BANSHEE AT THE KNITTING FACTORY

Imelda O'Reilly will read on Friday 5th March at:

Rhapsody Spoken Word

with: Imelda O'Reilly, Mary O'Malley, Helena Mulkerns, Erik Johnson,
Gerard Donovan, Christopher Cahill, Chris Kelly
Price: $5.00
Date: Fri, Mar 05
Start Time: 8:00 PM

and on Thursday 4th March, at 9:30, a FREE PERFORMANCE BY

Imelda O'Reilly

with Joel Diamond on piano, Bob Desjardin on base and Lisa Gutkin on violin.

ALSO AT:

THE KNITTING FACTORY

74 Leonard St. NYC
between Broadway & Church St.
(212) 219-3055
http://www.knittingfactory.com

IMELDA O'REILLY AND THE AMERICAN LIVING ROOM - August 7, 2003

"Since 1989, those in search of the biggest, baddest summer arts festival in New York City have looked to The American Living Room to discover the latest innovative works by emerging artists. Looking for risky? Looking for edgy? Looking for laughs? ...We've invited the freshest voices in new media, art, music, puppetry, performance and directing to participate in this year's festival." So say the curators of the TALR website at Here.org and the New York Times calls it "One of the most unusual arts spaces in New York -- and possibly the model for the cutting edge arts space of tomorrow."

One of those artists appearing there is Irish performance poet and writer Imelda O'Reilly. The TALR description of the upcoming appearance is: "Sultry Irish performance poet floats through dreamy loems to live music. Poetess explores a sultry landscape - loems inhabit the edge of fantastical dream. Evocative, sensual, a fusion of language, imagined words, worlds float in cryptic rhythms to original music composition by Joel Diamond, (Grammy Award Nominee) with video and dance. A talking heads excursion as words and image pummel into subconscious fairytale dream."

Imelda has been working on various projects, and was awarded a NYFA grant in 2001 (New York Foundation for the Arts) which permitted her to spend some time abroad in Spain and Morocco where she was working on a book. She has also just completed a short film entitled "The Seamonster and the Milk Thistle." Imelda has two albums of her own out, one of which is an epic poem put to music and movement entitled Emilita and the Faery Glen. Her Artist's Page at MP3.com has a sampling of tracks from her CD "In People's Heads." Click here for that page and hear Imelda doing what she does so well!

Hear and see her at the HERE Arts Center as part of the American Living Room Series on August 7th.

This performance features the Joel Diamond on piano, Bob Desjardins on stand up base and Lisa Gutkin on violin.

The website for more information is www.here.org

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