PACE Presents ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND Tonight

Pace Presents Acoustic Underground featuring PHOEBE LYNG, MELANIE PENN, ANDREW ROSE GREGORY (of The Gregory Brothers) at The Michael SchimMel Center for the Arts. Doors at 6:30pm, Show at 7:30pm. Tickets - $20 - ON SALE NOW

Acoustic Underground is PACE Presents' platform for the hottest, most talented new singer/songwriters in the New York area. The premiere Acoustic Underground showcase will feature Andrew Rose Gregory, Melanie Penn and Phoebe Lyng.

Phoebe Lyng was born and mostly raised in Manhattan when she wasn't on tour with Broadway actors playing the role of her parents. Her unique perspective and insights lead to the creative release of her first album Unadorned in 2008. Since then she performs all over the world, and can be found singing regularly at NYC venues including Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, Piano's, Googie's Lounge (Above The Living Room), and all the others. When Phoebe isn't singing to the glorification of her own brand, she believes deeply in generously using her art toward philanthropic causes. Her song "New York's Got an Old Soul" was featured on the Redeemer Forum Singer-Songwriters CD benefiting Hope for New York, a nonprofit which provides volunteer and financial resources to over forty organizations reaching the poor and marginalized of NYC. Her new song "Mess" is part of Exposing Darkness: Artists Bring Trafficking to Light which will be released October 5.

After almost a decade working steadily in New York theatre:

Melanie Penn departed from the Broadway scene and released her first independent singer / songwriter record, Wake Up Love, in 2010. To her delight, people liked it, bought it and wrote about it. Christianity Today called the album a "stellar debut" and World magazine said that Melanie "exemplifies the latest generation of below-the-radar songwriters ... intelligent but not esoteric, richly but not over-produced." Melanie hopes that was a compliment. This fall she will release her second album, Hope Tonight, again working with Nashville producer Ben Shive (Sara Groves, Andrew Peterson). Melanie lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and performs regularly in venues around New York City and in the Northeast.

Andrew Rose Gregory grew up the son of an erstwhile Baptist minister in the mountains of Virginia. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Although he has played hundreds of shows across America as a solo artist, he is best known as one of the creators of the viral YouTube sensations Auto-Tune the News and Songify This along with the rest of The Gregory Brothers.

TICKETING INFORMATION AND SERVICES

Season subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now. Single tickets range from $20-$55. For more details about Create-Your-Own and art history subscriptions visit schimmel.pace.edu.

Tickets to all events are available for purchase now:

Online at schimmel.pace.edu
By phone via The Ovation Tix Call Center at (866) 811-4111
In person in advance at The Michael SchimMel Center Box Office, open Mon-Fri from 1pm-6pm beginning August 27.
Day of Show at The Michael SchimMel Center starting two hours before curtain.

VENUE INFORMATION

Pace Presents performances take place at The Michael SchimMel Center for the Arts located at 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street in downtown Manhattan.

Located adjacent to The World Trade Center, Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall, Pace Presents' 670-seat Michael SchimMel Center for the Arts is readily and easily accessible by car, bus, subway and PATH train. The room offers ample space for groups but is small enough to provide flawless sightlines and truly intimate performances. Competitive ticket pricing is aimed at enticing New Yorkers of all types to visit and explore the best music, theatre and dance that the world has to offer. Student tickets, available to enrollees at any University, High School or Junior High School in the New York area, are only $5 for any performance in the Pace Presents season with a valid student ID.

Public Transportation within a five minute walk of the venue includes:

4 / 5 / 6 Subway to Brooklyn Bridge City Hall
2 / 3 Subway to Fulton Street
A / C Subway to Fulton Street
J / Z Subway to Fulton Street
N / R Subway to City Hall
PATH Train to World Trade Center
M1 Bus to Broadway-Nassau Street / Fulton Street
M6 Bus to Broadway-Nassau Street / Fulton Street
M9 Bus to Brooklyn Bridge/ City Hall
M15 Bus to Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall
M22 Bus to Broadway-Nassau Street / Fulton Street
M103 Bus to Broadway-Nassau Street / Fulton Street
B51 Bus to City Hall/Broadway

Pace University's Michael SchimMel Center for the Arts, located within the University's downtown campus, has been an active part of Manhattan's artistic community for over 35 years. Located one block east of City Hall and immediately adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge, The SchimMel Center's 670-seat theatre regularly hosts academic and community events in addition to its yearly schedule of the world's finest music, theatre and dance. Over the past twelve years, The SchimMel Center has served as a founding venue for The River-to-River Festival (2002), hosted both The Tribeca Film Festival and The Tribeca Theatre Festival (2001), provided a headquarters for The National Actors Theatre (2002 to 2004), presented the only Democratic Presidential Debate to present all ten candidates for the 2004 election, and actively hosts James Lipton's award-winning Bravo series Inside The Actors Studio, taped on the Schimmel Theatre's stage since 2005.

For more than 100 years, Pace University has helped prepare students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience. Pace has three campuses in New York City, Westchester and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, via its rapidly growing Performing Arts Department, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and School of Law.

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