A Lecture with Susan McKeown: Retrieving Irish Ancestral Stories and Practice
Schedule
Wed Nov 05 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
1124 Cleveland Ave, Mount Vernon, WA, United States, Washington 98273 | Mount Vernon, WA
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Rivers and Land, The Crown and The Bishop's Ring: Retrieving Irish Ancestral Stories and Practice - A Lunchtime Talk with Susan McKeown12pm-1pm
This presentation will also be available for live-streaming on Zoom.
Grammy winning Irish singer songwriter and founder and director of Cuala Foundation Susan McKeown will give an illustrated lunchtime talk about Irish culture and colonization entitled: Rivers and Land, The Crown and The Bishop's Ring: Retrieving Irish Ancestral Stories and Practice.
Grammy-winner and BBC Folk Music Award nominee Susan McKeown is a Manhattan based Irish singer-songwriter, producer and director. In a remarkable career Susan has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, The Klezmatics, Ensemble Tartit, Lúnasa and Flook at venues such as Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. She toured and recorded for many years with the Scots fiddle master Johnny Cunningham.
Susan’s song “Everything We Had Was Good” reached #1 on the US. Folk Music Chart and her album ‘Belong’ reached #11. Her setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ was voted into the Top 20 Songs of Fate & Destiny by readers of The Guardian Newspaper and performed by Ireland’s RTE National Concert Orchestra. Her voice and music have been featured on 16 critically acclaimed albums as well as on NPR, numerous internationally acclaimed films, documentaries and theatre productions including OBIE Award-winning Mabou Mines production Peter & Wendy (with Johnny Cunningham) and Anne Makepeace's Emmy-Award winning Robert Capa: In Love & War.
“McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening.” – Rolling Stone Magazine
Doors open at 11:30am, and the lecture will begin at 12pm. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Susan will also be performing a musical concert with guests later in the evening.
Members receive a discount on tickets to this presentation. To become a Celtic Arts Foundation member, please visit our website at www.celticarts.org or call 360-416-4934.
Concert goers can take advantage of 15% off of the best available rate at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Burlington–just mention the Celtic Arts Foundation when booking.
Tickets are final sale and cannot be refunded.
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