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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM OM CD (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences.
Welcome to the Official Loreena McKennitt Site. Loreena McKennitt’s ‘eclectic Celtic’ music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in 15 countries across four continents. Join the LM Community.
Loreena McKennitt is well known as a composer and singer. In a recording career spanning more than two decades, Ms. McKennitt’s ‘eclectic Celtic’ music has received critical acclaim world-wide, and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in 15 countries across four continents.
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I became smitten with what is now referred to as Celtic music in the late 1970s, but it was only when I started to connect with its history that my journey really began. At an exhibition of Celtic artifacts in Venice in 1991, I learned about the geographic and historic spread of the Celts.
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Jun 14, 2024 · The Juno-award winning Canadian singer and composer Loreena McKennitt reflects on her remarkable career and her album 'The Road Back Home.'
Jun 20, 2024 · A musical entrepreneur whose beguiling recordings of Celtic and world music are eagerly awaited, singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt has twice won a JUNO Award, and twice been nominated for a Grammy Award.
Mar 1, 2023 · Loreena McKennitt: Canada's unexpected godmother of DIY music. In honour of the Celtic singer's Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction, we revisit this 2013 interview. Andrea Warner ·...
Recordings and Publications. From her earliest recordings ( Elemental in 1985 and To Drive the Cold Winter Away in 1987), McKennitt displayed a distinctive combination of Celtic materials, original songs, and contemporary settings for lyrics by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Blake and others.
