Loreena McKinnett, Wexford Carol:

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She is one of the best singers and instrumentalists in the world. We don't need god's when people like her are around.

Originally posted by sonhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6vOASt2RU

She is one of the best singers and instrumentalists in the world. We don't need god's when people like her are around.

how do you know she was not divinely gifted?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
how do you know she was not divinely gifted?

Did you listen to her song? She is as close to divinely gifted as anyone I ever heard about, at least in the arts.

Had you ever heard of her before this post? She has sold 14 million records world wide, most on her own label. She has put out at least 32 CD's and she is not yet 60 years old, still going extremely strong. Plays harp, piano, accordion, writes most of her own songs, puts poems like Keats to music.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Did you listen to her song? She is as close to divinely gifted as anyone I ever heard about, at least in the arts.

Had you ever heard of her before this post? She has sold 14 million records world wide, most on her own label. She has put out at least 32 CD's and she is not yet 60 years old, still going extremely strong. Plays harp, piano, accordion, writes most of her own songs, puts poems like Keats to music.

The point Robbie was making was that being divinely gifted requires a god.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Did you listen to her song? She is as close to divinely gifted as anyone I ever heard about, at least in the arts.

Had you ever heard of her before this post? She has sold 14 million records world wide, most on her own label. She has put out at least 32 CD's and she is not yet 60 years old, still going extremely strong. Plays harp, piano, accordion, writes most of her own songs, puts poems like Keats to music.

I have listened to her many times, although i am not a great fan of carols, but ironically more secular themes like she moved through the fair etc

Originally posted by rwingett
The point Robbie was making was that being divinely gifted requires a god.

thankyou

Loreena McKennitt -The Dark Night of The Soul - St. John of the Cross

Upon a dark night
The flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest

Shrouded by the night
And by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyes
While all within lay quiet as the dead

Oh night thou was my guide
Of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them into the other

Upon that misty night
In secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
Without a guide or light
Than that which burned so deeply in my heart
That fire t'was led me on
And shone more bright than of the midday sun
To where he waited still
It was a place where no one else could come


Within my pounding heart
Which kept itself entirely for him
He fell into his sleep
Beneath the cedars all my love I gave
From o'er the fortress walls
The wind would his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
Caressed my every sense it would allow


I lost myself to him
And laid my face upon my lover's breast
And care and grief grew dim
As in the morning's mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair

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'Lullaby' ~ Loreena McKennitt

"O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
To drown the throat of war! When the senses
Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressèd
Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?
When the whirlwind of fury comes from the Throne of God,
when the frowns of his countenance
Drive the nations together, who can stand?
When Sin claps his broad wings over the battle,
And sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;
When souls are torn to everlasting fire,
And fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain,
O who can stand? O who hath causèd this?
O who can answer at the throne of God?
The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!
Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!"

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I have listened to her many times, although i am not a great fan of carols, but ironically more secular themes like she moved through the fair etc

The next one to play on that link was Alison Krauss and she has a really great voice but she sounded a bit thin compared to Loreena's version. Loreena covers a lot of religious themes but also ancient druid and other pagan themes also. I just posted the carol because of the absolute beauty of her voice on that song.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Did you listen to her song? She is as close to divinely gifted as anyone I ever heard about, at least in the arts.

Had you ever heard of her before this post? She has sold 14 million records world wide, most on her own label. She has put out at least 32 CD's and she is not yet 60 years old, still going extremely strong. Plays harp, piano, accordion, writes most of her own songs, puts poems like Keats to music.

I have around 5 or 6 of her albums. I had figured you already knew of her. Her voice is indeed angelic. My favorite has to be "The Mummer's Dance" from The Book of Secrets. Haunting in its beauty. I also like "The Highwayman" from the same album.

Originally posted by sonhouse
The next one to play on that link was Alison Krauss and she has a really great voice but she sounded a bit thin compared to Loreena's version. Loreena covers a lot of religious themes but also ancient druid and other pagan themes also. I just posted the carol because of the absolute beauty of her voice on that song.

The voice that you want is Kate Rusby, it has a resonance that no other contemporary British or Irish folk singer can carry. Let this melt you my man, its natural, full and in my opinion does not suffer from the same over production that marrs some of Loreena's recordings.

YouTube : Kate Rusby, As I roved out

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The voice that you want is Kate Rusby, it has a resonance that no other contemporary British or Irish folk singer can carry. Let this melt you my man, its natural, full and in my opinion does not suffer from the same over production that marrs some of Loreena's recordings.

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Yes, have listened to Kate for years, smokey clear voice! I agree with you about Loreena's overproduction, sometimes it mars the performance. She sounds best when she is by herself and just her harp or piano and maybe a fiddle but her later productions are like hollywood it seems. It has certainly made her a sizable fortune however.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Yes, have listened to Kate for years, smokey clear voice! I agree with you about Loreena's overproduction, sometimes it mars the performance. She sounds best when she is by herself and just her harp or piano and maybe a fiddle but her later productions are like hollywood it seems. It has certainly made her a sizable fortune however.

maybe i should send her a begging letter 😀

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
maybe i should send her a begging letter 😀

Here is one of my former band mates, Silvia Herold, we played in my old band 'Southwind', here she is in another band but I always loved her voice:

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"The Light Dragoon"

Originally posted by sonhouse
Here is one of my former band mates, Silvia Herold, we played in my old band 'Southwind', here she is in another band but I always loved her voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzq6BVkOkao

"The Light Dragoon"

I am diggin Samantha Fish at present, she is just phenomenal

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Originally posted by sonhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6vOASt2RU

She is one of the best singers and instrumentalists in the world. We don't need god's when people like her are around.

So I guess when she passes, we can go back to those crummy ol' gods...