Kicking off St. Patrick’s season, the Karan Casey Trio will perform an intimate and powerful selection of traditional Irish music at the American Irish Historical Society in New York City on Saturday, March 1.
Karan Casey has been described as “the most soulful singer to emerge in Irish traditional music in the past decade.”
Karan will be joined by Niamh Dunne on the fiddle and Sean Óg Graham on the guitar, both members of the Irish folk band Beoga. The evocative trio have toured together for several years, and this show premieres new material developed and recorded since the start of the pandemic as well as favorites from Karan’s back repertoire. The songs draw inspiration from a wide range of sources from the personal to the historical and political, touching on themes of family, loss, love, the empowerment of women and Irish revolutionary struggle.
Karan Casey has long been recognized as one of the most innovative, provocative and imitated voices in Irish traditional and folk music, singing songs charged with a sense of social responsibility for over 25 years. She has released seven solo albums as well as an album for children, a duet album with John Doyle and has made numerous contributions to other artists’ projects.
Karan’s album “Nine Apples of Gold” was released in February 2023 to great acclaim, holding the number one spot on the International Folk Charts for all of March 2023, with 8 of the songs from the album in the top 20 spots.
She has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan, performing with her own band as well as collaborating with numerous diverse musicians. In 2017, Karan was Traditional Artist in Residence at University College Cork, toured the UK with the Transatlantic Sessions, performed at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, and toured in the US both with her own band and with Lúnasa, including a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall
In 2018, Karan helped found FairPlé, an organization aimed at achieving fairness and gender parity for female performers in Irish traditional and folk music.
Space is limited. Tickets for the event can be purchased online here.
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