Brian McGrane

Brian McGrane played guitar in the Destiny DVD, played piano on the Destiny tour, was in "17 weeks 17 songs" with Susan during the Destiny tour, and records songs with current and former Celtic Woman members occasionally.

Discography:

Albums and EPs:

Your Last Day:
   Bubbles
   Miracle
   Open My Eyes
   Are We The Waiting
   Your Last Day
Engrane (2024)

Singles:

Are We the Waiting (2018)
Bubbles (2018)
Miracle (2018)
Open My Eyes (2019)
Your Last Day (2019)
Still With Me (2019)
The Scientist (2019)
Take Your Time (2019)
When We Were Young (2019)
Out of Control (2020)
Inside Out (2020)
Waking Up Slow (2020) ... with Chloë Agnew
Time Machine (2020) ... string arrangements by Ronan Scolard
You're Not Alone (2021)
Somebody Just Like You (2021) ... with Chloë Agnew
Fire (The Brave Collide) (2022)
Ae Fond Kiss (Laura Durrant) (2024)
Free Fallin' (The Brave Collide) (2024)
Chasing Cars (The Brave Collide) (2024)
Ordinary People (2024)


Fun Facts:

Chloë has a cameo in his Your Last Day music video.

Site: https://www.brianmcgranemusic.com/

I picked up a copy of Brian McGrane's new atmospheric piano album, "Engrane," on the Celtic Tenors tour recently.

The CD is subtitled Sketches and the tracks are demo versions. They won't be the same versions as the forthcoming public release of the album.

It's nice and relaxing.

My favourites are:
- 21/15 (which he performed with The Celtic Tenors on tour)
- Ecaps, Space, and the bonus track, which are basically all the same (or very similar) tunes 🤣
... maybe the same tune was accidentally copied a few times. It will be interesting to see what the tunes of the same name sound like when the album is officially released.

During Brian's StageIt today as "Engrane," he announced that in addition to some singles, he's working on an album with Laura Keegan (Durrant), which is tentatively planned for release in the summer of 2025.

The StageIt itself was a nice listen. It was mostly instrumental and Brian's created a really fresh relaxing sound. I suppose the closest style to it is atmospheric spa music.

My sprawling collection of music stemming from my appreciation of Celtic Woman is extensive, but this is not like anything else in it.

Brian has his own Patreon page now (in addition to The Brave Collide page):

https://www.patreon.com/engraneofficial

There's a free tier at the moment.