Photo by Krys Fox
Portland, OR: On March 25, Brooklyn, NY-based musical duo Charming Disaster will bring their unique brand of “goth-folk” to Portland’s Six Below Midnight, sharing the bill with Strange & the Familiars and Jet Black Pearl. The duo are touring behind their newly released album, Super Natural History (released on March 3 on all platforms). Admission is $10 and advance tickets are available at themidnightsocietypdx.net.
Charming Disaster will also be appearing in Seattle at the Pink Door on March 23 and the Belltown Yacht Club on March 24. In Cottage Grove, Or, they will perform at the Brewstation and Coast Fork Feed on March 26 and in Ashland, Or, they will light up the Dynasty Vintage and Oracle Room on March 28.
“Charming Disaster are unusual, spooky, wickedly talented, and completely unafraid to delve deep into the underworld in exploration of all things lurking in the dark…they have a knack for making the macabre fun.” –Mixed Alternative
With their signature ukulele, guitar, foot percussion, and interlocking vocal harmonies, Charming Disaster perform whimsically dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Channeling the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they explore dark subjects with a playfully macabre sensibility. The duo’s interactive, theatrical performances are participatory experiences that are part concert, part fortune-telling ritual, part vaudeville show.
“A goth-cabaret folk vaudeville duo from Brooklyn in the dark cabaret mould of Tiger Lillies and Dresden Dolls…if you are looking for an underbelly to scratch, this isn’t too hairy.” –Outside Left
Charming Disaster, formed in 2012 by singer/songwriters Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris, has been featured on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, goth icon Voltaire, and punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, and captivated audiences across the United States at bars, clubs, theaters, festivals, museums, and the occasional historic cemetery. Their most recent album, the critically acclaimed Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities, featuring songs inspired by both the natural world and the metaphysical realm, exploring subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, pigments, and parasites.
“Charming Disaster sound like the music that Pugsley and Wednesday Addams might have made after listening to the Decemberists, Squeeze and some Chopin.” –Yes! Weekly
Listing Info:
What: Strange & The Familiars + Charming Disaster + Jet Black Pearl at The Six Below Midnight
When: Saturday, March 25, 8:30pm doors / 9pm show
Where: The Six Below Midnight, 3341 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR
Venue website: themidnightsocietypdx.net
Artist website: charmingdisaster.com
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/532778824807
Admission: $10 advance / $12 at the door
CHARMING DISASTER LINKS
Website: www.charmingdisaster.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/charmingdisaster
Instagram: http://instagram.com/charmingdisasterband
YouTube: http://youtube.com/charmingdisasterband
Bandcamp: http://charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1RjkfhamohczSXjFy5WcZh
