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Liz Carrol is an American fiddler and composer who has been performing since the age of nine. She has released five solo albums and has collaborated with many other musicians. She has won numerous awards, including the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. Carrol was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in a musical family. She began playing the fiddle at the age of nine and was soon performing with her family's band, the Carroll Family Band. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied music and anthropology. Carrol has released five solo albums, including her debut album, Liz Carrol and Friends (1995), and her most recent album, The Locket (2015). She has also collaborated with many other musicians, including John Doyle, Eileen Ivers, and Donal Lunny. Carrol has won numerous awards, including the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for her album The Locket. Carrol currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, and continues to perform and compose music.

Popular As Elizabeth Helen Carroll
Occupation casting_department,miscellaneous,music_department
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July 1971
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2010

In 2010, Double Play, Carroll's recording with John Doyle on Compass Records was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album, making Carroll the first American-born traditional Irish musician to be nominated for a Grammy. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Cumadóir award, Ireland's most significant traditional music prize for composition. She was the first American-born composer honored with the award. In 2015 Carroll said the 2011 composer's award and the 2010 Grammy nomination were the honors of which she was most proud.

2005

Carroll is one of the String Sisters and performs on their live album and DVD titled Live which was recorded in 2005 and released in 2007.

2000

In 2000 she performed with Don Henley of the Eagles in his encore, which included an Irish song, for fourteen U.S. concert dates.

1999

At Chicago's Celtic Fest, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley declared September 18, 1999, Liz Carroll Day in Chicago.

1994

She composed the music for The Mai, a play by Irish playwright Marina Carr that opened at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York in 1994. In 2001 Carroll collaborated with Irish-American author Frank McCourt on staged readings from his works, a production developed by the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago. Her compositions have been choreographed by Irish dance companies including the Dennehy School of Irish Dancing and Trinity Irish Dance.

1988

Carroll's second, eponymous solo album was released in 1988, and featured accompaniment by Irish guitarist Dáithí Sproule. In 1992, Carroll, Sproule, and Irish-American button accordionist Billy McComiskey formed Trian and recorded two albums.

1980

In the early 1980s, Carroll toured with Green Fields of America, the Irish traditional music ensemble led by Irish musician and folklorist Mick Moloney. In 1987 she was asked to join the debut tour of the all-female Irish American ensemble Cherish the Ladies, but declined for family reasons.

1977

In 1977, Carroll and button accordionist Tommy Maguire released the album Kiss Me Kate. The following year, Carroll recorded her first solo album A Friend Indeed, accompanied on piano by Marty Fahey, featuring five of her compositions.

1973

Carroll won second place in the All-Ireland under 18 fiddle championship at the 1973 Fleadh Cheoil, the Irish music competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann; Frankie Gavin won first. Carroll returned the following year and won first place in the category. In the succeeding year, 1975, at age 18, she won the All-Ireland Senior Fiddle Championship, at the time only the second American to have done so. That same year Carroll and Chicago piano accordionist Jimmy Keane won the senior duet championship. The championships brought recognition of Carroll as one of the most outstanding Irish fiddlers of all time.

1956

Liz Carroll (born September 19, 1956) is an Irish-American fiddler and composer. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship Award. Carroll and collaborator Irish guitarist John Doyle were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010. She is considered one of the greatest contemporary Irish fiddlers.