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| Loreena McKennitt Concert Tour Loreena McKennitt will begin a North America-wide tour in April. A series of 21 U.S. dates will support her Verve/Quinlan Road label debut, An Ancient Muse. This is her first tour since 1998 and her first album since 1997's multi-platinum The Book of Secrets. Additionally, PBS' "Great Performances" will air the special "Loreena McKennitt: Nights from The Alhambra" in March. The program was filmed in Granada, Spain at the Alhambra Palace over two nights in September 2006. Accompanied by musicians Brian Hughes, Hugh Marsh, Donald Quan, Nigel Eaton, Rick Lazar, Caroline Lavelle, Steáfán Hannigan, Tal Bergman, Tim Landers, Haig Yazdjian, Georgios Kotogiannis and Panos Dimitrakopoulos, McKennitt performed fan favorites including the hit "The Mummers' Dance", "The Lady Of Shallot", and "The Mystic's Dream", as well as songs from the long-awaited new recording An Ancient Muse. Produced by Loreena McKennitt, An Ancient Muse, as Scripps News says, "is a literary-flavored, Celtic-oriented travelogue of the Mediterranean region of centuries ago." As McKennitt herself describes it, "This record is a little like equipping yourself with a Eurail card. It's like saying, I don't know where I'm going to on this trip. I'm just going to get on board the train, and allow each encounter to lead to the next." The album has sold over 500, 000 copies worldwide to date. McKennitt works from her hometown of Stratford, Ontario, Canada where she is self-managed, self-produced, and head of her own internationally successful record company, Quinlan Road. In a recording career spanning two decades, her music has won worldwide critical acclaim and gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards in eighteen countries across four continents. She has won numerous awards including the Billboard International Achievement Award and two Juno Awards. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |