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.
For only the third time in my 15+ years in NYC, I’ll be playing a concert of my own music on Sunday, Oct. 27th @ 4pm at the National Opera Center. Tickets here.
Then I’ll be heading out on a West Coast tour! Here are the dates:
Nov. 1: Workshop (5pm) + House Concert (7pm), Colorado Springs - email for tickets
Nov. 2: House Concert (7pm) and Workshop (2pm), Denver
Nov. 4: Juneau, Alaska Concert in partnership with JAHC
Nov. 6: Sitka, Alaska Concert in partnership with Sitka Music Festival - Tickets at the door
Nov. 8-10: Yachats Celtic Music Festival, Yachats, Oregon
Nov. 13: Peninsula Arts Center (4pm), Long Beach, Washington
Nov. 15: Alberta Rose Theatre (7:30pm), Portland, Oregon
Nov. 16: House Concert (7:30pm), Seattle, Washington
Nov. 17: Vashon Havurat Concert (7pm) + Session, Vashon Island, WA - email for tickets
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 newsletters from time to time. You can sign up here. Here’s the latest newsletter, which also contains my schedule (scroll to the bottom).
ALASKA TOURISM
After about a decade of planning, I’ve finally launched my Alaskan tourism operation that will take small groups of intrepid travelers to my favorite off-the-beaten-path places in my beloved home state. It’s called Alaska Supply, and tours will begin Summer 2025.
MUSIC
Head over to my trad music 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, Tune Supply and I run a series of online mini-workshops that are open to anyone. Click here to check the upcoming schedule. You can also rent or buy videos of all my past workshops here.
Want to hear/watch some 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). We also do a once-monthly Irish-breakfast-and-tunes events. Come to listen, play, eat, drink, and/or try Mary’s famous scones. I also run a session on Sundays from 7-9:30pm at The Laurels (E 14th and 2nd Ave).
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.
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
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Upcoming schedule (apologies if this is not entirely up to date):
Every Thursday: Session at Mary O's (Ave. A and E 3rd in NYC), 8-10pm
Every Sunday: Session at The Laurels (2nd Ave. and 14th St. in NYC), 7-9:30pm
October 13-17: Celtic Colours in Cape Breton, Canada
October 20th: Sunday Breakfast and Session at Mary O's, NYC
October 27th: In Concert with Chris Ranney in NYC!
November 1st: House Concert and Workshop in Colorado Springs, CO (email for details)
November 2nd: House Concert in Denver, CO
November 4th: Northern Lights Church in Juneau, AK (details TBA)
November 6th: Community Hall, Sitka, AK (tickets at the door)
Nov. 10-12: Yachats Celtic Music Festival in Oregon
Nov. 13th: Peninsula Arts Center in Long Beach, Washington
Nov. 15th: Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, Oregon
Nov. 16th: House Concert in Seattle, Washington
Nov. 17th: House Concert in Vashon, Washington (email for details)
Nov. 22nd: Fitzgerald’s Session with Donie Carroll (Manhattan)
Dec. 8th: Sunday Breakfast and Session at Mary O's, NYC
Dec. 12th: Pipes of Christmas, Boston, MA
Dec. 14th: Pipes of Christmas, NYC, NY
Dec. 15th: Pipes of Christmas, Summit, NJ
January 25th, 2025: Burns Distilled, Houston, TX (details TBA)
February 9th, 2025: Duo Concert, Central Presbyterian Church, Summit, NJ
April 10-12, 2025: With the Butler Symphony in Butler, PA
June 9-20: Alaska Supply Tour #1
June 5-8, 2025: Gulf Coast Cruinniu
June 22-28, 2025: Acadia Festival of Traditional Music and Dance, Acadia, ME
August 1-8, 2025: Alaska Supply Tour #2
August 10-21, 2025: Alaska Supply Tour #3
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