1. Aoife O'Donovan is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still and she co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm with Her.
19 Facts About Aoife O'Donovan
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Aoife O'Donovan spent a decade contributing to the radio variety shows Live from Here and A Prairie Home Companion.
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Aoife O'Donovan performed at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark 2014.
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Aoife O'Donovan has performed, recorded and collaborated with a large variety of acclaimed musicians including Ollabelle, Karan Casey and Seamus Egan, Jerry Douglas, Jim Lauderdale, Darol Anger, Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins, Christina Courtin, Chris Thile, Noam Pikelny, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Greensky Bluegrass, Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma.
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Aoife O'Donovan's songwriting has led her to be featured in films and television and came to the attention of Alison Krauss, who recorded Aoife's song "Lay My Burden Down" on her album Paper Airplane and is used in the film Get Low.
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Aoife O'Donovan has had songs placed on True Blood and Private Practice.
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Aoife O'Donovan spent her summers in Ireland singing songs with her extended family.
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Aoife O'Donovan went on to study contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in 2003.
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In 2015, Aoife O'Donovan toured extensively with Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz under the combined tour banner of "I'm With Her".
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Aoife O'Donovan is the guest vocalist on the 2013 Grammy winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, an album recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolinist Chris Thile and fiddler Stuart Duncan.
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Aoife O'Donovan co-wrote one of those tracks, "Here And Heaven", with Meyer, Thile and Duncan.
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In November 2012, Aoife O'Donovan signed a deal with Yep Roc Records.
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Aoife O'Donovan has toured with the Punch Brothers, Transatlantic Sessions, the Milk Carton Kids, Elephant Revival, The Goat Rodeo Sessions and The Lone Bellow, makes frequent appearances on Chris Thile's Live From Here as well as headlining performances both in the US and abroad.
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In 2016, Aoife O'Donovan released her sophomore solo studio album on Yep Roc Records, titled In The Magic Hour.
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In 2018, Aoife O'Donovan wrote and recorded an original song titled "Are You There" for Elizabeth Chomko's short-film What They Had starring Hilary Swank.
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In 2020, Aoife O'Donovan released her string quartet EP, Bullfrog's Croon.
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In 2022, Aoife O'Donovan released Age of Apathy, a solo record produced by Joe Henry with guest performances by Allison Russell and Madison Cunningham.
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In 2024, Aoife O'Donovan released All My Friends, a solo album originally commissioned for the anniversary of the 19th amendment.