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AMBITIOUS HOSTED TOURING PRODUCTION OF EXCLUSIVE CAT VIDEOS LAUNCHED OCTOBER 2017
A Family Feline Film And Cat Comedy Event For All
Los Angeles, CA (October 11th, 2017) – Concert and live production powerhouse Knitting Factory Presents has announced CAT VIDEOS LIVE!, a comprehensive and ambitious touring production of the world’s best cat-themed video presentations. Deploying as a North American tour in fall 2017, tickets for shows in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit are on sale now at: www.CatVideosLive.com.
The promo clip for Chicago’s Cat Videos Live! Date can be downloaded, here: http://bit.ly/CVLChicago
Cat Videos Live! is a family-friendly, feline film, cat comedy event and social gathering for all ages. Cat Videos Live! provides an authentic, wildly entertaining atmosphere for animal lovers to experience the cat video phenomenon–together–in a live, theatrical setting. Cat Videos Live! and Catvideos.com have partnered to bring this exclusive cat content to the big screen. In addition, Cat Videos Live! is a forum for cat video creators from amateurs to celebrities to showcase their cats.
Produced by Knitting Factory Presents, New York City-based comedienne Carla Rhodes will serve as the show’s host. Mentored by Shari Lewis, creator of children’s icon Lambchop, Rhodes is a multi-faceted entertainer who has performed with a wide array of artists such as Neil Hamburger, The Eels and Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric). The tour is co-produced by award-winning video producer, director and editor Eric Dorris, founder of www.catvideos.com, “For the Love of Cats.”
United Talent Agency (UTA), home to talent as diverse as Angelina Jolie, Shailene Woodley, Ice Cube and Judd Apatow, is the project’s agent. Bring Cat Videos Live! to your town. For booking enquiries: Phil.Battiato@unitedtalent.com <mailto:Phil.Battiato@unitedtalent.com> and Joe.Fucigna@unitedtalent.com <mailto:Joe.Fucigna@unitedtalent.com>
Why Cat Videos Live!? Quite simply, cat videos rule the Internet. Back in 2014, Tubular Insights estimated that over 2 million cat videos had been uploaded to YouTube and racked up 25 billion views (source: http://tubularinsights.com/2-million-cat-videos-youtube <http://tubularinsights.com/2-million-cat-videos-youtube>). Celebrity cats and their owners have gone way beyond a cottage industry to bona fide sensations. In fiscal 2015, Americans spent $62 billion dollars were spent by Americans on their pets, pet heath care, grooming and pet related consumer products. Touring productions of cat videos have legs–or tiny cat feet as it were. Previous cat video showcases have played all over the world and Knitting Factory Presents sold-out events from the Showbox in Seattle to the Warsaw in Brooklyn to the Federal in Long Beach to the Echoplex in Los Angeles. The world LOVES cat videos.
“It’s such a huge audience that we really had to put this multi-media event together to meet the pent-up demand to take this social phenomenon to a higher professional level,” explains Kitting Factory Presents president Mark Dinerstein.
Dorris adds, “We’re delighted to make the concept of CatVideos.com into a live touring experience for the family–cat [and dog] lovers alike. Cat Videos Live! is a rollicking roadshow combining community, comedy and technology. It’s a showcase of local, national and international filmmaking talent. It’s an amazing outpouring of both creative output and shared experiences and interests.”
Cat Videos Live! puts its arms around the entire feline phenomenon. While the two-hour program has national common elements, each city’s performance and presentation will be unique, with locally programmed media and celebrity guest hosts and videos. The show has two national and multiple local charitable beneficiaries. National partners include Panthera (www.panthera.org), which works to protect big cats, and Friends for Life (www.friends4life.org <http://www.friends4life.org/>), which leads no-kill shelter and adoption care efforts in the Southwest. “I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Friends for Life founder, philanthropist, and investor Don Sanders, whose work saving animals is an inspiration and is a valuable part of the awareness we hope to bring with Cat Videos Live!,” Dorris says. Each tour city will also have its own local rescue and/or adoption partners.
Finally, CatVideos.com is launching an app to tie together the touring experience and web site for cat fans and supporters. iOS and Android mobile device users will be able to upload their own videos, share others, get catmojis, buy tickets, visit partner sites, support sponsors and charities.
About Knitting Factory Entertainment (KFE)
KFE, under CEO and President Morgan Margolis, is a leader in the independent entertainment, restaurant and hospitality industries. KFE provides a vast array of professional services, including on the ground venue and restaurant build outs to in-house talent buying, leading small to large scale clubs and outdoor festivals, with operational oversight across all departments, personnel and platforms.
Knitting Factory Presents, one of the top 50 promoters in the US, produces national and international tours, concerts and events; upcoming large-scale live performance events include Desert Daze, taking place in Joshua Tree, CA October, Travelers Rest Festival in Missoula, MT and Horton’s Hayride, taking place September 16 in San Pedro, CA. Mark Dinerstein serves as President.
KFE owns and operates numerous Knitting Factory live music concert houses, and curates talent for a multitude of non-operated venues and events across the country. Partnerships also include the iconic Regent Theater in Downtown Los Angeles–a large capacity music, food and bar staple–and Arrive Palm Spring, a 39-room boutique hotel in the heart of Palm Springs. KFE has designed, built, staffed and continues to run several Federal bar and restaurant entertainment complexes over the past five years to continued success.
Knitting Factory Records, along with its partners Partisan Records, manages recorded music and catalogues and current and legacy artists and releases content in all formats as well as music-branded DVDs.
Knitting Factory Management and strategic partner Van Johnson Company handle the careers of emerging and critically acclaimed recording and theatrical artists both in the U.S. and overseas. KFE has numerous alignments and/or ownership stakes in media enterprises to help launch your next great event or brand experience, including: Giant Step Marketing and Media, an award winning experiential organization; Spaceland Presents, one of the premiere independent club promotion and event companies; The Connect Group, an agency focused on food, sports and entertainment; Boomtown Brewery; Selby Artists Management, as well as a web property; The Talkhouse, connecting the conversation between artists.
Bedhead is in right now, but it takes a lot of effort to look so effortlessly fabulous. This style tends to tangle strands extremely easily. So just how do you detangle this look at the end of the day without damage? You end up taking a brush to your locks and pulling and pulling ‘til you find your hair is coming out with every stroke. Breakage is so common when trying to brush out tangles, but cue the Revlon Steel Pin Brush. This new favorite accessory will do the detangling without all the damage of a standard brush.
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The reality is that I conquered every single thing by hard work. There is no better feeling than being recognized, seen, and heard. It means that my message is getting out there louder and louder. Fashion to me is a way to wrap your soul. I love that women and men can look at me to be inspired by who I am, inside and out. I believe this is what makes you a fashion icon.
When you were younger, was there a pivitol moment where you knew fashion would be your life calling?
When I was 16 and was told that I had the body of a model I remember having butterflies in my stomach. I looked at myself in the mirror and said: “One day you will be a top model”. That was my childhood dream. A pure dream that simply means to strive to be the best of the best. Being recognized today as such gives me the strength to keep on working. The beautiful part is that I get inspired everyday by my mentor, Daisaku Ikeda, knowing for a fact that there is no limit to going beyond yourself. I am looking forward to see myself in 5 years. The “no” are there, many times they are stronger than the yes. When they hit me however I know I need to surpass them.
Lastly, who or what influences your current style now? And who are your current favorite brands?
Instagram is my beyond imagination source of inspiration. We dictate trends. Things that we wore months before make it onto the catwalks the following season. This happens all the time with many amazing influencers. Brands are watching us now to pick up inspiration: this is the concrete signal that social media has changed an industry. I am an Italian soul and body, I adore Gucci and Fendi. I take joy in discovering new international brands and selecting the best out of them such as Malika Rajani, Femme Sans Peur, Michelle Nicole. A big shout out to stylist Ninorta Malke for making me discover Dreams On Air, a New York City showroom with amazing innovative labels. As a fashion Influencer discovering the new, seeing their vision, mission, and love gives me so much motivation. Keep on being YOU.
Global breakthrough act, Jonas Blue, releases the official video for his smouldering new single “We Could Go Back.” Shot on location in Tokyo and directed by Masashi Muto, the video follows Jonas’ dynamic relationship with a love interest, surrounded by stunning contemporary dancers. Watch the video HERE.
Available for purchase and streaming HERE, “We Could Go Back” features vocals from his latest discovery, rising afrobeats star MoeLogo. The track marks Blue’s fifth official single, following the wildly successful “Mama.” featuring William Singe, which has amassed over 600 million global streams.
A permanent fixture in the charts, Jonas Blue has just produced Craig David’s explosive new single “Heartline” and is set to be one of three UK ambassadors for the MTV EMA’s in London next month. Blue has just surpassed 3 billion streams worldwide.
With 3 Top 5 UK singles to his name already, this new track “We Could Go Back” is another production masterclass; with its shimmering guitars and warm bassline perfectly paired with Moelogo’s wistful vocals. With dark nights sadly closing in, this hypnotic tune effortlessly recalls those lazy days of summer.
Having sold almost 19 million singles to date, Jonas Blue is now ready to build on his monumental success in the coming months. His debut single, “Fast Car” became 2016’s biggest-selling single globally from a British debut artist and earned him two BRIT award nominations – ‘British Single’ and ‘British Artist Video.’ Jonas’ second single “Perfect Strangers” featuring JP Cooper picked up platinum sales awards around the globe while his third release “By Your Side” helped launch the career of rising British artist Raye. More recently he has had monumental success with his latest release “Mama” which spent 20 weeks in the Top 40. Jonas Blue was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in the category of ‘Choice Next Big Thing’ this past summer. Equally comfortable onstage and in the studio, Jonas Blue is currently working on his debut album.
LVRN’s newest signee Spacejam Bo releases his new single “Who Really Love Me?” The 20-year-old Alabama native delivers an authentic narrative about traumatic past experiences. Bo hopes to provide fans with a sense of solace through music. “I want to be the person people go listen to when they’re going through life,” he says. “Everybody is too cool now. Rapping about diamonds and smoking drugs. They’re taking the culture somewhere it’s not supposed to be at. Rap should inspire people to be great. I came from nothing. I’m gonna tell them a story and lead them to be great, too.”
This Halloween, Bacardí challenges partygoers to DRESS TO BE FREE with a new campaign aimed at liberating our truest selves in honor of the holiday that celebrates self-expression. BACARDÍ is honing in on the spirit of Halloween as the intersection of a world of people who dress up to be themselves every day and those who liberate themselves through creative expression. This year, BACARDÍ celebrates these individuals, and are excited to share exclusive content with the Parisian dance duo – Les Twins – brothers who at their core represent what Dress to Be Free is all about: authenticity, truth, and celebration.
Identical twin brothers, choreographers and models, Laurent and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois, are recognized internationally for their talents in new style hip-hop dancing, and have been featured with various music artists including Beyoncé, Meghan Trainor, and Missy Elliott. Just as BACARDÍ challenges convention and champions liberation, Les Twins are transforming dance culture using movement and their style to transcend the expected, redefine and disrupt a category. They are moving past the notions of what constitutes “real hip-hop,” integrating the happenings of everyday life to celebrate their true selves.
BACARDÍ, Les Twins, and Cardi B will be attending a #DRESSTOBEFREE Halloween Bash on October 30th at House of Yes in New York City.
Check out the short video to learn more about how you can DRESS TO BE FREE
Gavin James new single “Hearts on Fire” is out today. With its infectious chants and hook-laden chorus, the song became a fan favorite after James began performing it live. The young Irish artist co-wrote the track with Sam Romans (Little Mix, Mary J. Blige, Rag n Bone Man) and produced it with Steve Robson (One Direction, John Legend, James Bay). It is the first single from James’ forthcoming studio album, which is due out in Spring of 2018. Download/stream “Hearts On Fire” HERE and view the lyric video HERE.
James is currently the opener for label mate Niall Horan’s sold-out Flicker Sessions 2017 tour.
James is one of the breakout artists of the year. He has sold over 2 million singles worldwide and amassed half a billion streams on Spotify since releasing his debut album Bitter Pill.
Noisey.com hailed James as “a soulful singer-songwriter sure to make you feel less alone when you’re down in the dumps” and Clash praised him as “tender, emotional…no mean talent.” The Irish Times said, “there is proof on Bitter Pill that James has enough emotionally depth-charged tunes in his back pocket to take him from here to the top of the charts and back again.”
Gavin James – North American Tour Dates
(All dates supporting Niall Horan on Flicker Sessions 2017 tour)
Multi-platinum certified Portland, Oregon rapper Aminé released a brand-new song “Squeeze”. The song was produced by Madison LST, BeforeIzaiah, and his “Caroline” co-producer Pasquè. Listen to “Squeeze” HERE
Aminé is in the midst of his headline “Tour For You.”
Every once in a while, an artist comes along and rewrites the entire rule book for a genre. That’s exactly what Aminé did with “Caroline” in 2016. Taking rap to a new frontier, it earned an RIAA triple-platinum plaque as he delivered a kinetic performance of the anthem on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon between constant touring. “REDMERCEDES” and its high-profile official remix with Missy Elliott and AJ Tracey saw him lap the competition yet again.
