Coast Road launch from Karen

The long-awaited solo album The Coast Road, by fiddler and music teacher Karen Ryan will be launched at Peppers Bar, Feakle this Wednesday night.
Karen is also founder-member of traditional Irish music group, The London Lasses and Pete Quinn. 
The event is free and doors open at 8.30pm and will see Karen perform with Pete Quinn on keyboard and Gary Connolly on accordion, both of whom feature on the CD. 
Karen Ryan lives and breathes traditional Irish music and was born in London to Galway and Mayo parents, where she then followed a strong Connemara tradition of melodeon players and traditional singers on her mother’s side.
Karen started playing music at the age of nine, taught by the North Leitrim musician Tommy Maguire at the London Irish Centre, where she herself now teaches.
It was here that she met lifelong friends and fellow fiddle players Elaine Conwell and Teresa Connolly (née Heanue), with whom she won the U-12 Trio competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh in 1985.
Whether as a teacher with Meitheal Cheoil in north London, a workshop leader or an adjudicator both in the UK and overseas, Karen continues to pass on the tradition to both young and old.