The thing I’ve been interested in is that it has made me stop and think about connection, and what that actually means.
While the pandemic has brought a lot of misery and pain to a lot of people, it has also changed society and economic models, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst, but it has made permanent changes to everybody’s lives. There have definitely been some highlights to the whole COVID situation. I mean, you can work with anybody and we had quite a few national players on the record, and then finishing things off with people in Nashville on the other side of the world is just phenomenal. I’m not very good with technology, I’m just excited to make this Zoom technology work today, haha, but I have learnt to love it now, that new form of connection which was completely alien to me and collaborating with artists. I’m excited to get back out there, and it is awful to say on the upside but there have been opportunities to collaborate with people on ‘Promises’ because people I really wanted to work with were available, haha, because they weren’t on tour. I haven’t caught it and nobody close to me has caught it, thankfully. Yeah, thankfully we have been very lucky and when you look around and see the impact it has had for so many musicians, and while we haven’t been touring we’ve used the time to record. How are you? I hope you’ve managed to get through COVID? In case there was any doubt, she was also able to confirm the direct link between Irish traditional music and bluegrass based on her own personal childhood experiences. As a mixed-race artist, she is also able to shed light on the growing number of successful black women americana performers in America. She also explains that she would probably never have taken the steps necessary to establish a career as a singer-songwriter if she hadn’t had a sudden diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which threatened her whole musical career.
Americana UK’s Martin Johnson caught up with Carmen Phelan over Zoom to discuss how her background made americana her genre of choice as an artist and why she is a member of Misty River with her husband rather than being a solo artist. If this isn’t intriguing enough, Carmen Phelan who lives in London has family in Ireland and Trinidad, and she also spent part of her childhood in America.
How a diagnosis of a potentially life-changing condition helped in achieving a long held ambition.Ĭarmen Phelan has had a long career as a sought-after session musician on fiddle and violin before deciding in her 30’s to become a songwriter and recording artist in her own right.
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