What are you doing in the news section? Go over to the music section and listen to my new single!!!

I want to thank everyone who helped make it a reality, especially my producer Chris Tabron, who’s just awesome on every level. Also the great players: Sean Pearson (guitar and bass), Ian Frey (drums), and Evan Honse (trumpet). And a special thanks to Paul Pinto for the use of his toy piano. That thing’s got attitude.

The new album, In Place of Arms, will be released in mid-September. Hope this single gives you a nice taste of what’s to come. There will be a CD Release Party at my old haunt Caffe Vivaldi on September 12th. If you’re in New York, please join us! (Unless you won’t enjoy it or you’re smelly.)

Things are moving moving moving…

Check out the make-over to Land of a Gelsey! Thank you to Adrian Cousins who took Garret Schneider’s beautiful original design and brought it up-to-date with new flair. I PROMISE I will never have an excuse for not keeping this website current again. There is sure to be more tweaking in the next little while, but we’ll do our best to not have the website out of commission for any long periods of time. So explore, enjoy, and inform me of typos.

Meanwhile I have two super exciting shows coming up next week. The first one on Friday night at Roulette, where I will be performing Tom Swafford‘s “This Is the Real Me,” a 15-minute distilled opera which I spent many hours helping develop last year. Then, on Saturday night thingNY will be playing a set at Issue Project Room, sharing the bill with Iktus percussion quartet. New music mania!! All the info is on the shows page. Hope to see some smiling faces (or serious thinker faces) there!

It’s an exciting time as spring slowly begins to hit New York. Every day, the new album is a little bit closer to be ready for release and new projects always seem to be forming on the horizon. For whatever eyes wander this website’s way, I’ll be in touch.

September 16th-October 2nd, 2010, Thurs-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:00pm
Murder in the Cathedral
The Church of St. Joseph
856 Pacific St. Brooklyn, NY
Site-specific production of T.S. Eliot’s classic,
directed by Alec Duffy of Hoi Polloi and music by Dave Malloy
And, yes, Gelsey is singing as a part of a trio of the women of Canterbury.

Tuursday, October 7th, 2010, 8pm
John Cage’s Song Books
Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Joining a whole bunch of wonderful singers to perform Cage’s classic.

08.10.10: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
07.05.10: Gelsey Bell, Comformer Perposer One-Year Anniversary, New York, NY
07.02.10: Stationary, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NY
06.12.10: Bathroom Songs, University of Toronto for PSi#16, Toronto, ON
06.07.10: Gelsey Bell, Comformer Perposer, University of the Streets, New York, NY
05.22.10: Earth Celebrations: Hudson River Pageant. Original music with Paul Pinto. Charles St. Pier, New York, NY
04.18.10: ThingNY, SPAM v1.2, The Tank, New York, NY
03.20.10: ThingNY, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
03.19.10: This Is the Real Me with Tom Swafford, Roulette, New York, NY
02.28.10: Quarterly Arts Soirée, Webster Hall, New York, NY
02.05.10: ThingNY, French-American School, New York, NY
01.14.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, The Slipper Room, New York, NY
01.14.10: ThingNY, University of the Streets, New York, NY
01.12.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, Arlene’s Grocery, New York, NY
01.10.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, Piano’s, New York, NY
01.09.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, The Living Room, New York, NY

2009

12.09.09: ThingNY, SPAM, University of the Streets, New York, NY
11.19.09: Avant-Garde-Arama with enemyResearch, PS 122, New York, NY
11.15.09: This is the Real Me with Tom Swafford, Douglass Street Music Collective,Brooklyn,NY
11.07.09: ThingNY, part of The Internationalists – Around the World in 24 Hours, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
05.31.09: ThingNY, Yippie Museum Cafe, New York, NY
04.02.09: ThingNY, Nuyorican Poets Café, New York, NY
02.14.09: ThingNY, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
02.04.09: ThingNY, The Stone, New York, NY
01.06.09: Gelsey Bell, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY

2008

10.16.08: ThingNY, thingNY does Berio, Secret Project Robot, New York, NY
06.21.08: ThingNY, Make Music New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
06.09.08: Gelsey Bell, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
04.22.08: RINDR with Urisov, Dixon Place, New York, NY
04.17.08: Gelsey Bell, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
04.05.08: ThingNY, The Tank, New York, NY
02.17.08: ThingNY, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
02.14.08: ThingNY, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
01.15.08: Gelsey Bell, Turf Club, St. Paul, MN

2007

04.23.07: Prism with Urisov, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
04.06.07: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.25.07: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.17.07: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY

2006

11.16-18.06: Performance (career ender) with Claude Wampler, The Kitchen, New York, NY
10.21.06: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Café, Bethlehem, PA
10.19.06: Telephone Songs, AUNTS, The Events Center, Brooklyn, NY
04.28.06: Gelsey Bell, ArtsLehigh, Bethlehem, PA
02.17.06: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.11.06: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
01.13.06: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY

2005

12.08.05: Gelsey Bell, Sidewalk Cafe, New York, NY
12.?.05: Plastic Bag, Dixon Place, New York, NY
11.30.05: Plastic Bag, AUNTS, some loft, Brooklyn, NY
10.29.05: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
10.19.05: TCITCW duet with Urisov, AUNTS, The Events Center, Brooklyn, NY
10.09.05: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
09.09.05: Gelsey Bell, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
04.22.05: Song Cycle in Time/Space, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
03.16.05: Gelsey Bell, Benefit for Habitat for Humanity, Lamberton, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
02.05.05: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Café, Bethlehem, PA
01.05.05: Peacocks with Urisov, Abode Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

2004

12.30.04: Gelsey Bell, Koffee Katz, Sebastopol, CA
12.24.04: Gelsey Bell on “Curtain Call,” KRCB Radio, Rohnert Park, CA
11.20.04: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
11.19.04: Gelsey Bell, Raubsville Inn, Easton, PA
11.13.04: Gelsey Bell, Benefit for Good Scholar Election, Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA
11.06.04: Gelsey Bell, Raubsville Inn, Easton, PA
10.02.04: Gelsey Bell, Indian Rock Inn, Bucks County, PA
09.25.04: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
08.13.04: Kinderglow with Urisov, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA