Blog

by on
JC Cassis photo by McP Photo

Back in June, my longtime friend and burlesque performer, Messica Rabbit, asked if I would host and sing in a new burlesque, dance and music show she was putting together, and I said yes.

In August, we did the first iteration of the show, called Electric Moon Cabaret, to a sold out crowd at Under St. Mark’s Theater in Manhattan. The show was a blast and the audience went wild for it.

We just did it again on November 30th, and again, the house was sold out and the audience went even crazier for the show, throwing money on the stage and screaming nonstop.

This time, in addition to singing songs by Chaka Khan, Toni Braxton and Brandy, I got to sing my own song, Dance Dance Dance, which I hadn’t done in a long while, and people went just as wild for it as they used to when I first started performing it years ago. They were singing and dancing along with me, and they roared with applause when it was over. It felt so amazing to get that kind of response!

Being part of this show has helped me to realize that in addition to singing, I really love hosting a show. It’s so fun to both say my prewritten lines and ad lib in the moment, and to write jokes both before and during the show and enjoy landing them in front of the audience. I love being on stage so much, so I’m glad to know of yet another way I can get on stage and have fun. I look forward to hosting more shows in the future, and we hope to keep doing Electric Moon Cabaret as long as the people keep showing up for it! Get on my mailing list to hear about future show dates, and I hope to see you under the Electric Moon soon!

by on

I was recently interviewed by my lifelong friend, Divia Eden, on her Mutual Understanding podcast, and I’m super proud of the interview and would love for you to hear it and let me know what you think!

You can find it anywhere you get podcasts, or listen/read the transcript at https://mutualunderstanding.substack.com/p/reposted-jc-cassis-on-friendship

Divia and I, who went to school together for 17 years and have been friends since 1990, discussed maintaining and navigating friendships as adults, being childfree and parenting, communication strategies, the loneliness epidemic and more.

I could talk about friendship and social interaction forever, but this 90 minute chunk was a great start. Enjoy!

by on

Life in New York City these days includes the possibility that you may be interviewed for popular social media accounts at any time while you’re out and about, and finally, it happened to me!

The guys from MeetCutesNYC, a popular social media account about interviewing couples about how they met and what they love about each other, whom you may recognize by their intro line, “Excuse me? Sorry, are you two a couple?” approached and interviewed me in Central Park the other day while I was with my beloved dog, Pip.

The interview is only on TikTok and Instagram thus far, but here’s a link to it: JC and Pip on MeetCutesNYC

I love being interviewed and hope to do more spontaneous and planned interviews in the future! And I’m glad over 150K people now know how amazing little Pip is! 😍

by on

I’m excited to say that a couple of the songs I’ve worked on with the amazing Ali Sethi, called Raat Bhar and Kaase Kahu, are finally out!

Ali and I have known each other since our days at Harvard as undergrads in 2002-2006 and it’s been amazing to watch his evolution and ascent to becoming one of the most popular and beloved South Asian singers in the world today. I’ve always loved him, so it’s great to see so many other people loving him, too. ❤️

Ali and I have been working on songs together since 2018, so I’m so glad that a few of them are finally out in the world for listeners to enjoy, and I think they’re gorgeous. Seems like his fans love them, too!

Hopefully more of our collaborations will be out before long, but great work takes time… 🤩

by on

Photo credits: Jeff Eason / WilsonModels

Josh Nova and I had such a blast at the Icedick premiere party at 66 Greenpoint! We performed the full studio version of Icedick for the first time ever, talked to the audience about how the song came together over the course of 13 years, screened the Icedick music video for the first time ever, and did an audience Q and A about how it was made.

We had tons of friends and friends of friends there, and the feedback was amazing. The audience really roared for both the performance and the music video, which made us so happy. I knew people would love the song and video, but the applause felt like so much more than that.

One person even said that when I started to sing, my voice nearly made him cry, which is hilarious since I was singing a raunchy dance pop song about dicks.

These past few years have had way fewer performances than I would have liked, so to get this kind of response from this performance was super moving and motivating for me.

We look forward to performing Icedick a lot more in the future!