Veronique Chevalier

Merci beaucouop to Russian filmmaker Taras Popov (Experimentum Crucis) for comparing moi to a cross between Tiger Lillies & Nina Hagen!

He is interested in possibly making a video some of my music! Please stop by his YouTube page and show him some love and encourage him to work with moi.

xoxo,

~V~

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Hear the fascinating and intricate back story about Veronique’s Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Compilation, which was an Official Entry on the 51st Annual Grammy Ballot, and unlike any other collaborative recording you’ve experienced!

Join Host & DJ Dave Strauss and co-host Brooke Trout as they delve into the depths of the inner workings of Veronique’s psyche, on this episode of Flat Cat Radio LIVE!

Here’s the link to the show:

http://www.flatcatrecords.net/podcasts/Veronique_Chevalier.mp3

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

xox,

~V~

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Alex Meixner, Mike Surratt, Kerry Christensen, Lili Haydn, Jann Castor, Marion Ramsey, Goh Kurosawa, Elisabeth Ekornes, Kai Kurosawa, Gee Rabe, Vinny Golia, Veronique Chevalier, Mica Bando, Gary Shapiro, Kirk Brundage, Jon Asbath, Brian Netzley

Beret & fake cigarette optional!
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Greetings mon cher Accordionistas!

I have a new project up my bony, pasty-white arm…It’s tentatively entitled “Veronique’s ‘Squeeze Me’ Tour.

Therein I shall collaborate with one local accordionist from an array of cities to create new material with each….

The dealio: Your music, my lyrics on any subject mutually acceptable. Yield: Approximately 15 to 20 minutes worth. We perform it when I am in your neck-of-the woods, most logical would be to incorporate it into one of your shows, and have me be guest artist.

I then drift along to my next stop, do the same concept with the next guy or girl, etc. Eventually the BEST of each of my duets with each different accordionist from each locale would be placed on a compilation album.

My first official victim, er, collaborator on this project is Seth Bedford of Huxley Vertical, in NYC, and I will be his guest the 8th of May @ The Triad, a tiny treasure of a boite Off-Broadway.

So things are off to an auspicious start with VSMT. Have you any interest to do this thing with moi? Can be rehearsed via mp3 exchange and phone.

I could pay a bit of a commission to facilitate your process, since I know bills don’t tend to pay themselves. Don’t have a huge chest, er, budget, but we would each retain 50/50 copyright, so you could shop the material around however you wish, just like I did with my collaborators on PHU.

And I would do the same with the compilation eventually, so this would GO somewhere. Not just a little cutesy hobby project, but seriously professional (fun) stuff.

I have had interest also from Mark Growden in SF and Rowan Lipkovitz in Vancouver, as well as Edrie Edrie in Boston. I’m thinking of doing a West Coast leg and an East Coast leg. Why then it’d be a two-legged tour. Ha!

Not opposed to going to the Midwest whilst I’m at it, just haven’t heard any interest from that sector yet…Although I’ve had interest from Zap-Pascal in Paris and Wolfgang Meyer, The Riverboat man, in Berlin, so maybe I’ll add Europe to the tour in 2010.

Merci beaucoup for your kind consideration. Please contact me as soon as possible so that the games may begin! Please say OUI! Whee! So WE can get started soon!

~V~
Veronique Chevalier
Lyricist, Chanteuse, & Spookstress
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What They’re Saying About Polka Haunt Us:

“A brilliantly clever concept!”
— Joe Chiccarelli, Grammy-winning Producer

“Artists like Weird Al, Polka Floyd and now Veronique Chevalier are showing us that polkas can not only rock, they can be valid methods of artist personal expression. It takes a lot of talent to pull something like this off, but Chevalier has it aplenty.”
— Lee Widener, Founder – Never Ending Wonder Radio

“Let’s face it: there’s a frightful shortage of good Halloween music. Veronique Chevalier agrees, which is why she’s put together Polka Haunt Us, a “spook-tacular” compilation of [what she] dubs ‘World Gothic Polka.’
— Chris Saccheri, Editor- Let’s Polka- All Things Accordion

‘”Polka Haunt Us” is a great addition to the radio program…I look forward to receiving future releases from your label.”
— Craig Ebel, Host- It’s Polka Time, Nationally-syndicated Radio Program

“A new kind of concept album – a first for Halloween, and a first for polka music: a Halloween polka album. Great new compositions- funny and spooky!! Polka Haunt Us is a great fun album to listen to, and is sure to please polka fans around the world! Well done! Looking forward to their Christmas album!!”
— Phill N., Host- Polka Radio Melbourne Podcast

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Polka Haunt Us recommended by:

* John Gora, 2007 Polka Grammy Nominee
* Lisa Haley, 2007 Zydeco Grammy Nominee
* Brigid Kaelin, Multi-instrumentalist (Elvis Costello)
* Lawrence Wines, Host- Tied To The Tracks, Acoustic Americana Radio Show

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Click on the images below to view full-sized cover art and liner notes:

Front Cover

Back Cover

Acknowledgments

Liner Notes Page Two

Liner Notes Page Three

Liner Notes Page Four

Disc Art

I am so deeply touched by this image especially.

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“Released Time” by Natalie Shau

Dearest Darkling ‘Fiends’ & Loved Ones,

Merci beaucoup/FANG you for making 2008 such a wonderful year for moi and being so receptive towards my ‘Sonic Frankenstein’, Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Compilation.

I feel that we are well on our way to becoming a perennial favorite for The Season of The Witch, and beyond. For me, spookiness is not a seasonal thing, however, and since the word “Halloween” is not once mentioned on any of the tracks, please feel free to indulge in listening to PHU any time of year.

And speaking of indulgences, I just had to share one of my favorites with you. And please consider this my gift to you. It’s info about my very favorite Internet radio station- ever!

RadioDeliro.net– It is the brainchild & labor of love (commercial free!) of smart-chip innovator, Roland Moreno, and the play list consists of his personal music collection, which is not easily describable in ten words or less, but suffice it to say, it is an extensive play list that rarely repeats anything very often. He has a full time programmer named Sylvain Robert, who is also a professional horn player.

Between these two men, there is such a vast array of fantastic offerings that I know I won’t be able to do it justice with my paltry list, that follows. Suffice it to say that you must hear it to believe it.

Just a few examples of artists I’ve heard at one time or another:

Hank Williams, The Andrews Sisters, Julia Lee, Rose Murphy, Fred Astaire, The Beatles, Billie Holliday, Bob Bozman, Django Rhinehardt, John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier (yeah!), Tommy Dorsey, Cheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Dinah Washington, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Prima & Keelie Smith, Rosemary Clooney, Julie London, many other wonderful French, British, American and other artists, etc, etc, etc.

And musical styles:

Country, both American & French (Oui! country musique is most popular in France!), Baroque, Blues, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Rockabilly, Big Band, Swing, Acapella, Folk, Cabaret, Lounge, Brazilian, Boogie Woogie, Reggae, R&B, Arabic, Rap, Polka (yay!), Fusion, African, Gospel, Barber Shop, etc, etc, etc.

Again, all I can say is tune in yourself and give it a spin. And tell ’em Veronique sent you!

Viva l’RadioDeliro.net! And enjoy your 2009!

Today is the anniversary of the Natal Day of eternal screen icon Marlene Dietrich. She was a bright star in the entertainment firmament, and one of my dearest inspirations.

I shall never forget the delicious, yet naive frisson I experienced when gazing upon her timeless, and gender-bending image from the film “Morroco”. Depicted was this enchanting and yet obviously very female creature, sporting a sensuously pluming cigarette with such insouciance, and most delicious of all, with her legs crossed in the most decadently unladylike manner.

I might have been only a kid at that moment (I think I was like 11), but I knew instinctively that whatever it was that she was doing, I wanted to do the same…

Of course there will never be another Dietrich, but her trailblazing ways will be with us always…

Marlene, Dear Goddess, if you still have awareness of we mere mortals down here on Earth, I hoist a slipperful of champagne in your honor!

RIP Marlene Dietrich, Siren of Cinema
Born: December 27 1901 & Died: May 6 1992

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Well, Boils & Ghouls, I just stumbled upon this little photographic gem, and thought it would be good for a guffaw. The moi you see was just a wee tot of five at the time of this underwhelming Kodak moment. Notice how my spindly little fingers, poised to morph into claws, are attempting to repel the perverted pseudo-elf’s covert advances, just as my saucer-like eyes dialate in abject fear, and my lower lip curls to its lowest position before issuing forth with a pathetic gutteral yowl.

That year, my parents figured out how to keep my Xmess demands to a minimum, for I was apparently so grateful to escape this encounter with my life that I completely forgot to want anything…And the image also proves that I am really undead, for the sign above Santa’s shoulder attests to the fact that the year was 1500. I’ve aged well, don’t you think?

😉

‘Yule’ be safe with this Santa’s ‘slay’, and there’ll be no reindeer poop on the roof either!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Artist: Danny Hellman

Veronique Chevalier’s Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Compilation was featured in the November 2008 edition (Issue No. 84), page 73, of Canada’s premiere horror publication, Rue Morgue Magazine. Deepest thanks to the author, Liisa Ladouceur for her astute article. (Click on the image below to view a readable enlargement of the article).

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Here is the first incarnation of HELL-ga related promo. Feel free to post this banner far & wide and link back to: http://MySpace.com/PolkaHauntUs .

We’d be pleased to post your banner on our MySpace page, as well as on our Official Website- PolkaHaunt.Us, which is currently under construction:

Veronique as ‘HELL-ga’, shot by Justice Howard

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In the slideshow below are some of the honored performers
and participants on ‘Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Comilation’

Roll your mouse over the individual’s photo to view the artist’s name