Clann IS Everything! We Protect and defend our OWN!
Hell, the Italians have NOTHING on "Irish Mafia"! The Irish/Celts had Mafia like doings LONG before the Italians thought of it! Only the IRISH didn't Harm Innocent people! They believed in Fighting agenst English rule! They were called "Feinian"!
Moyra Bennan, Clannad's Lead Singer is comming to our MIlwaukee Irishfest THIS year!! I can't WAIT!
Clannad is beast, they are my life, the only reason i live, I work out to this shit day and night, and when i go shower i close my eyes and listen as the mystic rain hits my flesh, rum de rum ' rud a derimo !!!!!!
@Grolloo No, only the 'Clann' bit means family, the 'ad' is abbreviation for 'as Dobhar', Gaelic for 'from Dore', Dore being the village they are from, therefore, Clannad really means 'Family from Dore'.
@bluebaydogg its incredible, just the way she alters the notes as she sings, it puts me in mind of a breeze drifting through trees and over rocks, almost spirit like like. hard to describe how it makes me feel really. very powerful stuff. sorry for rambling on.
@rebbeccanne Well I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Syrian. On my Syrian side, we are descended from a Scot that ended up staying after the Crusades. A lot more to figure out. LOL
clannad are musical geniuses. I saw them live two years ago at the london palladium and the music was beautiful . I closed my eyes and took in the wonderful sounds. The highlight was meeting the band after the concert. I cried. Thank you Moya, Ciaran Pradraig and Noel for producing fantastic music. Your fans are waiting for your next album
It is a miracle - the way they use electric and electronic instruments to create something absolutely organic, biological, living, ancient and even rustical... There is only one person I can think about that is able to do alike - Vangelis. I find Him and Clannad my 'teachers' when I struggle to create little pieces of my own little music. Without Clannad almost nothing would be in my life as it is (no matter I live in a completely different country and have different stories to share by music)
This really stirs my Irish blood. I loved these people from the first time I heard them in a filler spot the local television station used to play late at night.
Marvellous!!! I heard first time about Clannad, not too long time ago. My best Polish friend told me: its a very good group... AND YES? INDEED!!! Thank U, Diana :P
I'm Polish but lived in Ireland for three years. The most wonderful years in my life in the most amazing and mystical place in the world. I wish I could've stayed there 4ever.. Ireland REALLY is pure magic. Thank you all Irish people for being Irish, and thank God for creating Ireland. Love you.
I'm Polish but lived in Ireland for three years. The most wonderful years in my life in the most amazing and mystical place in the world. I wish I could've stayed there 4ever.. Ireland REALLY is pure magic. Thank you all Irish people for being Irish, and thank God for creating Ireland. Love you.
Michael Tsarion has written about the true Irish legacy in his books The Irish Origins of Civilization. It explained a lot to me..the attraction to Celtic music, the attraction to megalithic culture and the strange feeling of being home when I am in Ireland...Holland is my motherland from birth, but Ireland seems to be my souls motherland...
i think the cells our bodies have memories present in them from our ancestors...dna and its as if they feel through us...in a way.. stirring us to emotions through certain musical pieces or instruments
I love this! I'm from England but my ancestry is Scottish and Irish. I might not be a full-blood Celt, but the pulse beats just as strong. I'm also a pagan and this song helps me to meditate.
Clannad made traditional Irish music mainstream; and most of this people are members of the Brennan family. Maire the lead singer is Enya's sister; her elder by six years. Enya worked two years with this group before she went solo.
I dont know.. google moya's website its quite good... it will have dates.. we went to see their 1st they where getting into the swing of it... it was very good a real crowd pleaser... GO
It was great music when I lived in Belfast. Now, all the notes give me a chill of ghosts of the past from an island that is still haunting me. I call my book "The Curse of the Irish woman"... And I* have my reason fro doing so!
Anyone interested in learning more about Newgrange and its sacred alignments, myths and cosmology should take a look at the book "Island of the Setting Sun - In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers" by Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore.
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Celtic Woman is the most fake "Irish" group I can possibly think of. They're a bunch of Catholic chior girls. Sure, they have good voices but they're too damn mechanical. I will admit that I used to like them, I even went to their show in Denver, but they are a bunch of fakes.
I have to agree with you here. Celtic Woman has a lot of good talent and excellent voices, but they're adding too much "fluff" like lights and stuff to cover it up. Musically, they sound good, but visually a bit sappy.
And I'm sure fans will crucify me for saying that.
They may make good music, but they call themselve "Celtic Woman" and they're music isn't even close to being traditional! They are good musicians all of them, and very talented, they just aren't traditional. They aren't the LEAST bit Celtic. They are a neo-celtic/latin/spanish/french/etc. with heavy classical influence. Celtic music, the way it should be, is pub music.
@krose90 re:Celtic Woman - What you're calling Celtic/pub music is Trad Irish, FTMP. Celtic music is music by Celts, broadly. This Includes Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, French, Spanish, Swiss, Italian, Baltic, Icelandic, American, etc., extending to Northern India and even Mongolia. The Celts roamed the breadth of Eurasia from the Atlantic to China, and if you listen to Hindustani music, you'll hear something of the same drone + sinuous melody + drum sound that's in Irish music. (cont.)
(cont.) Just listen to Hari Prasad Chaurasia play the bansuri, the traditional bamboo flute of Indian folk music, and you'll hear what I'm getting at. Japanese shakuhachi even has much of the haunting, note-bending sound that characterises Celtic music. I actually think think that Indo-Celtic sound goes back to when humans started playing melodic music on flutes made from the wing bones of soaring birds and reeds. (cont.)
(cont.) So, in a sense, Clannad, Enya, and Celtic Woman produce re-created/constructed/configured "proto-Celtic" music - what often is referred to as "New Age" or "World" music, rather than Trad Irish - which I love to smithereens! LOL (BTW - polkas have been added to the airs, jigs, reels, and hornpipes that largely make up Trad - and they're Polish ! ;D) Cheers, all - and Sláinte Mhath!
Celtic traditions include Irish, Scottish and Welsh. None of the other nationalities that you have listen. Being raised in Scotland, I should know. The music that Celtic Women play is NOT Celtic. It may have a slight Celtic influence, but it's heavily muted by the church choir sound. And everyone should know that before there was Catholicism there was Paganism, therefore church music is not Celtic!
Whom do you think Caesar was fighting in northern Italy and France - as well as Britannia, where Hadrian's wall was built to hold back the "hordes of barbarians" from the north (i.e., Scotland)? Gauls and Picts, as the Romans referred to them, or Celts. Iceland was settled by Norsemen, many of whom took Irish women as their mates. The Scotti were a tribe of Celts who emigrated from Hibernia. Go to Wikipedia's pages on Hibernia, Norse-Gaels, Prehistoric Iberia, Iberians, Isle of Man, etc. (cont.)
(cont.) In fact, every region I listed does have Celtic-influenced traditions, because Celts live there.
Celtic Women shows do feature some "recent" music from the Church, not Celtic folk tradition, but early church music - Gregorian chant, etc. - has the drone and parallel 4th, 5th, and octave harmony that is common in Celtic music, as does much ancient music. So, I think we can agree: Celtic Women is a modern production that isn't Trad, but has increased the world's focus on Celtic music. :D
Um, Clannad started doing this in the 70s and Riverdance wasn't until the mid-90s. Besides, they're based both on the same Celtic/Irish backgrounds, I think that's the point...
BTW anyone who thinks Michael Flatley, Celtic Woman or any other Las Vegas style hogwash is Irish you need to get out your tur lura aye eh records and just go away with your priests and your Paddyhwackery FOREVER! Clannad, Altan, Chieftains, Kila, O'Maonlaoi, Lasarfhiona, O'Lionaird and a host of unheralded others are the face of Ireland!
Although I agree that the more traditional artist like Clannad and Altan are the face of Ireland, Celtic Woman is just as Irish, Celtic Woman, for me was my first Irish music love, then after them I discoverd great and tallanted artist, like the ones you stated, Celtic Woman is just as Irish as Clannad.
Most countries conquer the world around them with swords, guns, bombs, deception, exploitation, divide and rule, and the death of innocents - Ireland does it with music, lyrics, literature, wit and our "celtic" charm. No wonder half the world is Irish and the other half wants to be.
you Americans need to get yourselves to southern ireland and really see and feel what its like, it will blow all your rap crap away
and transport you back to the way your ancestors lived and sang. Try the ring of kerry. if you dont then your not realy amrican of irish descent. lets call this YOUR pillgrimage. bring lots of euros for guiness lol
I agree with you 100%, Americans are WAY TOO OBSESSED with hearing ''so called music'' that is just a bunch of curse words mixed with a bad rythmn and men who look like airheads with their braids and pants that go down to their ankles which makes them look ''cool'' when it really isn't. Rap music is patethic
I bet they don't, however this is the music I grew up with in Ireland and I tell ya, boy oh, when I moved to the USA no one appreciated the music I could play and sing.
fair play to you !! another person with a brain !!! try this (i am pagan though but you guys may like it amen in gaelic is AMEN by theway THE LORDS PRAYer Ar n-Athair, a tha air neamh, gum bu naomh a bhios t'ainm ; gun tigeadh do rioghachd, gun deanar do thoil air talamh mar a thathas ga deanamh air neamh. Thoir dhuinn an diugh ar n-aran lathail math dhuinn ar fiachan, mar a mhathas sinne do luchd ar fiach. Agus na leig ann am buaireadh sinn. Ach saor sinn bhon olc. Amen.
Southern Ireland?Why not come to the biggest Gaeltacht in Ireland in Donegal home of the O 'Donnell's the last Gael Kings on this Island and home to this very group,or did you think Donegal was part of the six counties?There are more Gaels per square inch in this County than any other so up yours and your ''Southern Ireland'' Go n-ithe an diabhaln do cheann.
Yiz wouldnt have been much without Fiach mac Aed O Broin and us filthy Dubs would ye Nordy dope. Red Hugh wouldnt have gotten out of Dublin castle and he would have lost more then his Big toes freezin in the snow! O'Donnell ABU but Soil Ealaigh abu aswell.
You lived far from the Gall while we held our own in the middle of it and werent granted fancy titles by the Gall like your lot. Youre Gael cos of Geography in Leinster we are Gael because we fought for it
Well eventhough I do love Clannad, I must say that the version that Orla Fallon of Celtic Woman sings is just so much more magical and haunting. She is pure vocals.
Of course someone could beat the original, if they did a good enough new version. That is, I'm not saying that Clannad's version is bad. But different artists have different styles, and it's really just a matter of personal taste when it comes down to which one is better.
What's America's obsession with Celtic Woman, they are not Celtic in any way!! People like Clannad are the true meaning of Celtic and Irish, they are the saviours of Ireland's musical and language culture and heritage!!
Was this another of the Maire Brennan "Those english idiots think I'm singing english" numbers? Round and round the Devon moor anyone? More than one twinkle in the lady's eye I'm sure. Thankyou for posting this really is beautiful.
Seen clannad live in lincoln castle in early 90's & even meet maire, all i did was ask to see her and she just came out for a chat, even got a kiss, god it was awesome the best band ive seen live.Maire was so down to earth.
Enya started as a part of Clannad group and then moved on
fightofthewolf 2 months ago in playlist Clannad
Lost is the race that no one knows,hmmm is our history really what were TOLD:)
windmillsea113 3 months ago
Clann IS Everything! We Protect and defend our OWN!
Hell, the Italians have NOTHING on "Irish Mafia"! The Irish/Celts had Mafia like doings LONG before the Italians thought of it! Only the IRISH didn't Harm Innocent people! They believed in Fighting agenst English rule! They were called "Feinian"!
Moyra Bennan, Clannad's Lead Singer is comming to our MIlwaukee Irishfest THIS year!! I can't WAIT!
MrTamadrummer3 6 months ago
Clannad is beast, they are my life, the only reason i live, I work out to this shit day and night, and when i go shower i close my eyes and listen as the mystic rain hits my flesh, rum de rum ' rud a derimo !!!!!!
SteelgodLink 8 months ago
Beautifull song, they are ever an ispiration.
Btw, I'm pissed of about a japanese animation that use the title "Clannad", they has any respect :(
merzhin 8 months ago
I haven't heard a single song by Clannad I liked after they went Hollywood-New Age.
msponsler1 8 months ago in playlist Clannad
'Clannad' means 'Family' in Gaelic - they are family.
Grolloo 10 months ago
@Grolloo No, only the 'Clann' bit means family, the 'ad' is abbreviation for 'as Dobhar', Gaelic for 'from Dore', Dore being the village they are from, therefore, Clannad really means 'Family from Dore'.
Sportymike 8 months ago
Brother and Uncles also
TheCreidhne 1 year ago
Newgrange- where else?
LambayJim 1 year ago
this song has haunted me since first hearing it way back in the eighties. sends a shiver up my spine.
spooksixsix 1 year ago 5
@spooksixsix It has the same effect on me.
Stemax1960 1 year ago
@spooksixsix imagine the soul she carries, to bring this out.. amazing !
bluebaydogg 9 months ago
@bluebaydogg its incredible, just the way she alters the notes as she sings, it puts me in mind of a breeze drifting through trees and over rocks, almost spirit like like. hard to describe how it makes me feel really. very powerful stuff. sorry for rambling on.
spooksixsix 9 months ago
There is one polish band with the same name - 'Newgrange'. It plays simmilar music. You can watch it here: watch?v=ziljkpIRBQg
outslider1 1 year ago
I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/2 scotish, Figure that one out
rebbeccanne 1 year ago
@rebbeccanne
I don't see what their is to figure out, that sounds perfectly normal, if you where non Celtic, then I'd not give a shit to be honest.....
phr34kyy 1 year ago
@rebbeccanne Well I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Syrian. On my Syrian side, we are descended from a Scot that ended up staying after the Crusades. A lot more to figure out. LOL
srhanna 10 months ago
clannad are musical geniuses. I saw them live two years ago at the london palladium and the music was beautiful . I closed my eyes and took in the wonderful sounds. The highlight was meeting the band after the concert. I cried. Thank you Moya, Ciaran Pradraig and Noel for producing fantastic music. Your fans are waiting for your next album
euphena 1 year ago
One of my many many many favorite groups. Never was a real Enya fan...but I am a fan of her sister. Beautiful voice.
vickiehill1 1 year ago
sends shivers down my spine!!!!!, really hits the depts of your soul!!
rugbyballs25 1 year ago
And I must say this straight from the carpathian highlander's heart : Thank you for the Clannad, Éire!
scumimpaler 1 year ago 3
It is a miracle - the way they use electric and electronic instruments to create something absolutely organic, biological, living, ancient and even rustical... There is only one person I can think about that is able to do alike - Vangelis. I find Him and Clannad my 'teachers' when I struggle to create little pieces of my own little music. Without Clannad almost nothing would be in my life as it is (no matter I live in a completely different country and have different stories to share by music)
scumimpaler 1 year ago
This really stirs my Irish blood. I loved these people from the first time I heard them in a filler spot the local television station used to play late at night.
wolfpat 1 year ago
Marvellous!!! I heard first time about Clannad, not too long time ago. My best Polish friend told me: its a very good group... AND YES? INDEED!!! Thank U, Diana :P
lezlie1974 1 year ago
I'm Polish but lived in Ireland for three years. The most wonderful years in my life in the most amazing and mystical place in the world. I wish I could've stayed there 4ever.. Ireland REALLY is pure magic. Thank you all Irish people for being Irish, and thank God for creating Ireland. Love you.
26jurgen09 1 year ago 2
I'm Polish but lived in Ireland for three years. The most wonderful years in my life in the most amazing and mystical place in the world. I wish I could've stayed there 4ever.. Ireland REALLY is pure magic. Thank you all Irish people for being Irish, and thank God for creating Ireland. Love you.
26jurgen09 1 year ago 3
Clannad has a great sound like no one else.
38jweikel 1 year ago
One of their best !! Phalaïna
PhalainaBelgium 1 year ago
Paved the way did they....beautiful. I wish i had learned of this music years ago.
winedoctor011 1 year ago
Sister Olive on backup vocals; you can hear her clearly. Everyone in that family sings.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
Michael Tsarion has written about the true Irish legacy in his books The Irish Origins of Civilization. It explained a lot to me..the attraction to Celtic music, the attraction to megalithic culture and the strange feeling of being home when I am in Ireland...Holland is my motherland from birth, but Ireland seems to be my souls motherland...
InnerVoiceAngel 2 years ago
@InnerVoiceAngel: now that's strange.. I'm from holland too but when I first set foot to Ireland something happened. This country is magical.
ascheepe 2 years ago 5
Sorry: Clannad! :)
LeslieWolf71 2 years ago
Love Clanned! From Hungary!
LeslieWolf71 2 years ago 2
The Irish are a race of exiles(from Atlantis).Newgrange is the key.There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
SPLUNGEBO 2 years ago 3
i think the cells our bodies have memories present in them from our ancestors...dna and its as if they feel through us...in a way.. stirring us to emotions through certain musical pieces or instruments
judyleeverro1 2 years ago 2
Too slow.
orbandsceptre27 2 years ago
But we are NOT a forgotten race.
We are just silently, patiently waiting for 2012...
There is more than one definition of apocalypse.
;)
SwimmingJewels 2 years ago
She's Enya's sister. Though Clannad were famous well before she was.
rowanirish 2 years ago 17
@rowanirish I really like them because they do a great deal of live gigs. I never heard Enya sing live.
posey400 1 year ago
this song stirs something deep inside. must be my ancestry. my father is an irishman.
spooksixsix 2 years ago 3
brilliant 5*
Equilibriumforever 2 years ago
I love this! I'm from England but my ancestry is Scottish and Irish. I might not be a full-blood Celt, but the pulse beats just as strong. I'm also a pagan and this song helps me to meditate.
Angel100475 2 years ago 4
Blessed be.
HeartoftheDragonColo 2 years ago 2
Proud to be irish
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago 26
Well I'm not Irish but I reckon I get a similar buzz to you matey ;)
WatTyler13 2 years ago
I find this music matches dreaming at night. This is the spiritual side of Irish and other Celtic people that I try not to lose.
squidcreek 2 years ago 2
Great live performance: one of the best.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago 2
I saw them at Southport floral hall in the late 80s they were fantastic, late going on but still fantastic.
vainparasite 2 years ago
Clannad rule this type of music forget the rest kids! Brilliant live too...
rufusandburne 2 years ago
Unbelievable music.
It moves the heart.... The Celtic feeling is like no other....
bas agus bhuaidh
willdy1984 2 years ago 2
Clannad made traditional Irish music mainstream; and most of this people are members of the Brennan family. Maire the lead singer is Enya's sister; her elder by six years. Enya worked two years with this group before she went solo.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
cracking song
dan1919breen 2 years ago
me 2! :)
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago
Could you upload Child of the sea from Clannad?
OentOent 2 years ago
Moya Brennan is good vocal singer on Clannad group! She is very good at it! Cheer!!!
celticdrw 2 years ago
do you have the OST to "the last of the mohicans"?
joebore 2 years ago
Orla is definitely better my god her version gives me chills constantly.
UndercoverCracker 2 years ago
orla from celtic woman? theyre crap
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago
You definitely need new ears this isnt as good as Orlas version...
UndercoverCracker 2 years ago
@UndercoverCracker..
My ears are perfectly fine. In my view this version is better. You see, it's what most people would call a matter of opinion.
willdy1984 2 years ago 2
Your opinions wrong though..lol
UndercoverCracker 2 years ago
celtic mysticism at its finest - what artistes.
anyone who doesnt like this lacks the requisite celtic soul
scientificamerica 2 years ago
she looks like she's scared of the crowd
fuckingc 2 years ago
makes one proud to be Irish.
sanshuz 2 years ago 4
conas a ta tu?
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago
Friggin rpg music with vocals, I love it!
eexot 2 years ago
Iontach deas, maith sibh clannad
stormloopers 2 years ago 5
I went to se her a few weeks ago in kendal, England.. It was the first date of a tour
Thegreenroomgroup 2 years ago
are they still on tour?
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago
I dont know.. google moya's website its quite good... it will have dates.. we went to see their 1st they where getting into the swing of it... it was very good a real crowd pleaser... GO
Thegreenroomgroup 2 years ago
Wow Amazing!!!
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago 2
At this point in time, Maire and Enya looked like sisters. Another sister, Olive or Bridin, is featured here. Resemblance is unmistakable.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
I was about to say - Is that Enya or Moya??
McBangus 2 years ago
Hahaha i remember this in intermission
bethelordjesus 3 years ago
This, Harry's Game, No Laethe Bhi, The Hunter are my favorites. It's sad to see they lost this creative vibe of their songs at some point.
jfeltz 3 years ago
personally for me one of ther best songs, they did great on it clannad is awesome and will always be one of my favourite bands
ebachelder 3 years ago 2
The concert in Maastricht, december '96 was one of the best concerts i've ever seen.
Brilliant !!
wots36 3 years ago
It was great music when I lived in Belfast. Now, all the notes give me a chill of ghosts of the past from an island that is still haunting me. I call my book "The Curse of the Irish woman"... And I* have my reason fro doing so!
Morten Alme
bohemianwriter1 3 years ago 2
I love Clannad. If someone else is covering their music, like on Celtic Woman, great!
amen4ramen 3 years ago
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straight up ive fucked moya it was a few years ago but i have fucked her a nice little whore back then she was.Thanks moya!
Realdaddyuk 3 years ago
This was one of my favorite songs in High School, it was perfect chill music.
LordGertz 3 years ago 2
Awesome, love Clannad :)
Babsy6677 3 years ago
Family resemblance betw Moya and sister Enya
plain here.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
Anyone interested in learning more about Newgrange and its sacred alignments, myths and cosmology should take a look at the book "Island of the Setting Sun - In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers" by Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore.
mythicalireland 3 years ago
celtic woman version is so better !!!
ratotal 3 years ago
This outfit wrote the song.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
You obviously don't know your Irish music. Celtic Woman are the Girls Aloud of Irish music!
Sportymike 3 years ago
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Celtic Woman is the most fake "Irish" group I can possibly think of. They're a bunch of Catholic chior girls. Sure, they have good voices but they're too damn mechanical. I will admit that I used to like them, I even went to their show in Denver, but they are a bunch of fakes.
krose90 3 years ago
I have to agree with you here. Celtic Woman has a lot of good talent and excellent voices, but they're adding too much "fluff" like lights and stuff to cover it up. Musically, they sound good, but visually a bit sappy.
And I'm sure fans will crucify me for saying that.
lunescent2007 2 years ago
yeah. do you like your ears?
desalpha2007 2 years ago
Very much because I can hear music with them.
lunescent2007 2 years ago
They may make good music, but they call themselve "Celtic Woman" and they're music isn't even close to being traditional! They are good musicians all of them, and very talented, they just aren't traditional. They aren't the LEAST bit Celtic. They are a neo-celtic/latin/spanish/french/etc. with heavy classical influence. Celtic music, the way it should be, is pub music.
krose90 2 years ago 4
@krose90 re:Celtic Woman - What you're calling Celtic/pub music is Trad Irish, FTMP. Celtic music is music by Celts, broadly. This Includes Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, French, Spanish, Swiss, Italian, Baltic, Icelandic, American, etc., extending to Northern India and even Mongolia. The Celts roamed the breadth of Eurasia from the Atlantic to China, and if you listen to Hindustani music, you'll hear something of the same drone + sinuous melody + drum sound that's in Irish music. (cont.)
Valvicus 2 years ago
(cont.) Just listen to Hari Prasad Chaurasia play the bansuri, the traditional bamboo flute of Indian folk music, and you'll hear what I'm getting at. Japanese shakuhachi even has much of the haunting, note-bending sound that characterises Celtic music. I actually think think that Indo-Celtic sound goes back to when humans started playing melodic music on flutes made from the wing bones of soaring birds and reeds. (cont.)
Valvicus 2 years ago
(cont.) So, in a sense, Clannad, Enya, and Celtic Woman produce re-created/constructed/configured "proto-Celtic" music - what often is referred to as "New Age" or "World" music, rather than Trad Irish - which I love to smithereens! LOL (BTW - polkas have been added to the airs, jigs, reels, and hornpipes that largely make up Trad - and they're Polish ! ;D) Cheers, all - and Sláinte Mhath!
Valvicus 2 years ago
P.S. - I omitted perhaps the prime purveyor of "proto-Celtic" music: Loreena McKennitt. (I'd wager she loves Trad, too! ;D)
Valvicus 2 years ago
Celtic traditions include Irish, Scottish and Welsh. None of the other nationalities that you have listen. Being raised in Scotland, I should know. The music that Celtic Women play is NOT Celtic. It may have a slight Celtic influence, but it's heavily muted by the church choir sound. And everyone should know that before there was Catholicism there was Paganism, therefore church music is not Celtic!
krose90 2 years ago 3
So True!
AnAuldDubliner 2 years ago
Whom do you think Caesar was fighting in northern Italy and France - as well as Britannia, where Hadrian's wall was built to hold back the "hordes of barbarians" from the north (i.e., Scotland)? Gauls and Picts, as the Romans referred to them, or Celts. Iceland was settled by Norsemen, many of whom took Irish women as their mates. The Scotti were a tribe of Celts who emigrated from Hibernia. Go to Wikipedia's pages on Hibernia, Norse-Gaels, Prehistoric Iberia, Iberians, Isle of Man, etc. (cont.)
Valvicus 2 years ago
(cont.) In fact, every region I listed does have Celtic-influenced traditions, because Celts live there.
Celtic Women shows do feature some "recent" music from the Church, not Celtic folk tradition, but early church music - Gregorian chant, etc. - has the drone and parallel 4th, 5th, and octave harmony that is common in Celtic music, as does much ancient music. So, I think we can agree: Celtic Women is a modern production that isn't Trad, but has increased the world's focus on Celtic music. :D
Valvicus 2 years ago
lol Thank you. =]
krose90 2 years ago
@ratotal Many here are obviously afraid of the truth.
63utuber 9 months ago
Sorry that comment was intended for lukeyboy.
RedbeardNC 3 years ago
classic
storerettz 3 years ago
Voice of an angel!
Phoneasaurus 3 years ago
agreed! and I love their arrangement, like a mystical feel, takes you back to the old celtic days.
dogbert2010 3 years ago
sorry Bobby:(
kevin27b 3 years ago
thats great, first time I have seen clannads personal apprearance. The set looks alot like the Riverdance set in the old days - faux pas
lukeyboy95 3 years ago
Well Riverdance was very much influnced by the whole Clannad theme of Celtic mysticism.
Sportymike 3 years ago
Um, Clannad started doing this in the 70s and Riverdance wasn't until the mid-90s. Besides, they're based both on the same Celtic/Irish backgrounds, I think that's the point...
RedbeardNC 3 years ago
my mother was english my father a paddy. i like all kinds of music. but this stuff by clannad is in a league of its own, to be enjoyed by everyone.
SUPAALBION 3 years ago
BTW anyone who thinks Michael Flatley, Celtic Woman or any other Las Vegas style hogwash is Irish you need to get out your tur lura aye eh records and just go away with your priests and your Paddyhwackery FOREVER! Clannad, Altan, Chieftains, Kila, O'Maonlaoi, Lasarfhiona, O'Lionaird and a host of unheralded others are the face of Ireland!
lisduggan2 3 years ago
While I agree with you. :) Hopefully the people that listen to those that you mentioned will go further in to the genre?
blackwatch07 3 years ago
Although I agree that the more traditional artist like Clannad and Altan are the face of Ireland, Celtic Woman is just as Irish, Celtic Woman, for me was my first Irish music love, then after them I discoverd great and tallanted artist, like the ones you stated, Celtic Woman is just as Irish as Clannad.
IrelandsChild 3 years ago
Agreed lisduggan2... But let's not forget: Anuna, Liam Ó Maonlaí, The Corrs, among so many other amazing Irish performers...
RadCelt 3 years ago
Most countries conquer the world around them with swords, guns, bombs, deception, exploitation, divide and rule, and the death of innocents - Ireland does it with music, lyrics, literature, wit and our "celtic" charm. No wonder half the world is Irish and the other half wants to be.
Slán agus beannacht!!!
lisduggan2 3 years ago
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Clannads very good but fuck the irish. & Bob Dylan kicks clannads ass kid!
rufusandburne 3 years ago
Fuck the Irish? You should be so lucky.
Kicking asses? Why would Bob Dylan want to kick Clannad's donkey?
lisduggan2 3 years ago
siete fantastici...il celtico....fantaastici...
camiTurner 3 years ago
Id love to be able to live in the Gaeltacht for 20 years and just learn from the people.. The customs , the lore of Ireland itself.. SAVE TARA!!!!!
sylvanus93 3 years ago
Beautiful. Let me give a shout out to my family in Thomastown Killkenny :)
SockBoy65 3 years ago
you Americans need to get yourselves to southern ireland and really see and feel what its like, it will blow all your rap crap away
and transport you back to the way your ancestors lived and sang. Try the ring of kerry. if you dont then your not realy amrican of irish descent. lets call this YOUR pillgrimage. bring lots of euros for guiness lol
blisterj 3 years ago
I agree with you 100%, Americans are WAY TOO OBSESSED with hearing ''so called music'' that is just a bunch of curse words mixed with a bad rythmn and men who look like airheads with their braids and pants that go down to their ankles which makes them look ''cool'' when it really isn't. Rap music is patethic
Alfredo234456 3 years ago
From an American, I agree that rap is pathetic. If there was one American music genre that should have stayed(and died) in the US, its rap.
morgoth195 3 years ago
I couldn't agree more
Alfredo234456 3 years ago
They just don't have the requisite Celtic soul, man.
lordjebus2000 3 years ago 2
Yes i do!!!
lordjebus2000 3 years ago 2
I bet they don't, however this is the music I grew up with in Ireland and I tell ya, boy oh, when I moved to the USA no one appreciated the music I could play and sing.
Alfredo234456 3 years ago
That's a brave statement
blackynomates 3 years ago
YA SCUMMY FUCK!!
J0CKNANE 3 years ago
Who are you calling scummy ?, I know you ain't calling me that, if you are, look up a dictionary and get some better vocabulary
Alfredo234456 3 years ago
RE: "You Americans need to get yourselves to southern ireland and really see and feel what its like, it will blow all your rap crap away..."
If I could scream AMEN in Gaelic in response to this, standing on top of the Sun Trust building downtown, I'd do it right now.
floridaredhead 3 years ago
blisterj 3 years ago
blisteri - I'm what you might call Unitarian with a Pagan twist. I tried being Anglican but it didn't work out for me.
floridaredhead 3 years ago
20 years ago I started my Pagan walk.
But it eventually evolved into something a little more universal.
floridaredhead 3 years ago
Southern Ireland?Why not come to the biggest Gaeltacht in Ireland in Donegal home of the O 'Donnell's the last Gael Kings on this Island and home to this very group,or did you think Donegal was part of the six counties?There are more Gaels per square inch in this County than any other so up yours and your ''Southern Ireland'' Go n-ithe an diabhaln do cheann.
joesoap81 3 years ago
Yiz wouldnt have been much without Fiach mac Aed O Broin and us filthy Dubs would ye Nordy dope. Red Hugh wouldnt have gotten out of Dublin castle and he would have lost more then his Big toes freezin in the snow! O'Donnell ABU but Soil Ealaigh abu aswell.
You lived far from the Gall while we held our own in the middle of it and werent granted fancy titles by the Gall like your lot. Youre Gael cos of Geography in Leinster we are Gael because we fought for it
James Byrne
ArdRi79 3 years ago
These guys are awesome live, I'd love to see them :)
nymphoclairy 3 years ago 2
Let the magic transport you back
nortonwood 4 years ago
So haunting, so moving .......
fishfan61 4 years ago
Classic.
AidanKTiD 4 years ago 2
enya used to sing in this band
Kingcoinhunter 4 years ago 2
Of course.
rufusandburne 4 years ago
there were two sisters side by side
poeteop 4 years ago 2
I met moya brennan
amyxyz 4 years ago 2
i did she is a nice lady!
rufusandburne 4 years ago
Well eventhough I do love Clannad, I must say that the version that Orla Fallon of Celtic Woman sings is just so much more magical and haunting. She is pure vocals.
Palmie01 4 years ago
lol...
rufusandburne 4 years ago
I have to agree. I especially like the beginning of her version more. I find her version more mysterious and beautiful.
KestradEifera 4 years ago
Haven't heard the Celtic Woman version, so I can't comment on it, but surely you can't beat the original?!
Dab051176 4 years ago 2
Of course someone could beat the original, if they did a good enough new version. That is, I'm not saying that Clannad's version is bad. But different artists have different styles, and it's really just a matter of personal taste when it comes down to which one is better.
KestradEifera 4 years ago
Both versions are mysterious and beautiful in very different ways.
lunescent2007 2 years ago
What's America's obsession with Celtic Woman, they are not Celtic in any way!! People like Clannad are the true meaning of Celtic and Irish, they are the saviours of Ireland's musical and language culture and heritage!!
Sportymike 4 years ago 3
Great performance only one thing i don't like...i wasn't there when it was performed :)
Crusty2006 4 years ago 3
Was this another of the Maire Brennan "Those english idiots think I'm singing english" numbers? Round and round the Devon moor anyone? More than one twinkle in the lady's eye I'm sure. Thankyou for posting this really is beautiful.
weasalpj 4 years ago
Her name is Moya
fluffybum100 4 years ago
fenomenalne, potrafią stworzyc klimat.
zawirek33 4 years ago
Anyone know when/where this was?
HullBloke1313 4 years ago
Does anyone know when/where this was?
HullBloke1313 4 years ago
Looks familiar - I think this might have been the "Gael Force" concert in Dublin. 1997 rings a bell, but I might be wrong....
Dab051176 3 years ago
Seen clannad live in lincoln castle in early 90's & even meet maire, all i did was ask to see her and she just came out for a chat, even got a kiss, god it was awesome the best band ive seen live.Maire was so down to earth.
rufusandburne 4 years ago
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me tunes man they robbed me fucking tunes , intermission if you haven't seen it watch it now FUCKING DELICIS
Derek070182 4 years ago
yeah man, celtic mysticism and all that....gotta love Colm Meaney
Bodanny 4 years ago
And again, in English, please?
HullBloke1313 4 years ago
Shouldnt a pissed on me leg man
buckybronco 4 years ago
Clannad's live performances are the best of the best in subject of music I ever heard.
LughLongArm 4 years ago
Great live version from a fantastic song !!
LanaLaika 4 years ago
simply magical!
toonlad66 4 years ago 2
Ilike Clannad so much i went and bought every album they have made..i must say my 2 favs are Land Marks and Past Present
sylvanus93 4 years ago
Clannad really is the best! :D
3zra 4 years ago