Melanie Beth Curran is an artist, writer, and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a devotee of Brigid, in all her forms. Her art celebrates and illuminate elements of Irish America. She's a pagan catholic of Irish descent. Melanie is an American folk musician and songwriter. Her love of traditional music seeps into all of her creations. She hopes her art will bring people to closer relationship with the spiritual realm. That's where she finds her inspiration.
Brigid of poets, smithcraft, and the forge.
Let this Website be a vessel for all my craft, which belongs to you.
Brigid, make of me a fit instrument
to carry out your works,
and I will sing your name into our aching world.
Zine 1: “Do Me Justice”, available now.
Welcome to New York City, where the Ghost of Tin Pan Alley still lurks.
This is an NYC tale about an EVIL force that threatens performers along the Mohican Road (The Bowery / Broadway). As the demon makes the author ill, she finds a balm- A SALVATION - in the performances of Fall 2023. One by The Mary Wallopers, one by a dance group doing a musical dance show called Arena. Both groups BATTLE the old cold thing.
The author illuminates histories of Black and Irish stereotypes in American Sheet Music.
8.5in x 11in, staple bound, printed on 80lb un-coated paper with a 100lb glossy cover.
Zine is full color baby, 44 pages
Trust me, you will love it.
This in an elite zine.
Limited Edition First Run of 51 Prints.
Original Title: The Mary Wallopers & Arena & Vaudeville Clairsentience in NYC
