Tag Archives: Contemporary Celtic

Modern guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Medwyn Goodall was created in Yorkshire, Britain; inspired with the hits from the Beatles as well as the Seaside Boys, he started playing music as a kid, with 11 fulfilled pop superstar Cliff Richard, who inspired the youngsters to pursue a profession being a performer. Goodall started composing …

Virtuoso instrumentalists certainly are a dime twelve on the market, however, many transcend skill with eyesight. Irish accordionist, whistle participant, and vocalist/songwriter Mick McAuley was raised in Calan, Kilkenny. At age nine he procured a key accordion that incited a romance with traditional music as well as the eventual mastery …

Ethereal Celtic vocalist Méav initial rose to prominence being a included soprano soloist using the choral group Anúna, that was included in a number of of the largest productions of Riverdance. Furthermore to comprehensive touring with Anúna, Méav also performed on many occasions using the Irish Country wide Chamber and …

Capercaillie frontwoman Karen Matheson started executing young. Playing at regional town halls in Scotland throughout her youngsters, she’d help begin Capercaillie with many high school close friends in the middle-80’s. The music group had an effective profession and released many albums through the entire next decades, however in 1997 Matheson …

Vocalist/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and interpreter of traditional music Emily Smith is among the leading figures within the modern Scottish folk picture. Created in Dumfries and Galloway, Smith spent her early years as a child carrying out at her mother’s dance college, but created a like of music after taking on the …

Aspiring Spanish guitarist Peter Sterling considered harp after viewing Andreas Vollenweider and released his first album just eight months later on. Harp Magic can be obtained from World Disk Music.

Precocious Canadian Celtic quartet the Cottars shaped in past due 2000 for the Nova Scotian island of Cape Breton. Made up of siblings Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie, the tiny collective of 15- to 17-year-old multi-instrumentalists, performers, and stage dancers burst onto the original music picture …

Though her initial jump into fame was included with the discharge of Ashley MacIssac’s hit song, “Sleepy Maggie,” which she offered vocals in Scottish Gaelic, Mary Jane Lamond have been immersing herself within the music of her grandparents for a long time. Her own 1st recording, Bho ThirNana Craobh (Through …

Mary Dark is really a performer equally in the home singing traditional Irish folk music and modern music including blues, rock and roll, jazz, nation, and spirit. She was created right into a musical family members as the little girl of the fiddler along with a vocalist. She began skillfully …

Séamus Egan attained his most significant success being a single artist along with his soundtrack for Edward Uses up’ 1995 film The Brothers McMullen; it spent four a few months on the globe music graphs and included the very best Ten strike “I’LL Keep in mind You,” documented by Sarah …