Mairead clearly loved every performance and brought joy to each moment that she was onstage. I love her and her music, both on Celtic Woman and solo.

I saw Celtic Woman live in Lexington on Aug 3rd this year. I want to thank them all, but especially Mairead for giving me the inspiration to start playing again! Not a day has gon by since the concert that I haven't picked up my violin and played!!! Love al of them!

She has the ability to perform classical, traditional, as well as contemporary, and has the unique ability to blend them at times. Add a beautiful stage presence and lovely personality and you just can't go wrong. This interview was very early on with Celtic Woman. You may not call it dancing, Mairead, but we do. It's a combination of ballet, Irish step, and floor exercise in gymnastics. What you see on video doesn't even touch what you'll experience in a live show. She is a force all her own.

Mairead, you are responsible for this 17 year old to pick up his old violin again and to start playing it again. i love how you play and how you really get into the music, it is so breath-taking and beautiful

Few people radiate music from their soul as Mairead does. So lovely and talented. Also, I could have sworn I saw her walking around Nashville TN in 2007, on of all nights, St. Patricks Day. Both me and my girlfriend really looked at her, and if not her, her twin. She is a rare delight for music lovers.

This lady is a very good player combines the classical/ trad very well...the presentation is also so well managedand delivered.

she is my favorite celtic woman and is also my inspiration, as a violin player

To she her preform the way she does...its just breath taking. For it is like she is pouring out her soul into the music for us. Just Breath Taking

Mairead nesbitt you are incredibly talented really enjoy and appreciate watching you on TV or my cell phone keep up the work and singing you should be proud best wishes to you and your family take care thanks ! Joe

when i heard her voice on this interview i was floored bcuz she looks so young during the concerts. i imagined her voice to be light and drawling

oh mairead, how i wish you could read this! ive always been a huge fan, you are a HUGE inspiration, and i wish i could play as beautifully as you!

I could listen to her talk all day !!!!

I love her shes the reason i picked up my violin again to start playin shes awsome player

the best of the best. no one, and i mean no one, can play as good as mairead. and i don't mean only skill, i mean emotion as well. like she said in the video, she really puts herself into the music. you can't ask her to give anymore, because she's already given everything.

It's so nice to hear Mairead's voice since naturally we never hear her sing. I could compare her to Holly Hunter's character in The Piano as someone who expresses herself through music.

Prettiest violin player I have ever seen!!!! As far as her talent goes, well, does the word FANTASTIC do her justice ??!!

she is my dad's fav. for the fact she never says a word, (like 3 words in the christmas concert i think) she really makes an impact. evry1 remembers her as the dancing fiddle girl. lol

she looks like a fairy... and she's so lovely... very graceful with her violin!

Maireadddd! I LOVE YOU... I love you music, you moving, you dance, and your smile!... You're always smiling...I'm a really Fan of you!... You're an angel!... JUST I LOVE YOU... Edgar!...

Great thanks!! Tommy @ Japan a devoted fan of Mary Hopkin. I hope in some day Celtic Women would sing Those Were The Days ....

mairead nesbitt is simply the best. i love her! bobby

Mairead Nesbitt's beauty and charm is only matched by her immense talent which is simply fantastic. She is the " most desirable" women I could ever wish for.

She is amazingly talented. :)

i REALLE LOVE HER!! SHE'S REALLY AMAZING!! I LOVE HERRRRRRRR SHE'S MY ANGEL! I LOVE YOU MAIREAD!! BLESS YOU...

I really believe that Mairead is not actually human. She is an Angel sent from above for the sole purpose of proving that angels really do exist! She is a miracle! If peace on Earth can be achieved, she will be the one to bring it forth!

You should be proud of yourself way to go best wishes to you and your family appreciate you thanks for everything take care. Joe

Playing the violin while dancing must be really difficult. She's amazing because she can do it so easily. She is an intelligent person as well, and is certainly an expert in playing the violin.

You are the definition of absolute perfection

@moscapoet I couldn't have put that any better. Mairead is an absolutely amazing person and one of a kind! I personally believe there never was or will be another like her. And she is just so damn cute! Tinkerbell with a violin :-)

Probably very talented really impressed with everything she does very skilled all my best her take care. Joe

I love you MAIREADDD! I'm your big FAN!... You're amazing!

She is my favorite of the Celtic Woman

She's the best fiddler in all of Ireland meaning any genre.

that is exactly what I thought when I saw them in concert! :)

great performances

I think Mariead Nesbitt its energetic centre of Celtic Women. She ignit mood of me.

Just AMAZING is all!

i watched her perform before i saw any of her interviews and i thought 'what a over confident cow' so i watched this interview to make sure i hadn't got the wrong idea.....but i had! thank god! she seems really nice, i think now i watch her peform i'll enjoy it more =D i wish we had more of this celtic stuff in england, its not fair!!

@IntoTheMystical thank you! :)

An incredibly intelligent and talented woman. I doubt that many talented violinists could dance (or whatever Mairead may call it) while playing. It requires several degrees of coordination involving each hand, her feet and her body to come out right.

I love her dresses.

Sorry to disappoint you, but she was performing in NYC at Radio City Music Hall on that date. I agree with you on everything else, though. In under 60 days she will be back in the US on tour, though, so maybe you can catch her then.

After watching and listening to this super LADY, the next time that some guy tells me all blondes are dumb and have no talent, I think I'll punch him in the nose. At the end of a long day I can sit down and watch this cute "Energizer Bunny" move around on stage and play her music and I am refreshed beyond words. Mairead, you're the best !!!!

Mairead: You are responsible for me starting to learn the violin at age 56 after seeing you at Red Rocks Colorado in the spring of 2007. I know I'll never be as good as you but I want to learn The Butterfly in your honor - I am the "BlackDragon" - Glenn :)

She has unreal hair. Heck, she has unreal everything

With Maev the song was Si Do Mhaimeo I CelticLadies has the video

shes my hero ^^ im gunna learn how to play violin again cuz of her!! ^^ im gunna becoem as great as her!!!

It's so cute the way she said "girls" she's cute and cool.

She is so great looking! Kiss from sweden

It's basically a song about a Mass Rock, where Catholics would meet for Mass while under the boot of the British, who disallowed the practice. Mairead's age is something she keeps a closely guarded secret, since men never get asked their age.

I think technically, a fiddler plays a lot closer to the finger board, usually in more dramatic motions, or a different style anyway; while a violinist will play more careful and delicately much of the time. Mostly to a non-fiddler/violinist it is based on sound. If you can think of folk tunes compared to classical or concert music, that is about the difference.

a few bits of this she plays some classical music and she's awesome.. so sod off!

Not even close... :-)) She is awesome!

shes freaky comming out jumpin playin the fiddle but thats cool. she has such good talent its unreal. keed it up!

Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring.... tha's the name of the song!... good luck!

ive always wanted that accent

she is a goddess!!!!!!!!!!!

and she sets it high

.....O.O That must be wonderful. How awesome! You're very lucky!! Have fun with it! =D

according to imdb she was born in 1983, so she's 24 this year.

she is really a Pixie and is amazing because of it

I mean that out of all of the girls that I went to high school with, the ones who were blondes were the smartest and nicest of everyone I knew.

i love mairead nice

The woman of my dreams.

same here! I thought she was like 13 until now!

She is the best fiddler in all of ireland

my cousin is a fan of mairead nesbitt

near the end of the video she talks about the album....which album is it?

what song is Meav singing at 2:42?

there are none better mairead sets the standard for pixie violinist;s

@Crusadist1099 ye, sorry, didnt read all comments

@forestnymph02 Never too late ... & sometimes people who start playing piano early can't play piano ...ever!

@TripBoomLikeThat Haha! Yah...I will! Thx! ;D

@AmieLynn16 haha, she'll never tell!

Is starting playing violin a six a late start?! OMG! Do I have any chance when I started at ten? ó_Ò

Im called Mairead too haha

Mairead,when She's talking her voice sound pretty sharp tender tune. I thik it could be a great try if she could sing somethig,someday!

What the name of the song at 2:40 ?

Some of her fans suspect that she's at least part Elvish.

No way!?! If you're telling the truth, I'm completely in amazement! Well, when you play with her at Christmastime, tell Mairead that my sister Katie and I love listening to her fiddling! ~Meghan~

From what I've heard that's the way she was taught, because the traditional communities actually teach you to hold it that way.. And is weird for them to see it the "normal" way.

Well, it works, so why not? She does it with amazing skill. There is no "proper" way to hold a bow, so long as it works for the person holding it.

Yeah---it was amazing that all of the girls in my high school that had the best grades, and were the smartest, with the best personalities, were all blonde !!

@SUNSNARE06 How 'bout rockin' with Kansas or Dixie Dregs? I doubt there's anything she can't do on violin/fiddle.

think its "raining up"

Yes, per wikipedia. But Mairead HATES having her age discussed.

I want to marryu you Mairead

There's a Stargate on that stage.

@backlanov1 Or so I have been told, but she really doesn't like her age discussed publicly. Would you consider removing this comment?

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She needs to give me violin lessons.

I have, I still like Mairead better.

"My meaning was to say, that the line "Blonds are dumb" is only valid in the US. " It's not valid in the US, or anywhere else in the world. Anytime you try to disparage a few million people with a stereotype like that, you're on thin ice. -jcr

si do mhaimeo i

Late Starter for the violin????? 6 years old is not that old!!!!!

a late starter at 6??? lol

Will you marry me?

They usually start at 4 or 5. Past 6 your brain has already lost most potential and become less receptive to the teaching.

This is untrue, but good luck getting her true age out of her, she won't give it.

honestly good luck but again honestly.. you won't be. She's not from this earth!