{"id":22899,"date":"2002-03-01T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22899"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:15","slug":"kinsey-sicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/03\/01\/kinsey-sicks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Dragapella beautyshop quartet&#039; performs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/dragapella-beauty.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/dragapella-beauty-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"dragapella-beauty\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The singers who describe themselves as &#8220;America&#8217;s favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet&#8221; perform at Bates College at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street. Sponsored by OUTfront, a campus advocacy and support group for issues of gender and sexuality, the concert is free and open to the public.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The four members of the Kinsey Sicks met as recreational musicians who ultimately left careers in other fields to pursue this venture. &#8220;Their first performance, if you could call it that, was on the corner of Market and Castro streets seven years ago, when friends and passersby tossed $37 in a hat,&#8221; The New York Times wrote last August. &#8220;Soon there were nationwide appearances, two CDs and rave reviews in publications as varied as The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, Billboard and Poz magazine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Kinsey Sicks are Ben Schatz, Maurice Kelly, Chris Dilley and Irwin Keller. They constitute one of the few drag ensembles who actually sing, rather than lip-synching. Their repertoire includes satirical takes on hits by Celine Dionne, Bobby McFerrin, Bette Midler and the Dixie Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Their appearance \u2014 which the group terms &#8220;fright-wig garish glamour&#8221; \u2014 is as remarkable as their music. The foursome comes to Maine fresh from smash dates in Provincetown and the new cabaret space at New York&#8217;s Studio 54.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the performance, please call 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singers who describe themselves as &#8220;America&#8217;s favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet&#8221; perform at Bates College at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, on Russell Street. Sponsored by OUTfront, a campus advocacy and support group for issues of gender and sexuality, the concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[1466,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-22899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-outfront","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22899\/revisions\/91069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}