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intereact!Celtic Woman
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2005-03-01
Manufacturer: Manhattan Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
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Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
Fueled by healthy public appetite for traditional melodies and quasi-ethnic roots, the crossover genre continues to flourish with this debut release from Ireland's Celtic Woman ensemble. The brainchild of Sharon Browne, Dave Kavanaugh (founders of Ireland's successful Celtic Collections label) and young Riverdance touring company musical director David Downes, CW's five young women musicians and vocalists offer up an ever pleasant, Eire-savvy fusion of folk, pop and classical influences. Avoiding the intrusive, club-beat/sex kitten window dressing of Bond, the ensemble tackles material that ranges from the expected (spare, lovely covers of "Danny Boy" and "Ave Maria") to more adventurous fare like "Nella Fantasia" (Ennio Morricone's vocal adaptation of his rapturous theme from The Mission) and Enya's "Orinoco Flow." Elsewhere, "The Butterfly" offers up fiddle-fueled take on their Riverdance parallels (which also get a workout on the live bonus tracks), if renditions of Downes' originals like "One World" and "Send Me a Song" and "Someday" from Disney's animated Hunchback of Notre Dame hew slavishly to the middle of the road -- which largely seems the album's easy-listening intention. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) AWESOME AND TRULY ENJOYABLE [Rating: 5 out of 5]
ABSOLUTELY AN ENJOYABLE IRISH PRESENTATION. WILL PURCHASE CDs FROM THESE FIVE LADIES AGAIN AND AGAIN! GREAT PRICE, TOO!2) listen to C. Kenneth Lee's new cd, "Breakaway" for a good cause on iTunes [Rating: 5 out of 5]
All sales will support the American Cancer Society. fundraiser CD for individuals battling cancer featuring WORLD-RENOWNED artists WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ and ERIKA DUKE-KIRKPATRICK from the CALIFORNIA EAR UNIT with live recordings from Roy O'Disney Music Hall. (Excerpt from a letter from Best Buddies) Kenneth, Thank you so much for your amazing donation to Best Buddies! Your money has already been put to a great program! It is people like you that make our world a better place!...Thank you so much again! In Friendship, Leslie Dykstra (program supervisor)3) Celtic Woman review [Rating: 5 out of 5]
If you love this group, this CD is absolutely wonderful. Would definitely recommend it.4) Wonderful Women [Rating: 5 out of 5]
These are wonderful women to listen to. Their voices are strong and beautiful, and they sound best when they are all put together.5) True music from the heart [Rating: 5 out of 5]
One of my favorite CD's. Most of what passes for music these days falls so short that I sometimes wish I was deaf so I wouldn't be subjected to ubiquitous ambient "music" (eg. Bruce Springsteen piped overhead into restaurant bathroom stalls. Love you, Bruce... but, pick a better venue, please). Anyway, the clear beauty of the Celtic Woman voices is transportive and inspiring; it is music that matches my heartbeat, breathing, and sends my own creative spirit soaring. (I'm an illustrator.)