Dowland, James Clarence Mangan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anne Sexton, Gwyneth Lewis and others, with music composed by McKeown, Leonard Cohen, John Dowland, Violeta Parra, and Klezmatics members Lisa Gutkin and Frank London. McKeown was a 2012 recipient of The Arts Council of Ireland's Traditional Arts Bursary. In November 2012 she released Belong, her third album of original song. ‘Everything We Had Was Good’ - a duet with James Maddock - reached #1 on the American Folk Music Chart and the album reached #11 . A video for ‘On the Bridge to Williamsburg’, a duet with Declan O’Rourke, was released in November 2014. In February 2018, she was IrishCentral's 'Anam' Award recipient for "discovering and revealing the soul of Irish song". Later in 2018, McKeown was Music Network Ireland's musician-in-residence at Dún Laoghaire LexIcon Library during which she researched the lives of extraordinary Irish women from the county whose stories were little known and composed and performed songs about them. In January 2020, she wrote and performed original songs in Honor Molloy's 'Round Room' as part of New York-based Origin Theatre Company's 1st Irish Theatre Festival. McKeown is the founder and director of Cuala Foundation. Discography The Chanting House (1990) – cassette only The Chanting House – Live (1992) – cassette only Bones (1995) Peter and Wendy (1997), with Johnny Cunningham, Seamus Egan, Karen Kandel and Jamshied Sharifi The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration (1997) by Thomas Moore and Johnny Cunningham Through the Bitter Frost & Snow (1997), with Lindsey Horner Mighty Rain (1998) with Lindsey Horner Bushes and Briars (1998) Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers & Motherhood (1999), with Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg Lowlands (2000) A Winter Talisman (2001), with Johnny Cunningham Prophecy (2002) Guest appearance by Natalie Merchant Sweet Liberty (2004) Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah (2004 limited issue, reissued 2006 with 4 additional tracks) by The Klezmatics Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs (2006) Wonder Wheel (2006) by The Klezmatics Saints & Tzadiks (2009) with Lorin Sklamberg Songs from the East Village (2010) – production only Singing in the Dark (2010) Belong (2012) References 1967 births Irish women singers Irish folk singers Living people Musicians from Dublin (city) Green Linnet Records artists American Musical and Dramatic Academy alumni