'celtic music' yielded 116 matches.

Showing matches 1 to 20:

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: 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...
4. 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...
5. 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...
6. 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...
7. 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...
8. Celtic Christian Music Most people are at least somewhat familiar with Celtic music, but did you know there is a thriving genre of music known as Celtic Christian music? Some of the most popular Celtic Christian entertainers include: Iona, Ceili Rain, Moya Brennan, Eden'...
9. 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...
10. 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...
11. 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...
12. Lamkin, a musical news flash of the 16th century: artisan gets stiffed, gets even. Over the years a lot of people have asked me where my bands (the Pratie Heads and Mappamundi) get new material, and how we get it concert-ready. In this lens I can give you an example of how I arrange a complicated song. I fell in love with "Lamkin...
13. 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...
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 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...
16. 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...
17. Celtic Music: Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (she pronounces the first syllable of her last name to rhyme with "bow" as in fiddle bow) is a singer and musician from North Uist (pronounced "ewe-ist"), one of the islands of the Hebrides west of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. She sings...
18. Celtic Music: The Poozies & Sileas Patsy Seddon and Mary MacMaster, who had been performing for several years as the Scottish harp duo Sileas, worked with English singer/songwriter Sally Barker in 1990 on Barker's solo album. The three decided an all-women folk group would be a good i...
19. Celtic Music: Solas That praise for Solas comes from the Boston Herald, and similar words have been written in many Irish/American and major city newspapers since the band was started by Seamus Egan in 1996.
20. Celtic Music: Music at Matt Molloy's Back in 1992 Matt Molloy, flute player extraordinaire, former member of the Bothy Band, a member of the Chieftains, and owner of the pub bearing his name on Bridge Street, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, invited his musician friends to join him in an...