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Meet a Mermaid at Milton Country Park Autumn Festival!

22/9/2016

Mermaid Ondine reports:

The Merlesque Mermaids are excited to announce that Mermaid Ondine will be appearing at the Milton Country Park Autumn Festival, this Sunday 25th September.

Mermaid Ondine will be performing at the Festival between 11.30am and 1pm, so if you've got any little mermaid fans who'd love the chance to meet a real life mermaid, bring them along for a great photo opportunity! Plus we hear a rumour that there may be some free mermaid stickers being handed out as well...

Sea you there!

Mermaid Ondine x

Merlesque Mermaid Cabaret at the Honeysuckle Revue

3/9/2016

Mermaid Ondine reports:
Tickets are still available for the amazing Honeysuckle Revue tonight in Balham, London! The Merlesque Mermaids will be appearing with our hilarious musical comedy cabaret act, with songs about mermaid life in the human world, alongside a whole host of other incredible fairytale-themed performances. The Honeysuckle Revue has everything from incredible bellydancers through to wild burlesque and hilarious ukulele performance! Doors open at 7.30 with the show starting at 8pm. Tickets are cheaper if you buy in advance - get yours here now!

But don't worry too much if you can't make it tonight - we'll also be appearing in Cambridge on the 21st September.

Mermaid Ondine at the POPSY charity mermaid swim!

31/7/2016

Mermaid Melusine reports:
We love this beautiful photo-collage that was made by the POPSY charity in South Wales after Mermaid Ondine's recent appearance at their mermaid swim event! POPSY is a great charity which supports families whose youngsters are blind, have special needs or life limiting conditions. Mermaid Ondine had a wonderful time meeting and swimming with the POPSY families before joining them for a great party on dry land, featuring some truly amazing mermaid cupcakes! We're hoping to see more of the POPSY family soon.

Mermaid Cabaret Act at the Willow Tree, Bourn

5/3/2016

Mermaid Ondine reports:
On the 21st February, the Merlesque Mermaids were part of the fabulous Valentine's-themed Night Circus event at the Willow Tree restaurant in Bourn. It's a great restaurant, and a beautiful setting for an evening of fab food and live entertainment. Myself and Mermaid Melusine started the evening greeting the guests as they arrived and handing out cocktails (or mocktails for those who won't drink!) - pomegranate, prosecco and popping candy, they sounded delicious! We were joined by the musical stylings of Below the String, in the form of two very adorable cherubs with glowing costumes! Then we moved on to the cabaret show...

As you can see from the pictures, Mermaid Melusine was debuting a brand new green tail and matching green-and-gold shell top, meaning that our cabaret costumes are now more co-ordinated than ever! As the guests finished up their starters, we moved on to our Valentine's-themed musical comedy act, including some saucy details about romance under the sea, and a couple of our favourite mermaid cabaret songs. It went down a treat with the audience, and hopefully we have managed to capture the set on film as well, so keep an eye on our YouTube channel for further developments!

We had a wonderful time at the Willow Tree, and hopefully we will be returning there later on this year for more mermaid fun!

Mermaids at Coral Reef World, Bracknell

17/1/2016

Mermaid Ondine reports:
Last weekend, Merlesque mermaids Melusine and Ondine were off to the amazing Coral Reef Waterworld, in Bracknell. Coral Reef is undergoing a year-long refurbishment and re-opening in 2017, so they held a VIP pool party for more than 300 guests (lucky winners of a prize draw!) to thank them for their support and give Coral Reef a good send-off!

Coral Reef is an amazing facility, featuring a full-size pirate ship (captained by Pirate Pete, who you can see in the pictures!) and flumes - plus for the VIP party, there were real life mermaids (of course), a DJ set, and even a balloon drop. We had a wonderful time and the lovely staff did a great job of looking after us - it didn't hurt that we got to commandeer Sauna World as our changing room, complete with heated sun loungers and saunas - and as you can see from the photos, we even met the Mayor! Hopefully we'll be returning to this fantastic water park when it opens again in 2017...

Real Mermaid Meets a Guitar Shark at Blue Planet!

14/10/2015

Mermaid Ondine reports:
Well, as you know, last month we Merlesque Mermaids paid a visit to Blue Planet Aquarium near Chester, UK, where we appeared swimming in their shark tank and doing meet-and-greet performances over the bank holiday weekend! If you missed out on the event, though, don't worry - here's a film clip of the moment one of the aquarium's beautiful guitar sharks swam up to meet me!

Mermaids at the Blue Planet Aquarium

1/9/2015

Mermaid Ondine reports:
This weekend, Mermaid Melusine and myself headed off to Chester, to perform at the amazing Blue Planet Aquarium every day Saturday - Monday! We were swimming in their main shark tank, plus meeting and greeting visitors in the lobby.

Mermaid Melusine by the main tank

Mermaid Ondine waits to perform

It didn't take long to discover that Blue Planet is a pretty amazing aquarium! We were swimming in a huge tank with sand tiger sharks, nurse sharks and lemon sharks, huge stingrays, guitar sharks, moray eels and much more.

Mermaid Ondine in the main tank at Blue Planet

Everyone at Blue Planet was really friendly and helpful, whether they were helping to wheel us through the aquarium out to our mermaid stage (getting through doors is the trickiest part), or acting as our support and safety divers while we were performing in the tank.

Plus we met a lot of incredibly enthusiastic young aquarium visitors and some possible future mermaids as well... one little visitor had brought a hand-made bracelet as a present for Mermaid Melusine - how adorable!

Thanks to everyone who made it such a magical bank holiday weekend :)

Folkestone Mermaid Festival Video

11/8/2015

Mermaid Ondine reports:
Well, the Merlesque mermaids were off to Folkestone on the 8th August, to perform at the Folkestone Mermaid Festival! We'll hopefully have some pictures for you soon, to show you all the fun we had - including being towed through Folkestone's Coastal Park on the back of a truck, as part of the amazing annual Mermaid Parade. It was also lovely to see some familiar faces from the last time we joined the festival back in 2014 - and amazing to see how some little mermaid fans have grown so much in a year! Here's a video of our previous trip to Folkestone, when we performed at last year's festival:

Happy New Year 2015 from the Merlesque Mermaids!

1/1/2015

The Merlesque Mermaids report:

Happy New Year from the Merlesque Mermaids! Wow - what a year 2014 has been for us. We can but hope that 2015 proves to be just as exciting.

The year got off to a good start for Mermaid Lily La Mer in January, when she flew off halfway around the world on a mermaiding tour of Australia and South East Asia - check out the beautiful Miss La Mer on a surfboard, opposite!

At the same time, back in the UK, Mermaids Ondine and Melusine were developing the Merlesque cabaret act, which has been a great hit this year - we've performed everywhere from Madam Jojos to The Scala, and from private parties to the Empire Casino, Leicester Square.

It's also been a big year for underwater photography, and the Merlesque mermaids have taken part in several underwater photoshoots - they've even occasionally used a little mermaid magic to take on human form when modelling underwater. You can see a video of one of our photoshoots by clicking here.

In August, we ran the first ever Merlesque Photoshoot. Photographers interested in experiencing underwater photography (without getting their feet wet!) came along to photograph the mermaids in a film-quality water tank. We were delighted to see all the wonderful pictures that they were able to take of our stunning sirens, and there was so much positive feedback that we're planning to run another shoot again soon - if you're a photographer who would be interested in taking part, you can contact us to be added to our mailing list.

Photograph by Dave Stewart

Our mermaids have also been enchanting young and old at aquariums across the country. Merlesque Mermaid Lily La Mer swam at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire during the summer, and mermaids Melusine and Ondine were the stars of the Magical Mermaids Weekend at Deep Sea World Aquarium in Edinburgh, where they were kept busy swimming alongside seven sand tiger sharks and meeting lots of very excited little humans. The water in Deep Sea World's shark tank is icy cold - check out Mermaid Melusine warming up in a sink, opposite! Plus you can see a video of our mermaids in action by clicking here.

There have also been plenty of magical children's parties to keep our real mermaids occupied, plus a whole range of exciting events too numerous to mention; some of our personal highlights have been the Folkestone Mermaid Festival and the Summer House Weekend. Plus our mermaids have been featured regularly in the press, including Mermaid Lily La Mer who appeared in the Daily Mail, and Mermaid Ondine who made the front page of the Cambridge News.

Phew! There's so much more we could say after an incredibly busy year for our mermaids - but we appreciate you might be feeling a little the worse for wear after last night's celebrations... So we'll just give a huge mermaidenly THANK YOU! to everyone who has helped to make 2014 such an amazing year for Merlesque - shout out to the incredible photographers who have worked with us, the amazing streamies who have given up their time to help us out, and of course all of our wonderful customers, fans, and collaborators, without whom none of this would be possible. May 2015 bring you all plenty of bubbles and magic!

Love and best fishes,

The Merlesque Mermaids x

Photograph by Andrew Stawarz

Real Mermaid at Ooshi Bubble Tea World!

15/11/2014

Mermaid Melusine reports:

Today is Dolphin Day at Ooshi Bubble Tea World in Cambridge - and the dolphins are going to have to learn to share the limelight, because Mermaid Ondine will be splashing on over to their shop at 61 Regent Street, Cambridge, to join in the fun between 2.30 and 4pm.

If you've never tried bubble tea before, you should come along and find out why it's becoming so popular all across the UK. Originally created in Taiwan, it comes in an amazing range of flavours all of which blend tea with fruit or milk. You can have your tea hot, cold or iced, and with tapioca pearls, fruit jellies or Ooballs to add even more flavours and texture. There's so many possible flavour combinations, it's almost impossible to try them all!

So if you're in Cambridge today, why not pop along to the Ooshi shop, try some delicious bubble tea and get the chance to meet a real life mermaid and have your photo taken with her? Mermaid Ondine would love to see you there!