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Carol of the Bells

[thetitancurse]

A gift for Tara McNeill <3

[teirabhaileriu]

Celtic Woman 15th Celebration 🎉

[randomer-person]

M-- all grown up and a blind plant wizard from forever ago.

Tara McNeill was gorgeous in the Celtic Women Ancient Land tour. My little gay heart was awestruck. So I made her and Florence Welch, who is her own kind of beautiful, into different Fae Queens.

Panthera defending her babes and Blue Diamond is also v pretty too

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Celtic Woman

Quartet Brings Out Their Sounds for A Seasonal Celebration

by Brad Balfour

If any group has become synonymous with popular music from Ireland, it's Celtic Woman. Though named in the singular, this quartet has been commanding stages internationally for nearly last two decades. Once again, they are coming to the tri-state area on the heels of St. Patrick's Day to perform, recreating their recently released Celtic Woman: Homecoming Live from Ireland, their 12th album, just released in 2018 which documents the live show.

In order to better anticipate both the album and the upcoming show, soprano Tara McNeill (TAR-a) who is not only a singer but also violinist and harpist, put in a call to address the tour, album and her role in the group.

She explains, "This is the first live album I've done with Celtic Woman. There were lots of rehearsals, a lot of preparation. It was kind of scary, because what you play, that's what's going on the album. There was the added pressure of it being a home show. I had a lot of friends and family in the audience and as wonderful as that is, it's extra pressure on you as well. You can hear the extra adrenalin on the album."

As to the choice of songs on the recording, she delineates, "We couldn't have a show without 'Danny Boy,' even if it's just the melody without the words. We all grew up listening to that song, which was with Celtic Woman from the very beginning. It's a very special moment any night when we play it, because the song is very stripped back. We don't have any band [in the background] or anything, it's just us. Another one is 'You Raise Me Up,' we can't have a Celtic Woman show without that. It always touches people's hearts. One more that's always there is 'Amazing Grace,' because that's a real crowd pleaser whenever the bagpipes come out.”

However, they don’t just rely on the standards.

"On the live album we have some new songs to take Celtic Woman into a new era. One of my songs is 'For the Love of a Princess.' It's such a beautiful melody, with classical elements. It's my favorite moment in the show. We also have other group numbers like 'Walk Beside Me.' I love its lyrics because it says we were born to lead, not to follow, and that represents Celtic Woman. There's the four of us and we each have our own talents and strengths which we bring to the group. Musical theatre, classical, folk, traditional. What other show do you get four types of music together?”

And of course, they pay tribute to their homeland’s classics in the island’s other native tongue.

"We also have songs in the show in our own Irish language. It wouldn't be Celtic Woman without it. Éabha [McMahon] is completely fluent in Gaelic. It was her first language. We have songs in Irish and then with English lyrics. We like to have a balance of both."

The all-female team was a creation of David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes – a former musical director of Riverdance, the Irish-inspired variety stage show. In 2004, he recruited five Irish female singers (and musicians) who had not previously performed together. Though not organically generated, they established a sympatico connection between themselves so effectively that they merged into a multi-instrumental, richly layered choral group, with the Irish music experience as the essential glue that bonds them.

Part of their success is also the sense of intimacy in their shows, which has been well captured through PBS broadcasts of their performances. That continues to be a big part of the Celtic Woman experience. Explains the fiery-haired performer, "All of these things really added to our exposure in the U.S. Our TV specials are played frequently where we share interviews and fan meet & greets."

Born on July 27th, this Antrim, Northern Ireland, native comes from musically inclined parents who shared their enhancements with her and her siblings, who all play instruments. At primary school, McNeill began singing. By age seven, she was playing piano and violin. With this strong musical background, she graduated with top honors from the Royal Irish Academy of Music. McNeill toured with Anuna, the Irish choral ensemble, from 2010 to 2014, as both a violinist and singer. She also was part of the Irish premiere of Finzi's "Violin Concerto" in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.

But in August 2016, McNeill became the latest Celtic Woman member, replacing founding violinist Mairead Nesbitt. In doing so, she joined Mairead Carlin as the only two principal Celtic Woman performers from Northern Ireland. Her first official presence on a recording was Celtic Woman: Voices of Angels, which was the first Celtic Woman album to appear on the Billboard's Classical Albums chart where it hit number one and debuted at number one on the World Albums chart as well. 

As McNeill notes, "The album is the most classical of all Celtic Woman's, so we wanted songs that would show off our 72-piece orchestra and the amazing arrangements by Gavin Murphy, our wonderful musical director. He'd have some sheet music for us or MP3s to listen to, then we'd take them and make them our own. I would add my own style of playing and we all put our own stamp on everything.

“I definitely did orchestral stuff before Celtic Woman but I also did solo and traditional stuff. Celtic Woman is just on a bigger scale than what I did before. We all have our solo moments, but we all share the role so it's a lot less pressure. We each have our moments."

She reflects on her experience being in the group. "It was definitely a dream of mine before I joined Celtic Woman, to become part of something like this group. But I'd never have imagined how amazing it would be touring to so many audiences in so many cities every night."

Since 2005, Celtic Woman has performed in 23 countries and is making several stops during March, in New York and the tri-state as part of the latest North American tour. Dates are listed here: https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates/

It has now been more than seven years since the current version of Celtic Woman with McNeill emerged, which now also includes vocalists Susan McFadden, Máiread Carlin, and Éabha McMahon. Celtic Woman has amassed a global fan base, but their most devoted fans seem to be in the United States.

As she recalls, "We tour here nearly half a year every year, because we have so many loyal fans in The States coming to shows. The USA was the first to take Celtic Woman under its wing." 

McNeill received some advice from the veteran members when she opted in.

"[Original members] Meav [Ní Mhaolchatha] and Máiréad were encouraging and supportive from the start; there was no awkward transition and we have a little card stuck up on our bus from Meav saying, 'Love your life, every minute of it.' It's important for us to take a moment to be grateful and remember how wonderful it is to be doing this."

When Destiny was nominated for a Grammy in the Best World Music Album category, it was the first time Celtic Woman had been so recognized. "I was still very new to the group so with the Grammy nomination thrown in it was a real whirlwind. We were all buzzing as it was a first for the group."

Celtic Woman has become a powerful role model for girls and women worldwide. McNeill cites an example she has cited before: "A little girl made a drawing of me and gave it to a security guard. I have proudly put it up in my tour bus bunk. When she gave it to the guard she said she thought Celtic Woman were princesses. 

"A few women and girls have told us that our music has really helped them through dark times. We feel a responsibility in Celtic Woman because we are role models to young women and men that follow us on social media. We want to be strong and independent and also good people. We're proud of how Ireland is developing, and we hope it becomes even more progressive. We're proud of being an all-female group and there are not many all-female groups in Ireland."

To make that point, she explains in her lilting brogue, "When we look into the audience, we do see a lot of older members, but we do have a lot of young people coming to the shows as well, which is incredible. Celtic Woman isn't for a certain age group, it's for everyone. We see 90-year-olds in the audience and we see four-year-olds who get up and dance."

Copyright ©2018 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: March 10, 2018.

Photos © 2018. Courtesy of Celtic Woman. All rights reserved.

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Celtic Woman does Adele!

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Hey Celtic Woman fans!!!!

This is my new blog!! Send me your Celtic Woman confessions, and I’ll post them with pictures of the girls.

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reading list - 900: history & geography

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MY OTHER READING LISTS.

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☐  901: FOUCAULT, Michel – Les mots et les choses ☐  901: GOULD, Stephen Jay – Questioning the Millenium ☐  901: McNEILL, William H. – The Rise of the West ☐  902: WEIR, Stephen – Encyclopedia Idiotica ☐  907: JONNES, Jill – Eiffel's Tower ☐  909: HARARI, Yuval Noah – Homo Deus ☐  909: ROGAN, Eugene – The Arabs ☐  909: TOYNBEE, Arnold J. – A Study of History ☐  910: POOLE, Robert M. – Explorers House ☐  911: BROTTON, Jerry – A History of the World in 12 Maps ☐  914: SHANAHAN, Brendan – In Turkey I Am Beautiful ☐  914: WEST, Rebecca – Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ☐  915: FLETCHER, David – Brian on the Brahmaputra ☐  918: SIMONS, Eric – Darwin Slept Here ☐  919: KAVENNA, Joanna – The Ice Museum ☐  920: COLLINS, Paul – Banvard's Folly ☐  920: STRACHEY, Lytton – Eminent Victorians ☐  933: PEROWNE, Stuart – The Life & Times of Herod the Great ☐  936: TACITUS – Agricola ☐  937: BEARD, Mary – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome ☐  937: SUETONIUS – De vita Caesarum ☐  937: TACITUS, Publius Cornelius – Annals ☐  938: McKEOWN, J. C. – A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities ☐  938: THUCYDIDES – History of the Peloponnesian War ☐  939: CLAPP, Nicholas – The Road to Ubar ☐  940: CHURCHILL, Winston – The Second World War ☐  940: MARKS, Leo – Between Silk and Cyanide ☐  940: TUCHMAN, Barbara – The Guns of August ☐  942: FRASER, Antonia – Faith and Treason ☐  943: HETT, Benjamin Carter – Burning the Reichstag ☐  946: ORWELL, George – Homage to Catalonia ☐  946: SHRADY, Nicholas – The Last Day ☐  949: ROSEN, William – Justinian's Flea ☐  951: SCHELL, Orville & DELURY, John – Wealth and Power ☐  951: SPENCE, Jonathan D. – The Gate of Heavenly Peace ☐  955: AXWORTHY, Michael – Revolutionary Iran ☐  956: ROBERTS, Jo – Contested Land, Contested Memory ☐  960: MEREDITH, Martin – The Fate of Africa ☐  966: De VILLIERS, Marq & HIRTLE, Sheila – Timbuktu ☐  967: DINESEN, Isak – Out of Africa ☐  970: KING, Thomas – The Inconvenient Indian ☐  971: HELE, Karl S. – The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature ☐  972: GLASSMAN, Steve & ANAYA, Armando – Cities of the Maya in Seven Epochs ☐  973: CUMMINGS, Joseph – Ten Tea Parties ☐  973: DUBOIS, W. E. B. – The Souls of Black Folk ☐  973: FOOTE, Shelby – The Civil War ☐  973: HOFSTADTER, Richard – The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ☐  973: McPHERSON, James M. – Battle Cry of Freedom ☐  973: TURNER, Frederick Jackson – The Frontier in American History ☐  973: WILLIAMS, William Carlos – In the American Grain ☐  974: CARO, Robert A. – The Power Broker ☐  974: SHORTO, Russell – The Island at the Center of the World ☐  978: DRURY, Bob & CLAVIN, TOm – The Heart of Everything That Is ☐  981: LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude – Tristes Tropiques ☐  985: ADAMS, Mark – Turn Right at Machu Picchu ☐  996: ALEXANDER, Caroline – The Bounty ☐  998: MULVANEY, Kieran – At the Ends of the Earth ☐  999: LEMONICK, Michael D. – Other Worlds

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☐  ADAMS, Henry Brooks – The Education of Henry Adams ☐  ANGELOU, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ☐  BASCOM, Tom – Chameleon Days ☐  BATE, Walter Jackson – Samuel Johnson ☐  BETANCOURT, Ingrid – Even Silence Has an End ☐  BOYD, Julia – The Excellent Doctor Blackwell ☐  CAMPBELL, Olivia – Women in White Coats ☐  CHANG, Jung – Wild Swans ☐  CHENEY, Margaret – Tesla ☐  EVERITT, Anthony – Cicero ☐  FRANK, Anne – The Diary of a Young Girl ☐  FRANKLIN, Benjamin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ☐  GILMOUR, David – Curzon ☐  GOWING, Lawrence – Vermeer ☐  HACKEL, Steven W. – Junipero Serra ☐  ISAACSON, Walter – The Code Breaker ☐  JAGER, Eric – Blood Royal ☐  JOHNSON, Paul – Mozart ☐  KALANITHI, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air ☐  KAPLAN, Fred – Thomas Carlyle ☐  KAY, Adam – This Is Going to Hurt ☐  LEKUTON, Joseph Lemosolai – Facing the Lion ☐  LEVI, Primo – Se questo è un uomo ☐  LOFTIS, Larry – The Princess Spy ☐  MALCOLM X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X ☐  MAN, John – Attila ☐  MAN, John – Gutenberg ☐  MARCHANT, Jo – The Shadow King ☐  MARKHAM, Beryl – West With the Night ☐  MEYER, G. J. – The Borgias ☐  MILTON, Giles – Samurai William ☐  MUKHERJEE, Siddhartha – The Emperor of All Maladies ☐  NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich – Insomniac Dreams ☐  NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich– Speak, Memory ☐  NIMURA, Janice P. – The Doctors Blackwell ☐  OLSZEWSKI, Erin Marie – Undercover Epicenter Nurse ☐  PARKER, Richard – The Improbable Return of Coco Chanel ☐  PAUSCH, Randy & ZASLOW, Jeffrey – The Last Lecture ☐  RANDALL, Margaret – Che on My Mind ☐  SCHILLACE, Brandy – Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher ☐  SINCLAIR, David – The Land That Never Was ☐  SKLOOT, Rebecca – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ☐  STEINEM, Gloria – Marilyn ☐  TWAIN, Mark – The Autobiography of Mark Twain ☐  WALLS, Jeannette – The Glass Castle ☐  WASHINGTON, Booker T. – Up From Slavery ☐  WEATHERFORD, Jack – Genghis Khan ☐  WELSH, Mary Sue – One Woman in a Hundred ☐  WESTOVER, Tara – Educated ☐  WHITAKER, Robert – The Mapmaker's Wife ☐  WOLFF, Tobias – This Boy's Life ☐  WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil – Florence Nightingale ☐  WRIGHT, Richard – Black Boy ☐  XUE, Xinran – Sky Burial

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[thetitancurse]

Ever since I made a painting of Tara people have been asking me to draw the other girls as well. So here they are! Mairéad, Éabha, Tara and Megan 🤗

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Celtic Woman the Magic of Christmas Tour 2019

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Guys I made a new blog for Celtic Woman fans

It’s called celticwomanconfessions.tumblr.com. Yall should follow it. Below are the two submissions I have so far. 

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Character Challenge

tagged by @totouchthefiretwice (thank you!)

I spent ages on this and honestly will probably change my mind tomorrow but what can you do

Rules: Answer 10 questions and tag 10 people. 

tagging: @agreytracksuit @galahad-jnr @livinladolcevita @harveysbagel @argentsxarrow @gilcuthberts @madigriffen @quintincoldwater @kinselllas

I’m sticking with TV Shows for the most part to make it easier

Please don’t hate me for my answers lmao

10 all time at this moment favorite female characters:  

Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) 

Monica Geller (Friends)

Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)

Teresa Lisbon (The Mentalist)

Toni Topaz (Riverdale)

Joyce Byers (Stranger Things)

Cheyenne Lee (Superstore)

Maeve Millay (Westworld)

Villanelle (Killing Eve)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

9 all time at this moment favorite male characters: 

Jake Peralta (B99)

John Murphy (The 100)

Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones)

Archie Andrews (Riverdale)

Chandler Bing (Friends)

Michael Cordero (Jane the Virgin)

Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)

Mateo Liwanag (Superstore)

Scott McCall (Teen Wolf)

8 characters you relate to:

Garrett McNeill (Superstore)

Amy Dubanowski (Superstore)

Chandler Bing (Friends)

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Lara Jean Covey (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before)

Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)

Jake Peralta (B99)

Lee Sizemore (Westworld)

7 characters ruined by romance: 

Jughead Jones (Riverdale)

Betty Cooper (Riverdale)

Lexa (The 100)

Amy Dubanowski (Superstore)

Emori (The 100)

Lemon Breeland (Hart of Dixie)

Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl)

6 characters you’d date:  

Bellamy Blake (The 100)

Jake Peralta (B99)

Michael Cordero (Jane the Virgin)

Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)

Scott McCall (Teen Wolf)

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

5 characters that deserve(d) better: 

Anya (The 100)

Kira Yukimura (Teen Wolf)

Valerie Brown (Riverdale) 

Tara Thornton (True Blood)

Wells Jaha (The 100)

4 saddest character deaths: 

Allison Argent (Teen Wolf)

Monty & Harper (The 100) (That counts as one)

Sirius Black (Harry Potter)  

Jesus Velazquez (True Blood)

3 characters you’d bring on a deserted island with you: 

Clarke Griffin (The 100)

Maeve Millay (Westworld)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

2 characters that get worshipped by the fandom, but you just don’t get it: 

Lexa (The 100)

Jughead Jones (Riverdale)

1 character you’d swipe lives with:

Princess Isabella (Galavant)

[noloveforned]

the wlur fall schedule starts next week so i think this will be the last week of our summer theme. tune in to wlur tonight at 8pm to see how we wrap it up or catch up with last week's show below!

no love for ned on wlur – september 24th, 2021 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label babasónicos // víva satana // dopadromo // epic hushfeed // you know // without blinking ep // permafrost blunt bangs // odessa // proper smoker // ernest jenning * seam featuring mac mccaughan // look back in anger // granny 9x 7" // merge cloud nothings // sound of alarm // live at the grog shop, cleveland - november 15th, 2020 // (self-released) beat happening // crashing through (meyering mix) // crashing through (meyering mix) 7" // k thrills // hey! - not another face in the crowd // n.a.f.i.t.c. - original boston punk, 1977-1981 // bacchus archives hits // drawstring ties // cielo nublado // paisley shirt nancy sinatra // it ain't me babe // boots // light in the attic julie doiron // you gave me the key // i thought of you // you've changed bob dylan and the plugz // license to kill (live on late night with david letterman 03/22/84) // springtime in new york, 1980-1985: the bootleg series, volume sixteen (expanded edition) // legacy moviola // rise // broken rainbows // anyway myra holder // martha helen wood // four mile road // coyote tara jane o'neil // elemental finding // alive in tokyo // (self-released) the finks // the moment the world rushed in // the moment the world rushed in ep // milk! * blue lick // viii // hold on, hold fast // american dreams crazy doberman // inverted pyramids slowly projected from the firmament // everyone is rolling down a hill // astral spirits roscoe mitchell // glide and run // dots - pieces for percussion and woodwinds // wide hive jessica ackerley and daniel carter // hidden truths // friendship: lucid shared dreams and time travel // 577 lloyd mcneill // sambinha // tori // soul jazz k. frimpong and vis-a-vis // aboagyewaa // k. frimpong backed by vis-a-vis // hot casa emma-jean thackray // say something // yellow // movementt moor mother featuring brother may // race function limited // black encyclopedia of the air // anti * theo croker featuring ari lennox // every part of me // blk2life- a future past // masterworks yebba // boomerang // dawn // rca * kadhja bonet // for you // for you digital single // ninja tune piney gir // nightswimming // a carnival of sorts- an r.e.m. covers compilation // god is in the tv zine baseball gregg and christina muñoz // lady of mine // sunrise music- a benefit compilation for sunrise movement and artists // gardenhead capitol // always saying nothing // all the rest of my heads ep // meritorio monnone alone // bumpy bits // stay foggy // emotional response

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Love this shot of Tara McNeill playing “For the Love of a Princess” at a recent Celtic Woman: Voices of Angel tour stop.

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