Carol Lipnik Announces New Guests for Pangea Residency

CAROL LIPNIK - the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition - has announced a new lineup of guest stars for her weekly residency that runs through January 31, 2016. Currently scheduled are Rachel Mason (October 18), David Cale (October 25), John Kelly (November 8) and Dane Terry (November 15), with others to be added. Performances are at Pangea (178 Second Avenue in New York) on Sunday evenings at 7:30 PM through January 31, 2016. The concert engagement is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka), DAX MGMT (Weimar New York, Joey Arias) and Pangea.

CAROL LIPNIK is acclaimed for her hauntingly beautiful multi-octave voice and enchanting performances of her own ecstatically melancholy and wrenchingly honest songs. Carol and her pianist Matt Kanelos will be performing selections from Almost Back To Normal, her new recording from Mermaid Alley Music.

"Earth-mother nightingale Carol Lipnik is a mesmerizing find," says James Gavin, the New York Times writer who penned biographies of Peggy Lee, Lena Horne and Chet Baker. "She has an ethereal soprano and a hippie air; she writes fantastical tunes, full of mythic imagery, that carry the listener to worlds unknown." According to a recent notice from BroadwayWorld, "Lipnik's songs have a quality akin to chants, mantras, and prayers. Her voice is clear, full, reverent, beautiful. The imagery she uses is of the natural world: oysters, sand, trees, honey, weeds, and antlers. Her truth is emblematic, universal."

"Carol Lipnik's music does more than evoke a shadow-world of mysterious, often misunderstood creatures, from sideshow freaks and B-movie monsters to love's obsessive victims," says musician and Village Voice music writer Franklin Bruno. "It creates that world, bringing it into audible being through her stunningly versatile four-octave voice and expressive, impeccably crafted songs, drawing audiences in with an intimacy and intensity that is both theatrical and deeply musical."

In addition to critical plaudits, she has been praised by her fellow downtown performers as well. Justin Vivian Bond said "If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally, go and see Carol Lipnik." Penny Arcade heralded her as "one of New York's finest singers and most original songwriters." She continues "Carol's new songs, which are truly art songs, set in the jewel-like quality of her voice reach such levels of glorious individuality that we were all gobsmacked." John Kelly raved "Carol Lipnik is that rare bird, the complete artist, with the soaring voice of a Dawn Upshaw, and the probing musical intelligence of Joni Mitchell."

Each week Carol features a special guest performer. Recent guests include Joey Arias, Justin Vivian Bond, John Kelly, Basil Twist, Penny Arcade, Joseph Keckler, Sweetie, Molly Pope, Kim David Smith, Amber Martin, Michael Cavadias as Claywoman, and Nick Hallett.

For more information, please visit www.CarolLipnik.com.

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