I wrote ‘Let Them Be All Reprise’ when I was still in college. I’d been listening to a good deal of Gillian Welch at the time, and I fell in love particularly with ‘Bright Morning Stars’ – with how she’d […]
The ingredients of Kyle Carey’s music include the songs of the American Folk Anthology, the traditional music of Cape Breton, Ireland and Scotland, and the Appalachian poetry of Louise McNeill.
Kyle spent her earliest years in the Alaskan Bush, where her parents were teachers and where she found herself immersed in the Yupik language and its songs—developing a sensitivity to language and music that would aid her later in the creation of her own style of trans-Atlantic folk.
As a young woman, Kyle traveled to Cape Breton on a Fulbright Fellowship to study traditional Gaelic and Cape Breton fiddle. Afterwards, she spent a year on the Isle of Skye in Scotland—honing her skills in the Gaelic language and studying singing technique with Lewis-born singer Christine Primrose, before landing finally in Ireland—where she recorded her debut album Monongah.
Monongah produced by former Lùnasa guitarist Donogh Hennessy, features some of the finest guest artists in Irish folk. It rose to number eight in the summer of 2011 on the International Folk DJ charts, landing on a number of ‘Best of’ lists by year’s end.
Kyle’s original songs draw heavily from the American folk tradition, while her fluency in Scottish Gaelic makes for her own brand of ‘Gaelic Americana’ music. Her newest release, North Star a fan-funded album produced by Solas founding member Seamus Egan, features another all-star cast (Dirk Powell, Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker, Natatlie Haas, Chris Stout), and was released in the fall of 2014 to wide-spread critical acclaim.
I wrote ‘Let Them Be All Reprise’ when I was still in college. I’d been listening to a good deal of Gillian Welch at the time, and I fell in love particularly with ‘Bright Morning Stars’ – with how she’d […]
‘North Star’ is the title track off my new album, and has a couple different sources of inspiration. The main source is a song written by the great Irish songwriter Mickey MacConnell called ‘The Tinkerman’s Daughter’. Mickey’s own song is […]
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