Irish singer-songwriter Karan Casey has been blazing a trail for more then 25 years. A lover of ballads, love songs and searing versions of social justice songs, fond of a good yarn, she has toured the world making deep connections with her audience via Ireland’s past while crucially repositioning women and songs in a universal and a modern setting. Karan has been striking out lately to explore new areas of performance on the piano and with spoken word and theatre.

She has released twelve albums as well as contributing to numerous other artists’ projects – appearing on more than 80 albums so far - and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan, performing with her own band as well as collaborating with such diverse musicians as Maura O’Connell, James Taylor, Bela Fleck, Boston Pops Orchestra, Kate Ellis, Niall Vallely, Pauline Scanlon, The Chieftains, The Dubliners, Peggy Seeger, Karen Matheson, Mick Flannery, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Tim O’Brien and Solas.

In 2018 Karan helped found FairPlé which is an organization aimed at achieving fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk musics. 2019 saw Karan achieving a PhD in music at the University of Limerick while her song “Down in the Glen” was nominated for Best Original Folk Song at the RTE Folk Awards. Karan’s first theatre show I Walked into My Head directed by Sophie Motley was premiered at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021. In 2022 Karan collaborated with composer Harry Escott on a version of the Irish ballad "Grace" for the film “Ali & Ava”.

Karan’s latest album “Nine Apples of Gold” was released to great critical acclaim in February 2023. It topped the Irish and US radio charts and was one of the most played albums on folk radio in 2023. Karan’s new stage show about women in the Irish revolutionary period The Women We Will Rise was premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in September 2023.