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1. Early Life
Born in Spain in the late 1960s to Spanish artist José Paredes Jardiel (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Paredes_Jardiel) and American art critic Jane Addams Allen (founder of the New Art Examiner - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Art_Examiner - and great-grandniece of Nobel Peace Prize-winning social justice campaigner and philosopher Jane Addams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams), Sarah McQuaid was raised in Chicago (from whence she toured the US during her early teens as a member of the Chicago Children’s Choir) and studied Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg in France. After seven years working at Vintage Instruments, an arcane and rare musical instrument store in Philadelphia, she moved to Ireland in 1994 and would remain there for 13 years – during which time the foundations of her subsequent career as an internationally acclaimed touring musician, singer and songwriter were laid.

2. The Irish Years/Part-Time Musicianship (1994-2007)
Though working full-time in trade publishing for much of her time in Ireland, Sarah was a keen participant in Dublin’s then-thriving cultural scene, where her generosity of spirit and seemingly constant upbeat, warm personality won her many friends. Her ‘spare time’ activities during this period – in music performance, music education, music journalism and literary fiction – seem, in retrospect, to point inevitably towards a full-time career in the arts. Her work as a reviewer and folk music columnist in, respectively

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