For two decades, Ethan Lipton (2023 Awardee) & His Orchestra have been playing their own style of jazz/folk/alternative nosh with a chewy singer-songwriter center. With melancholy wit and a cockeyed worldview, Lipton and bandmates Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (bass), and Vito Dieterle (sax) deliver original songs steeped in mixed-message sincerity and soul.

The band has appeared at such venues as Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MOCA, Pitchfork Paris, SF Jazz, ATP, and London’s Gate Theatre, and made appearances on NPR and in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” A winner of the 2023 Kleban Prize and a 2023 Creative Capital Grantee, Lipton received one of Joe’s Pub’s first New York Voices commissions, and the band premiered its musicals No Place to Go (Obie award) and The Outer Space (Lortel nominated) on its stage.