Alice Ripley: Part of the Ghostlight Series

Show Description

Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight presents a weekly concert series every Monday night at 11:30 PM, beginning in September and continuing through December.  The label will offer concerts featuring Broadway performers and composers, The Midnight Musicals with concert versions of new and developing productions, and much more. The concert series marks a throwback to the early days of Sh-K-Boom Records, when they offered popular late night concerts in their Sh-K-Boom Room.

RIPLEY is a self-produced pop/punk band with a sound that downtown NYC audiences have dubbed “Green Day in bed with Keely Smith”.

The band’s influences – Deborah Harry, David Bowie, the Pixies - include eccentrics from rock’s classic era, but RIPLEY's sound has a decidedly 21st century ring.  Namely, the ring of a siren bell sounding for a generation lost in the shuffle.

Songwriter Alice Ripley most recently received multiple award nominations for her portrayal of Diana in Second Stage’s Next to Normal. Ripley made history in 1997 when she was nominated jointly for a Tony award honoring her work as Violet Hilton in Side Show. 

With the newly sharpened edge of RIPLEY’s latest digital offering, Outtasite, the music rocks much harder and cuts the figure of an attention-getter with a killer voice.  Ripley sings with a growl and a lilt for survivors of Susan Faludi’s “Backlash” era – the daughters of the single mothers who wanted it all.  The result is a blazing trail of Blondies Pretending to DO it all.

The band also includes rock solid drummer Shannon Ford has performed, recorded and toured with a starry list of artists, including Paul Simon, The Gatlin Brothers and Phoebe Snow; Christopher Schelling is a new wave throwback whose keyboard styles range from "car alarm" to the ever-popular "Chopsticks"; and Paul Shellack on guitar.

This event is part of Joe's Pub's 10th Anniversary Celebration