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A Celtic music band

For the music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity, see Ancient Celtic music.

Often, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland because both lands have produced well-known distinctive styles which actually have genuine commonality and clear mutual influences.

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.

In some parts of Atlantic Canada, such as Newfoundland, Celtic music is as or more popular than in the old country.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

Much of the music of this region is Celtic in nature, but originates in the local area and celebrates the sea, seafaring, fishing and other primary industries.

Galician music is claimed to be Celtic.

The same is true of the music of Asturias, Cantabria, and that of Northern Portugal ( some say even traditional music from Central Portugal can be labeled Celtic ).

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The Celtic music scene involves a large number of music festivals.

In the 1960s several bands put forward modern adaptations of Celtic music pulling influences from several of the Celtic nations at once to create a modern pan-celtic sound.

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

It is thought other Celtic tribes, such as the Remi and the Baiocasses, also elected their leaders.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

Today, Beltane is also observed as a religious festival by Celtic neopagans.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

From all the different names of the same Celtic people in literature and inscriptions it is possible to abstract a continental Celtic segment, boio -.

This name is possibly of Celtic derivation ( cf.

In Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Boudicca is the leader of the Celtic tribe.

Breton () is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (; ), France.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

Today, Breton is the only living Celtic language that is not recognized as an official or regional language.

This means that in spite of long having been the Celtic language with the highest number of speakers, the language is now endangered.

There is also tremendous variation between Celtic regions.

A broad intellectual movement, calling itself the Celtic Revival grew up in the late 19th century largely initiated by artists and writers of Protestant or Anglo-Irish background who were concerned with furthering Ireland's individual native and cultural identity.

It played a broad and eclectic range of music, such as indie rock, electronica, nu country, lo-fi, metal, Celtic and ska.

It comprised a large degree of variation both geographically and chronologically, although " behind this variety, broad structural similarities can be detected " allowing there to be " a basic religious homogeneity " amongst the Celtic peoples.

The grouping of two or more tunes in medleys or " sets " is typical in Celtic dance music.

The name appears also in Ingvaeones which was a grouping of related tribes occupying the original Germanic homeland, and distinct from the migrant tribes that spread out of the homeland from the beginning of the Celtic Iron Age onward.

Polig Monjarret led the introduction of the GHB to Brittany during the Celtic revival of the 1920s Breton folk music scene, inventing the bagad, a pipe band incorporating a biniou braz section, a bombarde section, a drums section, and in recent years almost any added grouping of wind instruments, e. g. saxophones, brass instruments, such as the trumpet and trombone, etc.

The following pages provide lists of people from countries and regions associated with a modern Celtic identity, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping.

In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others.

In reality, the terms ' Scots / Scottish ' and ' Irish ' are purely modern geographical references to a people who share a common Celtic ancestry and consequently, a common musical heritage.

There are musical genres and styles specific to each Celtic country, due in part to the influence of individual song traditions and the characteristics of specific languages:

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

In addition to its lasting effects on other genres, it marked the first modern large-scale mixing of musical traditions from multiple ethnic and religious communities within the Celtic diaspora.

Modern music may also be termed " Celtic " because it is written and recorded in a Celtic language, regardless of musical style.

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

Category: Celtic musical instruments

Category: Celtic musical instruments

Category: Celtic musical instruments

Category: Celtic musical instruments

An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as Astral Weeks and lesser-known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One.

The album, titled after the 220 volt electric standard, featured a diverse mix of musical styles, ranging from blues to Celtic.

There are local festivals celebrating a presumed musical survival of the region's pre-Roman Celtic culture, of which Ortigueira's Festival del Mundo Celta is especially important.

A large inland region, Castile, Madrid and Leon were Celtiberian country before its annexation and cultural latinization by the Roman Empire but it is extremely doubtful that anything from the musical traditions of the Celtic era have survived.

Category: Celtic metal musical groups

In a broader sense, folk rock includes later similarly-inspired musical genres and movements in the English-speaking world ( and its Celtic and Filipino fringes ) and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in Europe.

Zydeco combines elements of an older American musical style that began in the late 1700s, Cajun music, a style that consists of French fiddle tunes, Irish Celtic fiddle tunes, German button accordion, Latin rhythms, and Appalachian styles.

In 2007 Cuban based duet Quidam Pilgrim released a musical setting of the book under the name of " Pilgrim " combining elements of alternative rock, Celtic, new age and Cuban folk music.

Category: Celtic musical instruments

Category: Celtic musical instruments