Back on October 12th, CaraNua announced they were working on a new recording project. They didn't specify if it will be related to Evermore or something else. But considering their mention of sirens in the post, I think it's a fair bet it's fantasy-related and probably for Evermore.

Facebook Post:
https://www.facebook.com/caranua/posts/2073758386021773

Recording this week for another exciting project.. Capturing the sounds of sirens isn’t always easy.. helps to get “in the zone”

Ancient Land tour dates posted!!!!

https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates/


There's only 1 show in Canada next year (nowhere close to me), but there are a few shows that are close enough for me to get to and they almost always have M+Gs for those venues.

Something seems weird about this list so far though...

1) There's only 64 dates listed so far as of the time I checked (much less than the ~90 on a usual full tour)
- Maybe they haven't finished putting up the list yet for today's announcement
- Or maybe they're going to post / announce more later, maybe even a longer international tour next year

2) There's some venues listed twice on completely different weeks of the same tour

3) There's venues they're returning to this year that they just visited on the Homecoming tour
- One of those venues works out very well for me, but it makes very little sense for them to go back there in consecutive years
- The turnout is always low for those shows and the crowd there isn't very enthusiastic (I've already seen 2 Celtic Woman shows at that venue, so I know what it's going to be like)

There's quite a few shows I could potentially get to, but only if I do like a mini-roadie trip and follow the tour bus for a week or so. Most of the shows I can get to are mid-week. I can really only get to 2 shows from here without basically booking a whole week off and following the bus (which I might end up doing).

For those of us potentially planning to go to Utah to see CaraNua, the show in Utah is on March 29, which is unlikely to overlap with any CaraNua tour.

Georgia show is on March 9, which likely wouldn't be near the time of Lisa Kelly's spring show.

But hopefully there's some shows near everyone here on the forum so we can all enjoy at least one show!

I went with One More Day (absolutely awesome), Crucan Na Bpaiste (devastatingly beautiful), and Follow the Heron (soothing and pretty).

That's encouraging.

I suspect I just didn't send it for my test account but I'm not sure what happened to the other approval.

The task logs get pruned after a few days so I'm not sure if there was any approval notification issues on October 6th when mattycakes got added. But for the past week or so, the forum's been logging approval notification tasks on schedule, so at least that part seems ok.

Let's keep an eye on it.

I put a note on the old forum for people to contact one of us if they have trouble registering or logging in.

Hey Glen,

Do we know if there's any issue with the forum or its hosting company sending out email confirmations once new accounts are approved?

It's sending out private messages and initial registration confirmations ok, but after people are approved by one of us, I'm not sure if they're always getting an email to say they're account has been approved.

My test account I made a couple of weeks ago didn't get an approval confirmation email and one of the other recent registrants didn't get one either.

Thanks.

ok your image was better then the one I found so it is switched

Thanks!

I ended up just taking a picture of the front cover with my phone and cropping it to a square.

I'll definitely be getting the 2019 calendar when it releases (I'm guessing it will be available around Thanksgiving when the PBS special debuts). I'll hopefully get it before January and I can send a picture of the cover.

I had a cool thought (well, I thought it was cool because I'm not the one making all the icons and getting them to work) ...

What if we had a picture of the cover of the current Celtic Woman calendar as the board icon for the calendar on the forum? I think it's a little much to be rotating the picture every month, but one change a year should be manageable.