Aoife O’Donovan and Hawktail

Aoife O’Donovan enchants audiences worldwide with her soul-stirring music and unwavering passion for storytelling through song. She has released three critically acclaimed, boundary-blurring solo albums, including the literarily crafted and Grammy-nominated work Age of Apathy. O’Donovan’s newest album, All My Friends, is based around a collection of songs she wrote inspired by women’s suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment. The album reimagines the life of Carrie Chapman Catt—one of the movement’s leaders and founder of the League of Women Voters—juxtaposed with O’Donovan’s experiences as a woman and mother. Hawktail is the acoustic instrumental trio of fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, and guitarist Jordan Tice. Their music is cohesive and unique, distinguishing them as an ensemble with a sound built from the ground up, flush with orchestral sweeps, sparse vigils, and strains of the American South and the North Atlantic.