DAWN McCARTHY hails from a large, musical family and began writing and performing as a singer in 1987 at Milwaukee Summerfest, debuting as a singer-songwriter in 1997 upon London’s Spitalfields Music stage. She formed FAUN FABLES with Nils Frykdahl in 1998, with an extensive discography on Drag City Records, touring extensively in North America, with time in Europe, UK/Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. She also recorded and toured with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (The Letting Go, 2006 and What the Brothers Sang, 2013). Dawn trained in Poland with Wlodermierz Staniewski’s physical theater company ‘Gardzienice’ and played the title role in Faun Fables’ The Transit Rider, which toured North America. She wrote and directed rock/folk musicals at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the San Jacinto Mountains as Artist-In-Residence. Her opera debut was as the Goddess Brigid in the fire opera ‘Machine’ at The Crucible in Oakland, California.