ABSfest is a three-day festival Burlesque & Sideshow festival, now in its sixth year, held in bohemian Asheville, NC, historically known as the ‘Paris of the South’. The event offers three days of performance and networking, shopping at the Bizarre Bazaar, and two days of workshops and mentoring to both the public and the professional performer. ABSfest hires national and international Headliners to lead the festival each year, and selects several dozen other acts from the pool of Performer Applications. Selection is based on skill, professionalism, raw creativity, what makes the best flow for the shows, and community spirit, among other things. ABSfest attempts to integrate all the Vaudeville Revival Arts under one marquee, to insure the best possible shows and the most inspiring collaborations in the broader Burlesque and Sideshow communities. ABSfest has also appeared in three separate films documenting aspects of the Neo-Vaudeville Revival!
- from ABSfest.com official site

Here's some video and photos from our performances with the amazing ABSfest crew!

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ABSFEST 2014

Ophelia Bottome sings, while paparazzi Iona Traylor, Phil D. Honeypot, Claudette Clevage, Rod O'Steele, and Kitty Poehn take pictures and dance...because after all, "Publicity's a Girl's Best Friend!"

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ABSfest 2012

Hellblinki was kind enough to record their much-beloved cover of Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It' for Bombs Away to dance to! 

Featuring Ivana Stabobitch, Claudette Clevage, Iona Traylor, and Ophelia Bottome...and some really bitchin dance moves choreographed by Lotta Hart!

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Absfest 2011

"The Tied Up Tango," an original number from our "Pirate Booty" show, is refocused from piratical antics to a darker, more naughty Sado-masochism number.  

Featuring Rod O'Steele as the Emcee, Lotta Hart with Ophelia Bottome, Iona Traylor with Ivana Stabovitch, and Anita Bigbrek with Claudette Clevage!