Loreena McKennitt

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Morden, Manitoba, Canada (1985 – present)

Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt is self-managed, self-produced and head of her own record label - Quinlan Road. In a recording career spanning over two decades, McKennitt’s “eclectic Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in fifteen countries across four continents. Her most successful record is 1997’s “The Book of Secrets”, which spun off the single “The Mummers’ Dance”, a surprise hit on American Top 40 and alternative rock radio.

McKennitt blends world-music with folk, Celtic and exotic Mediterranean sounds using instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, kanoun, uilleann pipes, Turkish clarinet, bouzouki and nyckelharpa alongside traditional instruments like guitar, drums and bass and the harp, piano and accordion, the three instruments she plays.

Born in Morden, Manitoba, Canada in February 17, 1957, Loreena moved to Stratford, Ontario, Canada in 1981, where she still resides. She has acted and sung in, and composed music for, Stratford Festival of Canada productions ranging from The Tempest (1982) to The Merchant Of Venice (2001).

Her recording career began in 1985 with the album Elemental. In the fledgling years of her label Quinlan Road, Loreena ran its operations from her kitchen table, selling recordings by mail order and producing her own concert tours across the country.

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thdreamer wrote:
15 hours ago

Lovely ♥

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AndresCampuzano wrote:
Friday morning

I'm Andres from Madrid, I want to invite you to listen to my musical project. (new folk, medieval, ambient epic...) If you like please add us to your collection. http://www.lastfm.com/music/An+Danzza I autoproduce all songs and give themo to you. Free download :) (if you want add tags or say to me which is your opinion about my music ) thank you!!!!!

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SoapMagic wrote:
Tuesday morning

I'm liking what I've heard from Loreena so far. BTW, I'm shocked that people actually consider Tori Amos to be new age. She has many songs that are the opposite of relaxing.

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TR00LL wrote:
Monday afternoon

♥

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danced-in-fire wrote:
last week

yeop, truly ))

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dark_tower wrote:
last week

Uh ok, my bad then... Anyway, I think Loreena is an artist whose music can speak to the souls of anyone, regardless its classification

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danced-in-fire wrote:
last week

arrrgh i meant that definition of new age is every people deed... and if you dont like it, it's your problems. lol and i do not say that it is my words... i only said that i met it.

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dark_tower wrote:
last week

danced-in-fire: I agree that new age is a very generic term, but it's clear enough to say that Loreena's music has NOTHING to do with new age and is deeply rooted in folk and traditional music. And pardon me but... how can you say Tori Amos and Blackmore's Night are even remotely new age? O_o

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Catharios wrote:
last week

Magic music.

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danced-in-fire wrote:
last week

dark_tower, why? it's difficult to differ what is the new age music... there is many definitions of music which can belong to new age. i met tori amos and blackmore's nights included to this genre ))

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Meowgasmic wrote:
last week

She really needs more songs on here.

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dark_tower wrote:
last week

I wish people stopped tagging her as new age.

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lolomorales wrote:
last week

Congratulations Miss McKennitt .....I love you

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Madameobscure wrote:
14 days ago

<3

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TheCircusFolk wrote:
15 days ago

A truly talented new age singer. She has a great range of music from exotic to common English folk songs to poems to Shakespearean monologues. It's fantastic.

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Mylengrave wrote:
17 days ago

Wow, I am listening to her right now, great woman!

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systolediastole wrote:
20 days ago

Merry [belated] Samhain :] I celebrated it for the first time this past weekend. :)

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prakhyatkoirala wrote:
20 days ago

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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ferakon wrote:
last month

Merry Samhain :]

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RunAwayFromHere wrote:
last month

Skellig and Marrakesh Night Market are my favouriteeee .

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