Muldoon's Picnic (September)

Dan Barry is a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, for which he has written the "This Land" column since 2007. Barry is also the author of four books, including Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game, which won the 2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland.

Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of four collections of poetry for which she has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner Prize in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is currently Director of Poetry in the Writing Division of Columbia University School of the Arts.

Violist Beth Meyers was founding member of the flute/viola/harp trio janus, whose debut album, i am not (New Amsterdam Records), was called “gorgeously subtle” (NPR’s Studio 360). The group’s final album was released in November 2016 and features the music of Paul Lansky and Jason Treuting. As a chamber musician, Beth has also performed and recorded with groups including Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble ACJW, ACME Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble Signal, the Knights, Meredith Monk Ensemble, Nexus, So Percussion, Steve Reich and Musicians, and the Ying Quartet. 

About Damsel:

This indie-neo-folk singing-songwriting team is Monica Mugan on vocals/acoustic guitar and Beth Meyers on vocals/viola/banjo/ukulele. Damsel’s debut album Just Sit So will release in early September 2017.

Monica Mugan is a guitarist who applies her classical training to perform and teach finger style guitar over many genres. Her other duo, Trollstilt, was formed in 1997 with fiddler/composer Dan Trueman. The two released the eponymous Trollstilt in 2000 and are currently working on a second album. Monica Mugan has an active private teaching studio.

About Damsel:

This indie-neo-folk singing-songwriting team is Monica Mugan on vocals/acoustic guitar and Beth Meyers on vocals/viola/banjo/ukulele. Damsel’s debut album Just Sit So will release in early September 2017

Mark Mulcahy is an American musician and former frontman for Miracle Legion.

Musician and writer Cáit O’Riordan was a founder member of London-Irish punk band The Pogues, going on to play and sing on albums including the classic Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (one of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time). She moved to Dublin in 1989 and has since played bass for many acclaimed Irish acts including The Radiators from Space, Hothouse Flowers, Mundy, Jerry Fish, and Gavin Friday. As well as her musical work, in 2013 Cáit graduated from University College Dublin with a Master’s degree in Psychological Science. When not Rogue-ing at Muldoon’s Picnic, Cáit plays bass with Celtic-punk superstars The Mahones.

Photo credit: John Huntington

Edmund White has written some twenty-five books and edited several anthologies. He is perhaps best known for his biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a trilogy of autobiographical novels—A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. His most recent published works of fiction are Hotel de Dream, Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. His memoir, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, came out in 2014. White has been named the official author for the State of New York, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters. He has previously taught writing at Princeton and currently lives in New York City.