Liz Carroll was born in Chicago of Irish parents. She's a junior and senior All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, and has toured as a solo artist and with the Greenfields of America, Trian, String Sisters, and as part of the duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle. She's featured on nine albums and has appeared on many more.

Liz is a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship Award (1994). In 2009 she became the first Irish-American musician nominated for a Grammy. In 2011, she became the first American born composer honoured with the Cumadóir TG4, Ireland's most significant traditional music prize.

"Dazzling...her inventiveness and creativity are astonishing. And her playing is impeccably clean, intense, and altogether brilliant." (Sing Out)

"Brilliant...She does more than run through her fingertwisting reels & sustained slow airs. She- & her listeners-continually rediscover each melody." (The New York Times)