It’s the kind of day in Manhattan where subway stations turn into saunas, the air thick with humidity and every other oddity that defines summer in the city. Despite the sticky weather, an undaunted crowd is forming outside of the Lower East Side’s cramped Nightclub 101, a year-and-change-old venue where a fledgling artist might play one of their first gigs. Tonight, however, singer-songwriter Ryan Beatty is taking the stage — an outlier for 101 as Beatty is anything but fledgling.
For one, does the name Beyoncé ring a bell? Beatty was part of the creative team that helped the superstar win album of the…
