Sarah Makem

Sarah Makem was a traditional Irish singer from Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She was married to fiddler Peter Makem and was the mother of musicians Tommy Makem and Jack Makem. Several of her descendants also became musicians, including members of The Makem Brothers and Barley Bree. Makem and her cousin Annie Jane Kelly were members of the Singing Greenes of Keady, a local family singing tradition. In the 1950s, song collectors from the United States toured Ireland recording its musical heritage. Makem was visited and recorded by, among others, Diane Guggenheim Hamilton, Jean Ritchie, Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle. Her rendition of "As I Roved Out" opened the BBC Radio folk music programme of the same name in the 1950s. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_M...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)