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1. Celtic Music: Enya Enya first gained notice as a solo artist with her work on the BBC Scotland series The Celts. The music was released as a self-titled album and later remastered and released with the series title. Her four latest albums of new material have each won...
2. Celtic Music: Golden Bough Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler, founding members of Golden Bough, started performing together in 1976 and formed Golden Bough in the San Francisco area in 1980. After some changes in lineup, Golden Bough is currently a trio with Butler (harp, bodhra...
3. Celtic Music: Lenses ☺ This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...
4. Celtic Music: Danú Danu was formed in an Rinn, County Waterford, Ireland in 1996. They performed at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in France, then decided to stay together to perform and record. While not afraid to experiment and expand their repertoire, Danu re...
5. Celtic And Other Folk Influences For many years I enjoyed singing and playing in folk clubs near home and further afield. I had a couple of gigs, but nothing major. This was before Celtic music bounced into the charts as a fashion statement and I often would sing unaccompanied Scot...
6. Celtic Music: Kim Robertson Kim Robertson is a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She has combined a passionate sense of tradition with a love of innovation that brings a modern sound to the ancient Celtic harp. Her concerts and recordings include traditional tunes as...
7. Celtic Music: Dougie MacLean Dougie MacLean is a fiddle and guitar player and composer of songs and instrumental music from Perthshire, Scotland. His song "Caledonia" is regarded as the unofficial national anthem of Scotland, while his melody "The Gael" was used in the movie The...
8. I've been a Pratie Head for many's the long year... (Celtic Music) I'd been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing Balkan music with the acappella women's ensemble Laduvane,and singing American folksongs in a band called "Rank Strangers." In 1981 I married and my husband moved us to Chapel Hill, NC. This lens i...
9. Celtic Music: De Dannan De Danann was formed in 1974 in Spiddal, County Galway by Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán) and Charlie Piggott (banjo). They took their name from the mythical Irish tribe Tuatha De Danann. Along...
10. Celtic Music: The Thistle & Shamrock The Thistle and Shamrock, one of National Public Radio's most popular shows, showcases traditional music from all of the Celtic lands: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany in France, Galicia in Spain, Canada, the United States, and any...
11. Celtic Music: The Battlefield Band "Battlefield Band play Scottish music of a rare passion and joy. Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength and vibrancy of today's Scottish cultural scene, which indeed they have done much to create and fuel, they have...
12. Celtic Music: Sean-Nós Nua In 2002, following an often controversial career, Dublin-based pop singer Sinead O'Connor released Sean Nos Nua, and album of traditional Irish songs. "Sean nos" (literally "old style") is an ornamented style of unaccompanied singing. O'Connor has ad...
13. Celtic Music: The Bothy Band The Bothy Band came together in late 1974 at a musical celebration of 25 years of the record label Gael Linn. When Donal Lunny left Planxty to start his own label, Mulligan Records, in 1975 he got the group together again. While their history only sp...
14. Celtic Music: Boys of the Lough It's a good thing there's the term "Celtic music" to encompass music from Ireland, Scotland and other lands the Celts settled, otherwise it would be hard to classify The Boys of the Lough. Current members hail from County Kerry in the Republic of Ire...
15. Celtic Music: Liz Carroll Liz Carroll's parents emigrated from Ireland to Chicago, where Liz was born. Her father played button accordion and began teaching her music when she was five. A violin class at school got her interested in the fiddle, but a major source of her music...
16. Celtic Music: Gráda Grada, a group based in Dublin and Galway, are a quintet that can play the traditional material while expanding it with their own compositions. You may have already heard Alan Dougherty of Dublin, who plays flute and sings. His solo flute work was fe...
17. Celtic Music: Mary Black Mary Black was born into a musical family in Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a fiddler, her mother a singer. Her brothers had their own group, The Black Brothers, and her younger sister Frances has been a successful singer in her own right. She began...
18. Celtic Music: Planxty In 1972 Christy Moore, a vocalist who also plays acoustic guitar and bodhran, got together with Donal Lunny (bouzouki, guitar), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica) and Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle) t...
19. Celtic Music: Alexander James Adams Alexander James Adams is an Oregon-based singer/songwriter who plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin and bodhran (and even uses a bodhran tipper on a cutting board if the gig is outdoors and the weather's damp). Billed as the Faerie Tale Minstrel, Alec is...
20. Celtic Music: Loreena McKennitt Loreena McKennitt brings the qualities of a spiritual journey to Celtic music. Beginning with traditional Irish, Scottish and English music on harp, she has expanded into more of a world-music sound with influences from Spain, North Africa and the Mi...