Carroll Sisters Trio
May 24, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
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Carroll Sisters Trio
- The Carroll Sisters Trio is a Connecticut-based, energetic Celtic band most known for their traditional tunes, beautiful harmonies, intriguing counterpoints, and unique musical arrangements on fiddle, cello, and piano. Their 2022 debut album Daybreak has been critically acclaimed, and they are excited to release their second album in Summer 2025.The Carroll Sisters Trio is most known for its lively traditional Celtic tunes, beautiful harmonies, intriguing counterpoints, and unique musical arrangements on fiddle, cello, and piano. They have performed in intimate settings such as pubs, farm festivals, and house concerts, as well as at larger events like Sober St. Patrick's Day in New York City (2018), the Boston Celtic Music Festival (2022-2024), and the 2024 Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park, CO. Their 2022 debut album (Daybreak, produced by John Whelan) has been critically acclaimed and featured in Irish Music Magazine, Celtic Life International Magazine, The Irish Echo, Boston Irish Magazine, and Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. They were on that podcast’s Top 10 Celtic Bands of 2022 and the Top 5 Bands to Watch in 2023 lists. Their second album will be out everywhere in summer 2025.
Emilie's bio
Emilie Carroll is a 19 year-old fiddler and violinist from Simsbury, CT, and has loved all things music and specifically Celtic fiddle since she was a toddler. She started playing Suzuki violin at age five, and now plays Irish, Scottish, and Cape Breton fiddle. She has been inspired and shaped by many mentors including Jeanne Freeman, John Whelan, and Katie McNally. She had the opportunity to compete in the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Drogheda in U15 solo fiddle in 2018, and co-founded the fiddle band The Carroll Sisters with her younger sister Nora and cellist Sammy Wetstein. They play locally and also in larger venues such as Boston Celtic Music Festival, and they released their critically acclaimed debut album Daybreak in 2021. In addition to performing, Emilie enjoys teaching music: she teaches private lessons to young kids as well as group lessons through the CT Academy of Irish Music, and works for the New Hampshire Youth Symphony Orchestra as a coach. Emilie is currently attending The University of New Hampshire in the honors college and is studying Music with minors in Arts Administration and Education, and was awarded an Ethnomusicology research grant for summer 2024 to study Contra Dancing in New Hampshire.
Sammy's bio
Sammy Wetstein is a musician, composer, and teacher intent on fusing styles of folk and jazz music with improvisational creativity. While initially classically trained on cello and piano, he has gone on to perform and record in a variety of folk styles including Celtic, New England, bluegrass, and old-time fiddle music. Sammy's love of music stems from his dream to find belonging and bring others together, and in his teaching he hopes to encourage string players of all ages and backgrounds to find freedom in their music, explore alternative string styles, and to play music as a means to find/ build community while better understanding oneself.
As a multi-instrumentalist fluent in playing accordion, guitar, mandolin, violin, and viola he has performed at such venues as the Newport Folk Festival, The Shalin Liu Performance Center, and the annual International Bluegrass Music Association conference, and has appeared alongside artists such as the Grammy-winning 8 Bit Big Band and Guster, jazz icons Joe Levano and Kenny Barron, and world renown string players including Eugene Friesen, Darol Anger, and Jason Anick. He is currently a student at Berklee College of Music, focusing on jazz and roots cello performance.
Sammy frequently performs with a variety of bands and musical projects ranging from jazz combos to contemporary bluegrass, Celtic, and contra dance bands. As an advocate for furthering the role of the cello in traditional music, he has been featured on Bluegrass Today and Sirius XM Bluegrass Junction with his contemporary folk quartet, Catfish in the Sky.
Sammy met the Carroll Sisters at an Irish session in Connecticut in February 2020 as he was first learning to play folk cello. He was overjoyed when they told him they’d wanted a cellist to play with for a while, and through playing with them learned how to play Celtic cello accompaniment and maintained the motivation to keep playing cello through the darkness of the 2020 pandemic. He is incredibly grateful to add his unique musical voice to their twin fiddle magic and to have them as bandmates and friends.
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