CQAF - Key Persons


Caroline Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Festival Board

Ciara Hickey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Festival Board

Emily DeDakis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Festival Board

Eva McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Festival Board

Justin Robertson

Job Titles:
  • the Deer 's Head

Kate Rusby

Kate Rusby, hailed as the ‘First Lady of Folk' and a Mercury Music accolade to her name, has forged an impressive 30-year, headlining career.

Katherine Priddy

Job Titles:
  • the Deer 's Head

Keith Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Design

Lizzie Howard

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Niamh Dunne

Job Titles:
  • the Deer 's Head Music Hall
Niamh Dunne of Beoga fame has released her first solo project of self-penned songs to a rapturous critical welcome. The album Tides was released September 2022. After Beoga's six albums, a shortlist for a Grammy and numerous international tours, Niamh is no stranger to reaching a wider international audience as a result of the band co-writing Ed Sheeran's massive hits Galway Girl and Nancy Mulligan and appearing as Ed's special guests on his headlining Glastonbury 2017 performance and subsequent Irish tour. This is Niamh's first solo project in ten years and her first ever album made up entirely of self-penned songs.

Noyona Chundur

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Festival Board

Oisin Leech

Job Titles:
  • the Deer 's Head

Sam Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Festival Board

Sean Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Director

Stephen Hackett

Job Titles:
  • Creative Producer

Taylor Lally

Job Titles:
  • Artist in Residence