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Aoife O'Donovan Performs Progressive Bluegrass and Folk Music at The Center for the Arts

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The Irish-American, Grammy award-winning songwriter and musician Aoife O'Donovan will play in Grass Valley at The Center for the Arts on April 9. She has released 3 critically-acclaimed solo albums and is currently on tour in support of her 2022 release Age of Apathy, a deeply personal record produced by Joe Henry with guest performances by Allison Russell and Madison Cunningham.

O'Donovan's three studio albums are only a fraction of her extensive songwriting talents. She is co-founder of the band I'm With Her, a powerful trio with Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz, releasing their debut album See You Around in 2018 and earning a Grammy for their song "Call My Name" in 2019. She also co-founded the string band Crooked Still and is the featured vocalist on the 2013 Grammy winning album The Goat Rodeo Sessions, a chamber-Americana album project with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer, and mandolinist Chris Thile. She further spent a decade contributing to the r...