Susan McKeown Concert

Grammy-winner and BBC Folk Music Award nominee SUSAN McKeown is a Manhattan based Irish singer-songwriter, producer and director. In a remarkable career Susan has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, The Klezmatics, Ensemble Tartit, Lúnasa and Flook at venues such as Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. She toured and recorded for many years with the Scots fiddle master Johnny Cunningham.

Susan’s song “Everything We Had Was Good” reached #1 on the US. Folk Music Chart and her album ‘Belong’ reached #11. Her setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ was voted into the Top 20 Songs of Fate & Destiny by readers of The Guardian Newspaper and performed by Ireland’s RTE National Concert Orchestra. Her voice and music have been featured on 16 critically acclaimed albums as well as on NPR, numerous internationally acclaimed films, documentaries and theatre productions including OBIE Award-winning Mabou Mines production Peter & Wendy (with Johnny Cunningham) and Anne Makepeace's Emmy-Award winning Robert Capa: In Love & War.

“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

For this concert, Susan will be joined by Kyle Sanna on guitar and Matt Mancuso on fiddle and trumpet.

Doors open at 5:30pm, and music will begin at 6pm. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Susan will also be providing an informative lecture earlier in the day.

Members receive a discount on tickets to this concert. To become a Celtic Arts Foundation member, please visit our Membership Page or call 360-416-4934.

Concert goers can take advantage of 15% off of the best available rate at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Burlington–just mention the Celtic Arts Foundation when booking or click here.

Tickets are final sale and cannot be refunded.