Hailed as “ground-breaking” by noted folklorist and NEA Award-recipient Mick Moloney and “bursting with creativity” by renowned fiddler Kevin Burke, 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. The duo has collaborated with some of the greatest living interpreters of Irish music, including Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Cillian Vallely, Kevin Burke, and Susan McKeown. Lyn and Sanna have brought their inventive arrangements and nuanced interpretations of traditional music to clubs, festival stages and concert halls throughout the US and Canada. They have taught workshops at the Old Songs Festival, the Catskills Irish Arts Festival, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Wellesley College, the University of Eastern Carolina, The University of Oregon, West Virginia’s Augusta Heritage Center, and were 2015 and 2016 residents at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, NH. Their second album, “The Great Arc”, is inspired by and concerned with extinct and endangered animal species. The Irish Echo called it “a deep musical work full of lavish, evocative textures” and Grammy-winning singer Susan McKeown called it “sublime”.

New York-based fiddler and composer Dana Lyn inhabits a musical world somewhere in the Venn diagram of 70’s art rock, classical and improvised music. She has worked and performed with vocalists Loudon Wainwright and Susan McKeown; fiddlers Martin Hayes, Kevin Burke and Johnny Cunningham; playwright/songwriters Stew and Heidi Rodewald; actor-directors Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio; performance artist Taylor Mac; D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Billy Martin, Will Oldham, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Hank Roberts and the Elysian Fields, among others. As a composer, Lyn has received commissions from the Brooklyn Rider, the Apple Hill String Quartet, the National Arts Council of Ireland and the New Orchestra of Washington. Upcoming releases include an album of original music with her quintet, Mother Octopus, as well as the sophomore release of her collaboration with actor Vincent D’Onofrio, Slim Bone Head Volt.