NOW ANNOUNCING PERFORMANCES OF HOW TO SURVIVE A POISON APPLE, JUNE 29th and 30th at HIPBONE STUDIOS.
Mindy Dillard is musician and performance artist originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. She trained as an actress at the University of Utah before moving to Portland and beginning to put her own stories into song. She released her first album Awakening Under Fluorescent Lights in summer of 2010. She tours regionally and nationally with the acoustic Americana duo, Heartroot and the kids’ music duo, Snail People, providing guitar, banjo and vocals. Portland-based creative consultant Lisa Lepine says “Theatrical and offbeat, Mindy Dillard rivets listeners with her left-of-center, asymmetrical amalgam of story/songwriting, magical realism, performance art, neo-feminism and depth psychology.” Carol Newman of Coast Community Radio in Astoria says “Mindy is more than a musician. Her music/presentation/performance is exciting, delicious, intriguing, delightful. Her story words are unpredictable, her delivery keeps me glued and the pieces are consistently wonderful…” Her latest work is a one-woman show called How to Survive a Poison Apple, about her own struggle with self-image and anorexia. Mindy’s work is dedicated to healing power of sharing stories and speaking truth. A new album featuring songs from her one-woman show will be available in June 2012.
