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Welcome to Máire's website. Here you'll find biographical information about Máire, her duo with guitarist Chris Newman, her trio with her sisters (The Casey Sisters) - and their CD Sibling Revelry - The Heartstring Quartet with Chris, Nollaig Casey and the late Arty McGlynn (Máire's fiddle-playing sister and legendary Irish guitarist respectively), tour-dates, press reviews, features and interviews, a festival list, information about recordings and books, video and audio clips, and contact details. |
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Latest: In-person & Online concerts; New Magazine Cover Feature; TV documentary, new harp sheet music etc...
Máire and Chris duo concerts February / March 2022 Máire featured in TG4 TV programme Chistmas Day 2021! Máire and Chris' online concert for Harp Day 2021 Online interview with Máire The Living Tradition magazine cover feature! Previous online concerts The programme was Critics's Choice in The Sunday Times Culture Magazine on November 29th, 2020. Joe Burke R.I.P. Archive footage recently posted... |
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Máire and Chris on the front cover of the new April / May 2021 issue of The Living Tradition. |
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Máire on the front cover of the June-July 2017 issue of Folk Magazin (Germany). |
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A documentary about Máire and her sister Nollaig (also featuring their sister Mairéad in addition to Chris and Nollaig's late husband Arty McGlynn) was broadcast on TG4 on November 29th, 2020, as part of its 'Sé mo Laoch' series. (TG4 is Ireland's national Irish-language TV station.)
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Poster for the premiere of the Casey Sisters' work, Corcach: A Journey, commissioned by the 2018 Cork Folk Festival. |
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Other recent Press & TV
Here's a selection of other TV and press over the last few years, in reverse date order:
Here is a blog-post from Colin Randall dated August 17, 2020, where he looks back on Máire's first duo album with Chris, 'The Living Wood'. In a 1988 article for The Daily Telegraph he had declared it Folk Album of the Year as well as one of his top three albums of the decade!
Máire and Chris were interviewed and Chris played on WLOX TV News in Biloxi, MS prior to their concert in Gulfport, MS on Saturday February 29, 2020. You can watch the clip here...
Chris and Máire were interviewed on BBC Radio Lincolnshire's Afternoon Show, presented by Sue Taylor, on October 16, 2019 - listen here...
TV clip from TG4's "Geantraí" programme, recently posted on YouTube.
Chris and Máire were featured on the first programme of the "Tradfest TG4" TV series, broadcast November 25th, 2018 on TG4. Watch it on catchup TV here.
They were interviewed by Tom Lane for BBC Radio Lincolnshire's "Thursday Night Folk", broadcast December 13th, 2018. Listen to it on catchup here.
An interview with them appeared in the Spalding Guardian (Lincolnshire) on December 17th, 2018.
Máire and Chris were profiled in the Whakatane Beacon on October 20, 2018 prior to their concert in Whakatane during their tour of New Zealand.
Davey Calder's Folk Music Hour on Access Radio Taranaki, New Plymouth, presented a programme about their music on October 7, 2018, during their tour of New Zealand. It's still available to listen to and the link is on this page.
Máire was delighted to be on the front cover of the June-July 2017 issue of Germany's Folk Magazin! - see it here on the right. The accompanying interview is here...
TV clip broadcast on RTÉ's News2day programme 28 June, 2017, of Máire leading over 70 harpers in playing her composition, Harps in Bloom (Termonfechin Times), at the 32nd International Festival for Irish Harp, held in Termonfechin, Co Louth.
Interview with Máire in Cork's Evening Echo, 15 February, 2017
Interview with the Casey Sisters (Máire, Nollaig and Mairéad) in The Irish Examiner, 21 February, 2017
The Casey Sisters (Máire, Nollaig and Mairéad) live on a special edition of BBC Radio Ulster’s Folk Club broadcast on 31st July 2016 to celebrate 30 years of the Fiddler’s Green Festival in Rostrevor, Co Down.
Video of the Casey Sisters playing at the Canon Goodman Memorial Concert at Abbeystrewry Church for the Skibbereen Arts Festival, Co Cork, 24 July, 2016.
Watch Máire playing and chatting on Part I of the TV programme "Mná an Cheoil" (Women in traditional Music) on TG4 April 2016
Watch Máire's live TV performance with Anne-Marie O'Farrell and Cormac de Barra playing her composition "Reel for a Water-diviner" on Gradam Ceoil TG4, Sun 21 Feb, 2016
Interview with Máire in Irish Music Magazine November 2015 with regard to the release of her CD with her sisters, Sibling Revelry.
Watch Chris & Máire's TV performance on "Hup!", TG4, Sun 11 Oct 2015
Cerys Matthews played Máire's version of 'Carolan's Farewell to Music' on her iconic BBC 6 Music show on Sep 6 and again on Sep 20, 2015. She said “I adore this track. This was one of the tracks that Dónal Gallagher picked to play when we were enjoying the record collection that his brother Rory Gallagher had collected throughout his too-short life and this was the tune that Rory requested be played at his funeral. Absolutely tremendous stuff. It’s 'Carolan’s Farewell to Music' by Máire Ní Chathasaigh.”
Interview with Máire in The Herald Scotland, 8 April, 2015
Article about the duo in The Irish Voice (New York), 6 May 2015
For further news, click here.