Irish singer Karan Casey Concert

We are delighted to present Irish singer Karan Casey to perform a benefit concert at the Community School of Music and Arts. Karan has not been to Ithaca in several years and we are really excited that she has made room in her busy touring schedule to do this show. 
Tickets are $25-35 (sliding scale) (Email [email protected] for family rates)
Tickets available at Mama Said Hand Pies in Press Bay Alley
Proceeds will go to the peace and justice work of the Ithaca Catholic Worker.
Karan will be touring with Sheila Fallson on fiddle and guitarist Matt Heaton. The evocative trio have toured together for several years and this show premieres new material from Karan’s new album“Nine Apples of Gold”(to be released 22nd February 2023) as well as favorites from Karan’s back repertoire. The songs draw inspiration from a wide range of sources from the personal to the historical and political, touching on themes of family, loss, love, the empowerment of women, and Irish revolutionary struggle
Karan Casey has been blazing a trail for over 25 years. A lover of ballads, love songs and searing versions of social justice songs, a great storyteller, fond of a good yarn, she has toured the world making deep connections with her audience connecting via Ireland’s past but crucially repositioning women and songs in a universal and a modern setting. Karan has been striking out lately to explore new areas of performance on the piano and with spoken word and theatre.
She has released eleven albums as well as contributing to numerous other artists’ projects – appearing on more than 50 albums so far - and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan, performing with her own band as well as collaborating with such diverse musicians as Maura O’Connell, James Taylor, Bela Fleck, Boston Pops Orchestra, Kate Ellis, Niall Vallely, Pauline Scanlon, The Chieftains, The Dubliners, Peggy Seeger, Karen Matheson, Mick Flannery, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Tim O’Brien and Solas.
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 music.
Karan's song “Down in the Glen” from her album Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale was nominated for Best Original Folk Song at the RTE Folk Awards 2019 and she completed a Ph.D. in music in 2019. Karan has recently performed her new show with Director Sophie Motley called I Walked into My Head which was premiered at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021.
Karan is currently working on a stage show about women in the Irish revolutionary period to be produced at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2023.