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Current website as is stands as an archive to artist Karen Kunkel's life between 2016-2019, pre-Covid outbreak
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April 2018
April 15, Tucson, AZ
7:30 PM @ Troubadour Theater
Kunkel & Kin present: Rendezvous in Tucson!
A mostly-musical, fairly-surreal variety show
April 15, Tucson, AZ
7:30 PM @ Troubadour Theater
Kunkel & Kin present: Rendezvous in Tucson!
A mostly-musical, fairly-surreal variety show
April 22, Bisbee, AZ
11AM @ The Quarry
Surreal Brunch Special! Bringing the morning weirdness to Alice in Bisbeeland festival
11AM @ The Quarry
Surreal Brunch Special! Bringing the morning weirdness to Alice in Bisbeeland festival
March 2018
March 9-18, Alaska Tour!
Singing and emceeing:
The Dazzling RoseMarie Show! Inaugural Vaudeville Tour
See www.fionarose.com for details!
xoxo
March 23, New Orleans
Performing at the Ostara Ball
Email kkunkelmusic@gmail.com for details and derails
January 2018
January 9, New Orleans
7pm, Mudlark Theater, Port Street
Performance Art Scratch Night: Developing new works!!
Find Unkel Kunkel on the street busking and creating Rituals on the Run!
December 2018
December 9, New Orleans
8pm, Mudlark Theater, Port Street
Voice & Identity--Where fate, ego, trauma and identity meet. . . --An original, dance and story compostion
March 9-18, Alaska Tour!
Singing and emceeing:
The Dazzling RoseMarie Show! Inaugural Vaudeville Tour
See www.fionarose.com for details!
xoxo
March 23, New Orleans
Performing at the Ostara Ball
Email kkunkelmusic@gmail.com for details and derails
January 2018
January 9, New Orleans
7pm, Mudlark Theater, Port Street
Performance Art Scratch Night: Developing new works!!
Find Unkel Kunkel on the street busking and creating Rituals on the Run!
December 2018
December 9, New Orleans
8pm, Mudlark Theater, Port Street
Voice & Identity--Where fate, ego, trauma and identity meet. . . --An original, dance and story compostion
AUGUST 2017
Aug. 3, Bellingham, WA
8PM @ Alternative Library, 519 E Maple Street
Unkel Kunkel Art Medicine Show:
A mostly musical variety show! Benefiting allies and activists inhabiting Lelu Island, BC--in the fight for valuable habitat endangered by fossil fuel corporations. Themes:
Recycle/Revival/Revolutions/Rebirth
--Sustenance & Sustainability--
What sustains us as individuals, a society, a world?. . .
Aug. 10-13 Subdued Stringband Jamboree!
*All weekend at the Deming Log Show Fairgrounds*
Kunkel is stoked and honored to be playing and sharing her magic music magic soul at the one and only SSJ--one of my favorite places to be, is the Jamboree! says Kunkel.
Get tickets and see the line-up here:
Subdued Stringband Jamboree tickets!
Aug. 15, Bellingham, WA
7PM & 9PM @ The Bellingham Circus Guild
Vaudevillingham
JULY 2017
July 2, Langley, WA
South Whidbey Tilth Farmer's Market Feature
July 6, Bellingham, WA
8:30PM Kunkel and Kin
Honey Moon Mead and Cider
1053 N State Street Alley
July 13, Bellingham, WA
10PM @ The Swillery, Holly Street
July 15, Bellingham, WA
7PM @ Bellingham Circus Guild, Vaudevillingham
July 28, Bellingham, WA
7:30-10:30PM @ The Majestic
1027 N. Forest Street, Bellingham, WA
Chocolate Party
hosted by the exquisite trio The Living Arrows
and featuring Orion Lackey, the magic of chocolate, et al
Aug. 3, Bellingham, WA
8PM @ Alternative Library, 519 E Maple Street
Unkel Kunkel Art Medicine Show:
A mostly musical variety show! Benefiting allies and activists inhabiting Lelu Island, BC--in the fight for valuable habitat endangered by fossil fuel corporations. Themes:
Recycle/Revival/Revolutions/Rebirth
--Sustenance & Sustainability--
What sustains us as individuals, a society, a world?. . .
Aug. 10-13 Subdued Stringband Jamboree!
*All weekend at the Deming Log Show Fairgrounds*
Kunkel is stoked and honored to be playing and sharing her magic music magic soul at the one and only SSJ--one of my favorite places to be, is the Jamboree! says Kunkel.
Get tickets and see the line-up here:
Subdued Stringband Jamboree tickets!
Aug. 15, Bellingham, WA
7PM & 9PM @ The Bellingham Circus Guild
Vaudevillingham
JULY 2017
July 2, Langley, WA
South Whidbey Tilth Farmer's Market Feature
July 6, Bellingham, WA
8:30PM Kunkel and Kin
Honey Moon Mead and Cider
1053 N State Street Alley
July 13, Bellingham, WA
10PM @ The Swillery, Holly Street
July 15, Bellingham, WA
7PM @ Bellingham Circus Guild, Vaudevillingham
July 28, Bellingham, WA
7:30-10:30PM @ The Majestic
1027 N. Forest Street, Bellingham, WA
Chocolate Party
hosted by the exquisite trio The Living Arrows
and featuring Orion Lackey, the magic of chocolate, et al
MAY 2017
Home to the Puget Sound!
May 5, Whidbey Island, WA
7PM @ Ott & Murphy Winery Tasting Room
204 1st St. Langley, Whidbey Island
Call 360-221-7131 for RESERVATIONS
May 7, Port Townsend, WA
8PM @ Cellar Door
Port Townsend, WA
May 15, Bellingham, WA
7pm & 9pm, Vaudevillingham!
Located at the Circus Guild, Fairhaven, WA
May 23, Bellingham, WA
8:30PM @ Honey Moon, Mead & Cider
1053 N State Street Alley
Bellingham, WA
APRIL 2017
Ostara Parade productions & New Orleans busking!
April 30, Oakland, CA
Dutch Boy Studios, 8pm
MARCH 2017
March 4th, Tucson, AZ
House concert, event details to follow. . .
March 9th, Flagstaff, AZ
9pm, The Green Room
March 11th, Tucson, AZ
VaudVil Variety Show @ The Screening Room, 8PM
March 19, New Orleans
Spring Equinox Spree, all evening xoxo
March 26, New Orleans
*Ostara Mirror Ball*, email for details
March 26th, New Orleans
The Mudlark Theater, 8PM
FEBRUARY 2017
Feb. 5, Bellingham, WA
Kombucha Town, 8:30-9:30 PM
Featured artist of the night
Feb. 7, Bellingham, WA
Honey Moon, 7-10:30 PM
Unkel Kunkel & Kin: A cabaret evening of absurd and lovely experiential entertainment based around Self Love/Commitment to the Self/Honoring Our Journeys! Join Unkel Kunkel & Kin for a Tuesday night blooming with transformative performance! Beginning the. . .
ME-TRAMONY TOUR!
Tour of surprise musical performance art! Unkel Kunkel inspires strangers to confess their love for themselves and to take vows to themselves on stage! A silly traveling celebration of the glory of commitment to the self and empowering and connecting with strangers! Or if the vibe isn't condusive to that shit, she'll just sing whatever she wants and juggle!
Feb. 10, Eugene, OR
Me-tramony Tour!
Feb. 14-20, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
Me-tramony Tour!
Feb. 19, Oakland, CA
Private House Concert,
(email kkunkelmusic at gmail.com for details)
Feb. 23-26, Los Angeles, CA
Me-tramony Tour!
JANUARY 2017
Jan. 12, Bellingham, WA
Swillery Whiskey Bar, solo Kunk @ 9pm
Jan. 26, Bellingham, WA
Swillery Whiskey Bar,
*Unkel Kunkel Sound Communion* 9pm
DECEMBER 2016
Dec. 10-20,
Oakland and San Francisco Busking Tour!
Thanks for a beautiful time, Bay baes! xoxo I danced, sang, met beautiful souls, witnessed inspiring performance art, and made amazing new friends! --kunk
December 2, Bellingham, WA
5-9pm, Bay Street Studio's Holiday Pop-Up Art Sale
*Uncle Kunkel sells her lyric books, magical adornments, healing bolo-ties, and practical costumes for everyday inspiration and celebration. And singing too, no doubt.
NOVEMBER 2016
November 26, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Michael's Books, Grand Street
Music amidst the stacks of magical and much-loved books. Opening for Oliver Franklin. Check him out here: oliverfranklin.net/
November 22, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Honey Moon meadery
*** Album Release Party of "Uncle Kunkel's Skits and Pieces. . . A is for Astro. . ."!*** Accompanied by Finnegan Hopper & Orion Lackey
November 13, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Honey Moon
Songs in the round with Bellow Wing(Carrie Crocket) and Pete Irving of Hot Damn Scandal
November 6, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Alternative Library
With Megan Yates and Kelli Frances Corrado
OCTOBER 2016
October 1, Discovery Bay, WA
8pm, Disco Bay Detour
--Opening for Robert Sarazin Blake
October 6, 7, 8 & 13, 14, 15
Lookout Arts Quarry, Alger, WA
"Westward Ho's!"--immersive experimental absurd musical dinner theater! Wheeee!
SEPTEMBER 2016
September 17 & 18 Lookout Arts Quarry, Alger, WA
Cascadia SkillShare and Barter Faire
--Performer & Group Workshop: Vocal Explorations,
Fear No Sound. . .
SUMMER 2016
August 11, 12, 13 Deming Log Show Fairgrounds, WA
Subdued Stringband Jamboree, MC
June 18, Discovery Bay, WA
8pm, Disco Bay Detour
282332 Highway 101, Port Townsend, WA
July 16, Port Townsend, WA
Room to Move yoga studio & performance space
Home to the Puget Sound!
May 5, Whidbey Island, WA
7PM @ Ott & Murphy Winery Tasting Room
204 1st St. Langley, Whidbey Island
Call 360-221-7131 for RESERVATIONS
May 7, Port Townsend, WA
8PM @ Cellar Door
Port Townsend, WA
May 15, Bellingham, WA
7pm & 9pm, Vaudevillingham!
Located at the Circus Guild, Fairhaven, WA
May 23, Bellingham, WA
8:30PM @ Honey Moon, Mead & Cider
1053 N State Street Alley
Bellingham, WA
APRIL 2017
Ostara Parade productions & New Orleans busking!
April 30, Oakland, CA
Dutch Boy Studios, 8pm
MARCH 2017
March 4th, Tucson, AZ
House concert, event details to follow. . .
March 9th, Flagstaff, AZ
9pm, The Green Room
March 11th, Tucson, AZ
VaudVil Variety Show @ The Screening Room, 8PM
March 19, New Orleans
Spring Equinox Spree, all evening xoxo
March 26, New Orleans
*Ostara Mirror Ball*, email for details
March 26th, New Orleans
The Mudlark Theater, 8PM
FEBRUARY 2017
Feb. 5, Bellingham, WA
Kombucha Town, 8:30-9:30 PM
Featured artist of the night
Feb. 7, Bellingham, WA
Honey Moon, 7-10:30 PM
Unkel Kunkel & Kin: A cabaret evening of absurd and lovely experiential entertainment based around Self Love/Commitment to the Self/Honoring Our Journeys! Join Unkel Kunkel & Kin for a Tuesday night blooming with transformative performance! Beginning the. . .
ME-TRAMONY TOUR!
Tour of surprise musical performance art! Unkel Kunkel inspires strangers to confess their love for themselves and to take vows to themselves on stage! A silly traveling celebration of the glory of commitment to the self and empowering and connecting with strangers! Or if the vibe isn't condusive to that shit, she'll just sing whatever she wants and juggle!
Feb. 10, Eugene, OR
Me-tramony Tour!
Feb. 14-20, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
Me-tramony Tour!
Feb. 19, Oakland, CA
Private House Concert,
(email kkunkelmusic at gmail.com for details)
Feb. 23-26, Los Angeles, CA
Me-tramony Tour!
JANUARY 2017
Jan. 12, Bellingham, WA
Swillery Whiskey Bar, solo Kunk @ 9pm
Jan. 26, Bellingham, WA
Swillery Whiskey Bar,
*Unkel Kunkel Sound Communion* 9pm
DECEMBER 2016
Dec. 10-20,
Oakland and San Francisco Busking Tour!
Thanks for a beautiful time, Bay baes! xoxo I danced, sang, met beautiful souls, witnessed inspiring performance art, and made amazing new friends! --kunk
December 2, Bellingham, WA
5-9pm, Bay Street Studio's Holiday Pop-Up Art Sale
*Uncle Kunkel sells her lyric books, magical adornments, healing bolo-ties, and practical costumes for everyday inspiration and celebration. And singing too, no doubt.
NOVEMBER 2016
November 26, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Michael's Books, Grand Street
Music amidst the stacks of magical and much-loved books. Opening for Oliver Franklin. Check him out here: oliverfranklin.net/
November 22, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Honey Moon meadery
*** Album Release Party of "Uncle Kunkel's Skits and Pieces. . . A is for Astro. . ."!*** Accompanied by Finnegan Hopper & Orion Lackey
November 13, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Honey Moon
Songs in the round with Bellow Wing(Carrie Crocket) and Pete Irving of Hot Damn Scandal
November 6, Bellingham, WA
8pm, Alternative Library
With Megan Yates and Kelli Frances Corrado
OCTOBER 2016
October 1, Discovery Bay, WA
8pm, Disco Bay Detour
--Opening for Robert Sarazin Blake
October 6, 7, 8 & 13, 14, 15
Lookout Arts Quarry, Alger, WA
"Westward Ho's!"--immersive experimental absurd musical dinner theater! Wheeee!
SEPTEMBER 2016
September 17 & 18 Lookout Arts Quarry, Alger, WA
Cascadia SkillShare and Barter Faire
--Performer & Group Workshop: Vocal Explorations,
Fear No Sound. . .
SUMMER 2016
August 11, 12, 13 Deming Log Show Fairgrounds, WA
Subdued Stringband Jamboree, MC
June 18, Discovery Bay, WA
8pm, Disco Bay Detour
282332 Highway 101, Port Townsend, WA
July 16, Port Townsend, WA
Room to Move yoga studio & performance space
