Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School Instructors
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Liz Carroll
Instructor Website: http://www.lizcarroll.com/home
Teaching Tune Composition (M-T-W)
Liz Carroll was born in Chicago of Irish parents. She's a junior and senior All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, and has toured as a solo artist and with the Greenfields of America, Trian, String Sisters, and as part of the duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle. She's featured on eleven albums and has appeared on many more. Liz is a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship Award (1994). In 2010 she became the first Irish-American musician nominated for a Grammy. In 2011 she became the first American-born composer honored with the Cumadóir TG4, Ireland's most significant traditional music prize.
Liz's newest album, On the Offbeat, has been called magnificent and timeless by the critics, and "... one of the best albums of the decade so far" by Irish Music Magazine. You can hear the music and purchase at www.lizcarroll.com and in stores everywhere.