Barbara Ireland

Singing ‘Prohibition style’ at a gala fundraiser for the Evergreen City Ballet - Saturday, April 28, 2012

Barbara Ireland — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:06:23 +0000

Saturday, April 28, 2012

The evening is dressed up like a 1920′s speakeasy! Elegant and flirtatious, delicious dinner and live auction. All proceeds from the event go to the Evergreen City Ballet’s dance outreach program, ‘Dance Alive!’ which teaches elementary school kids the basics of dance and the joy of movement – at no cost to the schools. Plus they give $30,000 annually in financial aid. Pretty amazing dance company, eh?

I’ll be singing fantastic old tunes from the ’20s and ’30s (some with very sassy innuendo), and am honored to be performing with Ryan Burns on piano, Mike Stone on drums, and Nathan Parker on upright bass.

Saturday, April 28th, 2012, at Emerald Downs. Cocktails begin at 6pm. Tickets are $40/person, and the evening is nearly sold out! Click here for more info or to get your tickets.

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A new, sexy, bluesy tune to add to your holiday playlist! - "Christmas Is For Grownups Too" by Barbara Ireland

Barbara Ireland — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:16:40 +0000

"Christmas Is For Grownups Too" by Barbara Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7tDxvRn65E

“Barbara Ireland knows how to sling those sultry and luscious lyrical bombs!”

This is a Christmas song that will make you want to skip your holiday dinner and get right to the dessert!

Download the single on itunes or Amazon!

‘WINE, WOMEN & SONG’ IS BACK! Saturday, July 9, 2011

Barbara Ireland — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:15:44 +0000

This is going to be an AMAZING show!

Star Anna, Kim Virant, Victoria Wimer Contreras, Carla Torgerson and yours truly will sing our luscious hearts out to you… performing all songs by female artists who have inspired us over the years — including some of our own original tunes. Plus there will be a delicious wine tasting by female winemakers, and scrumptious appetizers that will make your taste buds do a jig. All of this under the magical glowing eyes of the Greek god sculptures in the Neptune Theater (recently remodeled, always cool). Last year we performed this show to a sold-out crowd… Don’t miss it! Elegant, fun, tasty, soulful, and sassy! For tickets click here. For more info, click here. Come and give all of your senses a special treat for the night! Hope to see you . . . → Read More: ‘WINE, WOMEN & SONG’ IS BACK! Saturday, July 9, 2011

THE MYSTERY AND JOY OF MUSIC

Barbara Ireland — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:47:46 +0000

MUSIC

I was at a rehearsal last night for the upcoming ‘Wine, Women & Song’ show that I’m part of. When I wasn’t singing, I started observing. Observing the joy and laughter on everyone’s faces; the non-verbal communication between the musicians; the way people (often the non-musicians in the room) would close their eyes or shake their head when a passage really touched them.

Debra Heesch, who produces this and other music shows, has a knack of bringing together just the right musicians to make some kind of magical spark of joy and camaraderie. It’s a real gift – certainly for all of us musicians, who often don’t all know each other at the first rehearsal, but quickly develop a bond and a ‘vibrational intimacy’ that is uniquely a result of playing music together. It is also a gift for the audiences that come to Debra’s shows because they are the direct beneficiaries of . . . → Read More: THE MYSTERY AND JOY OF MUSIC

THE TOP SEVEN FILM DIRECTORS WHO MOST INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED ME AND MY FILMS

Barbara Ireland — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:58:58 +0000

In creating a list of the film directors who have most inspired and influenced me, I realized a theme running through all of their works: These are directors who use dream imagery in their films; they flawlessly combine reality with non-reality; and make the inner world of a human being just as real as the outer world. They are all visual masters, giving us images and characters we have rarely, if ever, seen before. I thought about why that was so important to me, and realized that I experience even ‘ordinary’ life as exquisitely strange and unbelievable, and these directors are able to translate the unreality of real life in the most beautiful and artistic way possible. And I love that.

There is a term used in cinema called the ‘auteur theory,’ which states that although filmmaking is a collaborative art, the director is the primary ‘author’ or voice of a movie. . . . → Read More: THE TOP SEVEN FILM DIRECTORS WHO MOST INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED ME AND MY FILMS

Barbara Ireland Releases a DVD of her Avant-Garde Films! - RELEASE PARTY JUNE 1ST!

Barbara Ireland — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:20:59 +0000

RELEASE PARTY JUNE 1ST!

DVD Release June 1, 2011

Seattle singer Barbara Ireland worked for many years in film — she earned a BFA from New York University Film School, directed award-winning shorts and music videos, co-owned a film production company in Seattle called Filmus Maximus, and was Floor Director for KING-TV (NBC) newscasts and Production Associate at KING’s “Evening Magazine” show.

On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium… and Seattle’s fantastic Northwest Film Forum is hosting the DVD release party! There will be drinks, snacks, fascinating people, wild films… and a ‘Secrets Booth’!

(Share a secret in the ‘Secrets Booth,’ and you get $1 off your cocktail or popcorn!)

WED, JUNE 1ST, 7:30 PM. The NW Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 (located on 12th Ave. between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill)

The Avant-Garde Films of Barbara Ireland - A Trailer Montage

Barbara Ireland — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:07:25 +0000

A Trailer Montage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KOISL_MZlo

On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium.

The Northwest Film Forum is hosting the dvd release party on Wed, June 1, 2011. For tickets and info: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/174828.

“Barbara Ireland is to short films what Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are to the cinema…except without the Ritalin!” Robert Williams, Juxtapoz Art Magazine

THE YEAR I WORKED WITH MAVERICK DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTOR, LIONEL ROGOSIN

Barbara Ireland — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:37:01 +0000

The Northwest Film Forum is hosting a series called, Fact Maverick: Three Films From Lionel Rogosin – a filmmaker that John Cassavettes called, “ the greatest documentary filmmaker of all time.” When they discovered I had worked with Lionel Rogosin while attending film school in New York, they asked me to write a blog about my experience. Here is what I wrote…

Barbara Ireland

Lionel Rogosin

When I read that the Northwest Film Forum would be screening three films by Lionel Rogosin from April 29th to May 12th, memories immediately flooded back to me of the year I worked with Lionel in New York City.

I was in my early-20s and was attending NYU, working towards my degree in Film Directing. Lionel hired me to help him with scriptwriting and some organizational work.

His ‘office’ was in his home. And his home was a room in the infamous Chelsea Hotel – yes, the . . . → Read More: THE YEAR I WORKED WITH MAVERICK DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTOR, LIONEL ROGOSIN