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Woman Details Welcome to Celtic Woman Details page: Fueled
by healthy public appetite for traditional melodies and quasi-ethnic roots, the
crossover genre continues to flourish with this debut release from Ireland's Celtic
Woman ensemble. The brainchild of Sharon Browne, Dave Kavanaugh (founders of Ireland's
successful Celtic Collections label) and young Riverdance touring company
musical director David Downes, CW's five young women musicians and vocalists offer
up an ever pleasant, Eire-savvy fusion of folk, pop and classical influences.
Avoiding the intrusive, club-beat/sex kitten window dressing ofBond, the
ensemble tackles material that ranges from the expected (spare, lovely covers
of "Danny Boy" and "Ave Maria") to more adventurous fare like "Nella Fantasia"
(Ennio Morricone's vocal adaptation of his rapturous theme from The Mission)
and Enya's "Orinoco Flow." Elsewhere, "The Butterfly" offers up fiddle-fueled
take on their Riverdance parallels (which also get a workout on the live bonus
tracks), if renditions of Downes' originals like "One World" and "Send Me a Song"
and "Someday" from Disney's animated Hunchback of Notre Dame hew slavishly
to the middle of the road -- which largely seems the album's easy-listening intention.
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