Celtic Music
 

So, anyone here listen to Celtic music? Who's your favorite? What is it about Celtic music that you like? Or do you dislike it--why?

Personally, I think Celtic music is just relaxing and magical. I get in such a mood for it as soon as Fall arrives, actually. ^_^" And I absolutely love listening to gaelic songs. The language is just sooo beautiful!

I do! I couldn't tell you why exactly I ilke it. Something about it is relaxing and inspiring, I suppose, since I write while listening to it so often. I like a lot of Enya's music. Howard Baer too. I've got a couple others favorited on my Pandora, but I can't remember what they are off the top of my head.

What are your favorites?

Enya and Loreena McKennitt are major favorites. I also really like listening to Celtic Woman, 'cause their voices are just so pretty! And their fiddler is amazing. And the gaelic is just..so...:drool: >.> And Bonnie Rideout's a great fiddler, too. She's the reason I took up violin. XD

Haven't heard of Howard Baer before, though. *runs off to look him up*

I really love Celtic music myself as I listen to the Chieftons and I also go to the Scottish Highland games, it's quite an interesting place to be and a lovely cultural experience.

I love Celtic music. Not sure exactly why, though having grown up listening to it could play a part. The Thistle and Shamrock? Yes please! Lately my focus has been on singer/songwriter pop, but sometimes I'm just in the mood for relaxation. And that's when I throw on Clannad (and if you like Enya, you'll love Clannad) or Capercaillie or Cherish the Ladies. And the Chieftains are definitely awesome. (What is it with Celtic band names starting with C, anyway?)

haha Oh, I know Clannad. :D And youtube recently introduced my to Capercaille.

XD Clannad's a bit more... well, Celtic than Enya. Even though the two are definitely connected! (I think of Enya as new age music, really. And of Loreena McKennit as world fusion. Is that too picky?)

Oh, how about Leahy? Can't go wrong with them!

haha I know. I think of Enya and Loreena more as New Age, too, but they both do identify themselves as Celtic (and some of the first songs I heard from them definitely sounded like it). Clannad's actually the band Enya started in. But I never got terribly attached to Clannad. Don't really know why. I just didn't. Maybe 'cause I grew up with Riverdance...

Ooo! I'm likin' that video posted. Won me over the second I saw a fiddle. :D

I don't know that Loreena does, looking at some of her quotes. But ultimately it's up to the listener, I guess. And like I said, Clannad and Enya, connected. :)

Ohh, Riverdance is awesome! That's kind of Celtic/World Fusion, too, in some ways. Well, the one performance I went to sort of was.

Leahy = wicked awesome fiddling.

lol I went to her site and read her "about me" kinda thing. I personally agree that she covers a broader range than celtic, but she does state that it was through Celtic history and lore and such that she got started in music, having originally thought she was gonna be a veterinarian.

Ya...I never got to see Riverdance live. Childhood dreams...crushed...*runs into a corner and sobs*

Okay, point taken. XD

Riverdance isn't still touring?

They had their Farewell tour this past summer. They're goin abroad to Africa and Asia, apparently. It was so upsetting every time the ad would play on the radio. :gonk:

Ohh, no, I didn't even realize that, Starr. :hug: Guess I lucked out seeing them when I could, then.

T_T Seriously. My mom promised to take me to see them one day, but my dad always conveniently scheduled our vacations for whenever they were in town. :illgetu:

I think my mom wanted to see them as much as I did. My dad and my brother were not interested and simply didn't go.

Ahhh I wish my dad were like that. If I like something he doesn't, he takes it upon himself to take it away from me. D< But at least I'm so over that age, now, where he can do that. :twisted: Obviously, I'm just gonna have to do some major planning in advance and go stalk their tours.

Oh, that sucks. oO No, Mom and I have gone to musicals, concerts, even a movie or two that the guys in my family really were not interested. Not everything has to be as a family unit.

That would be major stalkage! Worth it, though. :)

Totally! I'm so looking forward to stalking them completely across the world if I have to! >D

And, I still get to do things with my mom now. The parentals are divorced, so I'm well aware that things don't have to be a family unit. Not that it stops my dad from trying. D< I took my mom to see Giselle, her favorite ballet, for her birthday this past Spring. So...that was something. And she took me to see Les Miserables after I graduated high school, since I'd been in the pit orchestra for my school's production of it.

It just bugs me that my dad has a knack for getting in the way of certain things, and not even caring when I point it out.

Oh! Sorry. Mine aren't. Divorced, I mean. :sweat: Maybe that is the difference, though? That my parents are as cool with what they don't share in common as with what they do? That's great that you get to do stuff with your mom, though!

haha it's no biggie. I love hangin' out with other people's families, though. My friends' parents all seem so cool. Mine...I don't even know. My mom hates my dad's guts, and my dad pretends like he has nothing against my mom. 0.o It's weird, but that's life. :lol:

Yup! I love getting to do things with my mom. :D

Oh. Here's a Scottish fiddler:



haha I can't believe I forgot to mention them. 0.0

Okay so I'm totally late on the conversation, but I gotta say I agree with the Enya being less Celtic and more New Age and Lorenna just being... worldly. xD Enya especially with Amarantine coming out. I like maybe three or four songs from the album and the rest seemed... ehn. I don't know. Was that just me?

Taking a look at my Pandora list, I also really like Secret Garden, Patrick O'Haren, and Nightnoise. Granted a lot of it feels more Irish than Celtic, if you know what I mean? Good stuff anyway!

lol Irish is part of the Celtic world. I used to listen to a bit of Secret Garden, but it's kinda hard for me find them. 0.o And...ya. I think at least one of Enya's songs on Amarantine was in Japanese. XD

Sume... something. But it was actually the songs in English that I didn't much care for. But oh man, the last song in Gaelic (The Hidden Heart something?) was beautiful.

The Secret Garden comes on my Pandora pretty often. Where do you usually find your music?

ehh...I just browse around the internets. I stopped using Pandora so much 'cause it kept giving me stuff I didn't want to listen to. I think I originally found Secret Garden by accident...

And the thumbing down aspect didn't work for you? That's always stopped the individual song and, after two or three down thumbs, it just stopped playing a certain kind of music. Admittedly, I rarely use the thumb up function because I don't want it to change what it's playing.

The internets have always been totally ureliable for me. =\