Can anyone recommend some music similar to that of Celtic Women?
I love to hear the Celtic Women on PBS. All their voices are so pure and angelic. On American Idol, I think Brooke White has that quality. Celtic music sings to your soul. It’s chords make something inside you move into the light. I recommend Enya who has a wonderful Celtic quality that I really enjoy. Some of her singing is in the Celtic language, which I don’t understand, but it is pretty to hear. I own just about all of her CDs, but her first CD, Watermark is my favorite, followed by Shepard Moons. There is a song that my mother used to sing, called Marble Halls on Shepard Moons. On my copy it says that Enya wrote it, but it is an old operatic song with a pure melody. I am sure you will enjoy her music too, if you haven’t already heard her sing. My second recommendation is Loreena McKennitt. Her voice has a very different quality from Enya’s. I think she is more traditional sounding and some of her singing is accompanied with a Celtic Harp. I hope this helps. These are my faves.
Clannad is the great Irish group which recently reunited in 2007 (after a decade’s layoff). Their best known work is “Theme from Harry’s Game”, the only song to hit the British charts sung entirely in Gaelic. Famous for being exponents of both Irish traditional music as well as contemporary instrumental explorations and haunting vocal arrangements, sung in English, Irish, Gaelic, Latin and other tongues, they reached their commercial peak in the 1986 with the song “In A Lifetime” featuring a guest vocal form U2’s Bono. Enya is the sister of one of Clannad’s members, and has of course had a great deal of success in the New Age genre. Perhaps her best known piece was “Orinoco Flow” but she has continued to expand and explore her musical breadth while continuing to emphasize her trademark multi-layered vocals. You might also want to explore the music of Sally Oldfied, who is the sister of the Mike Oldfield who brought us “Tubular Bells” (the album that put Virigin Records on the map and l
