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Celtic Angels features female vocalists in a variety of Celtic-influenced performances. Aoife Ní Fhearraigh's "Seacht Suáilcí na Maighdine Muire" and "Mo Bhrón ar an Bhfarraig" from Melanie O'Reilly draw from the Celts' haunting vocal music history, but D'Goya's "I Go to Bed" is a folk-oriented number closer to the Indigo Girls, and fiddler Sharon Shannon leads her band through a rousing instrumental rendition of "Bonnie Mulligan." A live recording of Sinéad O'Connor performing "He Moved Through the Fair" is sufficiently haunting. For more adventurous listeners, Celtic Angels' best moments might be its most challenging. Scotland-based Mouth Music mixes Celtic and African languages and rhythmic patterns for "Bratach Bana," Whisky Trail offers a drifting contemporary instrumental piece, and Galician singing legend Uxia turns in her own Celtic-tinged performance with "Verdes Sao Os Campos." Overall, Celtic Angels has something for everyone, making it a good primer for female musicianship in the contemporary Celtic scene
Track listing:
CD 1
1. AOIFE - Danny Boy
2. CHLOE - The Last Rose Of Summer
3. RUA - Garden Of Graves
4. MEAV - You Brought Me Up
5. AINE FUREY - Sweetest Summer Rain
6. ANN MYLER - Come Carry Me
7. ALTAN - Lass Of Glenshee
8. BOHINTA - Hand In Your Hand
9. AOIFE - Calendonia
10. RUA - Black Is The Colour
11. DE DANANN - My Irish Molly-O
CD 2
1. RUA - She Moved Through The Fair
2. AOIFE - Maggie
3. CHLOE - Walking In The Air
4. BOHINTA - Wedding Song
5. RUA - Bridge Over Troubled Water
6. MEAV - Newry Boat Song
7. ANN MYLER - A Haunting Song
8. AINE FUREY - My Love Won't Bring Me Roses
9. AOIFE - Fare Thee Well
10. CHLOE - Ave Maria
CD 3
1. RUA - Hallelujah
2. MEAV - Morning In Bearra
3. AINE FUREY - Sleep And Dream
4. CHLOE - The Water Is Wide
5. AOIFE - Both Sides Now
6. RUA - Ride On
7. MEAV - The Wicked Sister
8. DE DANANN - Then You'll Remember Me
9. AOIFE - Neidin
10. AINE FUREY - Marble Halls
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