Loreena McKennet does the best version of "Star of the County Down" I've ever heard. It's on my travelling CD in the car, and when it comes up in the rotation I hit Repeat and listen to it at least three times. Never gets old for me.
Loreena Mckinnett
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Yah, but can she play a tuba?
"". Sorry Canadians don't seem to support or have pride in fellow Canadians just because they don't like that genre of music - I admit it is like that in the states as well, so I am making it a point not to criticize Canadians on a Canadian site!!""
So saying Canadians don't seem to support or have pride in fellow Canadians is not to be construed as critical of Canadians. You can't have it both ways. We either do or don't, and who are you to say what Canadians in general do or don't like or support.? Calling us sorry is a further diss.
I think you are engaging in troll practise 101. You'll do well here if that's the case.
Hit any button you wish.
First of all, I am so sorry to hear that your wife is dying of early onset Alzheimer's. I am sorry for her, for you and your family and friends, it's a tough road to walk.
Loreena McKinnet is a multi-talented artist. I have listened to her since I was a teen. She frequently resides in Stratford Ontario. I lived in Stratford for many years and it is an artist's paradise and the heart of culture. A neighbour of mine from there did her bookings for her for a while and set up her world tours. I think her music appeals to smaller select group of people rather than just the general public as do many of the best things in the world. Her style is not for everyone.
She appeals to me because her music touches me on some deep primal level. There is a wildness to her music that allows the soul to transcend time and space and the physicality of our earthly body. I believe she is an old soul, and as such is recognized by other old, old souls. Her music takes me back centuries to when I danced wildly around midnight fires and old fellow loves and heart travelers who are with me throughout the eons of time with every journey I have taken and will take.
Even how she looks physically, speaks of other times, other worlds and other dimensions. Methinks she is not quite of this world.
Cheers to you Peaches and good luck with your journey. May she ease the passage. Here are a few of my absolute favourites:
The Old Ways - Loreena McKennitt - YouTube
Loreena McKennitt - The Mummers' Dance (HQ) - YouTube
Loreena McKennitt The Lady Of Shalott - YouTube
A Time for Us - Loreena Mckennit (lyrics) - YouTube
Not that I've ever heard of, but a tuba wouldn't fit her style anyway, she's more into harps and drums and pipes. I might not be a proper Canadian though, I don't like much of Anne Murray's stuff and I don't like anything made from Saskatoon berries.
But I like this a lot: Loreena Mckennitt - The Star of the County Down - YouTube
And if that does nothing for you, try this virtuoso fingerpicking instrumental version of it: Star Of The County Down - Fingerstyle Guitar - YouTube
Thank you so much, I am hooked I have all but her Christmas work on my wife's ipod, I have watched the Alhambra DVD probably twenty times something in her music speaks to my suffering soul in this phase of my life. I am not Irish or Catholic but It is like medicine that eases my pain. If her accent is affected - well who wants to listen to a traditional Celtic ballad without without the lovely accent that fits the music - that too takes hard work and talent to achieve.
I do like the occasional beer but do not attend many October fests a tuba would fit right in there! Tuba remarks don't bother me I know you were just joking. That's fine. Wow, that's some fine finger picking very nice! I play a little guitar but it tends toward tabs from John Dowland and that period of the renaissance because most of the best music was written for the lute.
I go so far back with Loreena McKennitt that I remember ordering her cassette through the mail from Quinlan Road-plus I know how to spell her name!
First of all you be leaving the Irish and Scot mixture alone they are fine people.
Second there are all kinds of talented people who deserve to be listed and
given more exposure in Canadian music. Many don't want that distinction as it
sometimes back fires at home.
She is good and very good, but like I said there are others who have performed
own their own studios and produce their own material
Second there are all kinds of talented people who deserve to be listed and
given more exposure in Canadian music. Many don't want that distinction as it
sometimes back fires at home.
She is good and very good, but like I said there are others who have performed
own their own studios and produce their own material
Well take her or leave her, her's is a niche audience, kind of like Enya's, her talent is without question from what I have seen. Don't understand what you're saying about the Irish and Scot mixture, that's just the heritage of her parents, Mine is english and I think lowland scot.
Typo I know how to spell it it is on the 13 CD/DVD's I own. I kind or remember hearing a recording of hers, think it was her Book of Secrets album at work around 2005. about 6 months ago I was tired of listening to Enya (soothing music to help calm my wife down and remembered that album so I searched for the artist on Amazon, and found her because she was compaired to Enya. Then I went to you tube and listened, found the quinlan road site and within 3 months I had ordered all of her music so I suppose I'm still in the honeymoon phase, but somehow her music helps me to cope because it gives expression to how I am feeling inside. Celtic music is sad but very beautiful and I am on anti depressants as well though I do not think they are really doing anything and will stop them when this phase of our life together is over. The finality of death will hit quite hard, true I have built up a hard crust because we have been on this Alzheimer's road together for over 7 years now, but when I think back the grief hits though I may only shed a tear or two it still hurts because we had a very good marriage over the past 21 years. I am not Irish or Catholic but Celtic music is something I like, not the pub music but the more classical music. I did order the quiet man an old John Wayne classic. Oh well, what more can be said think that's about it for this thread.
Peaches - I'm very sorry to learn of your wife's illness. I hope for the best for you and her.
I enjoy Loreena McKinnett's music as Elizabethan galliards and madrigals are among my favorite forms of music and these played a big role in influencing her music:
William byrd: My lady's Nevells Booke: A Galliards Gygge on Vimeo
I enjoy Loreena McKinnett's music as Elizabethan galliards and madrigals are among my favorite forms of music and these played a big role in influencing her music:
William byrd: My lady's Nevells Booke: A Galliards Gygge on Vimeo
Never ending pain and grief and with each decline it takes time to work through because there is no turning back. I am like a broken record because life is on hold. For me marriage is a sacred bond, a vow made before God that ends at death (of course desertion and abuse are appropriate grounds for a divorce). If a man has no honor he has nothing. I am her sole caregiver, her advocate looking out for her interests and wishes she expressed in her living will. We are only traveling through this life and I hope we have or are meeting our purpose. She has left a legacy of many nursing students who are still practicing, our boys, and her positive impact on the lives of others professionally and unprofessionally with friends and family.
I know william Byrd he wrote some wonderful pieces, Anthony Holborn, Dowland, and others of the period this niche audience is even smaller!