Downtown Sounds Off the Square: Ray Lambiase & the Acoustic Tin Kickers

Downtown Sounds is growing and expanding; this year will feature additional musical acts on a smaller second stage in July. The second stage will be located on School Street by Highland (in front of La Famiglia and Asian Fusion). Music starts at 7pm.

Ray Lambiase is a veteran New York singer-songwriter, who has just released his sixth full length CD, Perfume Like a Full Moon.  Featuring ten new original songs, the album is his most personal and reflective collection to date.  His previous well-received releases include The Road Ahead, Kid Bayonne and The Ballad of Three Finger Brown, whose title track has become a staple of college radio at the start of each baseball season.

He also performs acoustically with two members of his band The Tin Kickers, featuring the three-part harmonies of Kate Corrigan on vocals, and Lanny Sichel on vocals and acoustic lead guitar. Ray, Kate and Lanny have been singing and performing together for more than fifty years.

Ray began writing and performing his own songs as a teenager on Long Island.  After traveling the college coffeehouse circuit in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, he formed his first band and released his first recording. That early vinyl single, Slow Dance Romeo received significant local radio airplay and led to publishing contracts with Nashville’s Combine Music and Bob Dylan’s Special Rider Music publishing arm in New York City.

He has performed in concert with Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Eric Anderson, Graham Parker, Marshall Crenshaw and many others.