Celtic Woman Forum
The Cast => Kate Heneghan => Topic started by: LakersCeltics on January 23, 2026, 01:18:38 AM
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I was looking at New Era ads and I noticed new pics here.
That doesn't look like Ciara. Am I wrong?
https://www.ppacri.org/events/detail/celtic-woman-a-new-era
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The violinist in that ad is Kate Heneghan I believe!
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WHAT??!?!?!?!?! ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
I guess Ciara is currently doing a lot with BIIRD…but does that mean Tara’s not coming back? :( I looked up Kate and it says she plays harp as well…so that sounds like a replacement…but Tara’s been so active with Celtic Woman for almost ten years, and it’s sad to think she could be leaving…
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
OH MY GOODNESS ??? ??? ???
SO DOES THAT MEAN TARA’S NOT COMING BACK? I guess it makes sense that Ciara’s leaving, but it’s wild that it happened so soon. But it seems that Tara isn’t coming back if they got another replacement…😔
Hopefully Kate is a good fit. I don’t know that much about her but she was chosen by Celtic Woman, so she must be good!
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
OH MY GOODNESS ??? ??? ???
SO DOES THAT MEAN TARA’S NOT COMING BACK? I guess it makes sense that Ciara’s leaving, but it’s wild that it happened so soon. But it seems that Tara isn’t coming back if they got another replacement…😔
Hopefully Kate is a good fit. I don’t know that much about her but she was chosen by Celtic Woman, so she must be good!
Comments on Instagram are saying Tara’s probably not coming back…😢…I don’t want to sound derogatory towards Kate or anything, but this is kind of heartbreaking for me…hopefully Tara can have a prosperous solo career or something…I guess she has been there nearly ten years…
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
OH MY GOODNESS ??? ??? ???
SO DOES THAT MEAN TARA’S NOT COMING BACK? I guess it makes sense that Ciara’s leaving, but it’s wild that it happened so soon. But it seems that Tara isn’t coming back if they got another replacement…😔
Hopefully Kate is a good fit. I don’t know that much about her but she was chosen by Celtic Woman, so she must be good!
Comments on Instagram are saying Tara’s probably not coming back…😢…I don’t want to sound derogatory towards Kate or anything, but this is kind of heartbreaking for me…hopefully Tara can have a prosperous solo career or something…I guess she has been there nearly ten years…
It is weird that they haven’t mentioned Tara or Emma leaving, though…they even said in the Kate announcement that they wished Ciara well on her BIIRD journey…but they never said when announcing Caitríona or Ciara that they bade farewell to Tara or Emma, and Emma is almost certainly gone, and apparently Tara as well…
The “About” page on the Celtic Woman website still has the pictures of Tara and Emma, but it doesn’t show anything with Caitríona or Ciara, so it probably just needs updating…
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The violinist in that ad is Kate Heneghan I believe!
First of all, nice call by AeFondAshley before the official announcement was made! How did you know that?
Also I agree with stars_at_dawn that it is weird there has been no announcement about Tara. For that reason, I think whether she comes back or not is still TBD. Like she is gonna see how it goes. I'm hoping she will come back when the baby is older, e.g. when having a nanny is more practical. IDK. Wishful thinking.
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My theory is maybe Ciara would have wanted to be a permanent member, but juggling BIIRD and CW would have been a much
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The violinist in that ad is Kate Heneghan I believe!
First of all, nice call by AeFondAshley before the official announcement was made! How did you know that?
Also I agree with stars_at_dawn that it is weird there has been no announcement about Tara. For that reason, I think whether she comes back or not is still TBD. Like she is gonna see how it goes. I'm hoping she will come back when the baby is older, e.g. when having a nanny is more practical. IDK. Wishful thinking.
Hey, you should never doubt a fangirl, right? Haha 😂
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
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You know, although I will miss Tara most of all, I am sad that we didn’t get to see more of Ciara’s playing style. I was curious to see how she plays compared to Tara and Máiréad N.
Edit: Can someone please make an edit of Ciara with the “goodbye Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you” monologue at the end of The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes audiobook?
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
I’d say it looks closer to Megan’s dress since Chloe’s from postcards had bigger, more “square” pleats in the skirt. And it’s not too crazy to think they put them in past dresses, especially since in Tara’s first announcement photo back during Destiny, she was wearing Méav’s dress from the dvd.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
I’d say it looks closer to Megan’s dress since Chloe’s from postcards had bigger, more “square” pleats in the skirt. And it’s not too crazy to think they put them in past dresses, especially since in Tara’s first announcement photo back during Destiny, she was wearing Méav’s dress from the dvd.
That’s fair, although I thought that they got to keep their dresses after tours. Do you mean reusing dress designs? That might make more sense to account for different sizes and all that.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
I’d say it looks closer to Megan’s dress since Chloe’s from postcards had bigger, more “square” pleats in the skirt. And it’s not too crazy to think they put them in past dresses, especially since in Tara’s first announcement photo back during Destiny, she was wearing Méav’s dress from the dvd.
That’s fair, although I thought that they got to keep their dresses after tours. Do you mean reusing dress designs? That might make more sense to account for different sizes and all that.
I believe they don’t get to keep their dresses, Muirgen has spoken on that a few times. I think they just get clipped onto new members like display wedding dresses for pictures.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
I’d say it looks closer to Megan’s dress since Chloe’s from postcards had bigger, more “square” pleats in the skirt. And it’s not too crazy to think they put them in past dresses, especially since in Tara’s first announcement photo back during Destiny, she was wearing Méav’s dress from the dvd.
That’s fair, although I thought that they got to keep their dresses after tours. Do you mean reusing dress designs? That might make more sense to account for different sizes and all that.
I believe they don’t get to keep their dresses, Muirgen has spoken on that a few times. I think they just get clipped onto new members like display wedding dresses for pictures.
That’s kind of sad. Thank you for explaining, though!
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
From the FB post: Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour
From the CW email: Introducing our newest member for our Spring Tour 2026
In both of those, just the wording make it sound like she's on for one tour. IDK. :-\
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
From the FB post: Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour
From the CW email: Introducing our newest member for our Spring Tour 2026
In both of those, just the wording make it sound like she's on for one tour. IDK. :-\
I thought the same. The Instagram post definitely makes it feel like it’s just for the spring tour, also it wasn’t like a “goodbye” to Ciara? But I guess we’ll find out ☺️
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
From the FB post: Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour
From the CW email: Introducing our newest member for our Spring Tour 2026
In both of those, just the wording make it sound like she's on for one tour. IDK. :-\
That’s fair. The only problem is that they word a lot of new member announcements that way. Also, the fact that Kate also plays the harp. It seems to me like they might intentionally be trying to find another multi-instrumentalist to replace Tara. The harp, in my experience, is a fairly niche instrument. I have to travel to a different city each week to get lessons. However, I do (unfortunately) live in Texas, so this could be a regional thing and might be different elsewhere, especially in Ireland, where the harp is the national instrument. And Tara doesn’t really play the harp all that much with Celtic Woman anyway, so again, it could be pure coincidence, unless they plan on having more harp numbers (which would be amazing, by the way!).
One thing that intrigues me is that Kate plays the electric violin as well as the fiddle. I am more partial to the regular violin, but I am curious what sort of sound an electric violin would add.
Another thing that I notice is that Kate’s harp playing is shown off as much, if not more, than her fiddling. Even Tara is more well known as a violinist than a harpist. I’m pretty sure that she only played harp on a few numbers (the main ones that I think of are Danny Boy, Mise Éire, and Ancient Land’s Siúil A Rún, and maybe a version of The Parting Glass if I recall correctly…?).
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
So they've been doing edits like this for years. Remember the 15th Celebration tour promos? When Eabha left, Chloe was edited in wearing the same dress. But when Susan stepped in, she was added to promo content in another dress which was her Destiny dress in green color. See photos below.
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Are these the same dresses? Is Chloe wearing Susan's Voices of Angels Tour dress, but it's color changed to gold? This was the announcement photo when Chloe returned for the 15th Celebration Tour.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone else feel that the promo pictures look a bit off? The dresses appear to be the Symphony tour dresses photoshopped blue, except for Muirgen, who for some reason is the only one wearing a different dress, and even that looks strangely fake. The poses for that picture are also almost the same as the Symphony tour promo. Even this new violinist’s dress is the same as what Ciara had in the previous promo.
Attached is the Symphony promo for reference. Caitríona and Mairéad’s dresses are the exact same apart from colour.
Here’s the general A New Era image used for reference. All except Muirgen are in the exact same positions with identical dresses except that they’re coloured blue. Muirgen might actually be photoshopped in. Another way to tell is Mairéad’s hair. Her hair was quite a bit longer during the Symphony tour (when A New Era was announced) than when that photo was taken, going past her shoulders (although she recently cut it into a bob). It’s in the exact same style in both pictures.
I did notice only one image result for that other violinist, and it seems to be just for that specific show. Maybe Ciara has a schedule conflict and Tara didn’t want to come back just yet so they had this woman be a temporary stand-in?
Well they are all photoshopped in, at least most promo pics since around Ancient Land have been. In that original photo, Muirgen is in her pink dress from 20 photoshopped blue, Mairéad is in her dress from Cinema Paradiso on 20 also edited to be a darker blue, Caitriona appears to be in Megan’s dress from the symphony tour in 2022, and Ciara seems to be in Megan’s red dress from the Postcards tour 2022, also edited blue. Caitriona was the only one who posted getting new photos for this tour in late December, then she was actually wearing that blue dress.
Huh. That’s odd. Does that mean that Caitríona and Ciara were wearing Megan’s actual dresses or did they just get others of the same model? Although, if Caitríona is wearing a re-used dress, it might actually be Chloë’s teal Postcards From Ireland dress, or at least the same model.
I didn’t even realise that Mairéad’s promo dresses were the Cinema Paradiso dress! Thank you for pointing that out! Although Mairéad’s dress does appear to be lacking the layers of tule that she had in that number.
So they've been doing edits like this for years. Remember the 15th Celebration tour promos? When Eabha left, Chloe was edited in wearing the same dress. But when Susan stepped in, she was added to promo content in another dress which was her Destiny dress in green color. See photos below.
I genuinely had no idea they did this! Thank you both for sharing!! (Like my bio says, I’m new 😅)
So do they photoshop the dress on when it’s a former member’s dress? It’s hard to think that each member would wear the same size. Do they buy the same model…? Susan’s is probably the same from a Destiny promo (haven’t seen any old Destiny promos but logically speaking), but what about for cases like Chloë and Éabha or Caitríona and Megan?
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I just updated the post to add Destiny photo.
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Are these the same dresses? Is Chloe wearing Susan's Voices of Angels Tour dress, but it's color changed to gold? This was the announcement photo when Chloe returned for the 15th Celebration Tour.
If so, that’s an incredible photoshop job. I think it’s different though, because of the detail on the top. Susan’s VOA dress doesn’t have anything similar, and Chloë’s dress doesn’t have the bow connecting the skirt and the top.
Here’s a picture where you can clearly see the top of Susan’s VOA dress.
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Are these the same dresses? Is Chloe wearing Susan's Voices of Angels Tour dress, but it's color changed to gold? This was the announcement photo when Chloe returned for the 15th Celebration Tour.
If so, that’s an incredible photoshop job. I think it’s different though, because of the detail on the top. Susan’s VOA dress doesn’t have anything similar, and Chloë’s dress doesn’t have the bow connecting the skirt and the top.
Here’s a picture where you can clearly see the top of Susan’s VOA dress.
Wait…that picture is clearly edited, and there’s no bow in the middle in your photo…🤦♀️ how did I miss that? 😭 Disregard what I said, you’re onto something!
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That's hilarious. Yeah, they've been doing this for a while for promo photos.
I guess it's cheaper to photoshop than buy and fit / re-fit a dress or have a photoshoot done sometimes. Especially when the linup is in so much flux leading up to a tour. They started doing this before generative AI was a thing, but hopefully it's still involving someone's artistic efforts.
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[/quote]I believe they don’t get to keep their dresses, Muirgen has spoken on that a few times. I think they just get clipped onto new members like display wedding dresses for pictures.
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You are so correct the girls don't get to keep the dress's CW has them all warehoused some place
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This makes me worry in a way with this most recent move.
I feel they are rushing too much with replacing members. According to Wikipedia, 2 members had come on board recently and now Ciara is gone. She was only on for a few months if even that.
If they keep doing this, I feel Celtic Woman is on a slippery slope which they might not recover from.
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This makes me worry in a way with this most recent move.
I feel they are rushing too much with replacing members. According to Wikipedia, 2 members had come on board recently and now Ciara is gone. She was only on for a few months if even that.
If they keep doing this, I feel Celtic Woman is on a slippery slope which they might not recover from.
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I started previously that Ciara could have wanted to be a permanent member, but juggling BIIRD and CW might be a bit much. She might have realized that recently, hence the announcement of Kate
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I think the early 2010s were also like this for them, mainly with the Emerald tour. First, Chloë leaves before the album even comes out, and is replaced by Mairéad Carlin. The lineup is now Mairéad C, Susan, Lisa, and Máiréad N. But then Lisa leaves early on (I believe for a show of some kind?) and is replaced by Lynn. Then, Lisa comes back for the rest of the tour. But wait! The 10th anniversary tour is upon us, and Lisa has left again, this time permanently. So Lynn is back in her place. But then she leaves and Méav replaces her. But then, Lynn comes back. Shortly after, Mairéad C goes back to Ireland to be with her dad (not sure exactly what specifically happened), and Alex comes in her place. Mairéad comes back, but Alex stays, because now Lynn’s left again! So the lineup for the final 10th anniversary shows is Alex, Mairéad C, Susan, and Máiréad N. Alex then leaves again and Éabha joins CW for Destiny.
It’s kind of like Lisa, Lynn, and Alex going back and forth with Tara, Ciara, and Kate. Caitríona is Mairéad C and Mairéad and Muirgen are Máiréad N and Susan—the constants in this equation.
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I think the early 2010s were also like this for them, mainly with the Emerald tour. First, Chloë leaves before the album even comes out, and is replaced by Mairéad Carlin. The lineup is now Mairéad C, Susan, Lisa, and Máiréad N. But then Lisa leaves early on (I believe for a show of some kind?) and is replaced by Lynn. Then, Lisa comes back for the rest of the tour. But wait! The 10th anniversary tour is upon us, and Lisa has left again, this time permanently. So Lynn is back in her place. But then she leaves and Méav replaces her. But then, Lynn comes back. Shortly after, Mairéad C goes back to Ireland to be with her dad (not sure exactly what specifically happened), and Alex comes in her place. Mairéad comes back, but Alex stays, because now Lynn’s left again! So the lineup for the final 10th anniversary shows is Alex, Mairéad C, Susan, and Máiréad N. Alex then leaves again and Éabha joins CW for Destiny.
It’s kind of like Lisa, Lynn, and Alex going back and forth with Tara, Ciara, and Kate. Caitríona is Mairéad C and Mairéad and Muirgen are Máiréad N and Susan—the constants in this equation.
Sorry, but it's not the same, it still was one member leaving and replaced or filled in at a time.
For the 10th Anniversary it was all setup in order to make it work. Lynn opened the tour in January and then Meav agreed to do a month touring in February or March. Lynn presumed after Meav finished and they did a setup so in order so Lynn could perform tour with Alex and so Mairead C could with Alex.
As for Emerald Tour, my belief is Lisa L agreed she could finish up the European/British Tour dates, there had to been a period where it was not feasible for Lynn at that time, and it was after Lynn's big trip to Brazil. Whether Lisa L was similar to Lisa K as unsure whether she return or not or Lisa L was clear she was parting but helped fill in for Lynn for the last shoes of the tour.
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I think the early 2010s were also like this for them, mainly with the Emerald tour. First, Chloë leaves before the album even comes out, and is replaced by Mairéad Carlin. The lineup is now Mairéad C, Susan, Lisa, and Máiréad N. But then Lisa leaves early on (I believe for a show of some kind?) and is replaced by Lynn. Then, Lisa comes back for the rest of the tour. But wait! The 10th anniversary tour is upon us, and Lisa has left again, this time permanently. So Lynn is back in her place. But then she leaves and Méav replaces her. But then, Lynn comes back. Shortly after, Mairéad C goes back to Ireland to be with her dad (not sure exactly what specifically happened), and Alex comes in her place. Mairéad comes back, but Alex stays, because now Lynn’s left again! So the lineup for the final 10th anniversary shows is Alex, Mairéad C, Susan, and Máiréad N. Alex then leaves again and Éabha joins CW for Destiny.
It’s kind of like Lisa, Lynn, and Alex going back and forth with Tara, Ciara, and Kate. Caitríona is Mairéad C and Mairéad and Muirgen are Máiréad N and Susan—the constants in this equation.
Sorry, but it's not the same, it still was one member leaving and replaced or filled in at a time.
For the 10th Anniversary it was all setup in order to make it work. Lynn opened the tour in January and then Meav agreed to do a month touring in February or March. Lynn presumed after Meav finished and they did a setup so in order so Lynn could perform tour with Alex and so Mairead C could with Alex.
As for Emerald Tour, my belief is Lisa L agreed she could finish up the European/British Tour dates, there had to been a period where it was not feasible for Lynn at that time, and it was after Lynn's big trip to Brazil. Whether Lisa L was similar to Lisa K as unsure whether she return or not or Lisa L was clear she was parting but helped fill in for Lynn for the last shoes of the tour.
Oh, okay, sorry. I was going off old Wikipedia articles and the tour history. I wasn’t even fully out of the toddler stage by then, so I don’t really have the full knowledge 😭 please forgive me 😭
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It is weird that they haven’t mentioned Tara or Emma leaving, though…they even said in the Kate announcement that they wished Ciara well on her BIIRD journey…but they never said when announcing Caitríona or Ciara that they bade farewell to Tara or Emma, and Emma is almost certainly gone, and apparently Tara as well…
What did they say with Hannah? I can't remember
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A new member just got announced, for at least the spring tour.
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/posts/pfbid0vXg6zdKzTwP4feSkBEGvbD3NWzLGPG121g4r97x4Q5QJcV8kaKZeExrWRm6rkfn6l
Exciting announcement
We’re delighted to welcome Kate Heneghan, award-winning Irish fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist, to the Celtic Woman family.
Kate joins the Celtic Woman lineup for the upcoming Spring Tour, kicking off 4 March in Providence, MA.
We send our warmest wishes to Ciara as she tours the globe with Biird, another female Irish music sensation!
Tickets for the Spring Tour are available at https://www.celticwoman.com/tour-dates
OH MY GOODNESS ??? ??? ???
SO DOES THAT MEAN TARA’S NOT COMING BACK? I guess it makes sense that Ciara’s leaving, but it’s wild that it happened so soon. But it seems that Tara isn’t coming back if they got another replacement…😔
Hopefully Kate is a good fit. I don’t know that much about her but she was chosen by Celtic Woman, so she must be good!
Comments on Instagram are saying Tara’s probably not coming back…😢…I don’t want to sound derogatory towards Kate or anything, but this is kind of heartbreaking for me…hopefully Tara can have a prosperous solo career or something…I guess she has been there nearly ten years…
It is weird that they haven’t mentioned Tara or Emma leaving, though…they even said in the Kate announcement that they wished Ciara well on her BIIRD journey…but they never said when announcing Caitríona or Ciara that they bade farewell to Tara or Emma, and Emma is almost certainly gone, and apparently Tara as well…
The “About” page on the Celtic Woman website still has the pictures of Tara and Emma, but it doesn’t show anything with Caitríona or Ciara, so it probably just needs updating…
What did they say with Hannah? I can't remember
Here’s the announcement they made on their Facebook. CwazyTom posted a thread of Facebook announcements on the Members Timeline page.
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As for the past of CW, I thought I recalled Alex auctioning selling one of the dresses. 🤔
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Since it's proven that Mairead Carlin is the first member to of left and rejoined as a full time member would lead that why can't the same happen to any other member. I really admired the Postcard's of Ireland Music Director whether it was him or not because he recognized Susan as an asset of Celtic Woman and made her count as part of the family knowingly she parted for having to have a baby which having Susan on Postcard's of Ireland especially of her singing Amazing Grace with Johnstown Castle from Ancient Land, Susan had to give up being able to film a Celtic Woman Special in an outdoor castle setting so this was like something to give her back and perhaps to thank could been for how she helped stepping in several times for Mairead on Ancient Land Tour, and then for Chloe for the 15th and later POI and for Megan later POI Tour.
I was as much surprised how even though Susan wasn't in every song even only two, she would be out front standing with the girls on the cover of the album and the DVD. This special thing with Susan is to me what was supposed to happen with Lynn and Alex as well included. Alex and Lynn as Guest on Destiny would made the most sense alongside Meav featured. People are to be confused even more with Rebecca as to she became a Celtic Woman but didn't and what would it been if Lynn knew to do the harp or Alex.
Chloe and Susan able to featured on an album and DVD in another time while Susan can't be full time but be Part Time something that is uniquely made to her by him?
Emma, Tara, Ciara and even Hannah looks to me by not had farewell announcements especially Tara and Emma assumes that the window is open for them to step back into scene in the same fashion Mairead Carlin did. As for if Tara and Emma can have Part Time like Susan had with the last director doesn't mean the current director will do with the next former ladies. Can some come back for one album DVD guest, or is the rule if you want to come back means full time commitment only. That is the kind of questions which keeps me curious of the future direction with Celtic Woman.
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I think the early 2010s were also like this for them, mainly with the Emerald tour. First, Chloë leaves before the album even comes out, and is replaced by Mairéad Carlin. The lineup is now Mairéad C, Susan, Lisa, and Máiréad N. But then Lisa leaves early on (I believe for a show of some kind?) and is replaced by Lynn. Then, Lisa comes back for the rest of the tour. But wait! The 10th anniversary tour is upon us, and Lisa has left again, this time permanently. So Lynn is back in her place. But then she leaves and Méav replaces her. But then, Lynn comes back. Shortly after, Mairéad C goes back to Ireland to be with her dad (not sure exactly what specifically happened), and Alex comes in her place. Mairéad comes back, but Alex stays, because now Lynn’s left again! So the lineup for the final 10th anniversary shows is Alex, Mairéad C, Susan, and Máiréad N. Alex then leaves again and Éabha joins CW for Destiny.
It’s kind of like Lisa, Lynn, and Alex going back and forth with Tara, Ciara, and Kate. Caitríona is Mairéad C and Mairéad and Muirgen are Máiréad N and Susan—the constants in this equation.
Sorry, but it's not the same, it still was one member leaving and replaced or filled in at a time.
For the 10th Anniversary it was all setup in order to make it work. Lynn opened the tour in January and then Meav agreed to do a month touring in February or March. Lynn presumed after Meav finished and they did a setup so in order so Lynn could perform tour with Alex and so Mairead C could with Alex.
As for Emerald Tour, my belief is Lisa L agreed she could finish up the European/British Tour dates, there had to been a period where it was not feasible for Lynn at that time, and it was after Lynn's big trip to Brazil. Whether Lisa L was similar to Lisa K as unsure whether she return or not or Lisa L was clear she was parting but helped fill in for Lynn for the last shoes of the tour.
Oh, okay, sorry. I was going off old Wikipedia articles and the tour history. I wasn’t even fully out of the toddler stage by then, so I don’t really have the full knowledge 😭 please forgive me 😭
No no, it's a whole jigsaw puzzle, at this point Celtic Woman existence and jarring rotations in compass is a phenomenon in itself! ;D
For some just three line up changes is a confusion for them. Nothing is more funnier than attending the tenth anniversary tour in April and the
Keychain and program has Meav and the guest sits there watching Lynn and during break pointing out This one is another one! ;D🤣🤣🤣🤣
Perhaps I wouldn't mind taking the Celtic Woman State Exam! 😁
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Hey all love to see all the back and forth chating but here is one thing the Quoteing is getting alittle out of hand I will show you with a photo but you can quote people but when that quote also has 4 other quotes in it gets alittle carried away. Think of it this way the more type you share in a quote the more space it takes in our data base. I counted 8 quotes that had 4 or more posts in the quote and it takes up my whole screen with the quotes and maybe part of the new post and my laptop has a 17.3 inch screen which is big for a laptop now thing of someone that is using a phone to veiw this as no Forum is made for mobiles. But first off is have fun
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I know some of us will miss Tara, and I think for the fact that we know by Tara that this was a dream job for her, I am so glad that she got to salute with Mairead Nesbitt on the 20th Celebration, I'm very surprised how long she's been with the group not because she wouldn't stick around but by how time flew, with Mairead Nesbitt the road felt longer.