eightball.ie proudly presents Katell Keineg

Monday, November 03
Red Room @ Trinity Rooms

www.katellkeineg.com

Katell Keineg (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Dublin and New York. Early life Born in Brittany and raised in Cardiff, Katell Keineg is the second child and only daughter of Breton poet and playwright Paol Keineg and his wife, Judith, a Welsh schoolteacher. Both parents were active in their nation’s respective independence movement, Paol with the UDB, his wife with Plaid Cymru. The family moved to Wales where, exposed to Breton and Welsh folk music, Katell beginning singing, mainly in choirs and eisteddfods.

Early influences included George Harrison, Robert Plant, The Beatles, The Skids and Led Zeppelin. She has cited The Song Remains the Same as influential; she watched it in the same year she began busking in Cardiff, which led to travels around the UK and Ireland playing at ad hoc gigs and festivals.

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