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Sunday, May 13, 2007


Celtic Woman a hybrid supergroup
Irish sextet achieves fame in two ways



The Irish singing group Celtic Woman comes to Spokane for a concert Sunday at the INB Performing Arts Center. (Courtesy of celtic woman)


Sarah Tomlinson
The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News
May 12, 2007

Supergroups come in all shapes and sizes. There are celebrity collaborations like The Traveling Wilburys that featured big guns like Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. Then there are bands that become so incredibly popular they achieve superstar status in their own right, like ABBA or The Rolling Stones.
The success story of the Irish vocal sextet Celtic Woman draws a little bit from both of these two scenarios.
The group, which comes to the INB Performing Arts Center on Sunday, was conceived in 2004 as a union of talented female singers and musicians from Ireland. Since then, the collective has become a major hit worldwide.
Celtic Woman has celebrated more than 100 weeks at the top of the World Music Billboard charts, and its popularity shows no signs of abating.
The group plans to tour almost nonstop through June with its ambitious stage show, which made it a household name thanks to the popularity of its "Celtic Woman" concert film on PBS.
Members say they couldn't be happier with their success or the fact that they're achieving it together.
"We've just had such an amazing reaction everywhere we've gone," says singer Chloe Agnew. "The new show has kind of taken everyone by surprise, I think. And the audiences have been so welcoming and fantastic in their response to the new show.

"So we're loving it, absolutely. Every day has just flown by. It really has."
Those who became Celtic Woman fans after watching their first concert DVD and its follow-up, "A New Journey: Live at Slane Castle, Ireland" will find some surprises in store during this tour.
They will still have the opportunity to hear live renditions of songs from the group's two CDs: the 2004 self-titled debut and its follow-up, "A New Journey," which was released in January.
The music includes a wide range of influences, from traditional Irish songs like "Dulaman" and pop classics like Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair," to new compositions like "Mo Ghile Mear," written by musical director David Downes.
But as Celtic Woman's popularity has grown, so has the stage show.
"We have an amazing new set and fantastic lighting and new costumes and everything," says Agnew. "So that will be all new. And some new pieces of music have been added to the show, taken from our live DVD at Slane Castle in Ireland.
"A lot of the pieces that have been written for the fliers and stuff have kind of (talked about) the fact that this is a new journey for us. And we think the show showcases that in itself."
The changes aren't just aesthetic, or related to their program, though. Group members have all become stronger performers, thanks to the many months they've spent on tour over the past two years.
Those members ? fiddle player Mairead Nesbitt, and vocalists Orla Fallon, Meav Ni Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Agnew and newest sometime member Hayley Westenra ? have also become much closer to each other, personally. And that connection is visible onstage.
"People can see there's a huge change in Celtic Woman as a group," says Agnew. "We only met each other two days before we filmed the original Celtic Woman DVD. We didn't know each other at all, and I think none of us had any idea of what was in store.
"And now, looking at our new DVD, and our new live show, people can really see that we've grown together, and we've grown with this show. Our performances, I think, have come up a notch because we're a lot more comfortable with one another now.
"There's a great camaraderie, not just (between) the five of us, (but) between the cast and the band onstage with us."
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