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Susan McKeown
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
After producing New York’s largest cultural festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, Susan founded Cuala Foundation in the U.S. and Ireland to develop community healing projects that engage youth through local history, storytelling and song.
“The Irish are world-renowned as great wordsmiths and Susan McKeown has formed herself into a link in that chain.” – BOB EDWARDS, NPR
This fall and winter Susan is launching a podcast series, publishing her first book and producing a documentary about Fran O’Toole, the lead singer of Ireland’s Miami Showband who along with two bandmates was murdered by British military forces on Ireland’s border in July 1975. McKeown dips into the bleak well of emotional suffering and comes up with a heaping cup of hope. – THE BOSTON GLOBE
Susan McKeown can do no wrong. - Mike Harding, BBC 2
Susan McKeown owns one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in Irish music. - THE IRISH VOICE
She walks on the wild side of Gaelic melody. - BOSTON GLOBE
Decide for yourself if she is a pop, rock or folk star—if not all three. - BOSTON EXAMINER
If there’s some dividing line between Celtic traditionalism and eclectic contemporary songwriting, McKeown refuses to acknowledge it. And with a voice as warm, resonant and versatile as hers, why should she? THE OREGONIAN
Thursday, November 6
Doors 7:00, Show 7:30
Tickets $25
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
After producing New York’s largest cultural festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, Susan founded Cuala Foundation in the U.S. and Ireland to develop community healing projects that engage youth through local history, storytelling and song.
“The Irish are world-renowned as great wordsmiths and Susan McKeown has formed herself into a link in that chain.” – BOB EDWARDS, NPR
This fall and winter Susan is launching a podcast series, publishing her first book and producing a documentary about Fran O’Toole, the lead singer of Ireland’s Miami Showband who along with two bandmates was murdered by British military forces on Ireland’s border in July 1975. McKeown dips into the bleak well of emotional suffering and comes up with a heaping cup of hope. – THE BOSTON GLOBE
Susan McKeown can do no wrong. - Mike Harding, BBC 2
Susan McKeown owns one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in Irish music. - THE IRISH VOICE
She walks on the wild side of Gaelic melody. - BOSTON GLOBE
Decide for yourself if she is a pop, rock or folk star—if not all three. - BOSTON EXAMINER
If there’s some dividing line between Celtic traditionalism and eclectic contemporary songwriting, McKeown refuses to acknowledge it. And with a voice as warm, resonant and versatile as hers, why should she? THE OREGONIAN
Thursday, November 6
Doors 7:00, Show 7:30
Tickets $25