Liz Carroll: Traditional Composer of the Year

TG4, Ireland's Irish language television station, has honored Liz with the Cumadóir TG4. This makes Liz the first American-born composer so honored in the award's history. Liz was presented with the award as part of the TG4 Gradam Ceoil 2011 (Traditional Music Awards), in ceremonies on Saturday, April 2, 2011, at the Wexford Opera House.

The concert was televised on TG4 on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011.  The award, on top of the recent publication of Liz's book of her compositions, Collected, is, in Liz's words, "... more than humbling." TG4's Traditional Music Awards mission is to celebrate and give due recognition to the recordings, broadcasts and live performances of the recipients of the awards and to all that embellishes Irish traditional music and song.
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The Irish Echo names Liz's book, Collected, "Best Collection of Tunes in 2010."
- Earle Hitchner, January 19, 2011

To launch the book in Europe, Liz appeared at Galdgow's Celtic Connections with guests Kathleen Boyle, John Doyle, Seamus Egan, and Billy McComiskey. The Scotsman newspaper, in its review on January 20, 2011, said "Her exceptional Playing was distinguished by its muscular, supple lift and swing, immaculately applied ornamentation and fiery attack, and almost the entire set-list consisted of Carroll's own compositions, whose calibre and variety highlighted exactly why so many of her tunes have become modern standards."