Liz Carroll

Liz Carroll is an Irish-American musician. She was born in Chicago of Irish parents. In 1974 she entered the All-Ireland under 18 fiddle championship and won. The next year she won the All-Ireland Senior Fiddle Championship.

Liz's first recording was in 1978, a collaboration with Tommy Maguire called "Kiss Me Kate". She recorded her first solo album the following year, and recorded another solo album in 1988. In 1992 Carroll joined up with Billy McComiskey and Dáithí Sproule to form Trian. The group recorded two albums. Liz received the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1994. A third solo album, Lost In The Loop, was released in 2000. It received the Indie award for best Celtic/British Isles recording that year. In 2002, Liz recorded another solo album entitled 'Lake Effect', and most recently, in September of 2005, 'In Play', with guitarist John Doyle.

In 2005, Liz recorded a live album and DVD with String Sisters.

Her recent CDs are on the Green Linnet and Compass Records labels. She appears in concert solo, as well as with John Doyle.

Discography

• Liz Carroll & John Doyle: Double Play (2009)
• String Sisters: Live (2005)
• Liz Carroll & John Doyle: In Play (2005)
• Lake Effect (2002)
• Lost in The Loop (2000)
• Trian II (1995)
• Trian (1992)
• Liz Carroll (1988, CD released 1993)
• A Friend Indeed (1979, CD released 1995)
• Liz Carroll and Tommy Maguire: Kiss Me Kate (1978)

External links

Artist's website

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