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Celtic Woman: A Concert
Celtic Woman, (pronounced ‘Keltic’ with a hard C or a K sound, but I have no idea why,) was, in my view a strange name and until I tuned in, did not know it was a concert.
The feature singers are all women, not just women, but, healthy women, not large, but big bodied, wide hips ample breasts and all with sweet faces and sophisticated spaghetti strap evening gowns, no provocative leather or revealing cleavage, just healthy, attractive women.
I also enjoyed River Dance, an extremely vital and dynamic program of dance and music, but the performers in River Dance, were athletic and vibrant. The performers on Celtic Woman are soft and gentle and feminine, in both sound and movement and for the most part in the choice of musical selections.
The only-down side to the concert was the extended begging for money which has become a part of Public Broadcasting and annoys me greatly.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007M22TI/104-1799640-4583153?v=glance&n=130
o Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
o 1. Last Rose of Summer/Walking In The Air
o 2. Danny Boy
o 3. The Butterfly
o 4. Siuil A Run - (Walk My Love)
o 5. Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
o 6. May It Be
o 7. Isle of Inis Free
o 8. Ave Maria
o 9. Si Do Mhaimeo i - (The Wealthy Widow)
o 10. My Lagan Love - Somewhere
o 11. The Soft Goodbye
o 12. She Moved Thru' The Fair
o 13. Send Me A Song
o 14. Someday
o 15. I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls
o 16. Orinoco Flow
o 17. The Ashoken Farewell - The Contradiction
o 18. Harry's Game
o 19. Nella Fantasia
o 20. One World
o 21. You Raise Me Up
o Bonus interview footage with Chloe, Meav, Lisa, Orla, Mairead, and David Downes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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. --David Horiuchi
Anyway…after many years of covering high school concerts and plays for a newspaper, for some reason I always feel compelled to write a little.
Amicus…
Celtic Woman, (pronounced ‘Keltic’ with a hard C or a K sound, but I have no idea why,) was, in my view a strange name and until I tuned in, did not know it was a concert.
The feature singers are all women, not just women, but, healthy women, not large, but big bodied, wide hips ample breasts and all with sweet faces and sophisticated spaghetti strap evening gowns, no provocative leather or revealing cleavage, just healthy, attractive women.
I also enjoyed River Dance, an extremely vital and dynamic program of dance and music, but the performers in River Dance, were athletic and vibrant. The performers on Celtic Woman are soft and gentle and feminine, in both sound and movement and for the most part in the choice of musical selections.
The only-down side to the concert was the extended begging for money which has become a part of Public Broadcasting and annoys me greatly.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007M22TI/104-1799640-4583153?v=glance&n=130
o Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
o 1. Last Rose of Summer/Walking In The Air
o 2. Danny Boy
o 3. The Butterfly
o 4. Siuil A Run - (Walk My Love)
o 5. Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
o 6. May It Be
o 7. Isle of Inis Free
o 8. Ave Maria
o 9. Si Do Mhaimeo i - (The Wealthy Widow)
o 10. My Lagan Love - Somewhere
o 11. The Soft Goodbye
o 12. She Moved Thru' The Fair
o 13. Send Me A Song
o 14. Someday
o 15. I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls
o 16. Orinoco Flow
o 17. The Ashoken Farewell - The Contradiction
o 18. Harry's Game
o 19. Nella Fantasia
o 20. One World
o 21. You Raise Me Up
o Bonus interview footage with Chloe, Meav, Lisa, Orla, Mairead, and David Downes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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. --David Horiuchi
Anyway…after many years of covering high school concerts and plays for a newspaper, for some reason I always feel compelled to write a little.
Amicus…
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