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6 unusual facts about Celtic music


Brandivy

Both festivals celebrate the ancient Celtic cultural, musical, linguistic and other ancient links between Cornwall and Brittany.

Kim Robertson

Kim Robertson is a Celtic harp player.

Mais qui est la belette ?

"Mais qui est la belette ?" ("But who is the weasel?") is an adaptation of a popular song from Brittany named "La Jument de Michao", covered in a rap Celtic version.

National ShamrockFest

Though some emphasis is placed on Celtic music and other folk music, rock artists also perform at ShamrockFest.

Reba: Duets

The song is performed in Celtic melody and Timberlake performs harmony on most of the song's length.

The Boys from County Clare

Set in 1965 Jimmy McMahon (Colm Meaney) is an Irishman living in Liverpool who directs a céilidh band of young men who go to a competition of traditional Celtic music in Ireland in County Clare.


Adrian von Ziegler

Although Adrian says he makes lots of different music styles, he focuses mainly on Celtic music, Emotional, Relaxing, Dark Alternative music, World music, Metal music, and on Film Music, according to his Facebook fanpage.

Cheryl Ann Fulton

Fulton has performed on over thirty albums and soundtracks broadly ranging from medieval, baroque, orchestral, and contemporary music to Celtic music and film scores, on records labels such as PolyGram, Koch International Classics, Nonesuch, Gourd Music, and others.

Llan de Cubel

Llan de Cubel are a Celtic folk band from Asturias (Spain) which specializes in researching, playing and recording Asturian folk music.

Maidens IV

Maidens IV is a four sister celtic and folk rock music band born and raised in a family of eleven near rual Loudonville, Ohio, USA.

Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph (born July 15, 1960, in Penarth, Wales) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk, while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest.

Mediterrânic Ensemble

The World\Folk Fusion assignment means an open attitude towards all music of the world, together with the mediterranean essence, enveloped with other sounds, such as Brazilian Popular Music, African Music, Minimal, Reggae, Progressive Folk, Celtic Music, American Folk and Jazz fusion.

Mike and Michelle Jackson

Mike and Michelle, both singers and multi-instrumental musicians, met on stage at the 1979 Kapunda Celtic Music Festival and toured Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. almost non-stop for 7 years.

Music of Final Fantasy IV

Final Fantasy IV Celtic Moon is a selection of musical tracks from the game, arranged and performed in the style of Celtic music by Máire Breatnach.

An arranged album entitled Final Fantasy IV Celtic Moon, containing a selection of musical tracks from the game performed in the style of Celtic music by Máire Breatnach, was released by Square and later re-released by NTT Publishing.

Tarujen Saari

They are known for playing songs (for example The Three Ravens) from a variety of European folk traditions (often Celtic, Viking and associated sub-genres), as well as original compositions.


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Centerville High School Performing Arts Center

The orchestra program at Centerville High School consists of its Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra (a small ensemble that breaks into smaller quartets to perform in the community), and an Alternative Strings program (which plays bluegrass, jazz, and Celtic music).

Poor Man's Fortune

The band has performed with several of Celtic music’s most famous musicians including Jean Michel Veillon, Yvon Riou,Yann-Fañch Perroches and Fañch Landreau of the Breton band Skolvan, John Skelton and James Keane.

Suzanna Reeves

In 2002, Reeves' rendition of the Celtic folk song, Star of the County Down, retitled as Dance of the Sidhe was featured in the Brobdingnagian Bards Celtic music Ezine.