"The Red Kite's Blues', is a storytelling, interactive jazz performance, originally created for Fun-Size Jazz; a partnership program between the Ark, Children's Cultural Centre and the Improvised Music Company to bring jazz to children in 2018.  Presented at Schools and libraries and

Dalkey Creates Festival

BIG BANG Dublin presented by The Ark at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2019

Cruínniú na nÓg,

Ranelagh Arts Festival,

Still Loading, The Ark

Galway Jazz Festival, Mick Lally Theatre

Big Bang Children’s Festival 2022

The Smashing Red Kite's Blues

The Red Kite’s Blues brings the blues to life for children through a musical performance that is delightfully fun and interactive with lots of improvisation and play!  Come sing away your blues with the Red Kite and friends, Johnny Taylor, piano and Damian Evans, bass and author Ann-Lorraine Mack.

Inspired by The Smashing Red Kite, debut children's novel by author Ann Lorraine Mack, this children's story follows the adventures of a red kite as it leaves the toy shop home for a life of adventure. Though it has a happy ending, it is not all smooth sailing!  Along the way, the Kite learns about belonging and acceptance, the wisdom of those that have gone before, and the importance of good friends. 

Listen to Emilie Conway Quartet here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5H9kfCrNvE

We had a super time meeting and performing for children at the Galway Jazz Festival. Thanks to my nephew Rory Conway for kindly lending me his green dinosaur (Dino!) and some of his prized trucks! We took good care of them ! Here are some photos thank you to Dublin Jazz Photography! 

Emilie Conway 

Emilie is an award-winning Dublin born jazz vocalist. Inspired by her love literature, poetry, sound and silence she blends her own compositions, spoken word / poetry, with improvised or composed music and her interpretation of familiar and less familiar jazz standards. She works with some of Ireland's leading jazz musicians. Singing in many languages, she is currently working on a project exploring Brazilian music and Irish traditional music.  

Emilie has won scholarships to Berklee College of Music, the Vermont Jazz Centre and Souza Lima in Brazil.  The Arts Council of Ireland supported her nationwide tour Emilie Sings Billie Holiday.   She released her debut album, The Secret of a Rose in 2012, with her regular quartet, Johnny Taylor, piano, Dave Fleming / Damian Evans - double bass, Dominic Mullan, drums to critical and popular acclaim.  Emilie received a award from the Arts Council in 2014 to research and present the music of Alec Wilder in a nationwide tour of Ireland, culminating in her second album, Dear World, Emilie Conway Sings Alec Wilder. She performs regularly in Dublin and throughout Ireland and Europe.  Her original production, You Won't Forget Me, celebrating Irish-American writer, Maeve Brennan has been performed in New York, (Cornelia St. Cafe), Chicago (American Writers' Museum), and Dublin's National Concert Hall.  Most recently, in March, she collaborated and performed in a new work, Yeats & Tagore: Ireland meets India.  at the New York Library for Performing Arts at the Lincoln Centre.

“Splendid." - The Sunday Independent

“her own vocalese to Coltrane’s solo demonstrating her abilities to their fullest, flitting through the lyrics at a tempo most rappers would be envious of, while maintaining a bouncing melody and clarity of diction throughout. ” - GoldenPlec

"Star of the show is Conway's voice," - Hot Press.

The Emilie Conway Trio with Emilie Conway (vocals), Johnny Taylor (piano), Damian Evans (bass)  The Emilie Conway Trio is comprised of leading musicians of Irelands's jazz scene and have extensive jazz performance experience together, nationally and internationally.