cathymcevoy

Welcome to cathymcevoy.com!
Here’s what I do: I’m a full-time musician based in Dublin, Ireland. Violin playing, composing, conducting, and arranging are my main things.

Specifically: As a violin player I play a wide variety of styles including bluegrass, traditional, contemporary and classical in ensembles including The Cabin Crew, The Lazy Band, the Fin Furey band, and the Bamboo Sessions Quartet as well as wedding, studio and theatre work as a session player.

Choirs: I’m Artistic Director of a rather splendid vocal harmony group called The Gospel Project and I teach in Waltons New School of Music in Dublin city centre. I’m conductor/musical director of Sandymount Gospel Choir, the Master Card Workplace Choir, HSE WorkPlace Choir at Cherry Orchard, the Waltons Sing Your Heart Out Choir  and the Portmarnock Singers.

I also work as choral facilitator for the National Concert Hall‘s Music in Mind programme and have recently concluded a contract as 2022-23 Artist in Residence to Dublin City Council/LYCS.

Arranging: I’m a harmony nerd, I spend at least one day a week creating vocal arrangements for the ensembles under my direction as well as bespoke arrangements for commercial clients (Actually sometimes I arrange songs just for the hell of it, but I’ve found it’s better not to admit to that in public…..) Finally, and possibly most importantly, I write music. And sometimes I write about writing & performing music, which may be why you’re here…. My current  EP is Letters to Loved Ones which I hope you’ll check out.

Hopefully you’ll find any other information you’re looking for here in the meantime (unless you’re searching for a recipe for moussaka or something, in which case you’ve just got the wrong website….) But if I’ve left anything out – or if you just want to say hello – please drop me an email on cathymcevoymusic@gmail.com.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll check out my video, Even When I’m Strong –

And while you’re there, have a look at Strange Kind of Rain, which I wrote thanks to the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland

You might also like An Coinneal – a piece I wrote for strings and performed along with a lot of people who look like me 🙂

Heard You Call My Name released!

The latest single from my current EP is now available…….

Penned by yours truly and performed with raucous energy by The Gospel Project, this first single from the Letters to Loved Ones EP is guaranteed to have you humming and clapping along. Or your 99c back 🙂 Enjoy.