Jolie Goodnight is an award-winning Jazz Singer and Singing Burlesque Star who hails back to the days of old Hollywood glitz and glamour. She has dazzled audiences around the world specializing in Vintage Jazz Band Burlesque, Classic Fan Dances and a passion for the Singing Striptease that Music News Magazine describes as, “if she sang the phone book to you it would sound sexy.” A fabulous fit for your event, you can hire Jolie Goodnight for Burlesque or for Music - or both, lending a vintage sparkle to any event!
Specialities & Talents Include:
- Singing Burlesque Performances
- A jazz singer with a fabulous live band
- A rockabilly singer with an old country vintage flair
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Languages: English, French
Jolie Goodnight's three different offering options are a fabulous fit for your event!:
Jazz Singer: Jolie Goodnight’s jazz show is not your typical jazz show! Jolie combines modernity and nostalgia with jazz from the 1920′s-50′s but remains fresh due to its aesthetic and showmanship. Can be performed to tracks or with a live band.
Burlesque Singer: A glamorous addition to your events, parties, special days, and celebrations, Jolie Goodnight has a vast repertoire to fit your themed party needs with talents including, singing, fan dances, flapper inspired numbers, and burlesque from the golden age of Hollywood.
Rockabilly/Country Band: Jolie and the Jackalopes are high-energy, fun, and are sure to get everyone dancing! Part rockabilly, part country, and part groovy they are Austin music at its core. Upbeat, dance-able Rock and Roll that is crossed with elements of old school country. It resembles something you might have heard in the 1950s!
“…seductive siren, Jolie Goodnight, a muse not to be missed.” – The Denver Post
Jolie Goodnight is a burlesque singer/songwriter, producer and multi-award winner at the Texas Burlesque Festival and other prestigious events. Hailing from Austin, Texas, she has been producing and performing burlesque across the globe for 15 years, with city appearances including London, New York, LA and Belfast.
She is an accomplished recording artist having released two albums and EPs. Across radio, print and TV, Jolie has attracted many press interviews building her reputation for over a decade and is a sought after artist featuring at major shows including her own co-production, the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue. A dynamic presence she has modelled for brands such as Secrets in Lace, Lucky Lou and Vivienne of Holloway.
Although she is hailed as “... a voice that could melt a stone heart,” (MOJO Magazine) Goodnight is well known for her dirty blues tunes and surprising audiences with a larger than life voice, a voice that’s been said to “drip from her mouth like sweet molasses.” In 2017 she starred as Texas Burlesque legend Candy Barr in "STRIP! The Musical" as well as New York burlesque legend Honey Harlow.
She released her debut album "Say Goodnight Gracey" and sophomore album “First Time Again!” to much critical acclaim, and is the winner of “Audience Choice" and “Best Tease” at the Texas Burlesque Festival as well as runner up Miss Viva Las Vegas. Growing up in a showbiz family, Goodnight has shared the stage with stellar music icons as Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Chris Stapleton, Sam Palladio, as well as modern and legendary icons of burlesque.
She’s is a Co-Producer of the Award-Winning Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue and Producer of the Stardust Burlesque Revue in Austin, Texas and co-Producer of Les Bijoux Burlesque in Dallas, Texas. as well as the creator of podcast “Made of Stardust” and front-woman for rockabilly band Jolie and The Jackalopes and swing band, Jolie Goodnight & Her Stardust Band. As your “Beacon in the Night” Jolie Goodnight has toured nationally and internationally and has performed at Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend (BHOF weekender,) Colorado Burlesque Festival, The Windy City Burlesque Festival, New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Southwest Burlesque Festival, the Perth Fringe Festival in Australia, and more!
Jolie's Rockabilly band, Jolie & The Jackalopes is a freewheeling, skinny dipping, hot rodding, high rolling "cosmic-billy" band. Jolie & The Jackalopes combines the hi-tone sound of rockabilly with the groover’s paradise of the Austin Sound, playing both original and old school tunes. Daughter of legendary producer Joe Gracey and singer songwriter Kimmie Rhodes, singer Jolie Goodnight has decided to carry the torch of the vast array of cowboy poets of the cosmic persuasion. She was raised in the world of Rockabilly, Country and Americana music under the tender love and care of coloring on Willie Nelson’s tour bus, of matching shirts and happy-birthday-answering-machine-messages from Waylon Jennings, and of nights spent backstage watching Kimmie with Rosie Flores. As a throwback to her parents' band “Kimmie Rhodes & The Jackalope Brothers” Goodnight has a rocking array of modern rockabilly musicians including Dylan Cavalier (Chop Tops, Chadd Thomas,) Jorge Harada (Dragstrip 77, Rosie Flores,) and James Gwyn (Junior Brown, Whiskey Shivers.) Jolie & The Jackalopes honors a legacy while energetically rocketing into the future!
Press Clippings
“… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart.” – Michael Simmons MOJO Magazine
“Jolie Goodnight is exactly the kind of voice us vocal jazz lovers hope to hear from the new generation.” - Esther Berlanga-Ryan Something Else! Reviews
“A superb modern recreation of the glories of the past.” – Rob Patterson Country Music People
“… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart.” – Michael Simmons MOJO Magazine
“Twangabilly blues" - Austin Rockabilly Online
“What a grand evening! Reputations were tarnished, hot jazz piano was played, Jolie Goodnight lit up the stage”- Vintage Vivant Online
“Sometimes when I see Jolie perform, I forget to take pictures because her voice alone is so beautiful.” – Sarah Cate Viva Dallas Burlesque Photographer
“My god, Jolie Goodnight singing…pure Jessica Rabbit!”- POC’s Texas Burlesque Festival Diary 2012
“A dishwater blond-turned-flame-haired beauty who dazzles audiences as she sings jazz standards.”- Austin Post
“Jolie sang, “My Daddy Rocks Me”, with a powerful, sultry voice that dripped from her mouth like sweet molasses.”- Red River Noise
“What a performance!…The tease was the icing on the cake…they were so captivated and so mesmerized by her singing and her stage presence they didn’t need anything else.”- Vaudezilla: Windy City Festival Review
“And Jolie Goodnight has one of the most beautiful singing voices I’ve ever heard. “- Clutter Magazine
“Jolie Goodnight’s “I Love You Truly,” crooned to the accompaniment of violin, piano and brushes, conjures visions of dapper men in bowlers dropping to their knees”- Lou Carlozo Christian Century Magazine
"...a superb recreation of the glories of the past." - Rob Patterson Country Music People
Jazz Set List:
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Paper Moon
Cabaret
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree
Stormy Weather
Singing in The Rain
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Blue Skies
My Daddy Rocks Me
Call My Baby My Sugar
Bei Mir Bist
Them There Eyes
Act-cent-tchuate- The Positive
Why Don’t You Do Right (Done Swing! Not Lounge!)
Summertime
All I Do Is Dream Of You
Occasional Man
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
You’ve Changed
Pennies From Heaven
Put The Blame on Mame
Sing Sing Sing
They Say It's Spring
April in Paris
Singing in the Rain
Blue Skies
Too Darn Hot
September Song
Autumn in New York
Tis Autumn
I Put a Spell on You
Rockabilly Set List:
Bacon Fat - D
I Want to do More - E
Texas Blues - A
Crazy Arms - A
Big Daddy - A
Wasted Days Wasted Nights - G
Lucky Lips - A
Walking Blues - C
Be Real - G
What’s The Matter Now- A
Long As I’m Moving - C
Drunk on Lonesome* - A
Hot Dog - E
Night Train - A
Wild Young Men - A
Crown to Wear - A
Rubble Blues* - C
Please Mama Please - G
Little Chevrolet - D
Everybody’s Trying - E
Deep in Love - E
20 Flight Rock
Gator - G
White Freight Liner - E
Caterpillar - C
| Jolie Goodnight | singer |
Anita O'Day, Marilyn Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Billie Holiday, Jelly Roll Morton, Lucille Ball, Bette Midler, Cab Calloway, Ann Miller, Rita Hayworth, Nat King Cole, Big Mama Thornton, James Brown, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Buena Vista Social Club
Willie Nelson, Ruth Brown, Wanda Jackson, Doug Sahm, Townes Van Zandt, Stray Cats, Bill Haley and the Comets, Janice Martin, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Dale Watson, Rosie Flores, Kimmie Rhodes.
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