punch that’s matched by her distinctive, eloquent guitar style. Add this to a real rapport with her audience, and you have all the ingredients of a great night out.


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American citizenship, Sarah was taught piano and guitar by her folksinging mother, and remembers being inspired by meeting her distant cousin, well-known singer / songwriter / storyteller Gamble Rogers, at her grandmother’s house in Indiana. From the age of twelve she was embarking on tours of the US and Canada with the Chicago Children’s Choir, and at eighteen she went to France for a year to study philosophy at the University of Strasbourg.


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arah moved to Ireland in 1994, and three years later released


her debut solo album, When Two Lovers Meet. “Sarah’s voice is both as warm as a turf fire and as rich as matured cognac.... An astonishing debut by a unique talent,” wrote the Rough Guide To Irish Music. Despite the critical


acclaim,


orn in Spain, raised in Chicago and holding


dual Irish and


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deliciously earthy voice delivers a powerful emotional


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hen Two Lovers Meet was re- released in Ireland and the UK in 2007, a year that also saw Sarah touring as a solo artist for the first time and moving with her family to Cornwall, in the southwest corner of England. The following autumn she released her second album, I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning, which like its predecessor was recorded in Trevor Hutchinson’s Dublin studio and produced by Gerry O’Beirne.


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arah is also the author of The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book, described by


The Irish


Times as “a godsend to aspiring traditional guitarists,” and has presented workshops on the DADGAD tuning at festivals and venues around the globe.


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long break from the music scene followed, during which Sarah married Feargal Shiels and had two children, Eli and Lily Jane.


row Coyote Buffalo, an album of songs co-written by Sarah with fellow Penzance resident Zoë (author and performer of 1991 hit single ‘Sunshine On A Rainy Day’) under the band name Mama, has also been garnering rave reviews since its January 2009 release; one critic described the pair as “Two pagan goddesses channelling the ghost of Jim Morrison.”


Photo by Ronald Rietman


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