Irish American Heritage Museum 2025 Trad/Folk Concert Series - Karan Casey

The Irish American Heritage Museum (Flanagan Theater) is thrilled to host international recording, performing and touring artist, Karan Casey.

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. Karan 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, Karan is touring as a trio with her Irish bandmates, Niamh Dunne (fiddle and back vocals) and Seán Óg Graham (guitar and back vocals). Karan’s new album "Nine Apples of Gold - with her friends and music collaborators Niamh and Seán - 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. Karan is also currently touring a stage show about women in the Irish revolutionary period, premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2023.

Please join the Irish American Heritage Museum, and welcome Karan, Niamh and Seán to our beautiful, intimate Flanagan Theater.

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