Gaelic Roots ft. Susan McKeown

Gaelic Roots ft. Susan McKeown Grammy Award-winning and BBC Award-nominated vocalist and songwriter Susan McKeown is widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and innovative voices in folk music today. In a distinguished career, Susan has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, Mamadou Diabate, Mali's Ensemble Tartit, Queen's band Mariachi Réal de Mexico, Lúnasa, Flook, and the Klezmatics, with whom she won a Grammy Award performing lyrics by Woody Guthrie. She has recorded mariachi, klezmer, African, and Celtic music, as well as contemporary songwriting, and has performed at Glastonbury, the Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her music has been featured on PBS, NPR, PRI, BBC, and RTÉ, as well as in numerous documentaries and films. Albums include: Bones (1996), Prophecy (2002), Sweet Liberty (2004), Singing in the Dark (2010), Songs From the East Village (2010), and Belong (2012). In 2014, Susan received first-class honors for her postgraduate studies in culture as an economic driver at DCU Business School. In 2016, she produced New York's largest Irish cultural festival, CualaNYC, commemorating the 1916 Rising and celebrating the Irish in New York. She established Cuala as a nonprofit in 2017.