Carol Lipnik to Launch Spring Residency at Pangea in April

CAROL LIPNIK - the spellbinding, wistfully-humorous singer and songwriter called an "ethereal vocal phenomenon" by The New York Times - will launch her Sunday Night Spring Residency at Pangea on Sunday, April 3 at 7:00 PM to run through Sunday, June 26. Lipnik just completed a three week engagement at Joe's Pub at the Public, for which she was hailed as a "dark, funny and cosmically aligned" performer who channels "the soulful spirit of Laura Nyro" by The Village Voice and praised for her "awe-inspiring range and a stage presence that is otherworldly" by Manhattan Digest. For her unprecedented yearlong run at Pangea in 2015, The New York Times raved "With a four-octave range, impeccable pitch and several distinct personalities within that voice, Ms. Lipnik evoked singers as disparate as Diamanda Galás, Maude Maggart, Yma Sumac and the yodeling Joni Mitchell." Lipnik, who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition, performs original musical compositions from her latest album "Almost Back To Normal" joined music director and pianist Matt Kanelos. Her Sunday Night Spring Residency is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka) and DAX MGMT (Weimar New York, Joey Arias).

CAROL LIPNIK is acclaimed for her hauntingly beautiful multi-octave voice and enchanting performances of her own tenderly wry and wrenchingly honest songs. "Lipnik is surprisingly strong in her ethereality," says Time Out New York, "maintaining an eerie self-possession as she shares enigmatically spooky folk-art songs in an octave spanning wail." New York Music Daily proclaimed "Carol Lipnik might not just be the best singer in New York, she might be the best singer anywhere." She is the winner of the 2015 BroadwayWorld Award for "Best Alternative Cabaret Show."

"Earth-mother nightingale Carol Lipnik is a mesmerizing find," says James Gavin, the journalist who penned biographies of Peggy Lee, Lena Horne and Chet Baker. "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 raved "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 hailed Carol as "that rare bird, the complete artist, with the soaring voice of a Dawn Upshaw, and the probing musical intelligence of Joni Mitchell."

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

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