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A Celtic music band

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

Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

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.

* 1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer ( Celtic Woman )

In the 20th century, the word lost much of its original connotation of Celtic revivalism or Romanticism, and could refer to any professional poet or singer, sometimes in a mildly ironic tone.

* Chloë Agnew ( 1989 –), Irish singer and the youngest member of Celtic Woman

British Celtic Rock singer Sammy Horner wrote and released a song " Larry's Son " soon after Wallace went public with her claims.

Máire Brennan, lead singer of Celtic / New Age band Clannad, was brought in to help Joanne with the Gaelic pronunciation, and she sang backup vocals.

Other notable residents included Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who exchanged marriage vows in a Celtic Pagan handfasting ceremony in June 1970 with The Doors singer Jim Morrison, and who is the author of twelve books ( and who knew Billy Hayes in high school ).

Grohl subsequently invited Celtic Frost singer Tom Gabriel Fischer to participate in the recordings of his 2004 solo project, Probot, resulting in the co-written song " Big Sky ".

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM ( born February 17, 1957 ) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes.

and has a seat for life at their stadium, Celtic Park, along with singer Rod Stewart.

The same root also appears in Latin vātēs (" seer ", " singer "), which is considered to be a Celtic loanword, compare to Irish fāith (" poet ", but originally " excited ", " inspired ").

* Connie Dover, Celtic and American music folk singer, songwriter

The original lineup included: Al Barr ( vocals, now the lead singer of the Boston Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys ), Scotty Davies ( bass ), Jeff Morris ( guitar ) and Rodger Shosa ( drums ).

Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon, and Jim.

Caroline Georgina Corr ( born 17 March 1973 ), is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs.

* " Faith " by contemporary Celtic, neopagan singer Sharon Knight, from the album Incantation ( 1996 )

The first major musician from the island was Rita MacNeil, a mainstream singer whose music did not draw deeply on Celtic traditions.

The first popular musician who showed Nova Scotia's Celtic heritage to the mainstream world was John Allan Cameron, a singer and guitarist, and son of legendary fiddler Katie Ann Cameron, who was herself the sister of the music collector Dan Rory MacDonald.

Breton harpist and Celtic music exponent Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007 Gaelic singer Karen Matheson OBE with Capercaillie ( band ) | Capercaillie at Celtic Rock 2007

The inspiration for famous Celtic singer and harpist Loreena McKennitt's million-selling CD The Mask and the Mirror came in part from a visit to Galicia and in particular Santiago de Compostela.

" Fairytale of New York " is a song by the Celtic punk group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring the British singer Kirsty MacColl.

Alan Stivell ( born Alan Cochevelou January 6, 1944 ) is a Breton musician and singer, recording artist and master of the Celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic ( specifically Breton ) harp and Celtic music as part of world music.

Celtic new age music from Clannad ( Ireland ), harpist Loreena McKennitt ( Canada ) and Nightnoise ( Ireland ) were popular in a low-key way in the USA.

Since 1990 Marsh has recorded and toured with Celtic songstress Loreena Mckennitt, spanning six multi platinum albums and numerous world tours.

Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track " Stairway to Heaven ", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres.

Musically the style was Celtic, with little warning of the hard rock direction that the band were to take in the future.

In the Time Trader series, she explored Celtic Europe, and Ice Age America, synthesizing of anthropology, archeology, and hard science fiction, and this series must also be seen as a pivotal exploration of time travel, as a method of fictionally exploring lost cultures.

Despite the hard times, Montreal-born goalkeeper Joe Kennaway signed for Scottish giants Glasgow Celtic in 1931 and was an immediate success.

They were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.

Buckie Thistle's first-choice kit is identical to that of Celtic's green and white hoops and local legend has it that Celtic donated " a hamper of shirts and balls " in the early 1900s when the club hit hard times.

The term Caledones may derive from the Brythonic elements caled " hard, tough " plus the Celtic ' great ' suffix, thus * caledonos " great, hard / tough person ", * caledoni " great, hard / tough people ".

It is composed of the Celtic word nemeto meaning " shrine " or " sacred place " and the Celtic word duron ( neuter ) " hard, tough, enduring ".

However, Docherty found first team places hard to come by at Celtic.

From this point they began to move towards the hard rock that allowed them to gain a series of hit singles and albums, but retained some occasional elements of Celtic rock on later albums such as Jailbreak ( 1976 ).

Formed in 1970, Horslips were the first Irish group to have the terms ‘ Celtic rock ’ applied to them, produced work that included traditional Irish / Celtic music and instrumentation, Celtic themes and imagery, concept albums based on Irish mythology in a way that entered the territory of progressive rock all powered by a hard rock sound.

The initial wave of Celtic rock in Ireland, although ultimately feeding into Anglo-American dominated progressive rock and hard rock provided a basis for Irish bands that would enjoy international success, including the Pogues and U2: one making use of the tradition of Celtic music in a new context and the other eschewing it for a distinctive but mainstream sound.

Harris has cited Discharge circa 1979-1984, Disorder, Chaos UK, Siege, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Swans circa 1983-1995, Cocteau Twins, Membranes, Public Image Limited, Zoviet France, Nurse with Wound, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, old school and darkside jungle, drum & bass circa 1993-1996, early Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist, Jon Hassell, Miles Davis up to 1975, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Moritz Von Oswald and Berlin Dub Experimentalists, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, minimal and hard techno, John Zorn, electroacoustic and musique concrète, Found Sounds, Japanese hardcore bands Kuro and Gai ( also known as Swankys ), Celtic Frost, Death Strike, Genocide, Repulsion, Death, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Showbiz and A. G., A Tribe Called Quest as prominent inspirations.

It is in fact hard to identify Lusitanian personal or place-names that are clearly not Celtic ( cf.

Despite his heroics against Celtic, Johnstone found regular first-team outings in the number nine jersey hard to come by, largely due to the presence of Colin Stein, Scotland's first £ 100, 000 player, although he did score eleven goals in sixteen league appearances during the 1971 – 72 season.

The forest takes its name from the Romans, who called Scotland Caledonia, deriving from the early Celtic word '* caleto -' meaning ' hard, strong '.

Due to his hard work as a podcaster and promoter of independent Celtic music, he has earned the nickname of " The Celtfather " from his fans.

* Celtic Pride, about two die hard Boston Celtics fans