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Phat Man Dee
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Phat Man Dee's Traveling Variety Show! at New Hazlett Theater,
July 18, 2009 at 10:30pm to July 19, 2009 at 12am
Live taping! This is the second in a phabulous experiment in the Amoeba’s GOING GLOBAL! Announcing the second of a three month experiment in podcasting for Phat Man Dee Productions and the New Hazlett Theater. Phat Man Dee and Tommy Amoeba shall h...
Phat Man Dee's Traveling Variety Show! at New Hazlett Theater,
July 18, 2009 at 10:30pm to July 19, 2009 at 12am
Live taping! This is the second in a phabulous experiment in the Amoeba’s GOING GLOBAL! Announcing the second of a three month experiment in podcasting for Phat Man Dee Productions and the New Hazlett Theater. Phat Man Dee and Tommy Amoeba shall h...
Phat Man Dee's Traveling Variety Show! at New Hazlett Theater,
July 18, 2009 at 10:30pm to July 19, 2009 at 12am
This is the second in a phabulous experiment in the Amoeba’s GOING GLOBAL! Announcing the second of a three month experiment in podcasting for Phat Man Dee Productions and the New Hazlett Theater. Phat Man Dee and Tommy Amoeba shall host a wonderf...
Hot warm muggy heat of summer comes to bear down in great steamy waves..... weeks pass and I don't want to sit at a computer in a city connected to electricity and synaptic emphatic digital impulses promising the world of the great things to come ...
Phat Man Dee @ Backstage Bar w/ Mike Murray & Tony DePaolis at Backstage Bar at CLO Cabaret
April 18, 2009 from 5pm to 7:30pm
Come check out original jazz and stylistically fascinating jazz classics as rendered by vocalist Phat Man Dee with the superb and inspiring accompaniment of bassist Tony DePaolis and keyboard player Mike Murray. No cover, light menu, full bar.
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- Favorite website
- http://laughingsquid.com/
- Pittsburgh Connection
- I live here.
- Favorite Pittsburgh musicians/performers
- Gerald "Shotgun" Haymon, Chizmo Charles, Gene Ludwig, Sandy Staley, Colter Harper, Tony DePaolis, Mike Murray, Kenny Peagler, Nelson Harrison, James Johnson III, Dave Throckmorton, Ben Opie, Paul Cosentino, Reggie Watkins, Gene Stovall, Sonji, Christiane D, John Purse, Sam Pace, Darryl Fleming, BC, Tommy Amoeba, Zafira Bellydance Company, Ishtar, Nick Ragheb
- Favorite Jazz Radio or media station
- http://www.shoutingfire.org
- Favorite Pittsburgh Jazz Venue
- Ava Lounge
- About Me:
- Phat Man Dee has a voice and a stage presence that rings clear as a bell. Her soulful delivery and heart ripping phrasing make the story of the song come through her body like a mountain rising to meet the sea. She is as comfortable floating in the air singing to the swells as she is through a megaphone in the Mermaid Parade or the Ides of March March.
She has toured and appeared with The Madagascar Institute of Brooklyn, NY, Candye Kane, the Goddess Perlman's Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, the Fat Bottomed Girls Burlesque Review, Chicken John's Circus Ridiculous, Wolgemut, Jazz Mandolin Project, the Bindlestiff Family Roadshow, The Bull Seal! Collective, SEEMEN, the Flaming Lotus Girls and Heavy Pedal Cyclecide.
Though Phat Man Dee was somewhat recently nominated "One to Watch" in the pop music category of Pittsburgh Magazine's Harry Schwalb Awards, Mandy L. Kivowitz was born in 1975 to schoolteacher and a railroad man in Youngstown, OH. She studied music, classical cello and voice, theatre and dance all through childhood and into her brief college career at Allegheny College in Meadeville, PA. She left college to join the circus as Mistah Sistah Phat Man Dee , a half man half woman vaudeville act singing love songs to herself , eating glass, tap dancing, and playing cello while traveling with several variety acts cross country. Since then she has been blessed to work with some of the finest players Pittsburgh's rich musical community has to offer. Working to create an alternate reality for her audience utilizing her friends, be they musicians, poets, belly dancers, fire eaters, painters or circus geeks, Phat Man Dee puts on a show in which the visual texture is as important as the quality and intensity of the music.
Televsion and broadcast appearances include FUSE TV, KDKA Morning Show, WTAE Evening News, CSPAN, Judge Joe Brown (Fox), On Q (WQED), Lynn Cullen's Talk Show (WPTT).
She has appeared at the Improv as an opener for Caroline Rhea (NBC), Joe's Pub (NYC), Cabaret @ Theater Square, Exotic Erotic Ball (SF, CA), NYC Burlesque Fest, the Derby (LA, CA) , Rosemary's Billygoat's Odditoriom (LA, CA)the Andy Warhol Museum and the Great American Music Hall. Her best singing was performed at the Point Arena Lighthouse, and she ever longs for a return. She does love a parade, and to date, parades love her.
One evening will burn forever in the mind of Phat Man Dee, and that was her appearance with the Pittsburgh Opera wherein she sang an entire set of french cabaret love songs at the Benedum Center swinging aloft from a floral swing. (Though the night Circus Rediculous almost burned down the camp site at the Lafayette, Lousiana Festivale Internationale, in a misguided and unfortunate attempt to play flaming soccer ball with the misprinted tour shirts and the Veg-O-Matic of the Apocalypse burns nearly as bright.)
She recently celebrated her wedding anniversary with Tommy Amoeba, her husband of 5 years. They were wed on a pink elephant in Pittsburgh, PA's historic South Side on July 11. 2002.
The most frighteneing thing she ever did in her whole life was sing Lush Life by Billy Strayhorn at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on July 18, 2008. That was terrifying. Like walking through fire....
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Sometimes weeks go by.....
Hot warm muggy heat of summer comes to bear down in great steamy waves..... weeks pass and I don't want to sit at a computer in a city connected to electricity and synaptic emphatic digital impulses promising the world of the great things to come if you would just keep reading the emails , checking the my spacebook invites, and following the tweets to the promised land..... I don't want to insist that you hear my new songs or rather, I want you to discover them organically like presents thrown a… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2009 at 8:33pm —
Marching forth with PMD and friends!
So it's 13 degrees outside? What better time to dust off the parade
gear and make preparations for the 14th annual Ides of March March?
Let the dog heads hang high as you press and steam your cumbersome
bumbleshoot in wild and frenzied preparations for music and mayhem in
the streets.... but between now and then, come to a show, I have been
getting complaints that I only ever play in California, and that's
just not true, I just make more $$ in California and we burn alot more
stuff out there tha… Continue
gear and make preparations for the 14th annual Ides of March March?
Let the dog heads hang high as you press and steam your cumbersome
bumbleshoot in wild and frenzied preparations for music and mayhem in
the streets.... but between now and then, come to a show, I have been
getting complaints that I only ever play in California, and that's
just not true, I just make more $$ in California and we burn alot more
stuff out there tha… Continue
Posted on March 4, 2009 at 5:02pm —
Baby It's Cold Outside!
So let's go camping!!!! Ok I don't actually expect anyone of you on
this email list to join me @ Frostburn this weekend (if I see you
there it will be a delightful surprise!) but I do expect you (assuming
you are in Pittsburgh) to attend my dear husband's show at Howler's
Coyote Cafe in Bloomfield, he has put together with his good friends,
"Who-Phoria" a tribute show wherein local bands will all play songs by
the Who.… Continue
this email list to join me @ Frostburn this weekend (if I see you
there it will be a delightful surprise!) but I do expect you (assuming
you are in Pittsburgh) to attend my dear husband's show at Howler's
Coyote Cafe in Bloomfield, he has put together with his good friends,
"Who-Phoria" a tribute show wherein local bands will all play songs by
the Who.… Continue
Posted on January 17, 2009 at 3:56pm —
and a happy new year!!!
So wowza, it has been some crazy last couple of weeks....
For the record, NYC was awesome, I met a cousin I didn't even know I had , saw one of my best friends from college (I practically lived on their couch) .... here is some video from that night:
The next night was pretty awesome, I went to a place called Proteus Gowanus for the release of a new book "The Space Between" by John Law and was treated to som… Continue
For the record, NYC was awesome, I met a cousin I didn't even know I had , saw one of my best friends from college (I practically lived on their couch) .... here is some video from that night:
The next night was pretty awesome, I went to a place called Proteus Gowanus for the release of a new book "The Space Between" by John Law and was treated to som… Continue
Posted on December 29, 2008 at 8:12pm —
I missed you!! / PMD's Homecoming Tour December 2008
Sorry I disappeared there for a minute, I didn't really disappear you know, I actually was hiding in the hills of Northern California between the lighthouse and the redwoods, working on my new tunes. I did some wonderful gigs with some phenomenal players, my West Coast drummer Chris Campbell put together a great quartet for me, he actually met the piano player, Rich Cooper at a house party at Alice Walker's house. They played so well and though I did very much miss my players here, it was nice t… Continue
Posted on November 28, 2008 at 10:48pm —
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Thanks for the feedback and for being an active member. We are supposed to be leaders in the jazz community as were our predecessors. Please help us recruit new members. We lose an occasional few along the way but we are growing steadily and gaining respect in all corners of the globe.
I am a Pittsburgh native and local youth arts advocate attempting to expose young up and coming artists to the heart and soul of pure Pittsburgh music culture and traditions as they meet and learn from some of the local Music Masters. If you are interested in hosting a Wednesday night once a month or every other month I would be humbled and honored to make this happen.
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Kent Bey
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PENN CENTER (OUTDOORS, GOD WILLING) IN
MONROEVILLE FROM 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM. IF IT IS TOO
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