Harmony singing workshop with Chan Reid

Harmony singing workshop with Chan Reid

*Please arrive at workshop venue 30 minutes before start time to allow for registration. Tickets may be purchased on the door, but advance booking is recommended as workshops are very popular and places are limited.

Chan was born into a musical family in Dublin, she was taught classical piano and singing from a young age by her grandmother Joan Kelly. Chan started to immerse herself in sean nós singing and Irish fiddle when she was at university in Dublin. She attended the Royal Academy of Irish Music and Royal College of Music. She has sung in choirs all her life, she has been leading singing for choirs, unaccompanied and harmony workshops for almost 20 years. Chan is an active folk and traditional singer, song collector and musician as part of the Irish diaspora in England, where she chairs a Comhaltas branch in the South East and teaches Irish fiddle and singing to adults and children.  She has toured extensively as a solo artist and guest performer (including with The London Lasses) and has participated in a number of TG4 Irish language series and music documentaries as a sean nós singer.

Chan is a member of Celtic folk duo Bold Reilly and enjoys a full and varied folk festival tour schedule each year playing songs she has written, as well as songs from her ever expanding Irish repertoire.  Chan has recently formed a new close harmony folk duo The Fox In The Reeds with her partner.

Chan was ITMA’s Saothar Composer in December 2024.