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Cara Dillon (born 21 July 1975 in Dungiven, County Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish folk singer. In 2001, she launched her career as a solo artist in the UK with the eponymous Cara Dillon album. Prior to this, Dillon had been a member of the folk groups Oige and Equation.

She and Sam Lakeman (whom she married in 2002) left Equation and signed to Blanco y Negro records going under the name 'Polar Star'.Dillon released her eponymous first solo album in 2001, a mixture of tradtional songs with two original compositions.

This album garnered the best newcomer award and the best song for 'Black is the Colour' at the 2002 Radio 2 folk awards.The follow up 'Sweet Liberty' was released in 2003 with her third album 'After the Morning' following in 2006.

In January 2008 Dillon and her band recorded a DVD The Redcastle Sessions in County Donegal which led to an extensive tour starting in the May and continuing through the folk festival season to the winter of 2008/9.

This tour took-in venues across Ireland, Great Britain and The USA and introduced guitarist John Smith as a duet partner on the single If I Prove False, this single and a fourth album Hill of Thieves (released 26 January 2009) saw Dillon move to her own label Charcoal Records.

Cara Dillon performs folk, celtic, singer-songwriter music and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, or other music performances. The estimated booking fee range to book Cara Dillon for your event, Please Contact. Cara Dillon has more than 63.7K listeners worldwide and really knows how to entertain your audience. Similar artists are  Karine Polwart, Eliza Carthy, Heidi Talbot, Emily Smith, Martin Simpson, Seth Lakeman, Karan Casey, Mary Black, Eddi Reader, Nic Jones, Julie Fowlis, Martha Tilston . Contact AAE Music agency for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Cara Dillon for an upcoming event.

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