Get ready to deck the halls with laughter. “Vickie and Nickie,” the alter egos of sisters Lisa and Lori Brigantino, are returning to The Muse in Rosendale for a festive holiday show this Thursday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m.
“We just happen to get away enough time from our husbands and our kids to get on the road because we’re musicians, but we do it in our spare time… We’re going to be doing a show that’s about, oh, I don’t know, 75 minutes to a half an hour and a half long. We do your favorite holiday songs, your standards and classic holiday songs with a little twist to them, and then we do some original holiday songs and then we do some pop songs,” Lisa, who plays “Nickie” said.
Hailing from Hibbing, Minnesota, “Vickie and Nickie” have been keeping fans coming back for more for over 20 years.
“We started it around 2002,” Lisa said. “We had been doing singer-songwriter stuff since we could make sound growing up and playing instruments together.”
Their iconic characters were born out of a creative mash-up of theater, music, and comedy. “We were just like, ‘God, that would be fun to play characters and do music playing the character,’” Lori said.
Lori added, “I have an acting background. I did off-Broadway and independent films. And Lisa just happens to be, aside from being a phenomenal musician, a natural comedian.”
Image: Vickie & Nickie, the multi-instrumental, singing sister duo from Northern Minnesota. (Credit: vickieandnickie.com)