The Moisture Festival is a perfect storm of entertainment
On the fringes of Seattle's theater community resides a small army of eccentric cabaret performers: aerialists, jugglers, impressionists, can-can dancers, saw players, chanteuses, clowns and singers of sea shanties. The Moisture Festival, an annual event to fete the coming of spring, brings these local talents together with performers from all over the world in a variety show like none you've seen.
Five days a week through the first week of April, Hale's Palladium will welcome such performers as Baby Gramps, a blues and folk singer with a voice as raspy as a digeridoo; magic duo Los Magnificos!, who have mastered "the longest pregnant pause in theatrical history"; Shoehorn, a tap-dancing saxophone player; graceful aerialist Sally Pepper, who's also pretty good with a hula hoop; Leapin' Louie Lichtenstein, a lasso-twirling cowboy in the Will Rogers mold; Tom Noddy, who performs amazing feats with soap bubbles; Jeffrey Daymont, a juggler who works with everything from cigar boxes to golf clubs; Grammy-winning acappella group The Bobs, and dozens of amazing others.
The lineup of performers changes from performance to performance, but some things don't change: The shows are always modestly priced - just $20 for a show that rivals anything you've seen in Las Vegas - and the Moisture Festival is always family-friendly.
Posted by Geoff Carter
