The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100503   Message #2020796
Posted By: Tootler
09-Apr-07 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: Review: Celtic Woman
Subject: RE: Review: Celtic Woman
I agree with Mrs Duck.

The girls have good voices and, judging from the website impeccable CV's.

BUT

Their singing is bland and lacks passion. I listened to "She moved through the fair" and the obvious comparison is with Margaret Barry. Her voice may not be pretty like these girls and the recording has more than a few rough edges, but does she put some feeling into the song. The fiddler was technically accomplished but again there was no feeling. I did not feel I could dance to this.

Overall I can see that they will appeal to a certain audience, but they are a product of the music industry packaged to appeal to a mass audience. Good luck to them, but it will be interesting to hear them in 10 years time if I am about then to hear whether they have matured enough to sing with more feeling and to take control of their own musical destinies.