It is born of pain and suffering, infused with passion and belief, blessed with love and soul.

@@annek1226 You have to go through a potato famine or two to understand...

I don't know it's kind of cheery, Old Norse music and Serbian folk are very depressing, but you would be to if you were stuck in that landscape.

me to...its very hard to explain to people how & why! Don't forget the dancing!

Not all there songs are Irish that why they are called Celtic woman not Irish woman I have heard a few Scottish and one that was gypsy not trying to troll just to let you know that is all

Being Irish is what you feel from the soul

@@columbannon9134 You're not wrong but that's a weird way of saying Dutch

@@cpeterso wat bedoel u mijn vriend?

:D

I am from the UK. I love the Irish people,its culture and its music. I would love to visit Ireland one day.

She was the longest last member last I checked! Her name is Mairead I believe, and DONT quote me on this but I believe her husband actually helped found Celtic Woman. Sadly she left CW to pursue her own career, however their new violinist is also very lively and very skilled :)!

Her name is Méraiéd

Or something like that.

@@achiivement Máiréad Nesbitt and Tara McNeill is the current one.

@@achiivement I found maried was more energetic in her older performances while her latest one she seems to have lost a bit off the energy she use to have you can tell the difference

The Roman Empire called Ireland "the land of winter" and so Caesar didn't bother attacking Hibernia. "Hibernia" is the same word as "Hibernate".

Im black and I feel like one

I’m Irish and Italian. Don’t have to pretend more than the sailor part.

The small bit of Irish in me is proud 😌

Same with hungarian

Complete agreement

but the night wouldn't be long enough for this party

"James9 months ago (edited) but the night wouldn't be long enough for this party" Quite right, from what i can tell this song has a very Fae vibe even if it isn't talking about them directly, and is likely a reference to the Eternal Dance at least obliquely.

XD that's gold!

Lizl Niemand Love your profile picture/avatar! :D ♥

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!!!

that's awesome! it looks like he's pressing the drum to change how tight it is, changing the sound...amazing!

@@katl8825 yes and he also uses fingerpicks on the inside of the drum...

"I will now proceed to swan dive into the concrete."

Most eloquent response.

I guess that’s part of why music is on the Voyager’s Golden Record

Прекрасен е ирландския фолклор, одухотворява те, пречиства ,възвисява, така както уникалния БЪЛГАРСКИ фолклор и изкуство!!! Я, вижте и чуйте поне малко от него , и ще разберете за какво Ви говоря!!!😘

Hear hear! Music IS magic

Thank you for describing so well

Agreed

definitely

no way. mairead is way outta lyndsey's range cause shes been doing for many years since a young child...

Also Mairead is technically way better than Lindsey Stirling. Her play is rather sloppy.

@@salembookworm yep!!

Only other person I know of that can pull that off is Lindsey Stirling

She is only miming I guess it would be impossible otherwise

singers too I bet

@@d.r.9888 singers in this show were entirely lip syncing the songs. The only bits that is actually them is the "yips"

Máiréad Nesbitt got together with Hillary Klug (American violinist) with both dancing and playing the fiddle simultaneously. It is awesome to see.

I thought exactly the same!

Stephen Wigmore every time I listen to this I want to dance, I feel sorry for the audience

Falgorn A I was in the audience. I was dancing in my seat. The entire concert.

But look, even the old people are wide awake & clapping 😊

It makes me happy to see the only “complaint” of this that the peeps can’t dance xD also I agree I love just bouncing around to this song,it’s too hard to just sit still

It's a very small country.Everybody in little Ireland swaps jobs all the time.

Even better, she was one of the founding members of Lord of the dance!

@@margiebranagh8644 Mairead also helped found Celtic Woman if I'm not mistaken.

@@mikeylazovich3262 you're not mistaken 🙂

sergel02 not if your a fan follower ; )!*

Just sit back and enjoy the amazing music.

I think it's dealing with the member changes

Agreed. I went to their show 05/12/19 in Calgary, Canada. Even the drummers all changed. That cool guy in the beginning is not there.

All you have to remember is that they're all gorgeous....

totally its part of the CW concert experience!! JUST AMAZING!!!!

Just saw them this past Tuesday at the Altria in Richmond. Different lineup, but loved seeing Chloe, and the whole show was fabulous. So much energy, just pure joy on the stage.

I've always wanted to see them perform

Ray Fean was one hell of a badass drummer!! he always interacted and played allong with them in the show especially Mairead!! the drummer they have now is not nearly as energetic and interactive with the girls...

Yes! Mairead Nesbitt has been playing since she was 6 years old. She played in Michael Flatleys "Lord of the Dance" and "Feet of Flames" Irish dancing productions in the '90's. Currently, she is the last member of the original Celtic Woman that began in 2005. A lot of the fun of their performances is watching her play and dance around the stage.

If you watch Lindsey Stirling then you will see how hard it actually is!

@Lolatron While certainly true, you must keep in mind the Celtic (Irish in my case) aspect here...Mairead is truly amazing in her venue.

I'd tried to search for the video, but in one interview she talks about using a different bow hold when she is playing traditional style than when she is playing classical style.

i love her dress

Ray is definitely underappreciated

Is he the drummer?

@@shaunnewton3693 he totally is quite the character xd!!

ikr not many do that like he did. my lord the drummer CW has now seems motionless and not enjoying himself while you have ray doing his fancy drum tricks in his solos...

Hes currently the drummer in Come From Away in the West End.

English isn’t Celtic it’s Anglo Saxon different type of people but I understand what u mean

Sarah Danielle when the girls came out I was like "oh no they're busted"😮

Cecily Angel Lent l

Isnt merida scottish?

@@lauryngillies7368 She just means her appearance.

@@pandoratonks4429 i know i was asking a question

@@lauryngillies7368 Ohhh, okay.

I honestly never thought that the ladies(and Gentlemen) of Celtic Woman could top the previous specials but with this latest special they indeed have-thank you so much(and good to see you again,Chloe)!!

I also liked the fact (as an actor myself) that the producers/directors took advantage of the ladies' experience as actresses -it made for a much more exciting experience for the live audience as well as us watching at home!! (P.S.:for the lucky audience member in the crowd in the Notre Dame Ballcap,I envy you sir, for being the object of Lisa Lambe's attention!! That cap would be in a glass case if it were mine!!)

I can't quite figure out when ray left the band. Marmaduke was in my neck of the US for a bit with her husband. Not sure about presently though.

Pls come!

Inshallah, I hope you. Irish girl here and my best friend is from Morocco. You are most welcome

she's a gem ❤

Oh and clapping haha

As am I!

michelle kearsey me too.

Me too

yes yo should be. greeting from Bali island

I'm not a Mick but I like the music

Melody Fussell they are some of my favs

Looks like they finally found a good designer!

Mine too. They're so simple but beautiful too

We saw the new group in April 2024 and while they were good, i agree this combination was the deeam team.

I thought the same thing! o.o

It's the hair. Gotta love that red hair.

khfan4life365 she irish😁 merida is also irish😀

Merida is actually Scottish.........

[Code Blue] Yt Moonstream no she’s Scottish lmao easy mistake for someone who doesn’t know Scotland or Ireland that well xox

I just Love him !

Rhythm and looks. ;)

He’s pretty fly for a white guy! Lol

That’s the Irish for ya

Alix Jamieson they sing Scottish songs as well.

You are totally right,even if they were synching doesn't matter ,it is their voices that they are synching.

Yes, you're completely right. I wished that more people thought like that ;)

I like live version with video:)

because effort. the reason i went to look for the live was because i wanted to know if they can manage that level of harmonics without a machine. some people can but the level of harmonics between them is...well...perfect. if it was done without the aid of a machine it would be a sign of incredible talent. the synchronization of the harmonics of the different singers and the band is amazing if unaided, but if a machine is involved it requires a much lower amount of talent, and effort. one of the most important things in art is the effort involved in its creation, it's why the original painting of the mona lisa is more valuable than a digital reproduction. was another painting i had seen some time ago but can't seem to find, renaissance i believe a highly detailed painting of a courtyard and in one of the windows is a guy painting another painting. THAT takes skill, but a photograph of the same scene would not require much skill.

@@tuseroni6085 Here's a thought, why don't YOU do that choreo and sing it live yourself, ya know, be the change you want and all that shit. Renaissance paintings and stage performances are two very different things and comparing them is like comparing fruits and vegetables. Yea, they're plants (in this case, forms of art), but the flavors are vastly different. You're comparing orignals to mock pieces, something that has no comparison here on a performance piece. Now, this stage as a WHOLE is an art piece and you're about to be like "there's no effort" because you feel they "lip synched". LOOK AT THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE and try to fucking tell me there's a lack of effort again. NEWS FLASH: EVEN BROADWAY STARS LIPSYNCH! *gasp* shocker, i know. Oh and BTW, since you obviously don't know, professionally, for a performance to be considered "live", only 70% of vocals need to actually be live, which, it would seem, was done in this performance. But, right, "effort". 🤔🤔🤔 you should put "effort" into some schooling, or working and make something of yourself instead of bitching about people who already have.

I feel ya

It's worse when the closest upcoming show to you is about 2000 miles over sea and are super broke

I'm a "gainfully employed adult" and I can't afford them either.

KZfaq

Its okay bud. You could be a broke college student during a pandemic with no concerts to con your way int

That would be a beautiful collaboration! :o

muselessmusician they totally should!!!

YEEEEESSSS!!!!!

I strongly Agree!

this should happen asap

What guy? Wait now i see the guy from some reason i click it makes me go to 6:15 but it wouldnt matter any way lads its actually 6:08

I also like the lady playing the violin she is outstanding and very lovely.

I just love the Celtic women singing and dancing

The first part is live indeed, but at a certain point I'm pretty sure it's not. The girls are exceptional, but no one can dance like that and still sound flawless like the studio version, not even the best trained singer.

***** Actually, The girls are not always live, and on the DVDs the audio is always dubbed to get rid of any flaws (hard breathing, missed notes), or difficulty with the audio. In the case of a DVD, the live audience may very well be hearing the girls live, but the home audience is more than likely hearing either completely dubbed audio, or a mixture of the two. When performing live, the girls do a combination of lip synching and singing live. For instance: The fans sitting in the first few rows are hearing the girls' projected, raw voices. Straight up, live vocals. But, as we get further out into the crowd, we hear not only live audio, but also pre-recorded tracks, or studio audio. This sort of helps the girls voices to "blend". Also, some songs are live, and others are not, and parts of songs are live while the whole thing is not. For example: Susan may sing Caledonia live, but she may sing The Voice with playback due to its vocal difficulty and the fact that she's probably tired as hell. (The Voice is a very difficult song). Also, she may start out singing The Voice live, but end up using playback toward the middle of the song. Mairead's ALWAYS playing her violin, but the sound of the violin is being amplified and played through speakers further out into the audience. These girls are all extremely well trained vocalists, but think about it. They run a pretty damn vigorous tour schedule which takes a toll on their voices. Therefore, lip synching at certain points is necessary.

Pernell Parker I mostly agree, although I'm not sure that they would mix live and recorded in a live event. Speaking as a live engineer who has been mixing since the age of 7; mixing a recorded track and a live track is an absolute nightmare, which almost never turns out the way you expect it to. I have worked events where we have a recorded vocal mix on a separate channel from the live mix, but it is only used for backup (singer starts loosing their voice, mic goes dead, etc.). I don't claim to be as good as the celtic woman engineers, but I am pretty darn sure they don't mix recorded and live. I am pretty sure the girls are good enough to pull those vocals... even on the local level that I work, I've run into a few vocalists that can pull off keeping a steady vocal with a lot of movement. I just finished a youth theater gig where one of the girls was flipped into the air while singing, and if you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't notice any variance in her vocal... speaking as the engineer, it was 100% live... if a local kid can do that, I can only imagine what these world famous musicians can do. That being said, most of their previous albums I believe were studio recordings synced with live video (even though I think they were just as good live as in the recording). The reason I am so sure of this is the mics. They are using wireless mics, but the recordings don't sound like they used wireless mics (analog systems tend to have excess noise, and digital systems sound compressed). Their previous videos didn't have excess noise, and they didn't sound compressed, leaving me to believe they were recorded with wired mics. This video I could believe is live, since the vocals do sound compressed at times. It is also possible that they used mostly live, and edited in studio recordings during rough patches like Pernell Parker suggested. Anyway... believe me or don't... I'm not trying to subtract from the singers any... more or less saying "who cares?!". No matter if it's recorded in a studio or live, it's great music, and I look forward to their next album.

How about that: my second comment has been deleted. Looks like someone is afraid of the truth.

***** Who said it was you who deleted my comment? :) Secondly, in my comment there was a video from the SFTH tour which PROVES the lyp sinc on tour - at least for some of the songs, not all of them of course. As for the dvds, I'm sure they are live recorded. BUT, when they are released, it's crystal clear that we don't hear the same performance. Is it clearly replaced, in many segments, by the studio recording. For instance, in this video the first part without music is totally live. Then, what we hear is the studio version. I mean, come on, try to compare them and use your ears. Now let's see if this comment wil be deleted too :)

You aren't alone ...

This is not Scottish song it Irish song

They're Irish and were touring in USA. Trust me, only Ireland could have a group like this.

PBS got a lot of exposure for them here in the US. I took my wife to see them in Louisville 6-7 years ago; they were packing houses back then. We actually got to meet Chloe backstage in Ashland, KY a couple of weeks ago.

Hey, J3N93W, I was there ,too. I was the guy in the blue coat who had meet Chloe in Cincinnati in Dec. Isn't she one of the sweetest people you would ever want to meet? A beautiful and talented Irish lassie, indeed.

She's wonderful, possibly one of the most charming celebrities I've ever met. I had gotten my wife tickets to see her at this Ashland show, and her dad died unexpectedly 2 days before the show. So meeting Chloe was a definite high point in an otherwise terrible week. It's nice that some performers are still accessible to their fans, I know we won't soon forget it.

For me it's a tossup between her and Lisa Lambe. I met Lisa (and her hubby Simon Morgan) in Nashville, TN in Aug. 2015 at a place called The Sutler Saloon. She was promoting her fist solo album since leaving the group the year before. Believe me, she is also sweet and loving and loves to hug people.

So, I'm confused here. I thought Chloe left Celtic Woman middle of last year but she's on this DVD. Don't get me wrong, I HOPE she comes back soon but I was curious if she just came back to do the DVD?

Stephanie Eisenstaedt This was a recording of the South Bend, Indiana performance in last year's (2013) "Emerald Isle" tour. Chloe didn't leave Celtic Woman until after the tour ended, so she is in this performance. She wasn't in the Christmas concert and is not touring with Celtic Woman right now. There is no indication that she will be back in the lineup anytime soon, although I suppose that could change.

Thank you!

Are u really irish?

Hmm. You said Gaelic. That gives you away

From Google: "The term “Gaelic”, as a language, applies only to the language of Scotland. If you're not in Ireland, it is permissible to refer to the language as Irish Gaelic to differentiate it from Scottish Gaelic, but when you're in the Emerald Isle, simply refer to the language as either Irish or its native name, Gaeilge." Tl;dr, OP is a dirty liar that is either not Irish or very uneducated