Karan Casey
Karan Casey is an Irish folk singer and a former member of the American-based Irish trad supergroup Solas. She now lives in Cork and performs with her husband, concertina master Niall Vallely. Rhiannon joins them at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City.
Episodes
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Karan Casey
S3 E6 - 24m 35s
Karan Casey is an Irish folk singer and a former member of the American-based Irish trad supergroup Solas. She now lives in Cork and performs with her husband, concertina master Niall Vallely. Rhiannon joins them at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City.
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Niwel Tsumbu
S3 E5 - 24m 35s
Niwel Tsumbu is a guitarist and singer who grew up in Kinshasa with the traditional Soukous music of the Congo. He studied classical guitar at a prestigious music school in Central Africa before moving to Ireland, where he married and is raising his family. Rhiannon visits Niwel at his and his wife’s family farm near Kinsale in County Cork.
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Emer Mayock
S3 E4 - 24m 35s
Emer Mayock is a devoted daughter of County Mayo who played tin whistle as a child and now performs on flute and uilleann pipes. She has composed music for the theatre and documentaries. She visits with Rhiannon at one of her favorite performance venues, the Bridge Street pub in Castlebar, County Mayo.
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Loah
S3 E2 - 24m 35s
Loah (Sallay Garnett) is Irish and Sierra Leonean. She is an actor, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist—as well as a licensed pharmacist! Host Rhiannon visits with Loah at Connolly's of Leap, a legendary 500-year-old pub in West Cork.
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Róisín Elsafty
S3 E1 - 24m 35s
Róisín Elsafty is a native Irish speaker and singer in the sean-nós (“old time”) tradition who comes from a musical family: her mother and sisters are also respected vocalists. But the family’s influences also included Umm Kulthum and the music of Róisín’s father’s Egyptian homeland. Rhiannon visits with Róisín in the Gothic Church at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.
Extras + Features
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers
S3 E5 - 2m 31s
Niwel Tsumbu and Rhiannon Giddens perform "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."
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The Maids of Mitchelstown
S3 E4 - 2m
Emer Mayock and Rhiannon Giddens perform "The Miads of Mitchelstown."
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Cortège
S3 E2 - 3m 11s
Loah and Rhiannon Giddens perform "Cortège".
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Season 3 Preview
S3 - 29s
Season 3 of "My Music with Rhiannon Giddens” accompanies North Carolina's celebrated native daughter Rhiannon Giddens around her adopted home country of Ireland as she interviews and performs with some outstanding current stars of Irish traditional music.
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