Caitlin Warbelow in Concert at the Historic Lycuem

Caitlin Warbelow hails from a family of entrepreneurs and bush pilots in Alaska and for the last seven years served as the violinist/fiddler in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated musical, Come From Away. (When Come From Away closed in late 2022, it was the 40th longest-running musical in Broadway history, and the longest running musical featuring a fiddler.) Caitlin holds degrees from Columbia University (M.S., Urban Planning) and Boston University (B.A., Anthropology and B.Mus., Violin Performance), and, oddly, once turned down a PhD in Epidemiology at NYU. Though she’s made her career as a musician, that was a bit of a fluke. She originally planned to be a scientist, and has never quite managed to retrain her brain to be anything else.

Caitlin is the co-founder of Tune Supply, a beloved online traditional music platform launched 36 hours after Broadway shut down due to Covid in order to keep trad musicians working during the pandemic. She serves on the faculty at Manhattan’s Irish Arts Center, and is the artistic coordinator for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival’s Celtic program. Caitlin holds honors from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the National Suzuki Conference, and is a regular faculty member at the Swannanoa Gathering, the Arcadia Festival of Traditional Music and Dance, the O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat, the Gulf Coast Cruinniu, and the Far North Fiddle Festival, among others. An All-Ireland winner and New England Fiddle Champion, Caitlin also maintains a large private teaching studio online and in Manhattan.

When not on Broadway, Caitlin performs and tours as a solo artist and with numerous ensembles, including Grammy Award-nominated Cherish the Ladies, Riverdance’s Heartbeat of Home, Sting’s Broadway musical "The Last Ship", The Alt, Mick Moloney and the Green Fields of America, Michael Londra & Celtic Fire, Trinity Dance Company, and the Cathie Ryan Band, among many others. She founded the new trad ensemble Warbelow Range with Kyle Sanna, Alan Murray, and Dan Lowery and co-produced their first self-titled album. Her live album of Irish trad in Manhattan pubs, Manhattan Island Sessions, was nominated for an Independent Music Award.

Video Links:

• Tommy's Tarbukas / Palmer's Gate / Father Kelly's

• Concerts for No One: Chapter One

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