The amazing Castle Ybor in Tampa was the ambience for my additional anniversary Endless Night: Tampa Vampire Brawl February 27, which drew about 800 costumed guests for a night of revelry.
The Castle is amid in the Ybor celebrated district, which is abundant affiliated to the French Quarter of New Orleans, but with a Cuban spirit instead of Haitian influence. Before the 1900s, the locals mostly referred to themselves as Cubans.
Castle Ybor has become one of the few abiding another clubs in the USA, besides the Lizard Lounge / Church in Dallas and Bar Sinister / Boarders in Los Angeles. The Castle was originally congenital as a Labor Union Temple in 1930 for cigar workers. After actuality bankrupt for abounding years, the Castle reopened in 1992 as a anchorage for goths, steampunks, vampires, and the amulet community. It is a beautiful, castle-like architecture with increasable medieval and gothic décor, bristles altered apartment including a capital room, a salon, a Dungeon VIP room, a tower, and an alfresco courtyard.
According to legend, a apparition alleged Rex haunts the halls and brand to coast amid aristocratic associates of the another scene. Dressed like a vampire, Rex is accepted for actuality a admirer and absorbing ladies.
The Castle holds appropriate challenge throughout the year, such as the Steampunk Brawl by Gen of the bandage Genitorturers; masquerade balls; a center to Halloween event; amulet balls.
The Endless Night is an all-embracing alternation of challenge angry to the Vampire World YouTube arrangement and its fan base. Founded in 1996 at the allegorical Limelight in New York City, Endless Night has acquired to accommodate challenge in Berlin, Dallas, Paris, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles. The capital event, the "Endless Night Festival," takes abode in New Orleans at the House of Blues on Halloween weekend.
The architecture for an Endless Night is simple: accept abundant music, aces an amazing venue, accept a austere dress cipher and let the admirers be the décor. Endless Night is best declared by an bearding bedfellow as a "Venetian Masquerade Ball, alloyed with a Vampire Court, topped off with the activity of a bedrock concert and the breeding of a caricatural cabaret." and was rated: "The #1 Halloween Party in the World for 2010."
The aggregate of the Endless Night Vampire World and the Castle fabricated for a absolute atmosphere, and the brawl was a smashing success. The about 800 guests managed to canyon the attendant Victor Magnus's austere dress cipher of Victorian, steampunk, archetypal vampire, medieval, Edwardian and academic attire.
The affair of the brawl was "Secrets of the Crimson Rose," and guests were arrive to ascertain the secrets with clues provided throughout the night. No one succeeded, so the secrets abide to be appear on a approaching date.
Performances included apparitional and operatic diva Ariel de Ment, Moonhoar caricatural and bellydance, and a apparitional metal bedrock bandage alleged Shadow Reborn. DJs Xris SMack!, VChrist, Octo-Pussy and Matt V Christ rocked the night with video projections and capped off with the best-dressed contest. Winners accustomed VIP tickets to the New Orleans Vampire Brawl this Halloween.
We attending advanced to experiencing Castle Ybor afresh and bringing the vampires of the SouthEast aback for the Endless Night: Vampire World Weekend on April 1, 2017. Perhaps we can do some apparition hunting and acquisition our alluring apparition Rex.
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