End of Year Round Up 2017

How is it possible that two years have gone by without an update? When we’ve been busy and crazy and excited and doing so many wonderful things??

Ah, time is but a fleeting thing, curvy friends! And we’ll just have to put this in the “better late than never” category! This is just a tiny, curvy sprinkling of what we’ve been up to! From Las Vegas, to California, to the great state of Texas, we’ve been sharing our beautiful harmonies with friends, old and new. We’ve shared the stage with talented friends and love our great home city of Las Vegas. From the National Anthem to the Dennis Bono Show, to corporate events to private parties (they flew us to Texas for the weekend!) what a fabulous time we’ve had together sharing our music, sharing our message of empowerment and love and growing as musicians and more importantly, a deepening friendship that only time and music can build. The smiles and hugs you see below are the real deal. Not sayin’ there ain’t been some tears and words! We are full of passion and emotion! But that’s the best part! Sometimes rehearsal is just that…rehearsal. And, sometimes, it’s therapy.  ❤

To finish off this year, we are THRILLED to say that we have been chosen not once but twice on the Women of Substance Podcast! Our first appearance is the first Holiday Podcast of the year. Podcast #702, date available, Friday November 24th.  Please listen and comment! We’d love that!! We’ll update the blog when the second podcast goes live.

What’s in store for 2018? Let’s just say, that it’s gonna be “jazzy”… dare we say “edgy”…and we’ve got a friend…not just any friend, but a talented, handsome believer-in-the-Curves type of friend! It’s not quite time for the announcement yet. Details are still being worked out! Check back soon, we’ll be updating you all in January.

May you enjoy a most wonderful Holiday season filled with joy and family and friends and most of all, beautiful music!

Curves and Girls…and curvy girls!

While it may seem like the Curves have taken a detour in their curvy adventures, nothing could be further from the truth! Between our own personal work and the group work, I think we could all use a vacay! And, thank you, Universe for that! We’ll be visiting this space much more in the coming days and we are so grateful that you stopped by!

Our next appearance is this Thursday on The Dennis Bono Show at the South Point. All you need is your players card to get in and it’s free! We love Dennis, we are big fans of his and always so happy to be asked back to perform on that beautiful stage.

Speaking of free…our next show is completely free AND they will have wine and refreshments available! Come on out and enjoy our full show “Women In Music” at the Sammy Davis Jr. Festival Plaza, September 19th at 7pm. We’ll be doing some of the yummy songs of yesteryear like “It Don’t Mean A Thing” and “Orange Colored Sky” and “Cloudburst” and some new freshly mixed favorites like “All About That Bass”, “The Climb”, “Natural Woman” and a whole bunch more, done only like The Curves can do it with lush harmonies and 3 sparkling sing-it-out sisters! We put on shows the whole family can enjoy. Please say hello after the show. We’ll be selling our CDs and some of our Curvy Concessions, too. See you there!

Please be sure to check us out at Dangerous Curves Las Vegas, on Facebook, and Twitter!

Fall Schedule! New Shows!

Our fall schedule is a busy one! We have several new shows to let you know about.

First up, we will see you at Jim Caruso’s Cast party at the Smith Center! There is always an amazing amount of talent that shows up to sing! Tuesday, September 16th, follow link for tickets!

Next up on Thursday September 18th, you can find us at the Dennis Bono Show at the South Point at 2pm! So happy to be asked back, we just love the audience there and Dennis always has a stage full of talent, including himself!

On Friday, September 19th, we are honored to sing with the amazing Lena Prima, daughter of legendary Louis Prima! We are so excited! Here’s all the info you need to come hang and hear a fantastic night of music!

And, last but definitely NOT least! We are presenting our show “Finding Harmony on the Road Less Traveled” at the Starbright Theatre on Saturday, September 27th at 7pm! Filled with many of our songs that you love! From Gershwin to Sondheim, Judy Garland  to Linda Eder and so much more!  We simply can’t wait to see you there. Tickets are limited and available RIGHT NOW ONLINE! Please say hello after the show, we love seeing you all!

 

Phew! It’s gonna be an absolutely amazing month for the Curvy girls and we’d love for you to be a part of it! See you soon!

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End of the Year, 2013!

We can hardly  believe it is already the end of  year, 2013! Did you have a wonderful holiday season? Ours was filled with song and joy for sure. We even received a fantastic review of our Christmas CD, “Star of Wonder”  from Don Grigware of Broadway World “Star of Wonder rings in the holidays with joy and mirth…no, harmonious ecstasy! – don grigware” (ok, totally wow!!!) and we are on his “Best of 2013” CD list! Check it out here!

We had Christmas performances for the Veterans and at Sam’s Town to absolutely wonderful audiences. In fact our year was filled with great shows with songs ranging in genre from Top 40 at The Aria for a corporate event to an Americana style Fourth of July Spectacular and a really unique conference NAB demonstrating new technology! We sang across our fair city from the South Point to the San Gennarro Feast to the Sun Coast receiving praise and warmth from our loving locals. We are so very grateful for the support and love of our family and friends!

backstage with Ron at Sam’s Town Christmas show!

Top 40 convention gig at The Aria!

Americana Show!

with Rush of Rushworks at NAB

There are so many plans and schemes and dreams for Dangerous Curves. So, we have come upon a theme for this year of 2014 and it is…

Empowerment!
The three of us together are more powerful than we realize!

Join us on our journey and let us know how you will empower yourself this year!

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How many days until Christmas?!?!

The other day at rehearsal we realized there was a VERY slight chill in the air. Heck, we here in Vegas think that at 70 degrees you gotta have a jacket on! Yup, Fall is upon us and that means the season of holidays are here! Yay!

Starting with Nevada Day on October 25th , of course. Then, there’s Halloween on October 31st. Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 3rd and a biggie on November 28th, Thanksgiving Day, which ushers in the official Holiday season…a season filled with parties and family and friends and beautiful music!

We’ve got a question for you….do you know how many days until Christmas? Do YOU know how many days until your company Holiday party? Here is a fun little countdown you can use to keep track of time…Christmas Countdown 2013. We must warn you, however, that as soon as you see how many days are left,

you just might go into panic mode!

how many more days??!!?!

Hey! Don’t worry! We’ve got you covered! Maybe,  you just need some Holiday music to play at home or in the car. Perfect!

Click on our lovely CD cover! 

Maybe what you need is entertainment for your Holiday party that is part Holiday music, part jazz and part adult contemporary…Awesome!  We gotchoo and we are happy to customize our music for your event                               …Dangerous Curves presents…

Perhaps, you need a Holiday Show? Fabulous! Here ya go!

As always, we are honored to sing for you and share our love of music with you!

See you soon!

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2013 curvy summer mash up!

Here is our curvy summer mid-year mash up. We’ve missed sharing all our curvy adventures with you, so we thought a mid-year mash up would be fun!  We feel so blessed and honored to have worked for and with so many amazing people and at so many great places! 2013 curvy summer mash up…

Corporate Top 40 gig at the Aria, Dangerous Curves

  From Top 40 at the Aria for a major corporation to the NAB convention demonstrating stage cameras while performing live!

NAB convention!

We love singing on the Dennis Bono Show at the South Point Hotel and Casino!
What a line up!

Dennis Bono Show with Reva Rice

Dennis Bono & guests! We are so lucky!

Even the Nelson Brothers!

Singing the National Anthem for our friend Jaden and her event the National Bladder Cancer 5k walk….and yes! we did the walk! Even Karen’s Little Man got in on the action!

Singing the National Anthem for the Bladder Cancer 5K

We just can’t believe how 5 years have passed so quickly!  We celebrated with some delicious wine and the Tony Awards! Music, friendship and wine, what could be better!

5 years together!

The Smith Center for Performing Arts is absolutely gorgeous! Our fave place, the Cabaret Jazz room, of course! On this night, we sang with some of our city’s greatest entertainers, with Billy Stritch on the piano and Jim Caruso as the host!

Singin’ at the Smith Center for Cast Party!

We have a fabulous new show! Our Americana show features the songs from the Great American Songbook and as it was a Fourth of July celebration, we also included a patriotic section.

All decked out in red, white and blue!

workin’ the red, white and blue!

So that’s our year, thus far! More to come for sure!
See you soon and enjoy the rest of your summer!

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backstage fun!

Dangerous Curves 2012

Dangerous Curves, 2012…it has truly been one of the most sensational years in Dangerous Curves history. And, while our history is rather short (should we simply say new?), it has been filled with the love and support of family and friends. However, we never dreamed just how much support we would literally see and feel than when we did our first Dangerous Curves, Indiegogo campaign. Crowd-funding?! That’s for big stars and artists with HUGE email lists and…well, you know…right? NO! We really didn’t know the depth and scope of your huge and generous hearts!

The above pictures show the fruition of that generosity in our sophomore CD called “Star of Wonder”, now available on iTunes, Amazon MP3 and of course, physical copies available by simply emailing us at dangerous curves@cox.net.

If that wasn’t enough, we have been nominated for “Best Cabaret Artist – Female” for the West Coast! WHAT?! We couldn’t be happier! If you have a moment, would you go and vote for us? Here’s the link to vote BroadwayWorld.com,  you must complete the voting process in order for your vote to count.

2012. A year filled with new fans and friends, performances, nominations, our newest CD and best of all, the absolute knowledge, that someone is listening. Someone really cares about us and knows us and loves us. Friends, we love you, too. Enjoy your holidays and we wish you a most happy and joyous New Year.

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DANGEROUS CURVES’ 2012 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Theatre Award Nomination!

DANGEROUS CURVES has been nominated for a 2012 BROADWAY WORLD LOS ANGELES THEATRE AWARD for “Best Female Cabaret Artist” for our cabaret show we premiered down in LA last December!!! We are SOOOOOO flippin’ excited, and now WE NEED YOUR VOTE to win!

CLICK THE LINK below to cast your VOTE for us! It is the first category and all you need to do is vote for Dangerous Curves (Lisa Smith, Karen Michaels, Margaret Menzies); and then, if you don’t know the other categories, you can simply say, “no nominee” on each page and continue to the next. It only takes a few moments, but you MUST click through ALL the categories to the end where you enter your name and email address for your vote to count! (Voting ends Dec 31, 2012)

We are up against some BIG NAMES with HUGE mailing lists and fan followings, so please help us out by VOTING at BroadwayWorld.com today…it is an INCREDIBLE honor just to be nominated, but how great would it be if Dangerous Curves actually WON!?! 🙂

Thanks everyone!

Love,
The Girls of Dangerous Curves
(Lisa, Gret, Karen)

VOTE HERE: http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/liveupdate2012region.cfm?btype=1064&region=LOS+ANGELES#

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Dangerous Curves Christmas CD Update, 10/19/12!

Hello to our Curvy Community!

It is finally cooling down here in Vegas, but most definitely heating up in the studio! We’ve been recording, mixing, arranging and just can’t wait for you to hear these beautiful songs!

THANK YOU!
We need to start this update by sending out a BIG thank you to those dear friends and fans who helped us out in the FINAL days of our campaign!

• Marcus Adair
• Steve & Lolly Sample
• Julie Yeomans
• Steven Yuhas
• Bethany Cotnoir
• Lou De Meis
• Jay Joseph (ATOM Las Vegas & A Touch of Mystery)
• Sherrie & Michael Todorovic
• SHADES OF SINATRA (Carmine Mandia, Larry Liso, Ryan Baker)
• Naomi Hale
• Virginia Smith
• Kristie Poulton
• Michael Gonzalez
• Laura Glendinning
• Kelli Gilbreath
• SWING CITY DOLLS (Robin Berry Vincent, Natalie Carson, Connie Crawford)
• Brenda L. Jacobson
• Karla Moffett

We didn’t hit our total goal, BUT with all of your help we DID raise more than $4500, which will go a LONG way in helping us with this recording project! Thank you, thank you, thank you. We are so humbled by your continued support and so grateful for all of you!!

YOUR PERKS: For those who contributed to the making of our Christmas CD through IndieGogo, we will be getting in touch with each of you SOON regarding your various perks, and we’ll be sending out packages throughout the month of December…HO, HO, HO, Christmas is coming folks!!!!

UPDATE ON RECORDING PROGRESS:
Last week we laid down the vocals to an absolutely beautiful medley of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen & Breath of Heaven”, arranged for Dangerous Curves by the incredible Trini Garza (many THANKS also to Rob Hyatt of E3 Studios for always knowing just what to say and do to get us feeling comfy and singing our best in the studio). This week, our musical director Dan Ellis is helping us “curvify” a jazzy, cute arrangement of “Winter Wonderland” for the album (also arranged by our friend Trini), and next week we’ll be doing more mixing and laying down of some of the bass and drum tracks with the talented Darin Presley. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such artistically gifted and wonderful people, all working tirelessly to make this project a total success!

The love and generosity from of all of you is truly filling us with the Spirit of Christmas and we just can’t thank you enough for supporting us through this project. Stop by our Facebook page and say hello…we love hearing from you!

SAVE THE DATE: If you contributed $50 or more to our IndieGogo campaign, you will soon be a receiving your VIP Invite to our CD Release Party, Concert & Champagne Celebration. The date of the event will be Sunday, December 9 in the afternoon, and it will be in the Henderson area of Las Vegas (mark your calendars…RSVP Required…more details soon to follow).

Have a wonderful weekend and we’ll talk to you soon!

The Girls of Dangerous Curves

Lisa, Gret and Karen

LATEST UPDATE: 9/28/12 Dangerous Curves’ Christmas CD!

As we head into the weekend, and into the FINAL WEEK of our IndieGogo campaign, we REALLY need your help spreading the word!

So many of you have been incredibly kind and generous, and we are SO grateful for your help (our most RECENT Curvy Contributors have been Kevin Lepine, Joann Zajac, Michael & Terri Gier, Elisa Black, and an anonymous donor from the great state of Georgia)! We have raised a little over $3500, which is AWESOME…but it also means we are still about $2,750 shy of our goal…with less than 7 days left (campaign ENDS next Friday)! AGH!!!!

So, if you are one of those friends who have been “meaning to” contribute, but just haven’t done so yet, PLEASE do so now…we really need you…here’s the link: www.IndieGogo.com/DangerousCurvesLasVegas 🙂

If you’ve already become a Curvy Contributor, thank you again AND we would be incredibly grateful if you could possibly SHARE our message & campaign with a few more of your friends? As you know, we have some wonderful perks available and it would mean the world to us! www.IndieGogo.com/DangerousCurvesLasVegas

Just a little update on our progress:

We have been SUPER BUSY in the studio recording this past month, and we are almost 1/2 way through the album…we are so proud of what we’ve done so far (can’t WAIT for you to hear the finished project)! In fact, here’s a little VIDEO we shot while in the studio recording our Christmas version of “Glow Worm” this past week…check it out (the “Jingle Bells” you hear at the beginning is not actually part of the album…it’s just a little something extra we threw together…just for YOU, our Curvy friends):

Again, many, MANY thanks to those who have already become a part of our Curvy Community…WHO WILL BE NEXT?!?!?! 😉

All our CURVY love,
The Girls of “Dangerous Curves”
Lisa, Gret, Karen