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Little Sea Concerts Presents: Grammy Award winner Susan McKeown
Susan McKeown with Kyle Sanna at Egan's Ballard Jamhouse in Seattle, Washington.
Grammy award-winning and BBC Award-nominated vocalist and songwriter Susan McKeown, from Dublin, is widely acknowledged to be one of the most powerful and innovative voices in Irish music. In a distinguished career, McKeown has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Linda Thompson, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie and The Klezmatics. She has recorded mariachi music, klezmer music, African music, Celtic music, and contemporary songwriting, and has performed at Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
On her new album Belong Susan has finally come home, marking half of her life in the States with an exploration of American roots-derived music that delves deeply into matters of the heart. The song 'Everything We Had Was Good' reached #1 on the American Folk Music Chart and the album reached #11.
On Singing in the Dark (2010 Hibernian Music), Susan explores creativity and madness, composing new music for lyrics of great poets such as Roethke, Mangan, Sexton, Ní Dhomhnaill, Dowland and Gwyneth Lewis who were writing through the lens of depression, mania and addiction. Songs from the East Village (2010 EVCS), a world music album for families made to benefit Manhattan's East Village Community School, was conceived and produced by Susan and featured on NPR's Weekend Edition.
An inventive arranger and producer, McKeown was nominated for a BBC Music Award for her arrangement of an English gypsy song which she recorded with the mariachi group Mariachi Réal de Mexico, and other creative arrangements have paired her emotive vocal delivery with Mali's Ensemble Tartit and Mamadou Diabate, China's Wang Guo Wei, Lúnasa, Flook and The Klezmatics, with whom she won a Grammy for Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (2006 JMG).
Susan is the only Irish artist ever signed to the Harmonia Mundi label for which she produced three albums. Her music has been featured in documentary programs on PBS, BBC, RTE, and ABC (Australia) and she has frequently been featured on NPR and PRI.
Susan is the 2012 recipient of The Arts Council of Ireland's Traditional Arts Bursary. She has received composer commissions from the Poetry Society of America and United Nations' NGO Fourth World. With the poet Paul Muldoon, she is artistic director of Feis Teamhra, an annual festival of poetry and music at the ancient site of Tara in County Meath, Ireland. Her voice is featured on the audio recording for the Irish apartment of New York's Tenement Museum. Susan is an Arts Associate at New York's Irish Arts Center where she curates SongLives, a songwriter series.
A singer of passion, grace and striking presence with the ability to capture both the essence of a traditional folk song or the more hard-edged domain of contemporary adult rock; she seems to personify both past and present.
- IRISH EXAMINER
One of the strongest, most expressive voices to have come out of Ireland belongs to Dublin native Susan McKeown. Her powerful pipes create a primal sound that comes from an adventurous musical spirit. The strong, richly colored contralto and the enlivening intelligence of her songs marked Susan as a distinctive talent upon the release of her debut album Bones (SNG 1995). The GRAMMY award-winning vocalist and BBC Folk Award nominee has gone on to record eleven more albums spanning the realms of world music and rock and has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Linda Thompson, Billy Bragg, The Klezmatics, Mariachi Real de Mexico, Ensemble Tartit, Flook, Lúnasa, Andy Irvine and Johnny Cunningham. Susan's own music has been featured in documentary programs on PBS, BBC, RTE, and ABC (Australia) and she has frequently performed on NPR and PRI.
She walks on the wild side of Gaelic melody.
- BOSTON GLOBE
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LocationEgan's Ballard Jamhouse (View)
1707 NW Market Street
Seattle, WA 98107
United States
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