Karan Casey Trio in Concert

Name: Karan Casey Trio in Concert
Start: 2025-03-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 991 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10028

Schedule

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

991 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10028 | Manhattan, NY

Singing songs charged with a sense of social responsibility in a career spanning over 25 years, legendary folk and traditional Irish singer Karan Casey has released 11 albums to date. Touring extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan, she has collaborated with such diverse musicians as James Taylor, Bela Fleck, Boston Pops Orchestra, Liam Clancy, Maura O’Connell, The Chieftains, The Dubliners, Peggy Seeger, Karen Matheson, Tim
O’Brien, Solas and Lúnasa. In 2018, Karan helped to found FairPlé, an organisation aimed at achieving fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk musics.
Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale was released on the Vertical Records Label in 2019 and her song “Down in the Glen” was nominated for Best Original Folk Song at the RTE Folk Awards. She tours with her band Niamh Dunne, Sean Óg Graham, and Niall Vallely.
Karan’s latest 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 mesmerizing performance from an artist whose voice is hailed by the Boston Globe as being "among the loveliest in folk music and she's a wonderful interpreter of both contemporary and traditional material.”