Live at the Library: Ashley Davis Winter Solstice with Special Guest Cormac De Barra

Think Joni Mitchell meets contemporary Celtic and you’ll get something like the creative force of Ashley Davis, an American singer-songwriter whose voice drifts over the Great Plains, north to New York City, and across the Atlantic. While this mash-up may classify her work, Davis’s unique ability to capture and cross musical traditions ultimately transcends comparison. Ashley’s soft-spoken music conjures a genre and world all of its own. Ashley will preform songs from her highly-acclaimed recording “The Christmas Sessions” with guitarist John Doyle as well as pieces from her popular “Songs of the Celtic Winter.” Harpist Cormac De Barra will accompany her. A native of Dublin, Cormac was raised in an Irish-speaking family of musicians and singers. He is a third generation harper, having first studied Irish harp with his grandmother, Róisín Ní Shé, before going on to study concert harp in the United States. He has performed across the globe both as a solo artist and with many of Ireland’s most respected and well-known artists including Clannad, Dervish, Altan, Moya Brennan and Brian Kennedy.