London and NYC come to New Orleans!

January 19th, 2010 (ID:140)

The Society for Decoration and Sacrifice Presents: Zradab, A “Legend” Unearthered

Curator Delaney Martin, in association with Barrister’s Gallery of New Orleans, assembles 20 artists from London, NY,and New Orleans to create one mega-installation featuring four nights of performance within the installation.

http://www.barristersgallery.com/zradab.html

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Artists: Delaney Martin (NOLA), Taylor Lee Shepherd (NOLA), Andrew Zeigler (NOLA), Luke Brennan (London), Kim and Scott Pterodactyl(NOLA), Jennifer Odem(NOLA), Myrtle Von Damitz III (NOLA), Luke Barber- Smith (NY), Rachel David (NOLA), Eric Smith (NOLA), CaronGeary (London), Frank Deleon-Jones (NY), Arielle De Pinto (NY), Randi Mates (NY), Ben Wolf (NY), Melissa Stryker (NOLA) Joy Patterson (NOLA) Nina Nichols (NOLA)and Jeffery Cook (NOLA)



New Orleans Goes to Miami for Art Basel!

January 19th, 2010 (ID:134)

wynwood_1Big Freedia and Deitch Projects at Art Basel 2009!

Big Freedia headlined the opening of Deitch Project’s outdoor exhibition “Wynwood Walls” featuring work by notorious street artists Swoon, Aiko, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos and Barry McGee and many more, with fireworks provided by the Black Label Bike Club.BassEl Freedia

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New Orleans Airlift in NEW YORK!!

September 16th, 2009 (ID:87)

UPDATE:  THANK YOU NEW YORK!!! And PHILLY.  Ya’ll were amazing and so were we.!!!  CHECK IT OUT FOOTAGE FROM THE SHOWS ON THE LINKS BELOW! 

http://blog.thenewpop.com/2009/09/23/life-glasslands-azz-everywhere/

http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/08/interview-with-big-freedia-nola-bounce-diva/

Here it comes!

Sissy Bounce Heroes SISSY NOBBY & BIG FREEDIA Gonna Take a Bite Outta The Big Apple!

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 LIVE!! with special guest Bounce DJ RUSTY LAZER…and…

SPANK ROCK! MALUCA! DRE SKULL! OMG MICHELLE! ROXY COTTONTAIL! DJ DIRTY FINGER! NINJASONIK! OJAY MORGAN of House of Ladosha!

New Orleans “Bounce” music rulers Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby are coming to New York for a special week of shows starting on Sept 19th and goin off every night until the 23rd! If you don’t know New Orleans Bounce Music or Sissy Bounce you’re seriously missing out! Bounce Music is an original New Orleans form of rap that’s been dominating radio and street culture locally for over 15 years! Sissy Bounce is it’s queer counterpart, and Sissy Nobby is currently Number 1 on local radio with her gut-wrenching song “Consequences”. With over 10 MILLION plays on her Myspace page, she’s probably the most famous rapper (queer or not!) you’ve NEVER heard of! But it’s really all about the dancing! Watch whatever videos you can find on YouTube, and in particular check out these links! This week is going to change your life!

SISSY NOBBY – www.myspace.com/sissynobbyy

BIG FREEDIA – www.myspace.com/bigfreedia

DJ Rusty Lazer – www.myspace.com/rustylazer & www.rustylazer.com

NEW YORK CITY SHOWS!

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 Sept 19th - @ Santos Party House with MALUCA! / Big Freedia & DJ Rusty Lazer/ DRE SKULL! / OMG Michelle / DJ Dirty Finger and  SPECIAL GUESTS!!! (96 Lafayette)

Sept 20th – Desginer Arielle DePinto and Assembly New York’s Fashion Week Dance Party on the Lower East Side at Arlo & Esme (42 E. 1st St./Manhattan) with Sissy Nobby, Big Freedia, DJ Rusty Lazer and DJ Dirty Finger!! FREE rsvp@arielledepinto.com

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Sept 21st - w/ DJ/Producer Roxy Cottontail! at Sway (305 Spring St. Btwn Greenwich + Hudson)

Sept 22nd - AZZ EV3RYWH3RE! w/ SPANK ROCK! / DJ Dirty Finger / Ojay Morgan @ Glasslands (289 Kent Ave. Btwn. S 1st and S 2nd / Brooklyn)AZZ3V3RYWH3R3 FINAL

 2nd Sept 22nd show- (later) w/ Roxy Cottontail @ Greenhouse (150 Varick St. / Manhattan)

Sept 23rd – Poppin’ Bottles! Gettin’ Pregnant! w/ kids from Ninjasonik and Ojay Morgan @ Happy Endings (302 Broome St. / Manhattan)

 

***!And a special PHILLY show just added!***

Sept 24 - SPANK ROCK! / Freedia and Nobby / Emynd! @ the Barbary (951 Frankford Ave)


New Orleans Airlift goes to London

July 3rd, 2009 (ID:60)

Independence Day – Southern Style

P1140727-300x168ASU are putting together a new film programme touring the Deptford, London environs at 4 locations throughout July & August. First of is their inclusion in the Tomorrow Deptford festival 4th July – http://www.myspace.com/artfulmtb

Set in the heart of the popular Deptford Market, shoppers will be encouraged into the Market Cinema – a specially constructed market stall, to take the weight of their legs and escape from the hustle and bustle for a while.

Independence Day -Southern Style celebrates independent film-makers from 4 Southern locations.South London, Memphis, TN. New Orleans, LA. and the Republic of Ireland.
The work will then tour 3 other community events.

The New Orleans Airlift is delighted to be part of this event and will be showing films from Helen Hill, Bounce Documentary “Ya Heard Me?”, scary vampire flick “The Hunter’s Apprenctice”, post-Katrina super 8 diary “Blinded by Seeing” and more.

Friday June 19th, Bereznitzky Gallery – 6pm – Heidestrasse 73. – Mitte

June 18th, 2009 (ID:53)

NEW ORLEANS ART SHOW AND LIVE PERFORMANCE

Von Damitz_2Up and coming New Orleans visual artists will exhibit at the Bereznitzky Gallery’s Summer party. This exhibition of light weight works including drawings, photos,  paintings and small sculptures will be accompanied by live performance from New Orleans musicians, clowns, and performance artists including one man band Ratty Scurvics’ Singularity, the singing sensation Meschiya Lake, and DJ Rusty Lazer who will bring the sound of New Orleans street music to Berlin for this one night only summer party.

Friday June 19th, Soulcat – 9pm – Reichenberger Str. 73 – Kreuzberg

June 18th, 2009 (ID:48)

Meschiya Lake sings her heart out!!! Meschiya Promo

Friday, June 19th -Stadthaus Boklerpark – 10pm – Prinzenstr.1

June 18th, 2009 (ID:45)

New Orleans meets BERLIN!

New Orleans Films at 10.

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After that dancing and live music from the New Orleans Airlift showcase featuring Ratty Scurvics, Meschiya Lake, Ratty Scurvics, DJ Rusty Lazer, Billy Schultz, and

 Chloris Flap join Berlin’s LES HAVERFLOCKEN SWINGERS and DJ URBAN MUSIC. FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!

Saturday, June 20th – Stella – 9pm – Holzmarkstr. 15-18

June 18th, 2009 (ID:41)

eat lipstickEAT LIPSTICK from Berlin!  Join New Orleans’ one man minister of sound, Ratty Scurvics’ Singularity.  Expect cross dressing and cross genres. And come to dance!

Saturday, June 20th – Das Hotel – 11pm, Mariannenstr. 26

June 18th, 2009 (ID:38)

jay-rolling_4DJ Rusty Lazer returns to Das Hotel for another all night dance party. Don’t be surprised to see people dancing on top of the bar to Rusty Lazers’ ecletic set of New Orleans street music from past to present.

Sunday, June 21st, Airlift plays at the FETE DE LA MUSIQUE

June 18th, 2009 (ID:32)

FRUHPERLEN INS KARMANOIA

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Isarstr./Ecke Boddinstr. , Neukolln

4pm till midnight

Airlift performers Meschiya Lake and Ratty Scruvics’ Singularity join their friends on the Karmnoia stage for the celebrated Fete De La Musique Festival, an out door event that has stages all around the city of Berlin. The Karmanoia stage also features frequent Airlift collborators Les Haverflocken Swingers, The Cowboy Killers and Captain Shebang and calls itself the stage for Eighties Queer Gypsy HotJazz.  Come and find out what that is all about!

More info at www.fetedelamusique.de

Tuesday, June 23rd – Soup – 9pm – Stragarderstr. 24

June 18th, 2009 (ID:28)

New Orleans’ finest song bird Meschiya Lake leads her bmeschiyaand of many through a roaring set of traditional jazz and blues.  DJ Rusty Lazer carries on the party with an eclectic set of New Orleans street music from the past to the present.

Friday, June 26th – Room 77 – 9pm

June 18th, 2009 (ID:27)

Rusty Lazer spins his eclectic mix of New Orleans street music.

More Berlin Events: June 16th: Kopi Cabaret, Kopernicker Str. 10pm till late

June 16th, 2009 (ID:15)

DSC_4438Ratty Scurvics, Meschiya Lake, and Clowns Cholris Flap and Billy Schultz join the legendary Kopi collective for a night of entertainment and excitement.

June 16, Room 77, Grafestr. 77 6-8 pm

June 16th, 2009 (ID:11)

Hunter'sFilms From New Orleans including Bounce documentary Ya Heard Me?, Helen Hill’s animations and a really scary vampire movie called The Hunter’s Apprentice.

Summer 2009 – Berlin

June 7th, 2009 (ID:1)

Here’s the schedule of events for all of our New Orleans Airlift shows in Berlin this weekend and beyond!!!