Wiggle Room

Jolly Roger is the most sinuous, serpentine superhuman in the South. Hailing from the center of the Old North State, this 5-year veteran of the underground combines 18 years of classical ballet training with a baffling bat of her eyelashes, bringing the most brawny of brutes to his knees.

A 15-year veteran of the stage, d’Katzmeow performs all over the USA with international traveling performance artists, satisfying her primal needs to keep it movin’ and shakin’! She has performed with and shared stages with many internationally acclaimed shows and hundreds of other musical and vaudeville acts. She has been chosen for and participated in several burlesque festivals and continues to make traveling for inspiration her aspiration.

Selia d'Katzmeow is the creator and producer of the first and longest-running monthly Burlesk Revue in NC. She has performed in three Fringe Festivals, producing two of the shows. She is an experienced and published Model; with work in international trade-shows and magazines. The organizer of Heavy Rebel Weekender's 'Wiggle Room,’ d’Katzmeow continues to promote and produce shows, spanning from burlesque, art openings, music, and large fundraisers. d'Katzmeow Burlesk is the spawn of many years of performance, productions, experiences, and inspirations that will prove to honor d'Katzmeow's all-encompassing vision of the burlesque art form.

Selia d’Katzmeow Carmichael

Founder and owner of Bizarro Burlesque Productions, Dolly Dee is the pioneer, flagship, and cornerstone for burlesque entertainment in her home state of South Carolina. She is a burlesque performer, costume designer, pin up model, go-go dancer, independent film actress, makeup / special effects artist and promoter. Since introducing burlesque to her local community, Dolly has been the go-to guru, and mentor to those interested in the art and culture. She is the founder, director and production designer of the annual "Charleston Burlesque Festival", the winter feature "On with the Showgirls", the annual fan appreciation and toys for tots drive "Bizarro Burlesque Xmas Bazaar". Dolly was named one of Maxim Magazine's "Girls of Dragon Con". She performs at Charleston's most debauched and indulgent Halloween extravaganza "Skinful" and Charleston's premier bi-annual arts festival "Kulture Klash". Dolly has produced burlesque events in nearly every venue in her hometown and was voted "Best Stage Show 2010" by the Charleston City Paper. She has toured with the "Coney Island" and "Yard Dog" road shows and performs up and down the East Coast including Heavy Rebel Weekender and Manhattan's "Nurse Bettie" in NYC. Dolly hosted a night of "Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go Go" from New York City during their national tour. She has organized charitable events and donates to local charities, performs annually at Cabaret for the Cure for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and is a featured guest at national USO (United Service Organization) events to benefit our brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces.

Dolly Dee

This lil southern firecracker combines ballroom dance, razzmatazz, and punk-rock infused choreography in her own brand of classic burlesque and sideshow concoctions. She has performed all over the USA, participating in national touring acts and has been selected for several burlesque festivals. Cherry loves to perform for any kind of audience and loves the odd things in life. Eyes flutter and hearts putter, sweeter than a maraschino, Cherry Von Bomb!

Cherry von Bomb

Deepa de Jour is the delectable dish! Her seductive style conveys an entire story with a shimmy, her lavish rhinestone encrusted costumes mesmerize the audience with an exact sway of her hips, and her tantalizing glance takes the breath from the room. With acts described as "showstopping" and "vivacious," she has performed up and down the East Coast, as well as gracing the stage of Heavy Rebel Weekender many times over the last six years.
At home, she produces the Richmond Burlesque Revue and is a founding member of Richmond's vintage entertainment specialists, The Darlings of Decadence. She is a head instructor at the Richmond Institute of Burlesque and performs as one-half of the synchronized stripping duo, The Garter Snaps.

Deepa de Jour

Georgia-born and Atlanta-bred, Skye Paige has the special ability to understand both the dusty back roads of country music and the neon glow of big-city rock. It's a perspective that has lent itself to both her music and her burlesque shows. Now living in Charleston, SC, Paige injects her blues and country roots with a sultry shot of rock 'n' roll and '50s pin-up fashion. She has been nominated and voted for several ‘best of awards,’ including House of Blues Battle of the Blues 2009, Best Rock Female by Carolina Music Awards 2010, Best Hit Single by Charleston City Paper. She has toured with and shared stages with some of the best around. Her style is raunchy, rawkin, outlaw country blues, and she tears up a slide guitar! She is the head mistress of Skye Paige & The Original Recipe, a bad with badass rock-n-roll grind and a sultry lead voice. Skye Paige also known for her performances with Bizarro Burlesque Productions, voted "Best Stage Show 2009," by Charleston City Paper. A pin-up competition winner, Skye Paige is not just a pretty face who also guest hosts television shows – She is quickly becoming known as one of the best burlesque singers in the South! Whether she is wisping you away to Hawaii with the sounds of her ukulele or luring you back to her coffin for a midnight snack, she will steal your heart away forever more.

Jolly Roger

Skye Paige

Careful, baby, there’s a Riot in town, and that’s Miss Rachel Riot to you. North Carolina born and bred, she’s a honey-sweet gal by day, a fire-hot vixen by night. She’s your good-girl, bad-dream bombshell, baby, a red-lipped firecracker with moves to make your mama cry. As burlesque coordinator for WInston-Salem's Heavy Rebel Weekender in 2009 and 2010, she booked over 40 dancers for one event. She pioneered burlesque in Raleigh, founding the area's first burlesque troupe, the Demon Dolls, in 2008. She currently runs her own booking and events company: Riot Here Riot Now and produces several events (including burlesque) each month.

Rachel Riot

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Last year's performers below.

A talented newcomer, Pandora Von Kit has stepped onto the scene and into the spotlight! Although she was raised in North Carolina, Miss Von Kit began her burlesque adventures in New England where she was raised under the wing of the fabulous production company, Bon Appetit Burlesque. Ever since, she has been an unstoppable force and now she is back in the south, ready to entertain. This is her second burlesque festival performance, her first being in Boston at the Great Burlesque Exposition. Pandora has more than just burlesque up her sleeve - she's also a fetish performer and professional model.With her toned body and extreme sex appeal, she is sure to leave any audience drooling and begging for more!

Pandora Von Kit

Raised on The Muppet Show and Carol Burnett, with a fancy for little shiny bits, Lola LeSoleil's brand of burly-q will leave you with a smile on your face - and possibly a cocktail dribbled down your shirt (have a napkin). A once anxious graduate of Syrens of the South's ABC's and 123's of Burlesque, Lola figured out she had to reach down deep (...deeper - ok that's good) to find the right mix of humour and glamour to reach the folks all the way at the back bar (seriously? Intermission was over 10 minutes ago.) It's been a trip - gracing Southern stages with Unknown Hinson, Dirty Martini, the Dresden Dolls and so many more! Lola LeSoleil's sights are on something BIG (...and it just crawled under your chair).

Lola LeSoleil

Strawberry Tallcake’s roots grow strong in southern soil. She was raised just south of Memphis, TN, and has been sharing her famous deserts with East Tennessee for over 2 years. Her claim to fame is her 40” legs! Strawberry Tallcake’s love of music has been a driving force in her life. This girl can truly bang a gong! Her interests include rat rods, car shows, and general mischief. Strawberry Tallcake represents East Tennessee's White Lightnin' Burlesque, and the girls of WLB are happy to share their favorite desert with all of you!

Strawberry Tallcake

Richmond's little bacon bit! A saucy, mischievous, charming, high energy go-go dancer, burlesque performer and seasoned stage kitten.

Etta Pancetta

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Trashique D'Lamour has been in the industry for just over a year with Deadly Sins Burlesque out of Lexington, Kentucky. In that short time, she has quickly organized and subsequently disorganized everything she knew, and was soon sharing the stage with entertainment veteran Voltaire, touring with the gypsy/punk/alternative/progressive/circus/cabaret/funk troupe Ford Theatre Reunion, and shimmying and shaking her way in and out of the Black Hills of Kentucky as far in all directions as she could go! She also moonlights as the one & only to Captain Darron von Awesome & together they create Tinderbox Circus Sideshow.

Trashique D’Lamour

Cherry Delight is a tattoo artist by day and has been garter-snapping and fringe-flinging with White Lightnin' for the past three years. She also performs with Big Mama's House of Burlesque in Charlotte, NC and enjoys large and dramatic prop construction in her spare time.

Cherry Delight

Born in a Philadelphia taxicab on a stormy night to a sports car racing mother, she grew up traveling up and down the East Coast, usually at high speed . . . but when people call her fast, that's not usually what they mean.

Married at 15 to a snowmobile stuntman, she'd determined to lead a quiet life of domestic bliss. But life had other plans, and the snowmobile stuntman turned out to be a dud. She left him high and dry and took up with a band of traveling entertainers and vagabond hucksters.

She fell into burlesque from there, making her debut in October 2009 and working her way into the scene with abandon.

Ruby Solitaire

Queen Monkey began performing almost 2years ago...later, she began performing on her own with Best Friend and Queen Monkey Art Assistant Damn Right Dixie. Queen Monkey is the Co-Owner of and Body Piercer at Kingpin Tattoo Studio in Greensboro NC. Master Mind of Queen Monkey Art and NC Rep for Farmageddon Records - The Arts and music are her passion!!! Queen Monkey has performed in NC, SC and VA, and in Cookeville TN for the Muddy Roots Festival with Burlesque le Moustache. Queen Monkey has had a presence at HRW for the past 4 years with her GlitterTastic Art..and attended many years before as a Fan of Great music and wonderful people.

Queen Monkey

Bree Rock pulls no punches when she says she's the daughter of a convicted bank robber. For the last decade this Super American Princess has been honing her craft and titillating audiences worldwide. One part siren, one part contortionist, add a dash of Rock'n'Roll and a flare for the dramatic and you've got SUPERAMERICANPRINCESS, an act that's sure to excite and enthrall, even as it bends your mind.

SUPERAMERICANPRINCESS: Bree Rock

Damn Right Dixie, the south's favorite darling daughter, also got her start in burlesque as there esteemed "Box Girl". She worked her way up the shimmy-shakin ladder, earning her garters with every classy sway of her oh-so-white trashy hips!!! When she's not showing off what her mama gave her, she's most likely picking up a storm on her beloved mandolin Misha, or banging out prose like the wicked wordsmith she longs to be.

Damn Right Dixie

Known as “the Southern shot that makes you hot” Brandy has been performing with Syrens of the South productions for the last year. Her style ranges from the classic to humorous. She has performed at a variety of venues in the metro Atlanta area. Notable shows include; Southern Fried Burlesque Festival 2011, Killer creek Saint Patrick’s day celebration, Heavy Rebel 2011, Tease Tuesdays, Mon Cherries Rockabilly Lounge and Valentease 2012.

Brandy Noir

2010 Great Southern Exposure's Edgiest Performer. Sassy Frass, the natural aphrodisiac, is from White Lightnin' Burlesque in Knoxville TN and has been performing for 3 years. This will be her third year at HRW.

Sassy Frass

Mother of two,waitress/bartender by day, and sexy neoburlesque dancer by night. Loves integrating her love of zombies and Rob Zombie into her routines. Been doing it for almost a year and doesn't wanna do anything else.

Dahlia Vee

Sasha von Shtupp has a reputation for always giving you something to remember her by. Miss von Shtupp is an artist whose eclectic nature is shown in the unique and fabulous numbers she has showcased. Equally at ease with the classic tease as she is with a comedic routine, Sasha will keep you guessing and always coming back wanting more. She has traveled abroad in pursuit of her sensual art, and has even studied burlesque in Europe. Sasha's slightly irreverent style is uniquely her own, and her variety of acts have been described as "Liquid Sex", "Comic gold", "Cutting Edge", and MUCH more! She has been entertaining with Big Mamma's House of Burlesque for over 3 years, and has rapidly become a crowd favorite with her knockout performances.

Sasha von Shtupp

Nicolette Tesla is the coil of electric pleasure hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina. Blending steampunk with classic pin-up glamour, she brings a special sparkle to the burlesque stage.

Nicolette Tesla