Guitar
Nancy Conescu is a traditional Irish guitarist and singer whose imaginative and polished accompaniment style keeps her in high demand among traditional players. Over the course of her career, she has performed with many of the world’s most respected Celtic musicians, including, among others, Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes, Joannie Madden, Andy McGann, Sean Keane, Charlie Piggott and Laurence Nugent. Nancy has toured extensively throughout Ireland and has performed on both TV (RTE and TG4), and radio (ClareFM), as well as having been featured in Irish Music Magazine. She has also performed at festivals and concerts throughout the US, France, Brittany, Australia and Japan. She’s played in all sorts of venues, from very large festivals, like the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany, the National Folk Festival of Australia, and Universal Studios in Japan, to smaller renowned pub/venues, such as Mooney’s Pub in Ring, Co Waterford, An Spailpín Fánach in Cork City, Co Cork, and the Moon and Sixpence in Portland, Oregon, where she plays every Tuesday night with friends.
Since her introduction to Irish music in the late 70’s, Nancy has come to embrace the tradition’s transformational qualities - its narrative depth, innate lyricism and incomparable melodic shifts. “I love Irish music because of its potential to evoke heartfelt emotions. The stories told in the ballads - of love, hate, joy in life, loss in death, of magic and mystery - resonate with listeners today just as they did hundreds of years ago.” And that about says it all…
