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Tweed was born to an Irish mother and an English father.
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Karen Tweed
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In 1989, she resigned from her full-time Art and Design teaching post at Bexhill High School, Sussex, to become a professional musician working with The Poozies, The Kathryn Tickell Band and Sally Barker. Since then she has played around the world, giving concerts in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, Scandinavia, Lesotho, Turkey, Japan, the United States of America and Canada. As of 2007, she is featured on over 30 CDs, and is also in demand for her work as an arranger, composer and tutor, being main piano accordion tutor at Folkworks youth courses for the past several years, as well as organising her own Adventures in Music courses along with Roger Wilson.
She is the main piano accordion tutor at the World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland and a regular tutor at the Bachelor of Music Degree in folk and traditional music at Newcastle University and The Sage Gateshead.
She left The Poozies and Swåp in 2007 in order to work on other projects. In 2012 she released a solo five-track album entitled Essentially Invisible to the Eye.
