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(2001 – present)

Cara Dillon (born 21 July 1975 in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish folk singer. In 2001, she launched her career as a solo artist in the UK with the eponymous Cara Dillon album. Prior to this, Dillon had been a member of the folk groups Oige and Equation. She and Sam Lakeman (whom she married in 2002) left Equation and signed to Blanco y Negro records going under the name ‘Polar Star’.

Dillon released her eponymous first solo album in 2001, a mixture of tradtional songs with two original compositions. This album garnered the best newcomer award and the best song for ‘Black is the Colour’ at the 2002 Radio 2 folk awards.

The follow up ‘Sweet Liberty’ was released in 2003 with her third album ‘After The Morning’ following in 2006.

In January 2008 Dillon and her band recorded a DVD The Redcastle Sessions in County Donegal which led to an extensive tour starting in the May and continuing through the folk festival season to the winter of 2008/9. This tour took-in venues across Ireland, Great Britain and The USA and introduced guitarist John Smith as a duet partner on the single If I Prove False, this single and a fourth album Hill of Thieves (released 26 January 2009) saw Dillon move to her own label Charcoal Records.

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1		The Hill Of Thieves			66
2		Black is the Colour			54
3		Spencer The Rover			50
4		The Parting Glass			49
5		False, False			38
6		She Moved Through The Fair			35
7		The Lass Of Glenshee			33
8		Craigie Hill			32
8		Johnny, Lovely Johnny			32
10		Jimmy Mó Mhíle Stór			29
11		P Stands For Paddy (Lament for Johnny)			26
11		The Verdant Braes Of Skreen			26
13		The Maid of Culmore			19
14		Green Grows The Laurel			18
15		Lark In The Clear Air			16

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