Vegas!
The Grand Hogmanay Ball
TUE 31 DEC 2024
TUE 31 DEC 2024
Starring The Soul Foundation, Blues and Burlesque feat. Belle de Beauvoir & Pete Saunders, Missy Malone, Count Indigo, Gypsy Charms, Vendetta Vain, Frankie Sumatra, Bugsy Seagull, Sam Jose, Nikki Nevada and the Vegas Showgirls, The Fabulous Scott Sisters and You!
Hey there hepcats and hipsters, sinners and swingers, wise guys and dolls, gangsters and molls, dynamite dames and femme fatales, card sharks and lounge lizards, high rollers and low riders, lindy hoppers and finger poppers…
Join us at the hippest, hottest Hogmanay party in this, or any other, town – The Vegas Grand Hogmanay Ball at the Voodoo Rooms!
There’s nowhere sweller to hold the swingin’-est end of year soirée than the fabulous Voodoo Rooms. Say farewell to 2024 and welcome in 2025 with a scintillating night of vivaciousness & va-va-voom; blackjack & burlesque; glitz & glamour; roulette & romance; moonlight & martinis; hedonism & hi-jinks; champagne & cabaret.
Vegas has assembled a killer line-up of live music, DJs, MCs, burlesque artists and cabaret performers, and of course, the most important ingredient of all – yourselves. Mix all these elements together, give it a shake, and you’ve got the the intoxicating cocktail of cool that is The Vegas Hogmanay Ball!
We’re taking over every nook and cranny of the most glamorous and opulent venue in town – the Voodoo Rooms. The Ballroom, Speakeasy, the American Bar, Carte Blanche!, and the Main Bar and Restaurant provide ideal environments and intimate hideaways for dancing and romancing, carousing and celebrating, dining and imbibing in style. Vegas will be serving up a smorgasbord of different rooms and themes this Hogmanay – in addition to our swingin’ Ballroom capers, we’ll have the Blues & Burlesque Speakeasy, the Stardust Casino Lounge and the all-new Love Boat Games Room!
Shining bright amongst this constellation of stars will be Edinburgh’s premier exponents of the soul, funk and Motown sound – The Soul Foundation! These guys and gals are the most soulful cats in town, and will kick-start the evening by delivering two sets of feel-good funk-fuelled good times, firing up the Vegas dance-floor up right from the get-go, so get down early!
We’re delighted to welcome Blues & Burlesque back to Vegas, by popular acclaim, fresh from their soaraway 2024 Fringe success. B&B will take over the Speakeasy for the evening, with two shows, at 10.30pm and 1.00am, with a special guest slot upstairs. With original music by Pete Saunders (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and the comedic, vocal and dance triple-threat talents of ‘The Sparkling Diamond of Burlesque’ Belle de Beauvoir, this stellar duo will illuminate the Vegas sky like exploding supernovae!
But of course, The Soul Foundation and Blues & Burlesque aren’t the only stellar talents in this Night of a Thousand Stars. We’re delighted to welcome back to the Vegas stage, our good friend and the most glamorous gal in showbiz, Scotland’s very own Queen of Burlesque, Missy Malone! Award-winning circus and performance artist, the sensational Vendetta Vain, will captivate you with their extraordinary talent and daring artistry! Gasp and delight at Edinburgh’s own tantalising temptress, Dr. Gypsy Charms as she wows you with her terpsichorean talents, yet another shimmering star in our glittering constellation of burlesque artists!
There will be dancing into the wee sma’ hours to the exotic rhythms, intoxicating melodies and irresistible dance-floor grooves of Vegas musical maestros Frankie Sumatra, Bugsy Seagull and Sam Jose. Hipster swing, hepcat jive, gangster grooves, beguiling bossa nova, luscious lounge, sanctified soul, rockin’ R&B, blues, boogaloo, dancefloor jazz, cult classics & mob hits are just a few of the choice cuts on the musical menu for your dancing pleasure.
We’re delighted to welcome to Vegas, London’s King of Clubs, the legend that is Count Indigo. The suave and sartorially-unimpeachable Count will be slipping into his Commodore’s uniform to host proceedings in Carte Blanche, which will be converted into the Love Boat Games Room especially for the evening! Your host, Count Indigo will spin a midshipman’s selection of mellow mid-century tunes, from ‘50s lounge to yacht rock and sports themes, while the cruising cognoscenti compete in a selection of classic cruise ship games, including Quoits, Cornhole, Hula, Giant, Connect Four, Limbo & more! The Love Boat Games room will be a soothing oasis tucked away in the hinterland of Sin City, a place for the coolest cats and kitties to congregate – the ‘In Crowd’ amongst the ‘Sin Crowd’. Set sail for 2025 with a mixture of mellow sounds and Love Boat games, lubricated by fabulous cocktails, with prizes for the group with the most fabulous nautical fashions – be that a Hawaiian shirt, sailor uniform, or speedos and a bikini!
And just in case there wasn’t enough glitz, glamour, razzmatazz and va-va-voom already, Nikki Nevada & the Vegas Showgirls will turn the Fabulousness Factor all the way up to eleven and shake their tail-feathers most delightfully. These sultry sirens combine the sophistication of the salons of Paris with the sassiness of the Vegas strip.
And of course we can’t forget the hustlers, card sharks and wild cards at the Stardust Casino Lounge, presided over by the Fabulous Scott Sisters and located in the American Bar – the only casino where you can gamble the night away at the roulette and blackjack tables without fear of losing your shirt, courtesy of our complimentary Elvis dollars.
A glittering galaxy of stars and heavenly bodies will illuminate the Grand Vegas Hogmanay Ball, but shining brightest of all will be yourselves, the Vegas cognoscenti! The coolest cats and kittens in club-land will descend on the Voodoo Rooms for an unforgettable night. So join us at The Vegas Grand Hogmanay Ball: Let’s start 2025 as we mean to go on….with a swingin’, ring-a-dingin’ good time!
DATE: Tue 31 Dec 2024
VENUE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA
TIME: 9:00pm – 3:00am

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