Traditional Irish Singer Karan Casey at the Kate September 15

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate”, welcomes folk and traditional Irish singer Karan Casey on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm.

Singing songs charged with a sense of social responsibility in a career spanning over 25 years, legendary singer Karan Casey has released 11 albums to date. On this latest US tour, she will be joined by the wonderful Niamh Dunne on fiddle and vocals and Seán Óg Graham on guitar.

In 2018, Karan helped to found FairPlé, an organization aimed at achieving fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk music. “Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale” was released on the Vertical Records Label in 2019 and her song “Down in the Glen” was nominated for Best Original Folk Song at the RTE Folk Awards. She tours with her band Niamh Dunne, Sean Óg Graham and Niall Vallely.

Karan continues to push boundaries for herself and as an artist. She completed a PhD in music in 2019. Her new solo drama performance “I Walked into My Head,” directed by Sophie Motley, premiered at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2021. She is currently working on a new stage show to be produced at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2023, as well as an album of new songs about women in the Irish revolutionary period, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources from the personal to the historical and political, touching on themes of family, loss, love, the empowerment of women and Irish revolutionary struggle.

For information and tickets for all shows at the Kate, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.

About the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (the Kate) is a not-for-profit performing arts organization located in the historic theatre/town hall on Main Street in Old Saybrook. Originally opened in 1911, and reopened as the Kate in 2009, the building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After state of the art renovations, the Kate includes a 285-seat theatre that presents work in several genres including music, theater, opera, dance, comedy, film, and a variety of children’s programing. The theater lobby boasts a museum honoring Katharine Hepburn, Old Saybrook’s most celebrated resident.