Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish ensemble created and created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes, former Irish stage stage musical director Riverdance. In 2004, he recruited five Irish female musicians who had never previously performed together: vocalist ChloÃÆ' Â «Agnew, ÃÆ'â € Å" rla Fallon, Lisa Kelly and MÃÆ' Â © av NÃÆ' Mhaolchatha, and fiddler MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ'Â © ad Nesbitt, and formed them into the first line of the group he named "Celtic Woman", a special group. Downes chose a repertoire that ranged from traditional Celtic tones to modern songs.
The composition of the group has changed over the years; In 2009, the group consisted of ChloÃÆ'Â «Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ'Â © ad Nesbitt; Alex Sharpe left the group in May 2010. Eleven albums have been released under the name of "Celtic Woman":
The foundation for the popularity of Celtic music outside Ireland and Europe was built on the success of artists such as Enya, Moya Brennan and Clannad, along with Riverdance and Lord of the Dance stage shows. Celtic women have been described as " Riverdance for the sound."
Celtic Woman has been named the Billboard World of the Year Artist Album six times.
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The current Celtic Female members are (in alphabetical order of family name):
- MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ' Â © ad Carlin (December 5, 1988) is an Irish singer and member of the Celtic Woman ensemble. Carlin was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. He started his career at the age of 15 when he won the title role of 'The Rose' in the Talents' Young Singers competition at The Little Prince (opera) by Rachel Portman. MÃÆ'¡Ã © Ã © Ã © has since appeared for the Irish President, celebrating the Irish National Anthem for Rugby International English-Irish to millions of TV viewers and more recently, he has shared the stage with Snow Patrol and The Priests in 2013 BBC TV Gala Concert 'Sons and Daughters' to mark Derry's year as a City of Culture. He also recorded the City Culture song 'Let the River Run' with star Glee Damian McGinty. Carlin later released a single under his own label, Iris Records/Walled City Records. After completing his title, MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ' Â © ad was signed to Decca Records and recorded his debut album, 'Songbook' with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Air Studios and British Grove Studios. On 5 August 2013, the Celtic Woman website reported that ChloÃÆ'ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Agnew would take a leave of absence from Celtic Woman to work on a solo project, and on August 23, 2013, she reported that MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ'Â ad Carlin would take a ChloÃÆ'Â «place.
- Susan McFadden (February 8, 1983) is a Dublin-born, Irish-born actress and singer. She has also been a member of the Celtic music group, Celtic Woman, since 2012. She is the younger brother of former Westlife member Brian McFadden. In 2008, McFadden recorded two songs for the CD One of Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange, an album of 20 new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in November 2008 at Dress Circle Recording. He played the lead role of Milly in the stage adaptation of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with Steven Houghton. McFadden starred in the original Musical Legend Blonde at the Savoy Theater in West End London playing Elle Woods after starting the role of Serena. The official reviews and audience reactions are very positive. On January 5, 2012, McFadden was named as Lisa Kelly's successor, then went on maternity leave, in the All-female Ensemble Celtic woman. McFadden made his debut with Celtic Woman in February in Nashville, Tennessee to start the "Believe" North American Tour and continued with the European, Australian and South African Tour in 2012. After Lisa Kelly announced her departure from the group in January 2013, McFadden has since become full-time member of the Celtic Woman.
- ÃÆ'â € ° abha McMahon (December 9, 1990) In 2007, he became the youngest member of the AnÃÆ'ºna group at the age of 16. He debuted with Celtic Woman on Celtic Woman's special album and DVD/TV: Destiny in 2015 and has a solo album in 2018.
- Tara McNeill (July 27) is the newest member of Celtic Woman. He has performed with AnÃÆ'ºna from 2012 to 2016. He replaced MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ'Â ad ades Nesbitt on South Africa, South Korea and China Destiny tour shows in 2016. His debut album with Celtic Woman is Celtic Woman: Voices of Angels (2016). She will appear with the group at the Home for Christmas symphony tour in 2016 and tour the Voices of Angels group in 2017.
Past
Celtic Woman was recorded on September 15, 2004 for PBS television at The Helix, Dublin, Ireland, in front of a sold-out audience. Organized by producer Sharon Browne, Chairman & amp; CEO Dave Kavanagh, producer and television director Avril MacRory, and music director and composer David Downes, the show was first broadcast on PBS during March 2005 in the United States, and within weeks the group's eponymous debut album, Celtic Woman > i>, reached No. 1 on Billboard's World Music chart, finally breaking Andrea Bocelli's old record of chart-topping longevity on July 22, 2006 by staying at No. 1. 1 for 68 weeks. The album holds the top spot on the Billboard Music World chart for a total of 81 weeks. Much of the group's success in America has been credited to the broad publicity of PBS throughout 2005. Live performances at The Helix were released on DVD alongside studio albums.
The release of their second album, Celtic Woman: A Christmas Celebration , on October 19, 2006 tapped their first album to No. 2. 2 on the World Music chart.
In preparation for their third studio album, Celtic Woman performed at Slane Castle in County Meath, Ireland, on 23 and 24 August 2006, with the show premiered on PBS during December 2006. The studio album, titled Celtic Woman: A New Journey , was released on January 30, 2007. Like their debut, live performance was released on DVD simultaneously. The album soon hit Billboard 200 in No. 4 and the Billboard World Music chart at No. 1, move the previous two releases down and secure the top three positions on the chart for the group.
Responding to the popularity of the show at Slane Castle in 2006, PBS aired a special concert Celtic Woman performing again at The Helix Theater, Dublin, Ireland on December 7, 2007. The show included songs from the group's second album, Celtic Woman: A Christmas Celebration .
The fourth album, Celtic Woman: The Greatest Journey , was released on October 28, 2008. The group's fifth album,
The group recently released their sixth album, Lullaby , available through PBS appointments or QVC shopping sites. On February 15, 2011, it was released by other major retailers as a limited edition album. Reached No. 1 on World Charts and No. 3 on Kids Charts, the first for Celtic Woman.
The group filmed new specials on September 6 and 7, 2011 at Fox Theater in Atlanta for PBS broadcast and DVD releases. It's titled Celtic Woman: Believe . The show aired on the PBS station on December 3, 2011. CD/DVD was released on January 24, 2012.
On October 9, 2012, the group released their second Christmas album worldwide Home for Christmas . The album featured the voices of Lisa Lambe, ChloÃÆ'ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Agnew, Meav Ni Mhaolchatha, and Mairead Nesbitt on the violin. Another Christmas album, Celtic Woman: Silent Night was released the same day for the United States exclusively.
In July 2013, Celtic Woman released a promotional video on its YouTube channel for a new special PBS, which will air in early 2014. On February 24, 2014, Celtic Woman released a set of CD/DVD and PBS Special, called Celtic Woman: Emerald - Musical Gems . It features Lisa Lambe, ChloÃÆ' Â «Agnew, Mairead Nesbitt, and Susan McFadden. The DVD was filmed in April 2013 at a tour stop in South Bend, Indiana and aired on PBS, starting in March.
In August 2015, the group filmed a special DVD/TV and recorded an accompanying album titled Celtic Woman: Destiny . This is the first time Mairead Carlin and ÃÆ'â € ° abha McMahon are featured with the group on an album or DVD/TV special. It was the group's first release without any founding members as the lead singer, though Meav Ni Mhaolchatha appeared and sang as a guest. Celtic Woman: Destiny was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. This is the first Grammy nomination for the group.
In August 2016, the group recorded an album entitled Celtic Woman: Voices of Angels. The album is the first to feature Tara McNeill and is also the first album featuring no founding members, although Meav Ni Mhaolchatha is a vocal director and once again featured as a guest.
Celtic Woman recorded a live album, Celtic Woman: Homecoming - Live from Ireland, at 3Arena in Dublin on September 2, 2017. The album was released in January 2018. This is the first album released by a group consisting entirely of live songs.
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Tour
Celtic Woman has made three tours in America, with additional performances abroad. The group performed in more than a dozen cities in the US in 2005 for their original album debut. The group toured the United States twice with their "Celtic Woman: A New Journey" tour, visited 88 cities in 2007 and over 75 cities in 2008. In early April 2008 it was announced that The High Kings would open the event for the group the. until June 2008.
The 2009 Isle of Hope Tour was announced in late 2008, and featured a mix of original music from composers David Downes and Brendan Graham (favorite group author of "You Raise Me Up"), renditions of songs such as "Fields of Gold "and" Have I Told You Lived That I Love You "and traditional performances" Danny Boy "," The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun "and" The Spanish Lady ". The tour was completed on November 22, 2009.
The 2010-11 tour is called Songs from the Heart, featuring some of the same music and some new music. The tour featured ChloÃÆ'¡Â Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Lynn Hilary, Alex Sharpe, and Mairead Nesbitt. It started in February 2010. PBS television presents a special concert starting November 28, 2009. It was recorded in HD at Powerscourt House & amp; Gardens in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland. These include a 27-member film orchestra, a Discovery Gospel choir, 12 Aontas Choir members, 10 Extreme Rhythm Drummers members with an 11-piece bag pouch ensemble.
The second "Heart of Hearts" tour opened in February 2011 with Agnew, Kelly, a new member of Lisa Lambe, and Nesbitt and made up about 80 concerts in North America in spring 2011 and 10 shows in Germany and Austria during the summer of 2011.
The Symphony Tour featured songs from their Christmas Album Christmas Celebration lasting December 2011.
The BELIEVE North American tour 2012 runs between February 2012 and April 2012. Following directly on this, the BELIEVE Europe tour takes place between May and June 2012. Lisa Kelly, who expects her fourth child, is not participating in the 2012 tour, and was replaced by Susan McFadden, the younger sister from former Westlife member Brian McFadden.
Another Symphony tour was announced for the 2012 Christmas season, featuring Agnew, Lambe, Nesbitt, and McFadden. The tour starts on December 1st and continues until December 22nd. Celtic Woman takes "Believe" on another tour from February to June 2013, with the same line-up. On January 15, 2013, Lisa Kelly announced her intention to open "The Lisa Kelly Voice Academy", located in Peachtree City, GA. In addition to this, Kelly insists that he will not return to Celtic Woman. Her husband, Scott Porter, also announced his departure as CEO of Celtic Woman.
Celtic Woman takes "Believe" to Europe in October 2013 and visits the US on their Symphony Tour in December 2013. The Australian tour for "Believe", previously scheduled for September 2013, was rescheduled until January 2014. Celtic Woman toured in the US from February until June 2014 at the Emerald Tour to celebrate the legacy of Emerald Isles and promote their new album called Celtic Woman: Emerald Musical Gems. Lynn Hilary will be coming back for the Emerald Tour because Lisa Lambe will depart in mid-March to take part in the drama Breaking Dad Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's sequel to Between Foxrock and Hard Place, where Lisa playing Sorcha. Breaking Dad, will run from April 25th to May 17th at the Gaiety Theater in Dublin, Ireland. In addition to the US, Celtic Woman visited Brazil, England, and Europe in Autumn 2014 at the Emerald Tour - debuting in Brazil and the UK.
In addition, Celtic Woman toured the US for their Symphony Tour in December 2014 and again for the Tenth Anniversary Tour in March 2015 to celebrate the group's 10th anniversary. In addition, the November 2014 European Tour of Celtic Woman, which is part of the Emerald World Tour, was rescheduled from November 2014 to February 2015, and is now part of the Tenth Anniversary Tour, not the Emerald Tour. They also visited Australia for their 10th Anniversary Tour in September 2015 for the first time since Believe Tour in January 2014, and returned to England again in November 2015. Celtic Woman: The Show-July 20, 2005 - October 16, 2006 A New Journey Tour (Celtic Woman) - February 14, 2007 - October 6, 2008 Isle of Hope Tour - February 11 - November 22, 2009 Songs from Heart Tour-February 9, 2010 - September 27, 2011 Christmas Celebration Symphony Tour-1-21 December 2011 and 1 -22 December 2012 Believe Tour-3 February 2012 - 26 October 2013 Emerald Tour- February 14 - September 7, 2014 Decade Tour- 24 January - 23 November 2015 Destiny World Tour (Celtic Woman) - 4 March - 29 October 2016 Voices of Angels World Tour - March 2 - June 25, 2017 up yet
On October 6, 2017, Celtic Woman officially announced their 2018 tour, Homecoming World Tour . The North American Leg of the Homecoming tour will run from 1 March 2018 - 17 June 2018.
Membership
The original players in Celtic Woman are ChloÃÆ' Â «Agnew, ÃÆ'â € Å" rla Fallon, Lisa Kelly, MÃÆ' Â © av NÃÆ' Mhaolchatha, and MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ' Â © ad Nesbitt. During pregnancy MÃÆ'Ã… © av in 2005, Deirdre Shannon was chosen to fill his place during the tour. MÃÆ' Â © av returned to the group in time to record the A New Journey and tour for the album, coinciding with Deirdre's departure from the group in February 2006.
The second line-up change was announced on September 6, 2006, with the announcement that Hayley Westenra officially joined Celtic Woman on August 24, 2006. Also featured on the album and DVD for A New Journey, Hayley took turns with MÃÆ'Â © av during a tour event to maintain a five-person line-up instantly.
On August 20, 2007, MÃÆ' Â © av left Celtic Woman to focus on his solo career. Substitute MÃÆ' Â © av, Lynn Hilary, made her first appearance on October 10, 2007 in Estero, Florida, USA.
In December 2007, Lisa Kelly, expecting a new child in 2008, took maternity leave from the group. Alex Sharpe fills his position on the A New Journey tour during this time off. It was announced on the group's website in 2009 that ÃÆ' "ra Fallon took a full break to spend time with his family and focus on recording a new solo album, and that as a result, Alex will replace ÃÆ'" rla as a Celtic Woman member.
For the 2009 Isle of Hope Tour, the group consisted of ChloÃÆ'ÂÂ's Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly and Alex Sharpe vocalists; and fiddler MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ' Â © ad Nesbitt. The group completed the entire 2009 tour as well as the first leg of the Songs from the Heart tour, from February to May 2010, with this line-up. After the tour ended, it was announced that Alex Sharpe would rest full time from Celtic Woman to spend time with his family.
After the Songs of the Heart tour, in November 2010, Lynn Hilary announced that she would leave the group to return to Ireland. Singer and actress Lisa Lambe joined this group as a replacement for Lynn in early 2011.
In December 2011, Lisa Kelly announced that she would take maternity leave from the group after the "Symphony Tour" ended. The group's website announced in January 2012 that actress Susan McFadden will replace Kelly until she returns to the group. However, Kelly announced the opening of "The Lisa Kelly Voice Academy" in Peachtree City, Georgia, in January 2013 showing that she was moving from performing to teaching. Since then Susan has become a full member of the line-up and will appear on the special PBS Celtic Woman and DVD, which will be released in early 2014.
In 2012, MÃÆ'Â Â © av NÃÆ' Mhaolchatha returned briefly to Celtic Woman to record Celtic Woman: Home for Christmas , the first time she appeared with the group since her departure in 2007. MÃÆ' Â © av returns to the group again , albeit temporarily, in August 2013 to film the Celtic Woman: Home for Christmas PBS and DVD shows. At the same time, it was announced on the Celtic Woman website on August 5, 2013 that ChloÃÆ'ÂÂ «Agnew would take time off from Celtic Woman to work on a solo project. In addition, it is not featured in special PBS and DVD for Celtic Woman: Home for Christmas. On August 23, 2013 it was announced that the Derry-born singer Mairead Carlin will take the place of ChloÃÆ'â "¢.
Shortly before the start of the Emerald Tour on 14 February 2014, management announced that Lisa Lambe would leave the tour in early March, with Lynn Hilary returning to take her place. Lambe, however, is scheduled to return during the summer, although no specific dates are given.
It was announced at the end of 2014 that Lisa Lambe would leave Celtic Woman for a while to work on a solo album. Former Celtic Woman, Lynn Hilary, will be back again at Lambe's place. He then announced that former Celtic Woman Alex Sharpe will be returning for his 10th anniversary tour along with MÃÆ'Â Â| av NÃÆ' Mhaolchatha.
On August 11, 2015, it was announced that Eabha McMahon joined Celtic Woman as the lead singer.
On August 7, 2016, it was announced that the old members of MÃÆ'¡irÃÆ' Â © ad Nesbitt stepped away from Celtic Woman to focus on his own project. Tara McNeill, violinist, harpist and singer, was announced as a new member of Celtic Woman.
From March 11 - 23, 2018, McFadden took a break from the Celtic Woman: Homecoming tour to attend family emergency. Sharpe temporarily took McFadden's place in the lineup. McFadden returned to the tour on March 24, 2018.
When asked how group members got along, setting up former members Lisa Kelly responded,
"We're getting along because we're so different.ChloÃÆ'« Agnew is a hip, MÃÆ' Â|Nï av½ razorous Mâholchatha, Orla Fallon is an angel, and Mairead Nesbitt is energetic. "
According to ChloÃÆ'ÂÂ «Agnew, the friendship between the vocalists is the number one question asked. He explained:
"I think people are always looking for the 'Desperate Housewives' story, that they all hate each other and nobody really gets along.This is all for the show and the truth is, no, the fact is we all get together. brother, dear friend. "
Member Chronology
Discography
The original Celtic Woman featured "Song for the Mira" with several Grammy Award winners, Anne Murray for her 2007 EMI release "Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends." "Song of the Mira" performance/montage interview appeared on the DVD included with "Anne Murray's Christmas Album," released in 2008.
In 2017, the Celtic Woman Album (Voice of Angels) sells in America and Ireland. Perpetrators are Tara McNeill, Mairead Carlin, Eabha McMahon and Susan McFadden.
Awards and honor
In 2007, Celtic Woman won the EBBA Award. Each year, the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize the success of ten artists or groups of new arrivals who reached audiences outside of their own country with their first album released internationally last year. Celtic Woman: Destiny received a nomination for the 59th Grammy Awards (2017) in the category of "Best World Music Album".
References
External links
- Official website
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