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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2	The Mystic's Dream	930
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7	Coventry Carol	553
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9	Tango to Evora	508
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11	All Souls Night	464
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13	Caravanserai full track	459
14	Night Ride Across the Caucasus	457
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Hayzi22 wrote:
3 hours ago

Loreena McKennitt is my favorite.

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I_Love_Chocolat wrote:
Thursday afternoon

"Caravanserai" is great :)

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danced-in-fire wrote:
Monday afternoon

constb-rus, yeop :( we are waiting loreena in russia! :))

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danced-in-fire wrote:
Monday afternoon

at last on first position isn't the mystic's dream or skellig lol

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constb-rus wrote:
Sunday afternoon

never been to any of her concerts... <sigh>

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sonicdruid wrote:
7 days ago

Lovers of Loreena's voice may also like this mystical voice::: http://www.last.fm/music/Zoetic

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danced-in-fire wrote:
10 days ago

Trystane, agree with you, i think in the same way.

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der_bube wrote:
11 days ago

Espero que novela nenhuma estrague a fama dela =]

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Trystane wrote:
11 days ago

For me, folk/world music genre suits better for Loreena McKennitt, than for most of the 'new age' artists. (Don't get me wrong, I love new age as well.) Her music style is just not that classic new age, meditative/chillout one.

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danced-in-fire wrote:
11 days ago

RainnBard, what's the new age music for you?

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RainnBard wrote:
11 days ago

I've always liked her songs. It seems so much more fitting to call her new age then Enya. Enya is Enya. =]

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Nilson_Neto wrote:
13 days ago

♥

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vhtsouza wrote:
16 days ago

@nettoepfel e @OrpheusBathory acho que as pessoas nem sabem que é a Loreena que está passando na novela. Se isso acontecer, espero não estar vivo p/ ver. Odeio quando artistas bons viram mainstream. Aff, várias pessoas que nem conhecem o artista no show se achando o fã mais antigo do mundo. Odeio.

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APostmodernist wrote:
18 days ago

Hi. Those who love Loreena and Blackmore's night, check out An Danzza (new folk, medieval, renaissance, epic...): http://www.last.fm/music/An+Danzza Their music is of a really high quality.

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danced-in-fire wrote:
21 days ago

yes, she is great... but i dont like all her songs... some of them are too boring for me :)

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sheislover wrote:
22 days ago

Meaningless status Love track, I love all her songs...

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xnathalia_x wrote:
22 days ago

"infelizmente será por pouco tem", FELIZMENTE será por pouco tempo, você quer dizer hum hum

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merymay wrote:
25 days ago

♥ ♥ ♥ She's the Queen ♥ ♥ ♥

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OrpheusBathory wrote:
26 days ago

@nettoepfel Eu não acho que ela vá se tornar mainstream, apesar de fazer parte da trilha sonora de uma novela do horário nobre, ela não faz o estilo das massas, e se fizersucesso, infelizmente será por pouco tempo, assim como foi com a Regina Spektor no começo do ano, com a novela "A Favorita", apenas "Fidelity" foi para as rádios, e logo o pessoal esqueceu dela...

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nettoepfel wrote:
28 days ago

She is becoming mainstream in Brazil, Dante's prayer plays everyday at the brazilian television and maybe with it she'll be playing here someday. *-*

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