Celtic Woman

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Celtic Woman is the debut album of the singing group of the same name. The members of the group were first featured on the PBS musical special also by the same name. With the help of said special, Celtic Woman reached #1 on the World Music charts within weeks and remained there for a record 68 weeks. Since then, Celtic Woman have toured the United States twice and are now currently touring Japan.

Gorgeous to listen to and gorgeous to look at, Celtic Woman is perfect PBS fare, sort of a Riverdance without the dancing. Drawing on the same New Age-y sound and propulsive energy as that show's solo-voice and choral numbers, the live concert features four attractive young women in strapless evening gowns with soaring voices backed by an orchestra, an Anuna-like chorus, and a large percussion section. The more traditional fare includes Méav Ni Mhaolchatha's "Danny Boy" and "She Moved Through the Fair," and Chloë Agnew's "Ave Maria" (the Bach-Gounod version). Movie and TV selections range from Agnew's "Walking in the Air" (The Snowman) and "Someday" (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame) to Lisa Kelly's "May It Be" (the Enya song from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King) and Órla Fallon's voice and harp rendition of "Harry's Game." A fifth woman, Máiréad Nesbitt, adds some variety by fiddling "The Butterfly" and "Ashokan Farewell" (best known as the theme from Ken Burns's The Civil War). Occasionally the singers join together, as in Enya's "Orinoco Flow," an a cappella rendition of West Side Story's "Somewhere," music director David Downes's composition "One World," and a stately version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Celtic Woman was created by Downes (like many of the other performers, a Riverdance veteran) along with Sharon Browne and Dave Kavanagh of the Celtic Collections record label.

Tracklist
Walking in the Air
Danny Boy
The Buterfly
Siuil A Run (Walk My Love)
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
May it be
Isle of Inisfree
Ave Maria
Si Do Mhaimeo I (The Wealthy Widow)
My Lagan Love - Somewhere
The Soft Goodbye
She Mov'd Thro' the Fair
Send Me a Song
Someday
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
Orinoco Flow
The Ashoken Farewell - The Contradiction
Harry's Game
Nella Fantasia
One World
You Raise Me Up

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