Bio
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The Carroll Sisters Trio is most known for its lively traditional Celtic tunes, beautiful harmonies, intriguing counterpoints, and unique musical arrangements on fiddle, cello, and piano. They have performed in intimate settings such as pubs, farm festivals, and house concerts, as well as at larger events like Sober St. Patrick's Day in New York City (2018), the Boston Celtic Music Festival (2022-2024), and the 2024 Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park, CO. Their 2022 debut album (Daybreak, produced by John Whelan) has been critically acclaimed and featured in Irish Music Magazine, Celtic Life International Magazine, The Irish Echo, Boston Irish Magazine, and Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. They were on that podcast’s Top 10 Celtic Bands of 2022 and the Top 5 Bands to Watch in 2023 lists. Their much-anticipated second album, Radiance, was produced by Katie McNally and comes out in August 2025.
Emilie and Nora
Emilie and Nora Carroll have loved Celtic fiddle music since they were toddlers. Emilie and Nora started Suzuki classical violin lessons at ages 5 and 4 and began taking classes at The Connecticut Academy of Irish Music in 2014 where they were taught, shaped, and inspired primarily by Jeanne Freeman and John Whelan. They have further developed their passion for Celtic fiddle with lessons with Katie McNally. In June 2018, they were among 4 Americans in their category and age groups to qualify to compete for the All-Ireland title in Ireland. In 2020, they partnered with Sammy Wetstein on cello (see below).
Sammy Wetstein
Endlessly inspired by bonds of kinship forged through music, Cellist, composer, and teacher Sammy Wetstein found his love for music traveling between multigenerational folk music camps and festivals in search of a musical community to call home. His journey led him to pursue a degree in folk and jazz string performance at Berklee College of Music and become versed in a variety of styles, performing, recording, and teaching throughout the worlds of classical, jazz, and traditional Celtic, New England, bluegrass, and old-time fiddle music.
As a multi-instrumentalist fluent in playing accordion, guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, and viola, he has appeared at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival, Grey Fox Bluegrass festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Berklee College of Music Convocation, the Library of Congress, and the annual International Bluegrass Music Association festival. He has served as faculty at Maine Fiddle Camp, The Swannanoa Gathering, The Ashokan Center, Fiddle Hell, and the IBMA Kids on Bluegrass Program.
Sammy has appeared alongside artists such as the Grammy-winning 8 Bit Big Band, jazz icons Joe Lovano and Kenny Barron, renowned string players including Eugene Friesen, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, and Jason Anick, and toured with trailblazing folk artists Jake Bount and Nic Gareiss. Advocating for furthering the role of the cello in traditional music, he has been featured on Bluegrass Today and Sirius XM Bluegrass Junction. In 2024, his new acoustic quartet, Catfish in the Sky, was the winner of the Freshgrass band competition, and his Celtic trio was voted one of the top 5 Celtic bands of 2022 by Irish and Celtic music podcast.
Sammy's love of music stems from his dream to find belonging and bring others together, and in his teaching he hopes to encourage string players of all ages and backgrounds to find freedom in their music, explore global music styles, and play music as a means to exist in community while better understanding oneself.