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VIDEO: TRANSFIXED by JER BER JONES featuring CALPERNIA ADDAMS

Calpernia Addams — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:51:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9yZVy73A-Q

The much-anticipated video for “TRANSFIXED by JER BER JONES featuring CALPERNIA ADDAMS” has arrived! Watch now, download the song from iTunes on April 20th, 2010!

Jer Ber says:

Transfixed is an original song by Jer Ber Jones featuring vocals by Calpernia Addams. From Jer Ber’s forthcoming album “Greatest Hits Volume 2″ on iTunes April 20, 2010.

Great Moments in Rock and Roll Comic: Calpernia Edition

Calpernia Addams — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:03:46 +0000

Cal-pal Selena Martinez was kind enough to come and see Jer Ber and me perform our musical cabaret/play “Transfixed” when we took it to San Francisco a few months ago, and she has narrated her experience to comic artist Joel Orff for his “Great Moments in Rock and Roll” series. What a double honor!

Great Moments in Rock and Roll by Joel Orff

Check out their sites:

Joel Orff
Selena Martinez
Jer Ber Jones

“Transfixed” Closes in San Francisco

Calpernia Addams — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:47:33 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0uLNflcwyM

Transfixed: Highway to Hell with Calpernia and Jer Ber Jones
Transfixed: Insult Intro with Calpernia and Jer Ber Jones
Transfixed: Miss Dis with Calpernia and Jer Ber Jones
Transfixed: Grand Finale with Calpernia and Jer Ber Jones

Writeup to come soon!

“Transfixed” Live Cabaret: First Videos and Photos Are In!

Calpernia Addams — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:47:35 +0000

“Transfixed” is in San Francisco!!! We’ve spent all day decorating the gorgeous Victorian mansion known as “Finney’s Funhouse”, where we’re also staying. The tickets are almost completely sold out for both days! Check out some video by LA man-about-town Ken Knox, with photos by Ken and others. I can’t WAIT to do this weekend show at the mansion!

Check the interview in the San Francisco Bay Times, too!

Click for ALBUM!

Big News! Calpernia & Jer Ber Jones LIVE IN LA & SF

Calpernia Addams — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:00:47 +0000

Get your tickets now!

TELEKiNESIS July
“Transfixed” Starring Jer Ber Jones & Calpernia Addams.

LOS ANGELES
July 13 & 14th, 2009 @ 9pm

At Casita Del Campo’s Cavern Club Celebrity Theater
1920 Hyperion Avenue, Silverlake, California 90027 (map)
Tickets are $13 purchased online/ $18 at the door. Seating is very limited.

SAN FRANCISCO
July 24 & 25th 2009 @ 9pm.

At Finn’s Funhouse – 814 Grove Street – Between Fillmore & Webster – San Francisco, California 94117 (map)
Tickets are $15 purchased online $20 at the door. Seating is very limited.

GET YOU TICKETS NOW! Purchase securley with a Credit Card or Paypal account.

BIG NEWS! Jer Ber Jones and I will be performing an original cabaret show in a limited live engagement in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Come see our twisted, hilarious live show while you can, seating is limited and we anticipated sold-out houses in both cities. Jer Ber has been written up by LA Weekly, PAPER Magazine and countless other entertainment reviews as “breathtaking”, “cutting edge” and “must be seen to be believed”. You Cal-pals know what a freak I am, so come on out and see what we cook up together! Get your tickets NOW!

(Click MORE to read reviews of Jer Ber’s shows)From Jer Ber’s site:

ABOUT TELEKINESIS: Widely regarded as one of LA’s best & weirdest stageshows, Telekinesis is a monthly cabaret featuring a rotating cast of the artists, musicians, drag performers, and dancers who define the underground art and nightlife scene in Los Angeles. The brainchild of pop singer and drag superstar JerBer Jones, Telekinesis happens the first Tuesday of every month at Casita del Campo’s Cavern Club Theater in Silverlake. The consistently sold-out shows have a musical-variety format built around a different original narrative theme each month â€šÃ„Ã¬ past themes have included a polygamist family dealing with a rebellious sister-wife and a “March of Dames” telethon to raise money for underprivileged trannies. Tickets and information about upcoming shows can be found at www.robbied.com.
See our recent press:
L.A. TIMES REVIEW AND PREVIEW (Featured on the Cover of the L.A. Times Twice!)

LA WEEKLY REVIEW
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-04-16/music/april-showers-of-shindigs-telekinesis-snoop/

BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE review …
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/la-vida-la-the-magic-of-jer-ber-jones/7106

Rose Apodaca had this to report…
http://www.roseapodaca.com/blogs/The_Lady_Tigra_Ann_Magnuson__Co_Blow_Our_Minds.html

check out Jer Ber Jones music on myspace here http://www.myspace.com/jerberjones
check out Robbie Daniels Jr. music on myspace http://www.myspace.com/robbierobbie

or for up to the minute information visit… http://myspace.com/jerberjones

And thanks to the L.A. Times for putting tranimal Jer Ber & TELEKiNESIS on the COVER of the L.A. TIMES! Not once… but twice! The cover has changed by now, yesterday’s news… but you can still read the glowing pre show- and after show review-
and check out the photo spread they published of our cute (and very twisted) Easter show.

“Transfixed” Closes in Los Angeles, on to San Francisco!

Calpernia Addams — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:35:31 +0000

Calpernia and Jer Ber backstage after "Transfixed"

The first Los Angeles run of the Jer Ber Jones/Calpernia Addams live show “Transfixed” closed on Tuesday, and WOW what a fun time! As many Cal-pals know, the inimitable Jer Ber Jones creates a monthly themed cabaret called “Telekinesis” at Casita Del Campo’s Cavern Club Theatre. I’ve performed several times with a large group of wonderful people there… as a saucy nightclub singer performing “Next!”, as a Mormon sister-wife performing “Ode to Billy Joe”… but this time, Jer Ber and I concentrated it down to just the two of us and wrote “Transfixed”, in which we play two variety show hosts (a la Donnie & Marie, Sonny & Cher) in an extremely dysfunctional 20-year-long relationship forged when I conned Jer Ber into donating one of her kidneys to me. Hey, it could happen…

“Transfixed” is a story about two entertainers who star in a Donnie-and-Marie/Sonny-and-Cher style TV variety show in the mid-70′s/80′s, starring an alternate-universe Calpernia Addams and Jer Ber Jones. Cruel and wheedling Calpernia is constantly browbeating weak and innocent Jer Ber in their shared dressing room while a bizarre collection of TV commercials play between their on-stage showstoppers. What is Calpernia’s secret? When will Jer Ber finally break down under her constant abuse? Heh heh!

We open and close the show in matching Bob Mackie costumes (formerly worn by Liza’s dancers! Thanks Momma and EC2!), and we perform some of our “greatest hits” alongside new songs and a few covers, as well. This first Los Angeles run included in the audience a slew of LA incredibles such as Alec Mapa, Selene Luna, Mario Diaz, Lou Becker, Krista Benson and more. I can’t wait to take it to San Francisco this coming week and blow them away with some freeky deeky fun!

One of my new songs in this show is a cover of XTC’s classic and blasphemous “Dear God”, now updated with beats and live piano by DJ Branwen Somatik! I orchestarted it as a backup track for my live performance, but I’ve laid down a quick 1st-take vocal track on top of the mix to give a little preview. I’ll be releasing the final version as soon as I can get a good vocal track laid down on top of it. Branwen is an awesome DJ and musician from Wales, you should check out some of her music, including her famous sensation “Zor”: DJ Branwen Somatik

Preview “Dear God” at Calpernia’s MySpace Music Page