Carol Lipnik to Launch Summer Residency at Pangea in July

CAROL LIPNIK - the spellbinding, wistfully-humorous singer and songwriter called an "ethereal vocal phenomenon" by The New York Times - will launch her Sunday Night Summer Residency at Pangea on Sunday, July 10 at 7:00 PM to run through Sunday, August 28.

This spring Lipnik completed a three week engagement at Joe's Pub at the Public, for which she was hailed as a "One of New York's most inventive singers and performance artists" by The Village Voice. 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." Downtown Express called her "a sublime vocalist and a profound presence" and Manhattan Digest praised her "awe-inspiring range." 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 Summer Residency is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka) and DAX MGMT (Weimar New York, Joey Arias).

This month Lipnik will be featured in Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts' "Theater Residency" program in Philadelphia - presented in conjunction with Joe's Pub at the Public - collaborating with Tarake Ortiz, the composer and performer who serves as Artistic Director of the international arts summit Cumbre Tajin in Mexico. She recently co-wrote seven songs with downtown veteran John Kelly, the receipt of two Obie Awards and two NEA "American Masterpiece" Awards, for his debut album Beauty Kills Me and was the special guest for his record release concert at Joe's Pub. Carol is the winner of the 2015 BroadwayWorld Award for "Best Alternative Cabaret Show."

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."

"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."

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

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