
The Swedish Housewife Presents“Still Falling
Down Memory Lane
”5 shows celebrating “21″ years of staggeringly delightful entertainment. April 9th - Joey Arias in “Strange Fruit” channeling Billie Holiday with Eliot Douglass on piano.Joey Arias’s first West Coast appearance after 2500 shows in a 4 1/2 year
Las Vegas residency in Cirque du Soleils “Zumanity”. It’s been 18 years since The Swedish Housewife produced Joey’s
Seattle debut at Re Bar, and as expected he has been dazzling the world with his beautiful voice. From Carnegie Hall to the Edinburg Fringe Festival he is able to name and venue drop with the best of them. The Las Vegas Journal awarded Joey “Diva of the Strip” over Celine Dion. He has sung with David Bowie, collaborated with the late Klaus Nomi. Oh! and I forgot Andy Warhol, but let’s just leave it at that.
Joey Arias is synonymous with and the definition of cutting edge, he reigned as Grande Dame Diva when there still was an underground scene and has gone on to woo the mainstream. Eliot Douglass is currently performing in
Las Vegas as a pianist in the Cirque du Soleil’s hit Zumanity. As an original member, he has also composed and arranged material for the show. Eliot and Joey have worked together for more than a dozen years with concert dates on three continents and until recently together in Zumanity. In 2006 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Joey, The Scotsman wrote that “Eliot’s rhapsodic stylizings and white hot improvisations were equal to the best” heard at that year’s jazz festival. The Los Angeles Times has called his music “quirky, angular and haunting,” twice the “Critics Choice” and ”Pick of the Week” by the
L.A. The Triple Door,
216 Union Street, Seattle, WA
98101
http://www.tripledoor.com/tickets.
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