In Conversation with Nollaig Casey
NOLLAIG CASEY is one of Ireland\u2019s most gifted musicians, with her own unique way of playing traditional Irish music on the fiddle and has such a distinctive sound that it would be impossible to mistake it for that of anyone else. This \u201csound\u201d is so attractive to other musicians that there exists hardly any major Irish artist of the last thirty years with whom she has not worked \u2013 and many international artists have been equally entranced. A graduate from University College Cork with a Bachelors in Music Degree at the exceptionally early age of nineteen, she embarked upon a professional career first joining the RT\xc9 Symphony Orchestra where she remained for three years until she joined the ground breaking Irish band, Planxty. In addition to her work with Cherish the Ladies, Nollaig has recorded and worked with Enya, Van Morrison, Sin\xe9ad O\u2019Connor, Nanci Griffith, Ricky Skaggs, Rod Stewart, D\xf3nal Lunny, Mary Black, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, Carlos Nu\xf1ez, Jim Rooney, Andy Irvine, Moving Hearts, The Indigo Girls, Spandau Ballet, Christy Moore, Liam O\u2019Flynn, Dan ar Bras, Sharon Shannon, Maura O\u2019Connell, Dick Gaughan, Paddy Keenan, M\xe1irt\xedn O\u2019Connor. She can also be frequently found performing with her husband, legendary guitarist Arty McGlynn and along with her sisters, M\xe1ire and Mair\xe9ad as the Casey Sisters. Nollaig has toured the globe with a wide variety of artists in Ireland, the UK., France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Libya, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Japan, the U.S.A., Australia and New Zealand.