Susan McKeown and The Chanting House
Susan McKeown and The Chanting House
Genres: celtic, folk, Listening music, irish
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About Susan McKeown and The Chanting House
Susan McKeown and the Chanting House was a band formed in Dublin in 1989 by Irish singer and songwriter Susan McKeown. Initially a duo with John Doyle, they toured Europe with Donogh Hennessy and other musicians, the set list consisting of original songs and traditional tunes. They released a cassette-only album called "The Chanting House" in 1990. On graduating from University College Dublin, McKeown was awarded a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan. In 1990, with a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, she relocated to New York City. Doyle followed and they were soon to join forces with Seamus Egan and Eileen Ivers, with whom they recorded one live cassette and one track, "If I Were You", which they contributed to the album Straight Outta Ireland in 1993. Later in 1993, McKeown formed a new version of the band with fiddler Chris Cunningham, American cellist Michelle Kinney, American jazz bassist Lindsey Horner, and American drummer Joe Trump. The band performed at clubs such as Sin-é, Fez, The Bottom Line and the Bowery Ballroom, and recorded a cassette album, "Snakes", in 1993. It was the release, in 1995 , of "Bones", an album of original songs with McKeown's take on a centuries-old keen (caoineadh) and an arrangement of Robert Burns' "Westlin' Winds" (later recorded by Fairport Convention) that garnered McKeown international attention and launched her further touring and recording career.
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