Hear our interview with Lúnasa in the Echoes Podcast The Celtic crazed waned over a decade ago, but Celtic music, like Country & Western and Jazz, never goes away. Lúnasa are a generation removed from the first Celtic renaissance in the 1970s, but that’s the sound that infuses their take on traditional Irish music. And…
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CD of the Month
Ambient Celtic Music Echoes July CD of the Month.
Secret Garden’s Fionnuala Sherry Takes Tradition Ambient on Songs From Before On her solo debut album, Fionnuala Sherry tackles the old chestnut melodies of her Irish home, but Songs from Before is far from a traditional album. Instead, Sherry has reimagined these songs, pulling them out of an Irish mist, coaxing them slowly from the…
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30 Icons of Echoes #14: Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt is one of 30 Icons of Echoes. Here’s five essential albums from her illustrious and influential career that began in Celtic realms and moved toward world fusion.
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Anna Schaad’s Electronica Love Song
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091223.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Celtic Violinist, Electronica Tone Poem s and Jet Pilots. You can hear an audio version of this Echoes Blog, with Anna Schaad‘s music On the surface, violinist Anna Schaad might seem like a New Age artist with Loreena McKennitt aspirations. Her first three albums often found her…
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New Celtic Christmas Music
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081217.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAine Minogue, Loreena McKennitt and Enya do a Celtic Christmas (You can hear an Audio Version of this blog with music excerpts from these albums.) Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as Handel‘s Messiah and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and…
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Echo Location: Solas and the Celtic Tradition
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080924.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeltic veterans Solas find new dimensions in a traditional sound when they play live on Echoes. You can hear an Audio Version of this blog with music. The Celtic boom of the Riverdance days are long over, leaving only the fructose sweetened foam of marketing campaigns like Celtic…