March 16, 2010

Susan will be performing with Ryan McGiver & Eamon O'Leary on Thursday 18 March at the Christopher Street Coffeehouse. Also on the bill, poet Paul Muldoon and guitarist Bill Turner. Proceedings start at 7pm.

Christopher Street Coffee
House 81 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
Tel: (212) 242-5737
http://www.stjohnschristopherstreet.org

The Christopher Street Coffee House is co-sponsored by the Downtown Songwriters' Circle and Saint John's Lutheran Church. Performances form part of a new outreach to the arts community called 'Thursdays at Saint John's'.

Contact Information: 81 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 Tel: (212) 242-5737

Directions
Bus Crosstown bus M8 runs along 9th St. and stops right outside. (Back at West 10th St.)
Subway 1 to Christopher St./ Sheridan Square A,B,C,D,E,F or V line to West 4th St./Washington Square. Walk up West 4th St. towards 7th Avenue and cross it.
PATH train from New Jersey Christopher St. station, walk east 2 blocks. Car West Side Highway exit at Clarkson St., left on Hudson, right on West 10th St., right on 7th Ave. 1h parking meters along Christopher St. and 7th Ave. From the East Side Cross on 9th St. Commercial parking garages: make left at Barrow St. off 7th Ave. or left side of 7th at Morton St.

Co-sponsored by the Downtown Songwriters' Circle and Saint John's Lutheran Church. Performances form part of a new outreach to the arts community called 'Thursdays at Saint John's'. 

October 19, 2009

This week Susan is in two major New York venues. On Tuesday she performs at The Town Hall as the guest of The Klezmatics. The track ‘Heaven ‘from the GRAMMY award-winning ‘Wonder Wheel’ album with Susan and Lorin Sklamberg on lead vocals is featured in the documentary ‘Coal Country’ and appears on the album which accompanies the film. Coal Country.

On Saturday Susan will be a guest on Mick Moloney’s Symphony Space concert ‘The Irish & The Jews’. It’s just coincidental that Susan appears on two Jewish-Irish albums this year.

September 26, 2009

Susan is in her favourite state of New Mexico this week for the Globalquerque World Music Festival in Albuquerque. She'll be performing 'Saints & Tzadiks' with Lorin Sklamberg and Eamon O'Leary.

September 2, 2009

‘Peter & Wendy’ opens in Edinburgh! Susan is performing in the Mabou Mines’ OBIE award-winning production featuring the songs of Johnny Cunningham this week at the Edinburgh Festival in Johnny’s home town.

August 11, 2009

Saints & Tzadiks is released today in the United States on the World Village/Harmonia Mundi label. You can hear tracks here and read a fine review here (as well as hear another track)

Susan performs tonight at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland with poets Paula Meehan and Don Paterson in an event curated by author Colm Toibín.

2008

Absolutely Irish
Look out for Susan on a PBS station near you: Susan is featured in "Absolutely Irish - an all-star concert film and documentary featuring performances by the world’s leading traditional Irish musicians, filmed live at the Irish Arts Center."
Mick Moloney invited Susan to perform in the film in April 2007 and the results can be seen on public TV stations across the nation this month. There will be a few screenings of the extended edition from March 5 - 15 at Irish Arts Center in New York City.

Susan in The Irish Voice
The Irish Voice magazine ran a feature on Susan in this week's issue. You can pick it up on newsstands in NYC from today until next Tuesday. Or check it out online at www.Irishvoice.com.

WONDER WHEEL

2007's Grammy winner for Best Contemporary World Album was "Wonder Wheel" from the Klezmatics with Susan on female lead vocals.

Check out this footage of Susan performing "Gonna Get Through This
World" with the band in Glasgow at the Celtic Connections Festival in
Glasgow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TykfCu_DcCA

Susan performed lead vocals in the brilliant Mabou Mines
production 'Peter & Wendy" at Arena Stage in Washington DC from May 3 through June24, 2007.

More information here:

MORE NEWS "I Could Not Stop For Death" is on Natalie Merchant's latest double-album "Retrospective" taken from Susan's 2002 album "Prophecy". The double album is back in stock now and can be purchased through Natalie's web site.
* www.nataliemerchant.com


MYSPACE Susan has recently taken a page at myspace which you can check out at www.myspace.com/susanmckeown and hear some music and occasional thoughts...


VANAVER BENEFIT On May 21st 2006 Susan joined Natalie Merchant, The Klezmatics & Pete Seeger onstage for a special fundraiser for Bill Vanaver. $55,000 was raised for the folk musician and dancer, who had suffered a heart attack earlier this year. Despite being insured the cost of the surgery and recovery was so high that this event had to be set up to raise the extra money. Thanks for all who were there and made it possible!

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