Kate Rose
Kate Rose has a lifetime of rooted experience as an Irish fiddler and spent two years learning music and dance traditions in rural County Clare, Ireland from the old players and in the old way. She noticed a great interest at the heart of the tradition for other musical traditions and for innovation and personal expression, as well a way of playing and listening from the heart and joyfully serving the community. Since then, she has carried this into her interactive performances for several years in Arizona and beyond and is also an educator and nonprofit leader. She teaches Inclusively Wild Community Dance twice a month for the overall community and for developmentally disabled dancers at their day center, Quality Connections; she also leads wheelchair dances in facilities for the elderly and trains professionals in justice-informed trauma care, while playing to raise money for organizations serving vulnerable populations such as the homeless and undocumented people. She translated an influential book advocating for justice-informed trauma care and uses this in music and dance based workshops for survivors. Her weekly performances at Charly’s Pub bring people together from diverse walks of life and get them dancing. With guitarist Armand Ramirez, her duo Wild World Irish Fiddle combines Latin rhythms and Irish melodies, breaking new musical ground in a spirit of meeting at our deep roots. She got her start as a teenager fiddling at protests against the Gulf War and has always used Irish music—which has been a music of protest that was silenced and underground for centuries during colonial rule—to support and inspire actions for change. In spring 2025 Kate took part in Music to Life's Musician Changemaker Accelerator Workshop and was accepted into their Juried Artist roster in recognition of her music-driven social change work in her community.
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