Join us for an evening of food, music, and fun!

🍉 6pm - potluck/social hour

🎤 7pm - show

💵 $20-30 suggested donation

👨‍👩‍👧 All ages, family-friendly

Tickets at xroadscc.org/events

Rain location: Bishop Hill Creative Commons

https://www.karancasey.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm30fxYs4YM&pp=ygULa2FyYW4gY2FzZXk%3D

Irish singer-songwriter Karan Casey has been blazing a trail for over 25 years. 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 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 theater.

She has released 11 albums and has contributed to numerous other artists’ projects, appearing on more than 50 albums to date. Karan 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 musics. She completed a PhD in music in 2019.

Karan will be performing as a trio with Niamh Dunne (fiddle/ vocals) and Sean Óg Graham (guitar).

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The potluck is optional, but is a great chance to meet others in the audience and maybe even share a meal with the artist. It also helps ensure the artist isn't having to have a meal from a gas station. We'll provide the plates, bowls, silverware, napkins, and, if you need it, serving spoons. Feel free to bring anything you'd like, an entrée, appetizer, dessert, or drink to share. I recommend to bring something you will enjoy eating, because if you enjoy it it is likely others will as well.

Bring lawn chairs/blankets to sit on