Sept. 27: Lady Rizo

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Lady Rizo

September 27 at 7:00 pm

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St., NYC
212.967.7555

Lady-Rizo-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212Lady Rizo returns to NYC’s Joe’s Pub. Here’s what our Steve Murray had to say about one of her shows in San Francisco:

San Francisco’s well-heeled, highly manicured urban hipsters packed the RRazz Room to bask in the glow that is Lady Rizo, the NYC-based doyenne of performance art cabaret. A brilliant comedienne, powerful vocalist and sharp wit, Amelia Zirin-Brown has concocted a character that vacillates between ferocious aggressiveness and subtle temerity. She can elicit howls by removing her opera gloves, and a bit with three long-stem roses that end up in her mouth follows a direct lineage from great comics like Fanny Brice, Imogene Coca and Carol Burnett. Serious songwriter? She’s got that covered. “Ink Dip,” an epic version of “Song of Freedom” and the encore “Saint Song” from her soon-to-be-released CD, are well-crafted anthems that will add to Rizo’s cachet. She delivers a sentimental turn on Neil Gaiman’s silly “I Google You” that turns the ditty into a full-blown ballad that takes a manic turn left at the finale. She spits out the Gladys Knight hit “If I Were Your Woman” defiantly, exaggerating the original R&B anthem into a wild statement on strong feminism. She continues that theme with “Queen Bee” from A Star Is Born and a tongue-in-cheek rendition of Nine Inch Nails’ “Fuck You Like an Animal.” Lady Rizo is not to be trifled with. She shows off her set of pipes on Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing,” one of the rarest and fascinating interpretations of a Hendrix song you’ll ever hear, and Dolly Parton’s heartfelt “Coat of Many Colors.” Another original, “Saint Song,” co-written with guitarist/collaborator Yair Evnine, proves Lady Rizo can really do it all. A true innovator with mad skills, Rizo stands alone atop the world of the modern fusion chanteuses.