Cara Dillon is tagged as: folk, celtic, irish, female vocalists, singer-songwriter Cara Dillon was born in 1975 in Dungiven, County Derry, Northern Ireland. She has formerly been a member of the folk groups ‘Oige’ and ‘Equation’. She and Sam Lakeman (whom she married in 2002) left Equation and signed to Blanco y Negro records going under the name ‘Polar Star’. Dillon released her eponymous first solo album in 2001, a mixture of tradtional songs with 2 original compositions. This album garnered the best newcomer award and the best song for ‘Black is the Colour’ at the 2002 Radio 2 folk awards. The follow up ‘Sweet Liberty’ was released in 2003 with her third album ‘After The Morning’ following in 2006. n January 2008 Cara and her band recorded a DVD The Redcastle Sessions in County Donegal which led to an extensive tour starting in the May and continuing through the folk festival season to the winter of 2008/9. This tour took-in venues across Ireland, Great Britain and The USA and introduced guitarist John Smith as a duet partner on the single If I Prove False, this single and a fourth album Hill of Thieves (released 26 January 2009) saw Cara move to her own label Charcoal Records.|... Read More About Cara Dillon Biography... Send Cara Dillon ringtones to your cell |
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