The Vickie & Nickie Show is on the web, and we have live streamed it over the past few years. “We have alter-egos who are Midwestern housewives gone wild. “On a dare, we created a wacky musical comedy show,” Lori said.
After touring with the Led Zeppelin band, Lisa asked Lori if she wanted to join her and the two began performing not only favorite covers but also Lisa’s original music. The sisters performed as a duo and brought in a friend who was a singer to perform as a trio, something they still do on occasion. Lori attended the same college, eventually graduating with a degree in theater and a minor in music. For six years, Lisa toured the world with the first all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band. She also works in the business side of the industry, dealing with contracts and licensing rights through her own company. Lisa earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music, music composition and music theory. Lisa gravitated toward string instruments while Lori preferred wind instruments. Lisa began playing ukulele and piano with Lori also learning piano. That was kind of what we grew up around.” So, we all tune up and then it is perfect. We launch into the song and our Aunt Lydia, who arranged barbershop harmony as a child prodigy stopped us in the middle and said, “wait a minute, we can do a lot better than that.” Her brother said it was the most awful rendition of happy birthday ever. He was a Renaissance man, a composer, book writer, you name it.
“There are about 20 people there and we launched into singing happy birthday to great grandpa from Italy. “We have a reel-to-reel recording of our family singing happy birthday when Lisa and I were still in single digits,” Lori said. Two more cousins are musical engineers, and their aunt was a barbershop music arranger. Their cousin, Felix Pappalardi, produced Cream and was the base player for Mountain, a band he also produced. Growing up in a musical family, the Lisa and Lori Brigantino began performing since they were small children. Lisa and Lori Brigantino will appear at Gallery 37 at 6:35 PM on July 30 during the Ladybug Festival