I love what I am doing. Everyday I get to report what I stumble upon .I know you guys hate long articles so here we go:
If you want to know what’s new and hot in Celtic Music then please subscribe to this podcast http://celtic.mevio.com. I only got to it by accident and I think it’s really a good show.#97 is opened by The Glengarry Bhoys which is really a good band. I am going to check their albums out!
Friends if you have Winamp or any other music player in your computer, you should check this out. You can listen to Celtic music all day and night. I know that St. Patrick’s Day is over but not where we are at 😉
ICONS :Irish Music and Arts Festival 2008.
This is from last year held in Boston but I am putting the link here just so you’ll know. Enjoy the story and the pictures.And Oh Cara Dillon and Sean Keane were among the guests 😉
Everyone was talking about Eimear Quinn when the won the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘The Voice’ in 1996. Pol Brennan of Clannad composed the song. Her souring pure soprano and classical technique won her fans from each side of the Atlantic.
She then proceed to release an album ‘Through The Lens of A Tear” about the Celtic cycle of Tristan and Isuelt.  Again the album is composed and produced by Pol Brennan and released through Decca Classics. This year, Eimear is set to perform with The Priests in Belfast. For the updates, you can visit her official website. For song samples you can click on her official MySpace page which also has her blog and tour dates. Eimear also performed with the Celtic choir Anuna
Since Blood and Roses seems to be the bands final album before plunging into solo careers, I want to highlight their fiddler Charlie McKerron. Wonder how he got all that talent? Read them here
More videos and pics here
He has a band Session A9 which I have been listening for sometime. The music is energetic and at times magical. They have a MySpace page if you want to listen to sample tracks.
So need to be sad Capercaillie fans. It looks like band members will still write and play music in different incarnations and I promise to find that out for you.
Check out this old video “Coisich A Ruin” with Charlie playing on it.
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