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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 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 the founder and leader of Cuala Foundation, a Lower East Side-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and its sister organisation in Ireland, Cuala Group, that co-creates new systems of community self care centering youth, migrants and indigenous culture. Since 2017 the organizations have produced cultural programs in communities in Ireland and the U.S. to heal trauma and cultivate a culture of belonging.
Róisín McKeown is a singer-songwriter born in New York’s Lower East Side, and raised between LES and Dublin. Growing up inspired by Irish folk, jazz and soul, McKeown takes inspiration from different genres and musical styles, as well as the two cities she calls home, making her own unique sound through which she tells stories. McKeown released her debut EP, ‘All My Love’ in 2024, at which time she headlined the Mercury Lounge in New York City.