Hello fellow Clay fans,
During my recent summer vacation, I discovered - completely by chance, on a local PBS station, while channel-surfing - an amazing new musical group called Celtic Thunder. Now don't me wrong, Clay is still my absolute favourite musician around, of course! But when I happened to fall upon Celtic Thunder's show, well, let's just say it was love at first listen.
I am of Scottish and Irish heritage (a few generations back), so I must have Celtic music running through my veins. It has always been a form of music that moves my soul in a very fundamental, to-the-core way.
Celtic Thunder is made up of five men - one Scot and four lads from Ireland - who range in age from 15 to 40. They sing both together and solo, traditional Celtic songs as well as music from a modern repertoire with an Irish take. Each of the five has a tremendously beautiful and powerful voice, and the sum of the five is something else to hear. Listen for yourself! Their Website offers this widget, which gives us a chance to hear so many of their songs, in full-length versions - not just snippets! Amazing. Next chance I have to get near a record store, I'm getting their CD, that's for sure.
They are all over YouTube as well, of course. So you can go check them out there and see them performing the songs you will hear. I quickly learned their names and voices by heart - they each have their own distinct, unique tone and style which are quickly recognizable, but their five voices blended together are overwhelmingly lovely.
Do you have (a) favourite(s)? I do... George Donaldson has a sensitive depth to his baryton voice, which I love. And tenor Paul Byrom, what can I say? Simply stunning. He brings tears to my eyes.
Lucky those of you in the United States (and in Toronto, Canada), because they will be touring near you this fall! They won't be coming to Montreal, unfortunately, so I won't see them live. Hopefully I will at some other time in the future.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying the songs here. Hope you do too!
-- ClayKat
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2 comments:
Very interesting music. Exciting and intriguing. The vocals are really nice along with a strong heart-thumping beat.
I enjoyed it. Thanks.
Thanks for the video. Very powerful stuff.
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