SARATOGA SPRINGS – Kyle Carey will be performing a concert on Sunday, January 3 at 7 p.m. at Caffé Lena, located at 47 Phila Street.
“I call my music ‘Gaelic Americana,’ in that it’s a mix of American Folk and Celtic influences. I’ve always been interested in music that is the result of the melding of cultures, which is very much what happened in the Appalachian region of the U.S – bluegrass and American Old Time music has always inspired me,” said Carey. “In that sense, it was quite easy to marry that with my love of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, and literature to make fresh-sounding music.”
Carey was born in New Hampshire and attended Union College in Schenectady for her freshman year, before moving to Saratoga Springs to attend Skidmore College. While she was here, she developed a special relationship with Caffé Lena.
“I first visited Lena’s when I was at Union still – I had a friend who lived in Saratoga and she took me to a jazz night at the Caffé. I immediately fell in love with the venue and knew that I wanted to spend more time there,” Carey said. “There are some places I’ve visited in my life that have held a special feeling for me immediately – and Caffé Lena was one of them.
Carey’s profession music career began to take flight after graduating from Skidmore in 2008. She went to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on a Fulbright Fellowship to study traditional music, then to the Isle of Skye in Scotland for a year to learn the Gaelic language. After that, she traveled to Western Ireland, where she spent a year recording her debut album, “Monogah,” which was released in 2011. Since then, Carey has been touring professionally all over the world.
Along with “Monogah,” Carey has an EP titled, “One Morning in May” as well as a second full length album, “North Star.” The latter features nine original songs, two in Scottish Gaelic, and a cover of “Across the Great Divide” by Kate Wolf.
Carey will be releasing a new album called, “The Art of Forgetting” in 2017, which will be produced by Dirk Powel, Joan Baez’s main accompanist for the past five years.
For tickets to the show at Caffé Lena on January 3, visit CaffeLena.org or brownpapertickets.com. For more information about Kyle Carey, or to purchase any of her albums, visit kyleannecarey.com.
