folk music
Russ Coffey
With her impish looks and translucent, near-perfect voice Cara Dillon does well to avoid the “coffee table” epithet. As a "product" she looks prime for mass marketing into the suburban dinner party circuit. But as an artist she is much better than that.She’s much too good, for instance, to have become better known simply as folk star Seth Lakeman’s sister-in-law. It's true that she has faultless musical connections but her musical pedigree is also impeccable. Dillon grew up in Derry immersed in whistles and fiddles and at the age of 20 replaced Kate Rusby in the folk super-group, Read more ...