CALLING all you wonderful artistic types....we are holding a competition in The Elegant Savages to draw, paint, illustrate & doodle a piccie of the brilliantly macabre MissvonTrapp - the dark cabaret cellist!!!!

And yes it was! I played a half hour set alongside The Wattingers, The Mysterious Freakshow and Professor Elemental and it was truly mahvellous!

This Friday I am at Exeter Phoenix!!
And then the following weekend...
Volksfest 2013: Cabaret Tent Sat 6pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/145275715634316/

GIFT!! FREE DOWNLOAD!!

"Dark, Satirical, Brilliant"


- The Elegant Savages 'Songs To Die For' Review. (April 23rd, 2013)

A selection of upcoming gig posters...

Breaking news! The Professor Elemental/Mysterious Freakshow/Miss Von Trapp gig at Exeter Phoenix on 17th May is GO GO GO!!

Am very excited about upcoming shows! Tomorrow night: A Pie Challenge, then secret gigs, and Steampunks In Springtime, and another Professor Elemental gig at the Exeter Phoenix and then VOLKSFEST 2013... AND MORE!!

And other things in the pot as well. Keeping it under my hat. And moving haus on 1st May to a place with a MUSIC ROOM!!

Go to http://www.missvontrapp.com for more details...

20th April 2013: Private Booking.

9th May 2013: Booked. Details to follow.

11th May 2013: Steampunks In Springtime Festival, The Labyrinth, Looe, Cornwall with Zetan Spore, Moriaty, True Collision, The Newsreaders, Malachite, Pure Myschief, Pinktrashki, BB Blackdog, Kernow Swing Collective, The Beutons, Miss Von Trapp, Tamsyn Swingler Hurdy Gurdy Extraordinaire, Tea Duelling and much more.

17th May 2013: Exeter Phoenix: Professor Elemental, The Mysterious Freakshow and Miss Von Trapp present a Steampunk Spectacular!

24th - 26th May 2013: I am on Saturday 25th 6pm, Plymouth Volksfest Cabaret Stage, Please visit the PlymouthVolksfest website for tickets. Cabaret Tent acts include a Kitty's Dolls Burlesque Special, Auntie Pus, Mister Joe Black, Miss Von Trapp and more...Mainstage Headline acts include Alabama 3, Hazel O'Connor, Seth Lakeman, Mad Dog McCrea, Zion Train, Ruarri Joseph, The Levellers...

20th - 21st September 2013: Reserved. Steampunk Festival details to follow.

23rd November 2013: Shhh Burlesque at The Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. Nothing to do with amazing horses, it's a place.They promise to delight you with magic and music throughout a three course meal and, Bring you some of the biggest names in Burlesque right here in Somerset.  They have now confirmed these names - Anna Fur Laxis , Missy Malone , Domino Barbeau , Eliza DeLite and Sophia St Villier with Resident Velveteen Hussey and Vaudeville Cellist Miss Von Trapp. (ME!)This line up and sideshow entertainment throughout the evening will be compered to you by Luke Honnoraty Comedian and be delighted by the ever charming Panty Wrangler Drew!The evening also includes top photographers Bertrand Vessier and Tigz Rice!

And what have I been doing in the past week or so?

Took delivery of my new album: Songs To Die For. And now I have about 80 cds left out of 100, which all contributes to the Von Trapp Hausmove at the start of May...

And I had some airplay on The Best of the South West for Music Mill FM, on which they were absolutely lovely and played Tragic Moments. You can listen here!!

Or below:

And I was featured in an interview on happener.org which you can read here!!.

And then I wrote a 'Song For Easter'... Basically I saw the advert on tv for the Lindt chocolate bunny and my mind went into overdrive...

So now what? Cello practice, that's what. And planning for more gigs that are in the offing that I am really excited about. VOLKSFEST for starters!!

And packing for moving...

And selling copies of my album...

And possibly more interviews and things and more packing and...

Oh bugger. There is a cat using my cello case as a scratching post so I'd better go.

DOWN CASSIDY!!!

Btw, this is what 100 cds looks like. I have a few less now :D

What have I been doing since I last updated on here? Lots. That's the answer....

'Songs To Die For' is NOW AVAILABLE for a FIVER DOWNLOAD on BandCamp.  I will be pressing cds at the end of the month so if you want an actual cd at 6.50 plus p&p, with bonus Mourning Card instead... message me!
http://missvontrapp.bandcamp.com

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[	Music	|	Third and Bird, Cbeebies	]

I hope everyone had a really good valentine's... single or otherwise, and remember there are benefits to being on your own on valentines day as I was. Husband was at work, poorly daughter in bed upstairs and nothing but the gin bottle and internets for company... Oh dear oh dear. On the plus side, there was no compromise on where to go or what to do, no expectations and therefore no disappointment, and most importantly, sole control of the TV REMOTE.

So I went to bed early with the cats for company. Perfick.

That's enough from me, here's a video of me performing 'Blood and Marriage' (my Sinatra rewrite) and Murder/Fever (apologies to Peggy Lee). Enjoy:

Since horse meat is topical and supermarket dodgy dinners, thought I'd give you a sneaky listen to one of my album tracks:https://soundcloud.com/missvontrapp/miss-von-trapp-have-a-pie-from

The gig at the Barbican Theatre B-Bar on Friday was awesome. The audience were eating... but howled beautifully and sang along to The Worm Song chorus without vomiting. Well done everybody.

Then this weekend, 3 Strand Minstrelsy, the folk band I recorded with last year on their pirate themed album put the whole lot on soundcloud for free download, which is awesome! You can hear my cello on Nelson's Blood, Drunken Sailor and my favourite: High Barbaree here: https://soundcloud.com/3strandminstrelsy/sets/look-ahead-look-astern

ownload and enjoy!

And also, in my most mahvellous weekend, Stabcurdle Jack was played last night on CPR Presents... Steampunk: The Contemporary Progressive Rock show climbs the rigging and takes flight back into the world of Steampunk music.

It featured the likes of Professor Elemental, Vagabondage, Victor Sierra, BB Black Dog, Insomniac Folklore, Hayley Jane, Amanda Palmer, Tom Slatter, Frenchy and the Punk, Tricky Pixie, Alex the Kid, Strange Artifact, Sunday Driver, Seas of Mirth, the Mysterious Freakshow and many more. And me!!

Many thanks for requesting me, chaps. And for playing me of course xx

http://www.reading4u.co.uk

And here:

Songs To Die For is finished. Just waiting on the album cover and then it will be on bandcamp to download for five of your english pounds or 6.50 plus postage for a limited cd jewel case copy with Mourning Card :D

BECKY BRINE, JULIAN ISAACS & GUESTS

PLYMOUTH: The B-Bar

FRI 1ST FEB, 2013 9pm

A unique musical evening in the company of famed local Devon swing-singing diva Ms Becky Brine and hot rhythm rocker (Auntie) Julian Isaacs feat. special guests (me!)

ADMISSION: £3
You can buy tickets online at www.b-bar.co.uk

The B-Bar is open from 11am daily with excellent teas, coffees and chocolate, fresh Thai noodles and specials with live music and jazz, blues and world tunes on our constant playlist.

Call The B-Bar on 01752 242021
Email: info@b-bar.co.uk
Web: http://www.b-bar.co.uk
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheBBar
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbarplymouth

On a theme of The Big Bump Theory: Lessons in Burlesque... I shall be dispensing the Marriage Guidance Class. Sort of anti-valentine advice ;D

I have signed up to bandcamp so Morbid Ditties is available now on teh interweb. It's only taken six years!! My gawd, technologah!! (saves me burning copies) 

In all its gorey glory. 15 minutes of shame. In which I crucify such Christmas Carols as Away in a Manger, 12 Days of Christmas and Good King Wenceslas...

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[	Mood	|	indescribable	]
[	Music	|	Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man	]

They had this to say about me, which I love. Clearly they've been round my house:

"She’s kind of Rasputina meets the Tiger Lillies meets the room this old spinster named Priscilla kept full of creaky antique toys on the street where I grew up. If that room had had a soundtrack, I bet it would’ve sounded exactly like Miss Von Trapp. Come to think of it, what the hell was I ever doing in that room? My parents did not inculcate me with a proper sense of Stranger Danger. If I were the subject of a Miss Von Trapp song, I surely would have met an untimely end."

You can see the article here!

Thanks chaps xx

I have been voted as Weird Band of the Week and will be appearing on the website belonging to this page soon!! Thankyou for your votes everyone!! Xxx

It is nearly New Year and so much has happened this year that's been so flipping fantastic fun that I'm struggling to pick highlights. Everything has been practically perfect in every way.

Christmas Eve is upon us. If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb, but I prefer gin. My gift to you is a read of my lyrics. Have a ginsoaked day!! xxx

It's that time of year. The time of year where the C word is appropriate. In actual fact, seasonal...

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember when the end is come
It had to be this way
To save us all from going mad
When we were gone astray