Farnsworth Concert Series: Moira Smiley

@ Photo Credit – Fiona Small Join us for the final concert of the 2026-2027 Farnsworth Concert Series with a very special performance by singer, composer, and song-collector Moira Smiley. You can feel the other singers, strings, percussion in Moira’s head as she performs her solo troubadour concerts with fierce folk song accompanied by her banjo, piano and accordion – and a looper or two. Moira is a live-wire performer that becomes the music she writes and performs. Tuneyards’ Merrill Garbus wrote, “I’m so thankful I’ve had the privilege of performing and recording with Moira. She embodies the endless creative potential of the voice, and… (has made) a deeply moving body of work.” Singer / Composer Moira Smiley has toured the world and recorded with Indie-pop favorites, Tuneyards, performing with them on all the late-night TV shows, opening David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC with Chris Thile, Hilary Hahn and Brad Mehldau. Recent singing for Chris Thile‘s ‘Attention’ and Laurie Anderson‘s ARK point to her academic origins in art music with Paul Hillier, Fretless Consort of Viols, Dufay Collective, Sinfonye, BBC Singers and New World Symphony. As a folksinger, she’s fronted legendary Irish-American supergroup, Solas as well as the Lomax and Folklife Projects produced by Jayme Stone, and continues to lead her own vocal collaborations as VOCO and The Voice Is A Traveler. As a composer, she’s premiered works alongside Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Shara Nova, Craig Hella Johnson, Rollo Dilworth, Reena Esmail and many others. Moira has been featured in TED conferences, on BBC Radio and TV, NPR, ABC Australia, and live at countless venues from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall to Walt Disney Concert Hall and Royal Festival Hall. She brings vivid, embodied singing to stages tiny and grand, atop glaciers or in cozy kitchens from Trondheim to Tasmania. Moira’s 2018 solo album and songbook, ‘Unzip The Horizon’ premiered at the prestigious Savannah Music Festival, and in 2021 she released her all-vocal album ‘In Our Voices’, featuring international VOCO collaborators. Her latest album of folksongs with her arrangements for string quartet, ‘The Rhizome Project’ was released in 2024 with a companion book of photos and essays. Cost: $25; $20 for members; students 17 and over $10 ; children 16 and younger are free. Access rates are available. We also are offering a subscription rate to the entire music series; please click here to subscribe to all 8 concerts in the series for a discount. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live