Karan Casey brings the concert version of her striking song-cycle, The Women We Will Rise, to Cleveland, alongside a collection of songs from her deep repertoire.
Called "The most soulful singer to emerge in Irish traditional music in the past decade." by THE GLASGOW HERALD, Karan Casey explores Ireland's past and the roles of women within it.
Join us for a lovely and inspiring evening of song.
About Karan Casey
Irish singer-songwriter Karan Casey is a lover of ballads, love songs and searing versions of social justice songs. Fond of a good yarn, she has toured the world making deep connections with her audience and connecting through a shared exploration of Ireland’s past, repositioning traditional songs, and women's roles in them, with a universal and a modern setting.
Karan has been recently exploring new areas of performance on the piano and with spoken word and theatre. She has released eleven albums and contributed to numerous other artists’ projects – appearing on more than 80 albums so far - and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan. Karan tours with her band Niamh Dunne, Sean Óg Graham and Niall Vallely. Her stage show about women in the Irish revolutionary period The Women We Will Rise premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in September 2023.
In 2018 Karan helped found FairPlé which is an organization aimed at achieving fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk musics.
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