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Karan Casey & Her Band.

 

Karan Casey (Vocals & Keyboard)

Niall Vallelly (Concertina)

Niamh Dunne (Fiddle, Vocals)

Sean Og Graham (Guitar)

 

 

Clonmel World Music is delighted to welcome back Karan Casey and her band, they last played Clonmel in 2014.

Karan Casey is originally from BallyDuff Lower, near Kilmeaden Co Waterford, and  has long been one of the most innovative voices in Irish traditional and folk music. Her career has spanned twenty five years from the early days as a jazz performer in Dublin to her heady days in New York with the band Solas,  to her now established solo career. Karan has sold over half a million records.

Karan released her first album with the group Solas, which quickly became the most celebrated Irish band in the U.S., and her four years with the group were pivotal. Since embarking on her solo career Karan has released 6 solo albums, a duo album (with John Doyle), an album for children and numerous contributions to other artists’ projects – appearing on more than 50 albums in total.

She has toured constantly throughout North America, Europe and Japan, performing solo, with her own band and with many other diverse artists.  Recent years have seen Karan appearing with Folk legends James Taylor, Liam Clancy, Peggy Seeger, Mick Moloney and the Dubliners and Imelda May as well as performances with Solas, Lunasa,  Béla Fleck & the Flecktones and Tim O’Brien.

Karan has won awards for “Best Folk Album” and “Best Folk Female” from Irish Music Magazine and been nominated for the BBC Folk Awards and the Danish Grammys and was a key member of Paul Winter’s Grammy-award winning “Celtic Solstice”. She has appeared at major festivals in Europe and the US such as WOMAD USA, the Cambridge Folk Festival, Celtic Connections, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Festival Cornouaille, Festival Interceltique Lorient, Milwaukee Irishfest and Merlefest as well as appearing at many prestigious venues including the Kennedy Centre (Washington DC), New York’s Symphony Space, Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the Hollywood Bowl, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, the Cathedral of St John the Divine, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and many others. She has made many TV and radio appearances on both sides of the Atlantic and has been a frequent guest on nationally syndicated US radio and TV shows such as Garrison Keillor’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ and “Mountain Stage”.

Karen Casey will be playing Clonmel World Music with her band to promote her new album  Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale.

The new album from Waterford singer, which is out in mid-October, sees her return to a mix of traditional and folk song imbued with a modern twist, sitting alongside some new self-penned songs.

She is joined on vocals on the album by some of her favourite singers, including Karen Matheson, Niamh Dunne, Pauline Scanlon, Maura O’Connell and Aoife O Donovan.

It’s a huge production, with some 25 musicians and singers involved. ‘Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale’ is the album title, taken from a line in one of the tracks I’m Still Standing Here, written by Janis Ian. Janis has tweeted her delight at Karan’s version of the song!

Produced by renowned Scottish musician and Bafta-nominated composer Donald Shaw, the new album also features Karan’s long-time musical collaborators Kate Ellis, Niall Vallely, James MacKintosh, Ewen Vernal, Dirk Powell and Mike McGoldrick as well as younger voices such as Sean Óg Graham & Catriona McKay.

While singing songs from contemporary folk writers Janis Ian, Eliza Gilkyson, Patti Griffin, Mick Flannery and Bob Dylan, the album also showcases Casey’s impressive talent as a song writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Karen Casey is the most soulful singer to emerge in Irish traditional music in the past decade”.
The Glasgow Herald

Doors 7 pm.

Karan Casey Band onstage 8pm sharp