Member Since: 7/21/2006
Band Website: celticwoman.com/index.asp
Band Members:
"Energy" and "Beauty' are the two words that Máiréad feels best describe what she strives for as a musician and as a person. A fiddle player since the age of 6, Máiréad 's Loughmore, Co.Tipperary background is steeped in music in the way that only those who grow up in a family of accomplished musicians can be.
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Méav never imagined that music could take her this far. Ireland has changed a lot in the few years since I graduated from university she says. There was no sign of the Celtic Tiger and I presumed that music for me would simply be a passionate hobby.
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Orla has a saying: its a long way from Knockananna to Carnegie Hall. The singer and harpist from the tiny village in the South East of Ireland ought to know because shes made the journey.
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Lisa Kelly might best be known to audiences as one of the soloists in Celtic Woman, but her background is purely steeped in the world of musical theatre.
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If 16-year old singer Chloe Agnew ever writes a book she says that shell call it From Carnegie Hall to Lunch Duty. Thats the way that my life turns anyway, she laughs. I played Carnegie Hall in New York one week with Celtic Woman and the following week I was back at school on lunch duty, cleaning off tables and mopping the floor.
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David Downes is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied music and composition. Performing credits include concerts in Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Wembley Arena, and on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, appearing with among others, James Galway, Alan Stivell, Boyzone, The Washington Symphony, Moravian Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestras.
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Deidre Shannon
The Newest Member of Celtic Woman!
The three years since the release of Hayley Westenra's debut international album "Pure" have been a whirlwind. Along with her second album "Odyssey" she has achieved combined sales of over three million albums around the world making her a household name in many countries and breaking umpteen records along the way. 'Pure' is still the fastest-selling classical album in the history of the UK charts and Hayley is also the best-selling classical artist in Japan. Probably most important of all, 'Pure' is the best-selling album of all time in New Zealand. It also made the top 10 national pop charts in 11 countries. Even more significant is that the young soprano achieved all of this before her 19th birthday.
Despite all of this success, Hayley still remains the same unaffected down-to-earth girl from Christchurch, New Zealand (where her family from Monaghan traveled on a maiden voyage from Ireland in 1848). Even though she has an incredibly busy schedule, she still finds time to dedicate a great deal of energy to her role as the youngest Unicef Ambassador in the world. Her time in Ghana inspired her to initiate her own UNICEF “Bikes For Ghana†campaign.
She also has a deep interest in music therapy and is patron of the Raukaturi Music Therapy Centre in Auckland. The Centre uses the Nordoff Robbins method in using music as therapy for children with autism and other severe physical, intellectual and emotional disabilities. Hayley has appeared on both the BBC in the UK and CNN in the US with her own news features aimed at raising awareness in the benefits of music therapy. Coincidentally, in a recent survey on music therapy by a British Medical Journal, Hayley's voice was described as having the most "calming and therapeutic quality " of all music tested (including Mozart!). Read More About Hayley Westenra
As a result of this we are very excited to introduce, our wonderful new Celtic Woman,
Lynn Hilary trained as a classical soprano at DIT College of Music in Dublin, graduating with honours in June 2004. She has been a member of the renowned choir ‘Anúna’ for 5 years, performing with them as a soloist on 'Songs of Praise', 'BBC Proms in the Park', and numerous other television appearances. With 'Anúna' she has traveled to all corners of the world and features as a soloist on many of their albums.
Lynn has already started working with the Girls readying herself for her debut performance on the 10th October 2007 in Estero, Florida, USA.
At this time we would like to thank Méav for her contribution to Celtic Woman over the last three years. We know Méav will be missed by Celtic Woman fans as much as she will be missed by us. We wish her every success in her solo pursuits and we look forward to working with Méav in the future.
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