Welcome. Perhaps someday I’ll make a big fancy website, but until then, here are a bunch of my current projects for you to check out. Thanks for visiting.

WORDS

  • For years, friends have been telling me to write a book. So I’ve decided to start a subscription newsletter on Substack as a first step towards that goal. It’s called “Grains the Reaper Missed,” and you can subscribe by clicking that link.

  • I send out entertaining (at least I think so) email updates from time to time. You can sign up here.

ALASKA TOURISM

  • I’m finally in the process of starting an Alaskan tourism operation that will take small groups of intrepid travelers to my favorite off-the-beaten-path places in my beloved home state. Sign up for updates about Alaska Supply if you’re in need of adventure after these brutal last few years.

MUSIC

  • Head over to my pandemic business venture, Tune Supply, which is multi-faceted after a couple years in operation. In particular, check out the Mary O’s Virtual Sessions on the TS YouTube channel.

  • Every few months, I run a series of online mini-workshops that are open to anyone. Click here to check the upcoming schedule. Videos of past workshops will also be posted there shortly.

  • Want to hear some online tunes? Go visit my YouTube channel for hundreds of hours of performances and other videos.

  • Want to hear some tunes in person? For the past nine years, I’ve lead an Irish session every Thursday from 8-10pm at Mary O’s (Ave. A and E. 3rd in NYC) that, I think I can accurately say, is the most friendly and supportive community of like-minded folks you’ll ever encounter. We also do a once-monthly Irish-breakfast-and-tunes events. Come to listen, play, eat, drink, and/or try Mary’s famous scones.

  • Would you like a CD? Here’s Warbelow Range, the debut album of the trad ensemble I founded, and here’s Manhattan Island Sessions, a live CD I recorded in three Manhattan pubs.

  • Yes, I can be booked for performance (duo, string quartet, full band, Broadway ensemble, fiddle soloist with symphony), weddings, events, consulting, online production, and a plethora of other random things. Drop me a note.

  • There’s more happening over on Facebook here and here, if this website just isn’t cutting it for you. (I don’t blame you.)

  • If you like what you hear, feel free to throw a few bucks in my tip jar. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate those who support independent performing artists, especially after Covid decimated the music industry, and as most folks expect to be able to listen to music for free online. Thank you.

LESSONS

  • If you’re looking for online or in-person private lessons, click here to let me know. I also teach online and in-person group classes at the Irish Arts Center.

BROADWAY

  • Unfortunately, the Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Broadway show I played with for seven years, Come From Away, has now closed. By the time it closed, over 1.6 million people had seen it on Broadway alone. It is the 49th longest running Broadway show of all time, the 40th longest Broadway musical of all time, and as far as I can tell, the longest running Broadway show ever to have a fiddler. You can listen to the cast recording and/or watch it over on Apple TV+ if you missed it live.


Need to get in touch? Email me at hello@caitlinwarbelow.com. Hope you are surviving in this world. More soon.

-caitlin

Caitlin Warbelow hails from a family of entrepreneurs and bush pilots in Alaska and for the last seven years served as the violinist/fiddler in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated musical, Come From Away. (When Come From Away closed in late 2022, it was the 40th longest-running musical in Broadway history, and the longest running musical featuring a fiddler.) Caitlin holds degrees from Columbia University (M.S., Urban Planning) and Boston University (B.A., Anthropology and B.Mus., Violin Performance), and, oddly, once turned down a PhD in Epidemiology at NYU. Though she’s made her career as a musician, that was a bit of a fluke. She originally planned to be a scientist, and has never quite managed to retrain her brain to be anything else.

Caitlin is the co-founder of Tune Supply, a beloved online traditional music platform launched 36 hours after Broadway shut down due to Covid in order to keep trad musicians working during the pandemic. She serves on the faculty at Manhattan’s Irish Arts Center, and is the artistic coordinator for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival’s Celtic program. Caitlin holds honors from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the National Suzuki Conference, and is a regular faculty member at the Swannanoa Gathering, the Arcadia Festival of Traditional Music and Dance, the O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat, the Gulf Coast Cruinniu, and the Far North Fiddle Festival, among others. An All-Ireland winner and New England Fiddle Champion, Caitlin also maintains a large private teaching studio online and in Manhattan.

When not on Broadway, Caitlin performs and tours as a solo artist and with numerous ensembles, including Grammy Award-nominated Cherish the Ladies, Riverdance’s Heartbeat of Home, Sting’s Broadway musical "The Last Ship", The Alt, Mick Moloney and the Green Fields of America, Michael Londra & Celtic Fire, Trinity Dance Company, and the Cathie Ryan Band, among many others. She founded the new trad ensemble Warbelow Range with Kyle Sanna, Alan Murray, and Dan Lowery and co-produced their first self-titled album. Her live album of Irish trad in Manhattan pubs, Manhattan Island Sessions, was nominated for an Independent Music Award.

Caitlin’s versatility and expertise lies not only in music, but also business/entrepreneurship, Alaska tourism, science, research, data analysis, writing, community organizing, connecting disparate dots, and various flavors of activism. She is particularly interested in waste-to-energy systems in rural Alaskan contexts, and particularly uninterested in anything having to do with marketing. When not traveling the world in search of herself, she resides in lower Manhattan with her partner and their toothless black house panther, Toast.

Photo credit: The amazing Todd Paris