Grammy-winning and BBC Folk Music Award nominated singer songwriter SUSAN McKEOWN has recorded 16 critically acclaimed albums and performed with luminaries such as Pete Seeger, Ensemble Tartit de Mali, Mariachi Réal de Mexico, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, Lúnasa and Flook at venues such as Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

“McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening.”

– Rolling Stone Magazine

Susan's song “Everything We Had Was Good” reached #1 on the US. Folk Music Chart and her album ‘Belong’ reached #11. Her setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ was voted into the Top 20 Songs of Fate & Destiny by readers of The Guardian Newspaper and performed by Ireland’s National Concert Orchestra. Her voice and music have been featured on 16 critically acclaimed albums as well as on NPR, numerous internationally acclaimed films, documentaries and theatre productions including OBIE Award-winning Mabou Mines production Peter & Wendy (with Johnny Cunningham) and Anne Makepeace's Emmy-Award winning Robert Capa: In Love & War.

Susan is the founder and co-director of Cuala Foundation, a community nonprofit that produces community music, history and folklore projects with youth in Ireland and Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

“The Irish are world-renowned as great wordsmiths and Susan McKeown has formed herself into a link in that chain.”

– Bob Edwards, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

Susan touring in November with stellar musicians Kyle Sanna on guitar and Matt Mancuso on fiddle and trumpet. The tour is supported by Culture Ireland. 

Tuesday, Nov. 4th / Doors 7:30pm / Music begins at 8pm

$25 adv. / $30 door : https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/susan-mckeown-with-kyle-sanna-and-matt-mancuso-2025-11-04-the-rabbit-box-theatre-seattle-1d5ee2