Katie McMahon

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Katie McMahon

Background information
Born	Ireland
Genre(s)	Celtic
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Associated acts	Riverdance Anúna
Website	Katie McMahon.com

Katie McMahon is a Celtic soloist and former member of the Riverdance troupe of performers. She sings traditional Irish music, occasionally in Gaelic. Katie McMahon is from Dublin. She was classically trained in voice and harp. She studied Italian and Drama Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. During a break from her studies, Katie joined the vocal group Anúna in 1991, and remained with the choir as one of the principal soloists until 1996. She was a soloist on Anúna's first three CDs "Anúna" [1993], "Invocation" [1994] and "Omnis" [1995].

She is best known as the original lead soprano soloist with Anúna in the piece "Cloudsong". This is the opening section of Riverdance, first performed as part in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Subsequently she went on to participate with Anúna in the offshoot stage performance "Riverdance the Show" until 1996, when she left the choir, remaining with the show until the late 1990s.

She is married to Ben Craig and is currently based in Minnesota.

Her debut album, After the Morning, was released in North America. Since then she has released two more, Shine and Celtic Christmas.