Mo McMorrow

McMorrow's range as a visual and performing artist, as well as her experience moving across continents, lend a remarkable depth to her debut CD. Musically, the cadences of Austin and Ireland are evident: banjos, harmonicas, acoustics guitars, and dobros lay the folk foundation, and one could as easily imagine these sounds spilling out of a smoky club in south Austin as drifting out of a centuries-old pub in Ireland. Lyrically, positive lessons of independence and self-reliance rise from the ashes of past relationships and a reverence for land and family, perhaps a plank in the bridge between Ireland and Texas, is a key element to McMorrow's universe. Though a continuing theme in these songs is leaving people and places behind, McMorrow responds with life-affirming understanding, the realization that all emotions, even sadness, enrich the human condition.