Yeah, thankfully we have been very lucky and when you look around and see the impact it has had for so many musicians, and while we haven’t been touring we’ve used the time to record. How are you? I hope you’ve managed to get through COVID?
In case there was any doubt, she was also able to confirm the direct link between Irish traditional music and bluegrass based on her own personal childhood experiences.
As a mixed-race artist, she is also able to shed light on the growing number of successful black women americana performers in America. She also explains that she would probably never have taken the steps necessary to establish a career as a singer-songwriter if she hadn’t had a sudden diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which threatened her whole musical career. Americana UK’s Martin Johnson caught up with Carmen Phelan over Zoom to discuss how her background made americana her genre of choice as an artist and why she is a member of Misty River with her husband rather than being a solo artist. If this isn’t intriguing enough, Carmen Phelan who lives in London has family in Ireland and Trinidad, and she also spent part of her childhood in America. How a diagnosis of a potentially life-changing condition helped in achieving a long held ambition.Ĭarmen Phelan has had a long career as a sought-after session musician on fiddle and violin before deciding in her 30’s to become a songwriter and recording artist in her own right.
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