I am a programmer, maybe I could try to make a bot to extract the data from those pages. Well, if anyone wants to join forces DM me, please.

I will need help to organize this in a cohesive way and then restore it somewhere.

Yes, that would be the approach.

It may be controversial, but I'll say Voices of Angels. The Orchestra, although one of the main features of the album, overlaps the girls too much; not in all songs, but still. I give A Time For Us and Nil Sen La as examples.

Quote from: rfcw on August 26, 2023, 12:22:43 PM

Celticwomanfandom an instagram and attendee made some sort of a valid point and observation on empty seats for this! The fact that others who wanted and didn't get to would be sad if many that got didn't attend.* :-(

That is a very good point. I honestly didn’t look behind me at all, so I'm not sure what it looked like.

Those of us that did attend benefitted somewhat (I had been assigned row "L" and somehow ended up front-center after the free-for-all to fill seats).

There were so many ways this could have been handled better. The early notice was great, but the follow-ups for registrations didn’t work well and sadly left many deserving fans out of luck. It's so sad.

Some things that might have helped (all have flaws though):
1. State in big bold text in the registration form that you are responsible for booking hotels and accomodations, along with a warning that due to the Notre Dame vs Navy college football game the following night, stuff was extremely expensive and you should book immediately. I don't think many people were prepared for the limited availability and insane prices of hotels that weekend (upwards of $1000 US a night at one point).
2. Paid tickets. Pay within 7 days of acceptance or forfeit your spot.
3. Automated and immediate responses, if it was truly first come first serve. You know within minutes if you're in or out. Once it reaches the threshold, all subsequent registrations get immediately rejected.
4. Require to provide proof of ability to travel, flights (if applicable), and accomodations within like 7 days of acceptance or you forfeit your spot.
5. Then send notices to waitlisted people to do the same, within 7 days.
6. Sell tickets for any remaining seats.

On the upside, the crowd that was in attendance was great (aside from clapping out of sync with the music). 🙄

I think that a good solution could be to create or recognize an official fan club(s). Then, on these occasions, turn tickets available for fan club members first and only after that open for the general public to apply. This way, they would have a clearer sense of who truly is a 'dedicated follower' and not this 'first come first served' nonsense.

I don't see paying for these tickets as a good control method because, as it is too limited, it would skyrocket the ticket price/value. Even if they did a 'symbolic pricing', it would potentially exclude some of us that went to this filming with a tight budget.

The Fan club approach is not perfect though, They would have to be very careful with the criteria and related stuff, and probably to employ some kind of community manager for it, ideally, someone who has a good knowledge of the group's history and its fanbase across the globe. I see Ava doing it very successfully - on a smaller scale - with her Patreon subscribers and it's doing really great for her.

I am happy that my signature image will have it's justice now 🥰🥰.

Today Mairead Carlin posted on her Instagram stories a photo of sheet music with the names of Brian Byrne as the arranger and the writer Oscar Wilde.

I searched for songs inspired by Oscar Wilde's work and found La Mer (a.k.a. Beyond The Sea in the English adaptation) among them. I could be very mistaken since Beyond The Sea of A New Journey does not mention Wilde directly and I found no other evidence of this relationship online.

So, I summon everyone to be a little detective today and try to find a solution to this quest.

PS: Is Brian Byrne the new Musical Director?? Or is it a collab, maybe... He has a pretty solid and successful career as a composer, I am inquisitive to hear his work on this song, at least.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_based_on_the_works_of_Oscar_Wilde
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/4997/Brian-Byrne/

Probably You Raise Me Up, Danny Boy, Amazing Grace, The Parting Glass, Orinoco Flow, and Teir Abhaile Riu. I'd most likely expect someone to sing Dulaman.

Yes, almost impossible for them to not include those. I would love it if we could get some of the CWs original show songs though... Like One World, The Soft Goodbye, etc.; At the Ceili, Nil Sen Lá would be lovely as well. But I am not sure if we would ever get any David Downes songs ever again; well, we had a huge chunk of them in the last Christmas tour, so maybe we are in luck.

Some venues already opening public sales. Maybe we are close of an official announcement.

Lol, I wish I had this kind of luck to win the lotto. They just announced the 20th Anniversary Special...