Karan Casey, one of Ireland’s finest singer-songwriters – and a leading advocate for gender balance in the Irish folk and traditional music scene – recently released her new album Nine Apples of Gold, and is currently touring it around the country. She will perform at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday April 30.
Casey is accompanied on this tour by dynamic duo Niamh Dunne and Sean Óg Graham, both members of popular Irish band Beoga: Niamh (fiddle, vocals ), who comes from a rich family heritage of Irish traditional music; and Seán (guitar ), a talented arranger, composer and producer who is in great demand as an accompanist.
Karan says: “The response to the album has been amazing I can’t get over how enthused people are and the reaction at the gigs has been incredible. I’m number 5 now in the Folk Charts in the States and the tour went really well. So I’m very excited to see how the songs and the album go down in Ireland.”
The empowerment of women is front and centre of Karan’s concerns as she gives voice to the notion that songs can sing what we cannot say. Her defiance, vulnerabilities and feminist heart bellow through these songs.
A Waterford native, Casey was among the vanguard of the Irish music revival’s “third wave” of the early 1990s. A founding member of the seminal Irish American band Solas, she then went on to launch her solo career in 1999 and recorded 11 albums. Though steeped early on in Irish traditional and folk music, Casey has long followed an eclectic path - including studying classical music, fronting jazz bands and working with Frank Harte, a much-revered folk/traditional singer from Dublin.
Karan Casey will perform at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday April 30.
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