Patronizing "The Arts" is no small feat, and what better way to showcase the brilliant and talented independent artists of the Bay Area than by inviting them to appear with us in our upcoming original sketch comedy show KML Patronizes the Arts? Each night, we'll feature a different local artist bringing their unique set of skills in song, dance, literature, rap, even politics... yes, that's right, politics as an art form. Check out the full line-up of guest artists below, and be sure to reserve your tickets so you can admire them doing their thing.

CLASSICAL REVOLUTION -- Thursday, Aug. 27 Classical Revolution began as an informal chamber music gathering in November 2006 at Revolution Cafe. Their mission is to provide interesting and exciting chamber music performances in venues which are more accessible to a wider audience than the traditional concert hall. The group features musicians who have played with the San Francisco Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Santa Cruz Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, Berlin Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and many other distinguished groups. www.classicalrevolution.org

DEBRA WALKER -- Friday, Aug. 28 Walker exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work hangs at SF City Hall, the State Capital, and in hundreds of private collections. It's been included in scores of group shows, including one at the Triton Museum in San Jose. Her art is narrative, political, and stirring. Her imagery embodies the themes: urban landscape, figurative, and social realism. Using mixed media, her paintings thrive on texture, composition, and a coaxing and pushing of the medium. She has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1981, teaching occasionally and working on social issues 24/7. Her community involvement includes serving as a building commissioner, chairing task forces dealing with the arts, planning, and education. Walker has served on the boards of dozens of arts and non-profit organizations. In addition to working on arts issues, she is involved locally in planning/development issues, arts education policy, and is working statewide on arts & education funding, and affordable housing issues. She is an elected official in both the local and state democratic party, and is running for Supervisor in San Francisco's Sixth District in 2010. www.debrawalker.com

FELONIOUS -- Saturday, Aug. 29 (7pm show) FELONIOUS: ONELOVEHIPHOP is dedicated to playing Hip Hop with a live band. The live instrumentation allows for an intricate musical texture featuring the pounding beats of Soulati (Tommy Shepherd), the reggae, latin, funk, and jazz bass lines of Illin Ills (Dylan Mills), KP's (Keith Pinto) melodic vocals and keys, MC's D.Wolf (Dan Wolf) and Infinite's (Carlos Aguirre) poetic and rapid-fire lyrics, and Jon Monahan's virtuoso guitar playing. Felonious has shared the stage with The Roots, De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Premier, Black Eyed Peas, Zion I, Living Legends, Radioactive, Crown City Rockers, Psychokinetics, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Raw Deluxe, and Dynamic. www.myspace.com/feloniousonelove

THE FREEZE -- Saturday, Aug. 29 (10pm show) The Freeze is a collection of MC's and musicians who form a Super Awesome Rap Team banded together to fight the everyday evil forces of life!  Our super quest? Completely improvised freestyle rap shows where we take audience suggestions to inspire our songs.  Members of The Freeze include teachers, broadway singers, television and web personalities, kick-ass musicians and friends. Everybody no name, rock, rock on... www.thefreezesf.com

FOR THE CAUSE -- Sunday, Aug. 30 For The Cause (FTC) dance crew formed in October of 2009. In the short span of 6 months, FTC won 1st place at a statewide hip-hop dance competition and was declared "The Last Crew Standing". Since then, FTC opened for hip-hop artist Ludacris, showcased in dance competitions, and opened for clothing line No Rival. www.myspace.com/ftcdance

KATYA LUDMILLA SMIRNOFF-SKYY -- Thursday, Sep. 3 The Countess Katya Ludmilla Smirnofff-Skyy (mezzo-soprano). Recently named "Best Drag Act" San Francisco Bay Guardian 2008, has been enthralling bay area audiences for the last four years. Acclaimed for her operatic talents and brilliant timing, the countess has preformed in countless nightclubs, bars and resorts across the nation. She currently is a resident artist at the New Conservatory Theater Center where her third one "woman" show "Katya…What Becomes a Legend Most" played to sold out crowds. She is also currently playing the role of Petrushka in Thrillpeddlers "Pearl over Shanghai". The countess hosts a monthly show "Katya Presents…" at Martuni’s Bar every third Sunday of the month, as well as a cabaret contest "The Cabaret Showcase Showdown" every first Sunday. Katya is the creation of San Francisco native J. Conrad Frank. www.russianoperadiva.com

HOT PINK FEATHERS -- Friday, Sep. 4 Where Carnaval meets Cabaret, Hot Pink Feathers performs World Cabaret Showgirl dance. Recently voted BEST DANCE COMPANY in the SF Bay Guardian "Best of the Bay" polls, the Feathers are committed to Delighting the World, One Showgirl at a Time. Led by the reigning Queen of Carnaval SF, Kellita, the Feathers embody full tilt joy and passion in a professional dance revue package. A Feathers show is guaranteed to bring smiles to each and every face in the house. These San Francisco-based dancing darlings are spreading the glitter gospel across the globe with their exuberant extravaganzas. Highlights of the past years in the life of Hot Pink Feathers include performing in Margaret Cho's Sensuous Woman variety shows at the Plush Room and Bimbo's in San Francisco and at El Cid in Los Angeles and sharing the stage with Rosin Coven at The Fillmore. You may also have caught the Feathers entertaining many millions of TV viewers on NBC's America's Got Talent. Hot Pink Feathers earned First Place in Original World Dance at San Francisco's Grand Carnaval 2005 & 2006. www.hotpinkfeathers.com

CAL SHAKES -- Saturday, Sep. 5 (10pm show) California Shakespeare Theater takes the classics and turns them, if not completely inside-out, then always at least a little bit upside-down. We take them outside, for one thing, to our breathtaking venue in the East Bay hills. We have parties and talk-backs and all kinds of events designed to make this a very un-classical classical theater experience. In addition to our main stage work, we also have a variety of educational offerings for youth and adults including professional development for teachers; and last (but not least) our New Works/New Communities program, brings disparate communities together around the creation of new American plays inspired by the classics--these days we're adapting John Steinbeck's collection The Pastures of Heaven with Word for Word and Octavio Solis, for a 2010 Main Stage production. Next up? Young lovers, human and fairy royalty, and an amateur theater troupe reel through romance and spellcraft in one of Shakespeare's most hilarious and enchanting works, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. www.calshakes.org

JAMIE DEWOLF -- Sunday, Sep. 6 Slam poet Jamie DeWolf is the creator of Tourettes Without Regrets, member of the Suicide Kings, HBO Def Poetry Jam performer and filmmaker whose work has taken him everywhere from Moscow, Russia to San Quentin Penitentiary. www.suicidekingsspokenword.com

CIRCUS CONSPIRACY -- Thursday, Sep. 10 The Circus Conspiracy is in town! Our special agents and co-conspirators have traveled the globe in search of the latest in juggle, dance, comedy, and unicorns. Prepare yourself for the findings: ridiculous stunts, spectacular spectacles, and a whole lot of fun! The Circus Conspiracy is Brian Thompson and Matt McCorkle. www.circusconspiracy.com

SCOTT WELLS & DANCERS -- Friday, Sep. 11 Scott Wells has a colorful history of making dances in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is premiering Catch featuring master jugglers Aaron Jessup and Zach Bernstein. These boys do devilish things with up to 10 balls and they are also wonderful dancers and well trained in contact improvisation, which is one of Wells’ main instruments in dance making. The piece wedges uniquely between dance, circus and street juggling. Aaron Jessup is a second-generation professional juggler and acrobat. His solo career began in San Francisco, where he started performing his juggling, comedy and rope-walking act at 16 years old. He street performed through the US, Europe and Australia and performed with circus troupes. He is also a teacher of Contact Improvisation. Zack Bernstein has the extraordinary concentration and ability to manipulate objects through space, mesmerize audiences, immediately adding intensity to live performance. He is a teacher at the SF Circus Center and the co-founder of the performance group Capacitor. www.scottwellsdance.com

AXIS DANCE -- Saturday, Sep. 12 (7pm show) AXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities, will change the way you think about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. Founded in 1987, AXIS has become a jewel of contemporary dance and disability culture. AXIS has paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form--physically integrated dance--performing in over sixty cities nationwide, as well as in Europe and Siberia. Under the Artistic Direction of Judith Smith, the company has commissioned works by such movement innovators as Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Sonya Delwaide, Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson and Margaret Jenkins. In addition, AXIS’ own choreographers have created over sixty repertory works, two evening length works and two works for young audiences. Dancers Rodney Bell and Janet Das will represent AXIS during this KML performance. Rodney Bell is of Maori ethnicity from New Zealand. He relocated to Bay Area from New Zealand in 2007 to dance with AXIS and is a founding dance artist for Touch Compass, New Zealand’s first mixed ability dance company. Janet Das is a native of the bay area and has been dancing and performing since childhood. She has a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from Mills College. She has danced for Trip Dance Theater, Molissa Fenley, Joe Goode, Leyya Tawil, and Katie Faulkner's little seismic dance company. Janet joined AXIS in July 2008. www.axisdance.org

JELLY DONUT -- Saturday, Sep. 12 (10pm show) & Sunday, Sep. 13 (2pm show) Jelly D was born in Maine, the fat son of a Catholic nun and a pool hustler. Now repping the Bay Area, California, Jelly writes rhymes, produces beats, rap battles, and occasionally strums a guitar and cries softly. Jelly D took the Oakland battle rap scene and Internet by storm, and his beef with UK hip-hop star Lady Sovereign was coverred on Mtv’s TRL, Rolling Stone, and TIME, Blender.  His lackluster alter ego “Andrew Bancroft” is a company member of KML. www.myspace.com/mcjellydonut