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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, Susan has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, Mamadou Diabate, Mali's Ensemble Tartit, Queen's band Mariachi Réal de Mexico, Lúnasa, Flook, and the Klezmatics, with whom she won a Grammy Award performing lyrics by Woody Guthrie. She has recorded mariachi music, klezmer music, African music, Celtic music, and contemporary songwriting, and has performed at Glastonbury, the Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her music has been featured on PBS, NPR, PRI, BBC, and RTÉ and in numerous documentaries and films. Albums include: Bones (1996), Prophecy (2002), Sweet Liberty (2004), Singing in the Dark (2010), Songs From the East Village (2010), and Belong (2012).
In 2014 Susan received first class honors for her post-graduate stutides in culture as an econmic driver at DCU business school. In 2016 she produced New York's biggest Irish cultural festival CualaNYC, commmoratin the 1916 Rising celebration Irish New York. She established Cuala as a nonprofit in 2017.
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