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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 has performed at Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall and had her music featured on on PBS, NPR, PRI, BBC and RTE. Susan began her songwriting career at the Lower East Side club Sin-É and released 16 commercial albums as a songwriter and folk artist.
Susan is also a Non-Profit Leader, and the founder of Cuala Foundation, an organization that collaborates with communities to repair, recover and build social, economic and cultural power, producing intergenerational projects and programs that celebrate land, community knowledge, music, songs, stories and wellbeing through a social justice lens.
“McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening.”
– Rolling Stone Magazine
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