Sarah McQuaid
Fri, Sep 01
|Wesley's Place
Sarah McQuaid was born in Spain, raised in Chicago and now calls England home. Her lush, chocolatey voice combines with her engaging personality, subtle mastery onstage and brilliant musicianship on guitar, and piano and to create a truly immersive experience.
Time & Location
Sep 01, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sep 02, 2023, 7:00 PM
Wesley's Place, 100 W Cossitt Ave, La Grange, IL 60525, USA
About The Event
Born in Spain (to a Spanish father and an American mother) and raised in Chicago, Sarah was taught piano and guitar at an early age 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.
In the mid-1990s Sarah found her way to Ireland, where her authorship of The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book (published in 1995, still in print and selling worldwide via Novello & Co./Music Sales Inc./Hal Leonard) led to an invitation to write a weekly folk music column for the Evening Herald.
Her brief soon expanded to include album and gig reviews, while Hot Press also enlisted her…
Tickets
Adult Suggested Donation
$20.00
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