Bio

Carrie Beehan: Singer/Songwriter/Performance-Artist/Painter, is an established international performer and artist residing in New York City. With a style that combines songs, sound-scapes, film and paint media with performance and video, she exhibits and performs regularly in New York galleries and venues. Her music pseudonym is Trystette. Double-edged expressionist film-maker, Clinton Curtis-Querci, visually created and directed Carrie's newest performance piece, combining her music and characterizations in a series of Five Music Folktales, i.e. The Monarch Series due online March 2012.

Recent Activity and Collaborations
Carrie recently performed at the BE IN Prague Shalom Neuman's Prague exhibition: TALKING AT YOU - PROMLOUVÁNÍ at the Prague National Gallery - Veletžní palác with a live performance from the Monarch Music Series. Carrie has exhibited and/or performed in MOMA Queens, The Lincoln Center Summer Stage, the New Museum's New City Festival of Ideas curating Solcycle Fusion Opera, Fusion Arts Museum, Figment Festivals to name a few. During 2011 she was featured in the 2011 Underground Howl of Menagerie II 'artist series' and in the latest release of the literary group The UnBearable's, Big Book of Sex.
The music video Art of the Crash is featured in curator Doron Polaks shows and educational institutions in Israel. She collaborates with Interdisciplinary Fusionist Shalom Neuman regularly combining her mixed media skills with his international works, is a regular performer at FusionArts Museum events and currently Lamberts Fine Arts and Christopher Henry Gallery both in Manhattan, New York.

Past Events and Collaborations
In May, 2011, she performed at Berlin's home of Techno -Tape Club - Tape Art Moderne Series, the electronic cabaret show Alt-Dis-Ektro with the former art-house trio T+BR, with dancers in both Berlin and New York. Trystette cut a strong place in the hearts of art lovers and dance enthusiasts in Berlin with her Weimaresque styling and individual approach to vocalizing and entertaining.

November 2010, a three-night run of Alt-Dis-Ektro at The Rover Soho in Manhattan, revealed a retrospective of her fused art created both in Berlin and New York.
July-October 2011, she wrote and performed a marionette musical for the 2011 Dumbo Arts Fair featuring Trystette music and performance with Vit Horejs and Theresa Linnihan from the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre.

Early Releases
Applauded by the press for her unique vocal and lyrical approach to the break beat dance genre and coolly dramatic voice with her '98 debut album Tryst/Tryst (BMG/Universal) and the front woman of former early 90's satirical Berlin band Cadillac Crooning, after over a decade in Berlin, Germany, Carrie departed from the renowned Berlin Chamaeleon Variete Theater in the late 1990s lauded as "an exceptional artist whose high-class talent as singer and performer made it a joy for us to engage her". Featured on MTV and international radio with her first electronic Cocteaux Twins flavored album "Tryst" in '98 she left her Berlin home and gravitated towards the USA. An early member of New York artist's creative epicenter FEVA/HOWL festival she merged her cabaret and electronic past with the funk of NY's finest musicians to present original, sensual and rocking melodic songs with extraordinary collisions of pop, electronic, funk, soul, fractured break-beats and cabaret. 2006 saw her CD release of Deepest Part of My Soul - performed together with the legendary bassist TM Stevens (James Brown, Pretenders, Joe Cocker) with veteran guitarist Gerry Eastman - played with New York notables like The Count Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster and Stanley Turrentine. Trystette was a contributing vocalist on T.M. Stevens 2008 CD Africans in The Snow.
With a background of drama, film/video and music education in London, Sydney and Berlin, Carrie's technical background had her working as a news and documentary editor for German television in Berlin during 1986-1992. During this time she realized "I can’t change the world and I was too sensitive and emotional about all the tragedies. I needed to step back and sing and paint out all the pain and suffering I had seen in life in order to find beauty in the world again".

Upcoming Events:
Christopher Henry Gallery Feb 01-05 - AntiOxidants Video Artists 2012
Lamberts Fine Arts Feb 05 - Superbowl BeIN
The Armory - Performance at NY's Art Fair - March 7-9th. 2012
The Monarch Series Event Screenings - TBA in New York - March 2012
The Monarch Series Event Screening - Starcourt Theater Australia 2012
The Rusty Whetted Whistle - Mariontette Musical May 2012
USA and local tour Monarch Series installation and Performance -Sept-Oct 2012