Grace Broadhead is a fiddler originally from New Mexico and is now based in Nashville, Tennessee. She found her love of Irish music through her older brothers, who handed down some CDs of Lunasa, the Chieftains, Gaelic Storm and several other Celtic groups.
Grace is a member of The Southwest Ramblers, along with Dain Forsyth from Albuquerque, and Hughie Kennedy and Jason Turk from Cork, Ireland. Grace has also toured with the Nashville Celts, and has had the opportunity to play onstage with many well-known musicians and groups. She and bouzouki player Ben Williamson released their debut album as a duo, “Tipping the Scales” in 2021. It can be purchased digitally on bandcamp.
As well as performing, Grace has also competed in many online competitions and Fleadh Cheoil, receiving several gold medals in both fiddle and fiddle slow airs, In 2022, Grace was awarded the inaugural “Fiddler of London Diaspora Award”.
Grace’s original compositions have also received a number of awards, including 1st place at the 2019 midwest Fleadh, and 1st place in the 2023 and 2024 O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat original tunes contests.
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