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The Mummers' Dance 🕺
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The Mummers' Dance 💃🏿
#LoreenaMcKennitt
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The Mummers' Dance 🕺🏿
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On 17 Feb 1957: #LoreenaMcKennitt, Canadian world and Celtic harpist, accordion, and piano player, singer, and composer ("The Mummer's Dance"), born in Morden, Manitoba.
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One of my favorite concerts by Loreena McKennitt. 😍
"Night from the Alhambra"
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The Mummers' Dance 👯
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'Tis the season!
Loreena McKennitt - A Midwinter Night’s Dream
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kjmMV0OEHS_cH0TkhBYHyZiriwuO4wbG4&si=QIiV5GMJO4HMAIIh
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'Tis the season!
Loreena McKennitt - To Drive The Cold Winter Away
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lPHfhsxt_8jPutJDedHCkFwo_AfE6BE5E&si=0ucGXoejmkSMBbAl
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'Tis the season!
Loreena McKennitt - A Winter Garden - Five Songs For The Season
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWI3f5N_VkhOw9NULvdLdMfaKCRLp7eWA&si=hRHJ18DuscmcLl_y
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'Tis the season! Loreena McKennitt - Under A Winter's Moon (Expanded Edition) youtube.com/playlist?lis... #LoreenaMcKennitt #HolidayMusic
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'Tis the season!
Loreena McKennitt - Under A Winter's Moon (Expanded Edition)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n9fIkrWkw4U6bzzktnlmfxS-kAqgvhAVk&si=KgYPuAtPJwkDHurJ
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The Mummers' Dance 💃🏽
#LoreenaMcKennitt
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Loreena McKennitt: The Musician Who Built Her Own Independent Empire - YouTube
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The Mummers' Dance 👐
#LoreenaMcKennitt
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"Turning to go, as you call out my name
Like a bird in a cage, spreads its wings to fly,
'The old ways are lost,' you sang as you flew,
And I wondered why" -
The Mummers' Dance 💃🏿
#LoreenaMcKennitt
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I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the starsCast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please, remember mehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHvj1cxOs0&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
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Dunno if it's the whisky, but this speaks to me, tonight...
"Here is my heart, and I give it to you
Take me with you across this land
These are my dreams, so simple, so few
Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands" -
Sometimes, a song just seems to say it all for one's current mood...
"What is this life that pulls me far away?
What is that home where we cannot reside?
What is that quest that pulls me onward?
My heart is full when you are by my side
Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you " -
@1001otheralbums.com One of my favorites! I love
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Frost and Fire, Part 3 – Canadian Edition
Technically, yesterday we completed our mini-series of spotlights on albums from The List that share the title Frost and Fire. Today’s spotlight does not share that title, but this artist is my go-to for non-Xmas* Xmas music, and there’s a lyric in the last song that is close to the title – “the ice and the fire” – so, I say it’s close enough.
Loreena McKennitt – The Book of Secrets (1997, Canada)
And so, today’s spotlight is on number 550 on The List, submitted by zm1.
I believe it’s not a stretch to say that many Canadians have a soft spot for this artist, you might even say she’s royalty around here. While in university, studying to become a veterinarian, McKennitt got into Canadian folk music (including Joni Mitchell and Neil Young) and then Celtic music. This led her to change career paths, performing at Winnipeg’s first Folk Festival in 1974 and busking in Toronto and elsewhere to scrape together enough money to make her first album. In 1985 she did just that, released through her own record label, Quinlan Road. McKennitt has continued to release all of her albums through her own label, including the one we look at today, her sixth.
Many of McKennitt’s songs are interpretations of traditional folk tunes from Celtic nations and other cultures, and some are based on classic poems. The lyrics of this album in particular are almost all written by McKennitt, as is the music, which has McKennitt’s distinctive magical touch that makes the songs sound like they have been around for generations, if not centuries. The last track, for example, which has the aforementioned ice and fire lyric, is about one Dante Alighieri, who of course wrote the 14th century masterpiece, Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy). To me at least, hearing this song – and this album as a whole – transports me to another time, another place. It’s simply beautiful.
Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fireCast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember meWishing you all a peaceful, tranquil day.
*Note McKennitt does have a number of Xmas albums (studio and live), if you do want to follow this up with actual Xmas music.
#1001OtherAlbums #1990s #Canada #CelticMusic #folkMusic #holidayMusic #ListenToThis #LoreenaMcKennitt #music #musicDiscovery
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The #vinyl actually playing while Stanley sits on my turntable is #LoreenaMcKennitt’s ‘Drive the Cold Winter Away’.
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my Shakespeare and fandom article is out in Popular Music today!
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143024000217
#shakespeare #ShakespeareMusic #CelticMusic #Meav #LoreenaMcKennitt #fandom #PopularMusic
