deVaron Lerangis Family Band Performs at Caffe Vivaldi Tonight

The deVaron Lerangis Family Band (singer/composer/pianist Tina deVaron, and her sons, singer/composer/producer Nick Lerangis of the band, Evening Darling, and teacher/musician/historian Joe Lerangis of the American School of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) will perform one show at Caffe Vivaldi tonight, July 9th from 7-8pm. Caffe Vivaldi is in Greenwich Village at 32 Jones St, between West 4th and Bleecker. Call (212) 691-7538 for more information. This is a very special event, and advance planning is highly recommended, as the room is small.

The repertoire will cull from influences like Sam Cooke, Motown, the Beatles, and includes new tunes from Nick Lerangis, new tunes from Tina deVaron, ancient Mongolian Horsehead Fiddle songs from Joe Lerangis and throat-singing duets from the throat-singing Lerangis Brothers. The ad hoc trio comes together to celebrate special occasions, in this case the temporary homecoming of Joe Lerangis from Mongolia and the upcoming East Coast tour of Evening Darling, the new Nick Lerangis band (formerly The Hunting Party).

This is not the family band's first outing. Before Joe left for grad school in 2013, deVaron gathered her sons for a weekend of busking in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum one afternoon, and at the bridge near the Balto statue on another. Tina's husband, New York Times best-selling author, Peter Lerangis, shot videos. The financial take wasn't huge, but the videos are being held for future ransom by parents, Tina and Peter.

Tina deVaron is a Billboard hit songwriter who has commanded the piano at many of New York's venerated music spots, including the Waldorf Astoria's Peacock Alley and Bemelmans Bar, where she has hosted the sold-out Madeline's Tea every Christmas Season for a decade. Author Anne Lamott has referred to Tina's original music as "brilliant, funny and wise." New York Times columnist Lisa Belkin called Tina's album, Water Over Stones, "the soundtrack of my life!" Tina's musical, "Perfect Mothers," was included in broadway.com's Top Ten NYMF Shows to see in the 2013 New York Musicals Festival's Reading Series. It featured Tony winner Adriane Lenox and Tony nominees Nancy Opel and Jenn Colella, along with other Broadway veterans Kenita Miller (The Color Purple) and Amy Bodnar (Ragtime). Tina recently gathered many of these performers again at Metropolitan Room for "Nothing But The Love - An Evening of Songs by Tina deVaron." She has recorded four albums of original songs.

Older son, Nick Lerangis, is a composer and musician who has played all over New York City, the East Coast and the Midwest with his band, Evening Darling (formerly The Hunting Party), including a run of successful shows at the 2014 CMJ Music Marathon. Their second release, Sirens and Lights, was recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks Studio with producer Jeremy Backhofen (The Felice Brothers, Frightened Rabbit). As a songwriter and guitarist, he's worked with Walk The Moon (RCA Records), co-writing the 2011 summer hit Anna Sun, (charting on several Billboard Charts including #36, Top 200 Albums and #10, Alternative Singles) and three other songs on the band's self-titled first RCA release. His work has been featured on Chiddy Bang's Breakfast (#8, Billboard 200), as well as remixed by the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. As a composer, music director and sound designer for experimental theater, his work has been featured at Theaterlab NYC, Ars Nova ANT Fest, Dixon Place, and The Bushwick Starr.

Joe Lerangis is a secondary school music teacher at the American School of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. He has performed on piano, voice, and Morin Khuur (Horse-Head Fiddle) at numerous venues in Ulaanbaatar, New York, Ohio, and Nanjing, China. He initially traveled to Mongolia as a Fulbright Fellow. Joe is a graduate of Kenyon College and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and he is currently working on an oral history project compiling the stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Mongolians from the Socialist and Post-Socialist generations.

For over thirty years since it was opened by an industrious émigré from Pakistan, Caffe Vivaldi has been a gathering place for creative people from all over the world. It has served as a backdrop for films by Woody Allen and Al Pacino, as well as being a classical, pop and world music influencer.

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