Liz Carroll and Jake Charron

A native of Chicago’s South Side, internationally acclaimed fiddler and composer Liz Carroll has earned her a National Heritage Fellowship; a Grammy nomination; and the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Composer of the Year award. Liz has toured as a solo artist and with the Greenfields of America, Trian, as the duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle, String Sisters, and now as a duo with guitarist and pianist Jake Charron.

The duet are currently launching their latest album together ‘Half Day Road’

Exquisite performance – a set of real class.
Q Magazine
The most unassuming of legends, Irish-American fiddler Liz Carroll..she enriched her material with such a wealth of ornamentation, harmonic colour, expressive nuance and rhythmic sensitivity as to sound like two or three fiddlers at work.
The Scotsman

The Trad Gathering

The Trad Gathering, jointly commissioned in 2008 by the BBC Proms and Return to Camden Town Festival, bring together up to 60 of the most talented young traditional Irish musicians from across London. Performances have included: Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Lord Mayor of London’s St Patrick’s Day Festival and more.

The group are currently performing music from the legendary Sligo flute player, Roger Sherlock.

The Trad Gathering were FANTASTIC – such great tunes that soared around the (Royal Albert) Hall.
Lincoln Abbots, Chief Executive, Music for Youth

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