Madame Pamita

Music:

Member Since: 13/11/2006
Band Website: www.madamepamita.com
Band Members: Enter into the curious and sublime world of Madame Pamita's Parlor of Wonders , an old-time medicine show filled with mysticism, music and melodrama: an entrancing array of spectacles both quaint and queer! Madame Pamita uses the powers of euphonious prognostication to tell audience member fortunes and plays rural blues, old time, jug band and proto-jazz numbers about romance and revenge and mirth and mayhem on an assortment of odd and bizarre vintage instruments.*

Often performing with her are primitive American musicians of the highest order and various and sundry delightfully antiquarian diversions.

Fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Alan Lomax's field recordings or what Greil Marcus likes to call "The Old Weird America" will be transported to the birth of recorded music when an evening's entertainment meant surprises, amusements and a singular experience like no other! Step right up, ladies and gents, and be prepared to be dumbfounded and delighted by Madame Pamita's prodigious powers of prognostication and melodic merriment!

With proper monetary coaxing, Madame Pamita is available for private consultations or as part of a festive evening's entertainment.

*A Martin Ukulele (c. 1920), a Marxophone (c. 1910), a Lyon and Healy banjo (c. 1890), an S. S. Stewart imperial banjeurine (c. 1890), a Regal/Oscar Schmidt ukulele (c. 1920), a polka-lay-lee (c. 1960), a Harmony baritone ukulele (c. 1940), an Oscar Schmidt autoharp (c. 1950), a Le Domino banjolele (c. 1920), a harmonium (c. 1900), a Regal tiple (c. 1920) and her voice (c. 2008)

Influences: Medicine Shows

Dime Museums

Abraham

Carnival sideshows

Circus Acts

Fortune Tellers

Seance Mediums

P.T. Barnum

Steampunk

Ripley's Believe It or Not

Romantic Poets

The Rosicrucians

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Cabaret

Bertolt Brecht

The Law of Attraction

The Art of Allowing

Georges Méliès

Sounds Like: "Good for What Ails You" "American Primitive Vol. II"
Record Label: Old Time is a Good Time
Type of Label: Indie