Lizzie, please read what I actually said. I'm not saying that Loreena's music is bad, or not beautiful, and I don't doubt she is a sincere and talented performer. All I have said is that I don't like it much, and given my reasons.

Whatever her influences, the end result seems to me to fit squarely into the post-Clannad "Celtic" genre, which is entirely a marketing concept of the music industry. I have no objection to it being commercially successful and neither do I look down on the musicians who play it. I don't particularly like the term, because this style of music has little connection with real Celtic music, and likewise I don't think it has much to do with folk music. But being commercial pop doesn't mean it can't be beautiful, and that's not what I'm saying.

That's my last word on this, because I don't think this is an appropriate thread to be discussing the merits of Loreena's music - I certainly don't think it's "dreadful" and neither is it the sort of thing the OP was referring to. Her music simply doesn't do anything for me - perhaps that's a failing on my part, but you can't please all the people...