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Susan McKeown
12+ albums
folkcelticirishfemale vocalistsIrish Folk
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Susan McKeown (born in Terenure, Dublin , on 6 February 1967) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, arranger and producer. As well as her solo recordings, she has recorded as Susan McKeown and The Chanting House, as Susan McKeown & Lindsey Horner, and as Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg. McKeown briefly attended the Municipal College of Music in Dublin as a teenager before abandoning a promising opera career in order to sing folk and rock. She formed Susan McKeown and the Chanting House in 1989 initially as a duo with John Doyle. Yhey toured Europe with Donogh Hennessy and other musicians, the set list consisting of original songs and traditional tunes. They released a cassette-only album called "The Chanting House" in 1990. On graduating from University College Dublin, McKeown was awarded a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan. In 1990, with a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, she relocated to New York City. Doyle followed and they were soon to join forces with Seamus Egan and Eileen Ivers, with whom they recorded one live cassette and one track, "If I Were You", which they contributed to the album Straight Outta Ireland in 1993. Later in 1993, McKeown formed a new version of the band with fiddler Chris Cunningham, American cellist Michelle Kinney, American jazz bassist Lindsey Horner, and American drummer Joe Trump. The band performed at clubs such as Sin-é, Fez, The Bottom Line and the Bowery Ballroom, and recorded a c
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albums
Sweet Liberty
Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs - An Draighnen Donn: Amhrián Grá
Bushes & Briars
Lowlands
Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs - An Draighneán Donn: Amhráin Grá
Celtic Sampler Summer 2009
Prophecy
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Celtic Dreamland
Bones
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Putumayo Kids Presents: Celtic Dreamland
Saints & Tzadiks
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Blackthorn Irish Love Songs