Máiréad Nesbitt

Máiréad Nesbitt
Máiréad Nesbitt at Macquarie Shopping Centre, Sydney, in August 2012
Background information
BornLoughmore, County Tipperary, Ireland
Genres
OccupationMusician
Instruments
Years active1996–present
Labels
Websitewww.maireadnesbittviolin.com

Máiréad Nesbitt (/ˈmɔːrd/ MOR-ayd, Irish: [ˈmˠaːɾʲeːd̪ˠ]) is an Irish musician. She is known for performing Celtic and classical music and being the former fiddler for Celtic Woman. She was also one of the two original fiddlers in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance in the mid to late 1990s, along with its extended version Feet of Flames in the early 2000s.