PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents indie rock band Betty, plus DJ ezGirl on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m.
The award-winning trio of Alyson Palmer (vocals, bass, guitar), Elizabeth Ziff (vocals, guitar, electronic programming), and sister, Amy Ziff (vocals and cello), create live shows that mix music, performance art, politics, and comedy.
"Betty sings of joy, love, longing, lust, food, heartbreak, and the universal hilarity of human existence," organizers wrote in a news release.
According to the artists' website, in addition to creating, performing, and recording together as a group of independent artists since 1986, Betty travels the world as Arts Envoys for the U.S. Department of State.
To further their humanitarian outreach and cultural diplomacy, Gloria Steinem advised them to form a nonprofit, which they did in 2014.
The Betty Effect's mission, band members say, is "using music and performance techniques to help others communicate and connect for personal power, social progress and peace, especially women and girls, LGBTQIA and other marginalized communities."
Betty has been featured on national and international radio, television - including their theme songs for The L Word and HBO's Encyclopedia - and in films, commercials, jingles, recordings, streaming projects, and concert venues across five continents. They have contributed as guest artists to dozens of recordings and compilation albums.
Their Off-Broadway musical, Betty Rules, was another diamond in a string of hits directed by Michael Greif (Days of Wine and Roses, Hell's Kitchen, Dear Evan Hanson, Rent)
The band describes its podcast, Betty: Girlband, as "the raucous, as-true-as-can-be-remembered history of an oddball all-girl American trio from the Reagan 80s to now, told in music, stories and guest interviews." The first season is out now on all platforms.
Betty has played as a group since 1986.
Throughout 2025, Next Stage is celebrating its 15th Anniversary by honoring Maria Basescu and Julian McBrowne, a pair of Next Stage champions, promoters say - people who have been instrumental in making Next Stage what it is today - at one event each month. This concert is the April Anniversary event.
Next Stage is at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney. Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the door, and $10 for access to the livestream. Advance tickets are available at nextstagearts.org. Next Stage will provide a beer, wine, and cocktail cash bar. For information, call 802-387-0102.
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