Celtic Music: Liz Carroll

After several victories in the junior division of the All-Ireland Fiddle Championship, she amazed people in both Ireland and the States by winning in the senior division when she was just eighteen. She didn't stop there. Her first self-titled solo album was chosen by the Library of Congress as a select record of American folk music. In 1994 she was got a National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor for a traditional musician.

In addition to her solo work, Liz was one-third of the group Trian with Altan guitarist Daithi Sproule and accordionist Billy McComiskey. She also performed with Mick Moloney's Green Fields of America. More recently she has toured and recorded with John Doyle, a guitarist who was a founding member of the Irish/American supergroup Solas.

Compass Records - 2009

"This is brilliance. Three songs and a ton of tunes make this an early contender for Album of Year."
— Bill Margeson, LiveIreland.com

Track listing:

1. Chandelier/Anne Lacey's
2. Before the Storm/The Black Rogue
3. Pound a Week Rise
4. Lament for Tommy Makem/Within a Hen's Kick/The Slippery Slope
5. Nearby, Long Ago
6. Ricky's White Face/The Boys from Bolinas
7. Down at the Wakehouse/The True Love of My Heart
8. Paddy Glackin's Trip to Dingle/On the Lam/The Waves at Dingle/The Top o
9. John Cahill's Jig/Tommy Doyle's
10. Hare's Lament/Pat Mahon's Jig
11. Castle Kelly/Galway Rambler
12. Little Christmas/The Old Course/The Twilight Child
13. Rushin' Dressing/The Quitter/Remove the Rug

Compass Records - 2005

"...a magnificent balance of virtuosity, drive, and finesse is firmly upheld. Carroll's bowing and Doyle's picking represent a kind of soloing in sync, each supporting and inspiring the other without a whiff of self-indulgence. — Earle Hitchner, Irish Echo

Track listing:

1. The Ronan Boys/ Ralph's 2-3-5
2. Northern Jig/ The Box Man
3. Rolling in the Barrel/ The Laurel Tree/ O'Rourke's
4. The Island of Woods
5. Smokies in Arbroath/ Mystery Writer/ The Blessings of Gold
6. Kieran's Polka/ The Bike to Ballyhahill
7. Hunter's Moon/ Getting There/ The Morris Minor
8. The Man With One Kidney/ The Spy Czar
9. Fremont Center/ The "Vornado"/ Minutemen
10. Dennehy Dancers/ The McSweeney Side
11. Ashleigh Roach's/ With Ourselves/ Wild Pitch
12. A Long Night on the Misty Moor
13. Ceisel's Sword/ The Monasterydan Fancy

Green Linnet - 2002

"[Lake Effect] is absolutely great! I don't think I'll ever tire of listening to this well-thought work. Your maturity as an artist is evident in both the writing and the production." — a fan quote from Liz Carroll's website

Track listing:

1. The Rock Reel / The Morning Dew / Reeling On The Box
2. Anlon McKinney / Mind The Dresser
3. The Ghost / The Hatchlings / The Long Bow
4. The Jump Ball / Whipple Hill / How We Spent The Christmas
5. Catherine Kelly's / Lake Effect
6. The Ornery Upright / Sass Is Back
7. Spinning Out Of The Turn / Tom And Martin
8. A Day And An Age
9. The Tractor Driver / A Tune For The Girls
10. Oh, Bedad! / For The Love Of Music
11. The Blue Friesian / Dancing On A Sixpence
12. Hanley's House Of Happiness
13. The Potato On The Door / Mary And The Tea Bag / Perpetual Check

Green Linnet - 2000

"There's some pure magic communicated here through the sweet, energising fiddling of this well respected Irish-American colleen, her urbanised clarity impregnated by plenty of flavours, from Donegal to Cajun to Cape Breton, at a pell-mell pace and with a gypsyesque, Paganini, bluegrass tilt."
— The Irish Times

Track listing:

1. Sevens / Michael Kennedy's / The Cup Of Tea
2. The Champaign Jig Goes To Columbia / Pat And Al's
3. See It There / Con Cassidy's
4. The Golden Legs / The Flogging Reel
5. Lament Of The First Generation
6. The Drunken Sailor / The Bag Of Spuds
7. The Old Maid Of Galway / Lizzy In The Lowground
8. The Crow In The Sun
9. The Ugly Duckling
10. On The Boulevard / Crabs In The Skillet
11. Letter To Peter Pan
12. The Silver Spear / The Earl's Chair / The Musical Priest
13. The Didda / Fly And Dodger
14. Lost In The Loop

Green Linnet - 1988

"Few performers can single-handedly silence a crowded, noisy bar, but internationally renowned violinist Liz Carroll brought all Martyrs conversation to a halt with a haunting solo as she headlined an evening of Irish music by a stellar line-up of Chicago musicians." — Chicago Tribune

Track listing:

1. Reel Beatrice/Abbey Reel
2. Out on the Road/Princess Nancy
3. For Eugene/Gravity Hill
4. Clarke's Favorite/Pigeon on the Gate
5. Tune for Mairéd & Anna Ní Mhaonaigh
6. Sock in the Hole/Hole in the Sock
7. Mrs. Carroll's Strathspey/Chapter
8. Helicopters/Crossing the Delaware
9. Sister's Reel/Wynding the Hay
10. Lacy's Jig/A Tune for Charles
11. Par Cark/Baiting the Hook/Jumping White Nut Eater
12. Greenleaf Strathspey/Setting Sun
13. Wee Dollop/Houseboat
14. G-Reel/ Merle's Tune
15. Western Reel/Road to Recovery

Shanachie - 1978

"Liz Carroll is the most exciting fiddler I've heard over here [in the U.S.]." — Johnny Cunningham, Silly Wizard

Track listing:

1. Monemohill Reel and the Brocca Reel
2. North Carolina Tune and Child of My Heart
3. Paddy Shannon's and the Rose Garden
4. Humours of Bandon and Planxty Mary O'Neill
5. Johnny Harling's and Marty Fahey's
6. Dan Sullivan's,Teahan's Favorite, and Riding on a Load of Hay
7. Lord Mcdonald's and the Judge's
8. Cold Night and O'Doherty's
9. Eddie Kelly's and the Rookery
10. John Brady's
11. John Bowe's and Drowsy Maggie
12. Dowd's Number Nine and Johnny Doherty's Yellow Tinker
13. Ride to Durham
14. Tom Fitzmorris'

Shanachie - 1978

Track listing:

1. Fahey's Reel/Finbar Dwyer's
2. Paddy Kelly's/Tommy Maguire's # 3
3. Controversial Reel/Tear the Calico
4. Tommy Maguire's # 1 and # 2
5. Charlie Mulvihil's/O'Donnell's
6. John Brady's/The King of the Clans
7. Connie O'Connell's/Tommy Maguire's # 4
8. Jimmy Keane's/The Cuckoo
9. Both Meat and Drink Jig/Sean Ryan's
10. Curly Mike/Miss Campbell's
11. Fiddler Round the Fairy Tree/Planxty Toby Peyton
12. Kiss Me Kate/Richard Dwyer's

Flying Fish - 1992

Track listing:

1. The Torrid Romance / The Boys from Chicago / P.J. McComiskey's (reels)
2. The Diplodocus / The Gandy Dancer / The New Leaf (jigs)
3. Johnny Seoige (song)
4. Uncle Stewart's Waltz / Valse a Jessie (waltzes)
5. Paddy O'Brien's / The Gosling / Deirdre Shannon's (reels)
6. My Dearest Dear (song)
7. That's Right Too / The Leading Role (reels)
8. New Town Bridge / The Golden Keyboard / Father Kelly's (reels)
9. Captain Thompson (song)
10. Cuz Teahan's / Tom Doherty's / Johnny McGreevy's (reels)
11. The Plane of the Plank / The Rolling Hills of Maryland / The Champion (hornpipes)
12. An Chreach (The Robbery) (song)
13. The Cocktail / Deirdre Collis' / Not Safe with a Razor (reels)

Green Linnett - 1995

Track listing:

1. The Little Man With The Brown Shoes/Ducks In A Row/The Butterfly Reel/Pauline Conneely's
2. I Once Knew A Little Girl
3. Ohm's Law/Eleanor Neary's/Poor Timing
4. The Humours Of Ballyconnell/Reel Eboulement/Richie Dwyer's
5. The Lurgy Streams
6. The Air Tune/The Cliff Dwellers/Cutting The Waves
7. The Music Book/Bela Bartok's Highland
8. Westland/King Robert The Bruce
9. The Death Of Queen Jane
10. The Poor Man's Fortune/The Fiddler's Key/The Blessings Of Silver
11. Urchnoc Chein Mhic Cainte
12. Ratholdran Castle/The Fergus Reel/Martin Wynne's

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