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Veronique Chevalier is AKA The “Weird VAL” of Dark Cabaret. Being gonged off the premiere season of America’s Got Talent was irrefutable proof that the mainstream were not yet ready for her gifts.





Veronique is a journalist; social activist; record producer, lyricist; parodist; visual artist; model, former ballet dancer. She is reputed to be the long-lost great-granddaughter of a certain famous Frenchman who was a star of stage and screen… (Maurice Chevalier)





Veronique is a unparalleled Parodist; a Steampunk Chanteuse, and Spooky Polkanista, who has been described as a campy incarnation of Edith Piaf from a parallel universe – the one in which her parents are Jim Morrison, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and her godparents are Lucille Ball and Weird Al.





As a self-proclaimed “Mad Sonictist,” she takes maniacal pleasure in combining previously unrelated musical forms into new, unholy combinations. She vows to leave no genre unadulterated in her quest to create the ultimate Sonic Frankenstein…





“I especially appreciate under-the-radar and/or quirky talents…I am very proud of my benefit project, a recording and live show Cabaret4Choice which highlights the complexity of reproductive freedom…I conceptualized and produced ‘Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Compilation’ which was an Official Selection on The 51st Annual Grammy Ballot, & is sure to become a perennial Halloween classic, and am currently writing an original Steampunk Opera..(See links to ‘The Many Websites Of Veronique’ in the right-hand sidebar of my blog).”

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Veronique is proud to be part of Gilded Age Records, the world’s only artist collective focused on musician’s combining old world aesthetics and sounds with current genres of music.
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Steampunk/Cabaret/Swing/Ragtime/Gypsy-Punk/Neo-Classical/Martial-Industrial/Darkwave/Post-Punk/etc.


Chevalier will be appearing July 11th, 2010 at:

* * The Steampunk Bizarre, Hartford, CT,

The “Internet Date” video will premiere on Sunday, July 11th, 2010, at The Second Annual Steampunk Bizarre, at ArtSpace in Hartford, Connecticut, and will be available on YouTube one week after the live premiere. The Steampunk Bizarre, curated by Joey Marsocci, and presented by DrGrymmLaboratories.net, is a week-long exhibition, running July 9th – 16th, exploring various aspects of Steampunk, which is a term that has been coined for “The Scholar’s Science Fiction.”


The Steampunk Bizarre Exhibit will be alive with sights and sounds of ingenious and strange contraptions set in a themed atmosphere. Dr. Grymm’s EXPERIMENT is to bring together 23 international artists, some from the Steampunk community, some professional artists trying their hand at Steampunk for the first time.

Chevalier, is the only performance artist who has been invited to participate in The Steampunk Bizarre, and in addition to screening the “Internet Date” video, she has written two song new parodies and a spoken word piece entitled “I Am Steampunk” that she will perform live.

Highlights of the exhibition will be filmed for a documentary by Neurotic Films, tentatively entitled “I Am Steampunk: The Making Of A Bizarre World,” which will premiere in the Fall of 2010.


More Appearances:
* * The League Of Temporal Adventurers First Society Gala, San Diego, July 24th, 2010
* * Seattle Steamcon II, November 19th-21st, 2010
* * Wild Wild West Con, Tucson, AZ, March 2011 (Opening for Abney Park)
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Find Veronique:
http://WeirdVal.com
http://MySpace.com/VeroniqueChevalier
http://twitter.com/VeroniqueCheVAL
http://www.gildedagerecords.com
http://www.somedaylounge.com/performers/Veronique_Chevalier
http://PolkaHaunt.Us
http://MySpace.com/PolkaHauntUs
http://twitter.com/PolkaHauntUs
http://www.youtube.com/user/VeroniqueChevalier
http://steampunk.ning.com/profile/VeroniqueChevalier

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This week’s Steampunk Blog tour:

O.M.Grey’s Caught in the Cogs Steampunk Spotlight: Lovechild Boudoir
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Join Mike Perschon for his Steampunk discussions on The Steampunk Scholar
July is Canuk Steampunk month – Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
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On Steamed: The Steampunk Novel Diary: Why Steampunk?? by Author Marie-Claude Bourque

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Matthew Delman at Free The Princess.com -Your resource on Steampunk background — history, science, culture, and more:
Locomotives in Steampunk Society