{"id":34327,"date":"2018-03-26T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=34327"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:20:02","slug":"lead-them-to-freedom-we-speak-to-lisa-canny-ahead-of-her-irish-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/03\/lead-them-to-freedom-we-speak-to-lisa-canny-ahead-of-her-irish-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Them To Freedom: We Speak To Lisa Canny Ahead Of Her Irish Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa<\/span>\u00a0Canny<\/span>, a Mayo native living in the UK,\u00a0has amassed over two million streams online, sold out shows across the UK and US and co-written with a host of artists including\u00a0Kaiser Chiefs, Melissa Etheridge and\u00a0Akon<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Lisa<\/span> Canny<\/span> has travelled the world and worked with a plethora of highly regarded names in the industry and was dubbed \u201cIreland\u2019s next big female artist\u201d by Miles Copeland of The Police. Heavily involved in traditional Irish music, Canny<\/span> is the seven-time All Ireland Champion on harp and banjo. <\/strong><\/h4>\n

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She was also named UK Future Music Songwriting Winner 2016, placed in the top ten of \u201cIrish acts you don\u2019t want to miss\u201d by BBC America, has appeared on two PBS Specials, the Late Late Show, shared the stage with the likes of Gavin James, Lisa<\/span> Hannigan and The Coronas. Our Lisa, Lisa Hafey, got to speak to her. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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EP: Hi Lisa (great name by the way!)! What’s the Lisa Canny story?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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LC: Hey Lisa! What a gorgeous name you have!!! \ud83d\ude09 Whats the Lisa Canny story?\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 A very west of Ireland upbringing, immersed in the traditional Irish music scene, ladies county football, school volleyball and everything modern dance.\u00a0 Teenage years mainly consisted of different hair colours – anything but the ginger I was naturally.\u00a0 More music.\u00a0 More sport.\u00a0 More dance.\u00a0\u00a0 Uni included a BA Irish Music and Dance at the University Of Limerick, and a MA Ethnomusicology at University College Cork.\u00a0 This was also the time I started touring the States, Canada and Europe with large Irish music productions like Celtic Crossroads and Ragus. One such tour saw a big shift in direction for me. I was approached by Miles Copeland (The Police, manager) and invited to come to his castle in France (yeah, I know) to ASCAP’s annual songwriters retreat. Here I wrote my first few songs ever with 18 of the biggest players in the industry, including The Kaiser Chiefs, The Plain White T’s, Mike Posnor, Priscilla Renea, Jodi Marr and Brett James to name but a few.\u00a0 Soon after I signed my first publishing deal.\u00a0 Since then I’ve had the most incredible journey, fulfilling some of my biggest dreams.\u00a0 Fast forward 4 years and I’m finally releasing my own EP. There’s a hell of a lot more to that story but that’s for another time \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n