Joe's Pub Announces the following line up for May:
Lady Rizo: AN UNESCORTED TRIBUTE TO Nina SimonE
Friday, May 20 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door
"I've always been drawn to Nina Simone's music- the strength, versatility, the raw emotion. She is, simply put, a badass diva and did something with popular music that I aim to do today- to mix, separate and explore." - Lady Rizo
Though it is rumored that she is the product of a night of unrestrained indulgence between Peggy Lee, Mel Brooks, Nina Simone, Dean Martin and Janis Joplin the truth is Lady Rizo was raised by theatrical gypsies with the highest show business ethics. When she almost looked of age she rebelled against the comforting, unscrubbed, rustic life and set out for a world of harsh metropolitan sophisticates.
The 'Cabaret Superstar' (New York Magazine) exploded on to the New York stage with a powerful voice and stage charisma that has made audiences take note. As a chanteuse and comedienne revives the cabaret genre by creating vintage arrangements of pop songs from the 80s, 90s and today. Lady Rizo (nee Amelia Zirin-Brown) co-created the cult caburlesque spectacular Lady Rizo and the Assettes in 2005. In January 2010 she won her first Grammy on a duet with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She also sings and records with multi-platnum recording artist Moby and was nominated for an MVPA for the choreography the video for the single New York, New York featuring Debbie Harry.
She is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the hotspot The Darby which is in the same location as the legendary nightclub Nell's. She brings her arrangements there nightly to entertain music luminaries like Prince, Ashford and Simpson, Beyonce & Jay-Z.
A proud recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship last year, she has performed her sold out show monthly at Joe's Pub for coming on two years and was just commissioned for a full length piece by The Public Theater this year that will premiere later in the year.
MAY 28-31
AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!
Saturdays, May 21 & 28 at 7:00 PM; $15
"Amber has turned that Big Apple into a quivering pool of applesauce. Listening to her sing is like aural saline." -- Dina Martina
"Like watching Ruth Draper after she's come back from an acid trip during which she thought she was Janis Joplin... Fight for a ticket." -- Willamette Week
In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance artist Amber Martin brings her award winning chops to Joes Pub. Created and performed by Martin, Amber Alert! is an intimately mind-altering hour of meticulously chosen musical and comedic vignettes from Amber's strange and fascinating toybox of characters.
Blending music, video, monologues, movement, and acid-capped comedy with a pristine, multi-octave range singing voice, Amber Alert! is Amber Martin's own serio-comic multiple-personality trip.
Noted as a performer of many faces and voices with boundless energy to burn, performer Amber Martin has left such celebrity audience members as Joyce Dewitt, Michael Stipe, Karen Black, Chuck Palanhuik, Todd Haynes, Dina Martina, John Cameron Mitchell, and Justin Bond howling in ecstasy. So put on your thinking caps for an old school downtown-style cocktail performance by one of the next sensations of thought-provoking musical comedy... Miss Amber Martin.
