2009, a former punk photographer was met with a beam of light flooding the window of her West Twentieth Street loft, in which she’d happily lived since 1978. Newly installed exit lights at the top of the stairway to the just-opened High Line were pointed directly into Patty Heffley’s apartment, a familiar city nuisance that was nonetheless insufferable. The eight-hundred-and-forty-one-dollar a month pad held a washing machine but no dryer, and she’d hung her clothes out on her fire escape for more than three decades; the new audience from below could complicate laundry day, she worried. So Heffley repurposed the window into a stage, performing cabaret songs in a red tutu, with animal-print underwear standing in for stage skirting. Her Renegade Cabaret soon became a hit with park visitors, as she invited talented friends to perform comedy routines, musical numbers, and even science lectures. The show has since outgrown its fourth-floor origins, and will be staged on the High Line’s lower sun deck. It opens the Out of Line summer series of free performances in the elevated park.
The High Line
Entrance on West 14 Street, at Tenth Ave.
New York, NY
Watch Renee Fleming Sing “Endlessly” from Her New Pop Album “Dark Hope” on the Renegade Cabaret Fire Escape,
Complete with Laundry and Matthew Modine.
N.Y.’s High Line Exposes Exhibitionist Streak
ROBIN SCHULMAN
Photos by
HELAYNE SEIDMAN
Friday, July 10, 2009
Construction can have unintended consequences. Build a park on an old elevated railway train track in Manhattan, and a hotel that straddles that park, and New Yorkers turn the whole thing into a stage…. [ Full article ]
PENELOPE GREEN
June 24, 2009
JUST after 9 p.m. on June 17, the third installment of the High Line Park Renegade Cabaret was held on Patty Heffley’s fourth-floor fire escape. There were colored lanterns, and a festive array of undergarments hung from the railings… [ Full article ]
