Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance (Live) - Loreena McKennitt

[view2rides]

Saw Loreena when she did her Ancient Muse tour across Canada in 2007, when it was just her and the harp on stage it gave me goosebumps. Wasn't a cheap ticket, but after that performance I'd gladly pay double. Thanks for the post, brings me back.

[vienna2100]

Well as you know I'm a huge fan of Irish dance/music, Bill, especially the Michael Flatley shows which are spellbinding .... the Irish music is heart lifting. I love the fiddles best! One of my best memories was when I had Irish jig music playing and my son Lee came downstairs clad only in Calvin Klein boxers and workboots and started to dance, boots tapping on the wooden floors. It was hilarious! " There you go, Ma" he told me beaming, " You don't need Michael Flatley you've got me ! "

[13Danjiri]

When I was a high schooler, one of the things I did to earn a buck here and there was be a roadie for a harpist. She was the music director at a church where I volunteered as a musician, and earned a living playing and singing solo at weddings and other functions. I don't play harp, so I can't comment on how hard the things are to play, but man, are they hard to move and to tune! The things are really top-heavy, so moving them is an exercise in brute strength and balance. Nice video, Dreaming.

[dreaminginmetaphors]

@13Danjiri this song inspires me to learn a musical instrument and I like this arrangement better than her studio version (which I also really like). And hey, what are you complaining about? Little cupids don't seem to have any trouble flying around with harps! *chuckle, chuckle*

[13Danjiri]

@dreaminginmetaphors Hang, on, Dreaming . . . how do you know those happy, mischevious little cherubs are "little"? You see the size of Ms. McKennitt's harp, right? Now, imagine all those images of Cupids you've seen flying around with harps; It would seem to me that there's nothing little about Cupid, but rather he's a huge, terrifying, angelic King Kong flying around piercing the hearts of the lovelorn with enormous lances. Maybe they look small because of depth perception . . .

(^-^)v

[vienna2100]

@13Danjiri What a lovely story :) My mum played the zither beautifully. Her zither was hand made and hand painted depicting Austrian wild flowers. My Aunt lived in Vienna next door to Anton Karas, who wrote and played the music for The Third Man, that superb film. As I recall he was a very shy man and if my memory serves me corectly he played the theme with my mother playing alongside him when we were all gathered together on our annual family reunion :) I hear a zither and I cry :)

[vienna2100]

@vienna2100 Oops, hope that didn't imply we were related to Anton Karas... that would be delusions of grandeur on my part! He was as I said shy, unhappy when not at home and very much a family man. He lived quietly and loathed the limelight. ( But not the Harry Lime-Light ) The relationship that did exist was neighbourly :)