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 in a career spanning over 25 years, Karan has released 7 solo albums as well as an album for children, a duet album with John Doyle and numerous contributions to other artists’ projects. 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 balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk music.
Currently she is recording and touring as a trio with her Irish bandmates, Niamh Dunne (fiddle and back vocals) and Seán Óg Graham (guitar and back vocals). Karan has recently performed her new show with Director Sophie Motley called I Walked into My Head which premiered at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021. Karan is currently touring a stage show about women in the Irish revolutionary period, premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2023. Karan’s new 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.
Join us for an intimate and powerful performance from an artist the Glasgow Herald called "the most soulful singer to emerge in Irish traditional music in the past decade." The New York Times reviewed her show and claimed, “Setting her clear voice in arrangements that mix traditional and modern instruments, she maintains the taut, quivering ornamentation of old ballad style, singing tales of love, war and murder with a gentle gravity.”
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