Hello, I'm Eva Carroll.

Eva Carroll comes from Feakle, East Clare in the west of Ireland. Her musical life began when she started learning the concertina from Mary McNamara. It was from Mary that she picked up the typical laidback and swingy style of East Clare. She was influenced by the playing of both Mary and Cormac Begley. With two singers for parents, radio presenter Paula Carroll and comic songwriter​/​ Sean nós translator Brian O’Rourke, she began to sing a few years after picking up the concertina, singing sean nós and traditional Irish songs in English in harmony with her mother Paula, who presents traditional music radio show the West Wind on Clare FM. Eva has been a guest at various singing festivals - the Frank Harte Festival, the Drogheda Traditional Music and Singing Weekend, and The Night Before Larry Got Stretched singing session in the Cobblestone. She has sung at the Templebar Tradfest, Electric Picnic and Beyond the Pale. Now living in Dublin, she regularly sings and plays with the musical crowd she has met since moving there. She still sings with her mother, as well as with fellow concertina player and singer Méabh Mulligan. She collaborates regularly with fiddler Jayne Pomplas, as well as with singer and producer Patrick Stefan. She has also collaborated with Seán Lyons, the Len Collective and DUG. She has played support slots for Ispíní na hÉireann, Nuala Kennedy, MacDara Yeates, Seamas Hyland and Niall McCabe.   She has sung, played and taught concertina at various festivals around Ireland, including the Concertina Cruinniú, Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh and the Feakle Festival. She has traveled abroad with her music to the Glenntown Irish Music Festival in Sweden as well as the Bègles Cod Festival in France, Button Boxes and Moothies in Aberdeen and the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan where she sang and played concertina in Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s installation in the Irish Pavilion. She performed at now President Catherine Connolly’s campaign launch. Most recently, Eva has joined SexyTadhg’s band.