McQuaid to perform

Posted 10/2/19

Musician Sarah McQuaid will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church, 120 East 5th St., in Lusk.

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McQuaid to perform

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LUSK – Musician Sarah McQuaid will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church, 120 East 5th St., in Lusk.

Recipient of a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ards International Guitar Festival in Northern Ireland, McQuaid was born in Madrid, Spain, and raised in Chicago, Ill. She now resides in rural England. Her fifth and most-recent album, If We Dig Deeper, It Could Get Dangerous, “has a satisfying completeness about it, an expansiveness made concrete. It is, in short, the work of a consummate artist,” according to a review by Seattle-based band, Stereo Embers.

McQuaid worked as a music journalist and magazine editor in Ireland for 13 years. Her 1997 debut album, When Two Lovers Meet, was re-released in 2007. In 2008, she released her second album, I Won’t Go Home ‘Til Morning, a “celebration of old-time Appalachian folk, in contrast to the first album’s focus on Irish traditional songs and instrumentals.”

Both albums were re-released as a double CD set in 2010 in North America, immediately hitting the No. 1 spot on both the album and artist folk-DJ charts, according to her website.

The free concert is hosted by the Niobrara County Library.