“Ground-breaking” – folklorist Mick Moloney
“Bursting with creativity” – fiddler Kevin Burke
“Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna have figured out how to express Irish music as a truly universal music language.” – fiddler Martin Hayes
Hailed as “first-rate, versatile musicians” by The New Yorker and “a top-notch fiddle-and-guitar duo” by The New York Times, Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna connect the dots between their experience as composers and improvisers in New York City’s rich musical community and their deep admiration for traditional Irish music. Rooted in this tradition, the branches of Lyn and Sanna’s collaboration extend to include projected animations, augmented reality, dance, video, and orchestral compositions. The duo has collaborated with some of the greatest interpreters of Irish music, including Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Cillian Vallely, Kevin Burke, and Mick McAuley, and with choreographers Darrah Carr Byrne and Seán Curran. They have received commissions from New York’s Irish Arts Center and from Palaver Strings. Their projects “The Great Arc”, “The Coral Suite”, and “Under the Sea-Wind” are focused on themes of environmental fragility.
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A musical environment, populated with Irish melodies, that pays tribute to the biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems.
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An album inspired by biodiversity and concerned with species extinction.
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The duo’s first album, a story without words about a Hare’s fatal attraction to a Fox.
Download Five ‘radio edits’ from The Coral Suite.
A book of nine postcards featuring drawings by Dana Lyn for The Coral Suite. All profits will go to support the Coral Reef Alliance. (click thumbnail to view all)
A book of nine postcards featuring Dana Lyn’s drawings of the endangered and extinct animals from The Great Arc. All profits will go to support the Natural Resources Defense Council. (click thumbnail to view all)
“The fiddler Dana Lyn and the guitarist Kyle Sanna are first-rate, versatile musicians and also concerned environmentalists.” – Brian Seibert, The New Yorker
On Céilí, (with Seán Curran Company & Darrah Carr Dance) :
“The success of any céilí depends on the music, and this one is in sure hands, with the top-notch fiddle-and-guitar duo of Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna playing live. They start the show invitingly and remain a pleasure throughout, supplying the requisite sweetness and drive, along with a few unusual touches — like a Baroque gigue.” – Brian Seibert, The New York Times
On The Coral Suite :
“The Coral Suite contains great riches for those who want to dig in. The entire [album] is alive with … expressive subtlety and symbolism that communicate the wonder of the subject at hand. I highly recommend this one.” – Daniel Neely, The Irish Echo
“A beautiful and authentic recording of Irish music that is simultaneously traditional and innovative. The playing on this album by Kyle and Dana is first rate.” – renowned fiddler Martin Hayes
“A ceilidh organized by Jacques Cousteau. It works. It definitely works. We await with eager anticipation what new places Lyn and Sanna take the listeners next on their ongoing musical journey.” – Erin Roll, New York Irish Arts
“From beginning to end, the duo’s admiration for traditional Irish music is wholly sincere… [an] enriching listen.” – Textura
On Dancing The Coral Suite (with Darrah Carr Dance):
“A mesmerizing dive into diodiversity. Darrah Carr Dance and Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna take tradition and our expectations to the next poetic level.” – Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast
“Dancing the Coral Suite inspires wonder and intrigue.” – Alison Roberts-Tse, Dance Dispatches
On Dancing The Great Arc (with Darrah Carr Dance):
“An engrossing, powerful performance” – Daniel Neely, The Irish Echo
On The Great Arc :
“Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna’s new album is sublime” – Grammy Award-winning vocalist Susan McKeown
“Lyn and Sanna challenge our expectations and assumptions about Irish music [and] invite us to consider our perceptions of the natural world and how attuned we are to its rhythms and phrases – and what it means when a voice in its grand chorus is no longer heard.” – Sean Smith, Boston Irish Reporter
“A deep musical work full of lavish, evocative textures” – Daniel Neely, The Irish Echo
On The Hare Said a Prayer to the Rainbow and Followed the Fox Down the Hole :
“A very innovative recording – mysterious, playful and charming with some lovely musical surprises. From the excellent musicianship and skillfully fascinating arrangements to the relaxed whimsy of the CD package, the whole project is bursting with creativity, yet still manages to convey a love for simplicity – a remarkable achievement.” -renowned fiddler Kevin Burke
“The recording is grounded in the source of its inspiration, while affording itself plenty room for personalization by the artists, who, obviously, live in the present day and can’t help but feel the compulsion to create music in ways that reflect their own experiences in the light of Today.” – Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm
