Carol Lipnik Extends Through January 2016 at PANGEA

CAROL LIPNIK -- the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition -- will extend her celebrated performance residency at Pangea (178 Second Avenue in New York) with a season of Sunday evening performances at 7:30 PM from September 13, 2015 through January 31, 2016. The concert engagement is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka), DAX MGMT (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. Currently scheduled are Kim David Smith (September 27) and Rachel Mason (October 11), with others to be added. Recent guests include Joey Arias, Justin Vivian Bond, John Kelly, Basil Twist, Penny Arcade, Joseph Keckler, Sweetie, Molly Pope, Dane Terry, Amber Martin, Michael Cavadias as Claywoman, and Nick Hallett.

For more information, visit www.CarolLipnik.com.

CAROL LIPNIK grew up in Coney Island and studied fine arts at Pratt Institute and The Art Students League. She draws from her visual arts training to create a singular cinematic style rooted in blues, pre-war Berlin cabaret, folk, and more as filtered through her very own carnival and psychedelic sensibilities. She has released six albums on her own Mermaid Alley label and has built a dedicated following through performances at Joe's Pub, Abrons Arts Center, Galapagos Art Space, P.S.122, Barbes, Spiegelworld and many other venues, as well as appearances at the River to River Festival, the Siren Festival, Weimar New York, and the Chapel at Greenwood Cemetery. Carol was awarded the 2014 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for music and in year 2009 she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo. She composed music for the groundbreaking performance artist John Kelly's 2011 show The Escape Artist.

MATT KANELOS is a pianist and songwriter who is a widely sought-after collaborator in the New York City jazz, avant garde and rock worlds. According to NPR, "Kanelos crafts tunes that sneak up on listeners - that begin harmlessly but ultimately overwhelm with the weight of their poignancy, sorrow and joy." He draws equally on his classical conservatory background as well as his experience in jazz and new music. In recent years, he has performed and recorded with Jon Lundbom, Lorraine Leckie, Richard McGraw, Andrew Smiley, Nick Podgurski and Jason Liebman. Kanelos has released four well-received albums as a bandleader, most recently 2014's Love Hello, praised by New York Music Daily as "a masterpiece of pensive, allusively lyrical psychedelia." For more, visit www.MattKanelos.com.

CAROL LIPNIK performs at PANGEA on Sunday evenings at 7:30 PM from September 13, 2015 through January 31, 2016. The venue is located at 178 Second Avenue, between 11th and 12th Streets in New York. Tickets are $15 in advance at PangeaNYC.com or $20 at the door, with an additional $15 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, call (212) 995-0900 or visit PangeaNYC.com. To get there via subway: L train to Third Ave, N, Q, R to Union Square, or F train to Second Ave).

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