Singer-songwriter Karan Casey, one of the leading performers in the Irish trad and folk scene, who released her new album, Nine Apples of Gold, in February will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday, April 30.

She will be accompanied on fiddle and vocals by Niamh Dunne and on guitar by Seán Óg Graham. Both are members of popular band Beoga and both feature on the album.

Karan and Seán Óg are longtime friends and collaborators and she teamed up with him to make Nine Apples of Gold. It’s an album of songs with themes of  healing, camaraderie, finding enrichment in campaigning for women, and death.

It’s also an ode to the natural world, featuring the songbirds of Portglenone Forest in Antrim, the moon, conversations from the grave, returning to the wild, and listening for the cuckoo as she sleeps.

The empowerment of women is central to Karan’s Casey’s life and that’s also reflected on this album.

Niamh Dunne is the guest vocalist on the duet, Sister I am Here for You, while Pauline Scanlon features on a searing feminist overview of Ireland in I Live in a Country; and Ríoghnach Connolly is on Daughter Dear, a tender song between a mother and daughter.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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