Celtic Divas

Sarah Calderwood

 There can be few more haunting and evocative sounds in all of music than that of the female Celtic folksingers, their voices drifting out of some mystical past and being reborn on iPods in the present. Celtic Divas showcases some of the biggest names in Irish, English and Scottish music in songs that emerge from the timeless and windswept landscapes of a Britain that still lives on in the modern imagination. It begins with the incredible Irish duo Lumiere, featuring Eilis Kennedy and Pauline Scanlon, and from there it’s as if each track, from Heidi Talbot’s sublime Parting Song to Eddi Reader’s unforgettable Auld Lang Syne, speaks of a beauty and a poignancy of nations steeped in love, loss and joy.

Track Listing

1 ÉILÍS KENNEDY & PAULINE SCANLON (LUMIERE) Fíll, Fíll a Rún Ó (Return, Return My Dear)

2 KAREN MATHESON (CAPERCAILLE) Coisich, a Rùin (Come On, My Love) 

3 CARA DILLON The Maid of Culmore 

4 SARAH CALDERWOOD (SÚNAS) Ride On / Black is the Colour

5 MEAV NÍ MHAOLCHATHA Danny Boy

6 PAULINE SCANLON Farewell My Love, Remember Me

7 MÁIRE NÍ BHRAONÁIN (CLANNAD) By Chance It Was

8 CARA DILLON Craigie Hill

9 NORIANA KENNEDY Cold, Haily, Rainy Night

10 KAREN MATHESON Chi Mi Bhuam (I See Afar)

11 ANNALISA KERRIGAN The Cliffs of Dooneen

12 PAULINE SCANLON The Demon Lover

13 SARAH CALDERWOOD (SÚNAS) Do You Love an Apple

14 NORIANA KENNEDY Ó Fill a Bhruinneall (Come Back, My Fair One) 

15 GWENAN GIBBARD Yr Aelwyd yn yr Hafod (The Hearth at the Hafod) 

16 ANNALISA KERRIGAN As He Moved Through the Fair

17 EDDI READER Auld Lang Syne

Released: 2011-11-04T00:00:00