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« on: January 27, 2026, 12:44:59 AM »
Updated the membership and timeline on Wikipedia and here on the Forum. I see someone already tried to make some of the changes and Wikipedia reverted it due to sourcing concerns. I gave them the Facebook post and the news post from the Celtic Woman website this time. We'll see if that holds up to their scrutiny.
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« on: January 25, 2026, 08:17:37 PM »
Sal is Kat's sister. She released an eponymous album (Sal) in 2020. Kate did perform on the album as well. Source: https://www.mayonews.ie/news/local-news/1128847/a-day-in-the-life-sal-heneghan.htmlThe name of the album is simply ‘SAL’. It’s a traditional Irish album of my style of music with some of my favourite tunes on it. There are ten tracks on the CD and I play the fiddle and the harp on it. I also have two songs on the album. My family feature on it as well. My Mom plays fiddle, my sister Kate plays the fiddle, my sister Maggie plays harp and my brother Paddy sings and plays the uileann pipes. It was a little bit of a family project.I come across another fun fact too: Sal is a member of Biird, which of course is the same group Ciara is in.
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« on: January 25, 2026, 02:22:04 PM »
Wait…so you met Caitríona before she joined?? That’s quite the flex! How did this happen?
I met her on one of Éabha's Patreon Zoom calls in the early days of Patreon and started following her because her voice is really soothing. We knew we were both going to the Celtic Woman concerts in Killarney so our friend group met up with her for dinner before a few of the shows. I got to chat with her a bit at the Celtic World Forum events and had an Irish lesson with her at the 2024 Forum event. She also did singing lessons at the Forum that year. We were both at the Celtic Woman 20th Anniversary DVD recording as well.
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« on: January 25, 2026, 01:57:31 PM »
Yeah, I'm 95% sure it's an EP / album.
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« on: January 24, 2026, 11:39:20 PM »
This has been probably been mentioned before but Caitriona knew a few of the ladies before joining CW. She also performed at Eabha's Celtic forum if I'm not mistaken
Correct! At the Forum events, she was a performer along with: Éabha, Megan, Mairéad Carlin, Máiréad Nesbitt, Tara Howley, James Greenan, Glenn Murphy, Orla, Ronan, Susan ... I may have missed a few. Before that, she got to meet the Postcards linup (Chloë, Tara McNeill, Muirgen, Megan) in 2022 in Killarney. I may have gotten her that Meet and Greet. 
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« on: January 24, 2026, 12:40:08 AM »
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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« on: January 23, 2026, 09:02:51 PM »
Megan's new single Mo Chroí (which translates to "My Heart") releases on March 6th, 2026.
She performed it at Éabha's 2025 Celtic World Forum and it was well-received.
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« on: January 03, 2026, 04:34:13 PM »
We also got a Danny Boy track on Homecoming.
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« on: December 26, 2025, 10:26:19 AM »
2025 got off to a slow start, with no spring tour. But in spite of that, there was no shortage of news this year.
Celtic Woman welcomed 2 new members: vocalist Caitríona Sherlock and violinist Ciara Ní Mhurchú. In addition, multi-instrumentalist Tara Howley performed with Celtic Woman on the their new Christmas album and on the Christmas symphony tour.
Ronan was announced as the new musical director of Celtic Thunder.
A lot of new music was released this year!
Albums and EPs:
- Nollaig: A Christmas Journey (Celtic Woman)
- The Secret of Christmas (Alex Sharpe)
- ‘Till The Sun Burns Out (The Brave Collide)
- Time (Brian McGrane, as Engrane)
- Christmas Piano (Brian McGrane, as Engrane)
- Spreag (Caitríona Frost)
- Bittersweet (Chloë)
- Motherland Songs (Edel Murphy, Ewan Cowley)
- Moment (Gavin Murphy)
- Wintersong (Glenn Murphy)
- Nightvisiting Live (Lisa Lambe)
- Two Stories (Lisa Lambe)
- 2016 (Lisa Lambe)
- Chapters of Time (Rebecca Winckworth)
Noteable singles:
- Cherokee Ave (The Brave Collide)
- I Will Follow You Into the Dark (The Brave Collide)
- December (The Brave Collide)
- I Love You Always Forever (Chloë)
- Lonely Joy (Lynn)
- Purple Peace (Lynn)
- Cover Me Up (Tara Howley)
- Our Song (Tara Howley)
- Auld Lang Syne (Tara Howley)
In addition, Lynn re-released Saturn Return with two new tracks.
The third annual Celtic World Forum was held at Fitzpatrick Castle in Killiney. The event included 3 full days of panels, workshops, song circles, and concerts. Numerous Celtic Woman performers participated, including Éabha, Meg, Muirgen, Chloë, Tara McNeill, Tara Howley, Caitriona and Glenn. One of the highlights was a Celtic Woman reunion medley with Gavin Murphy!
Caitríona, Ciara, and Tara Howley all made their Celtic Woman concert debuts on the Christmas Symphony tour.
Chloë started her own Patreon page. She hasn’t used it much so far, but we’ll see what she does with it next year. She also joined Cameo, so you can now order video messages from her.
Brian McGrane and Chloë were very active with online shows on StageIt.
Éabha, Tara McNeill, and Emma all welcomed babies to the world.
PBS has been with Celtic Woman from the very beginning. It brought concert specials into our homes. It promoted the tours. It gave us opportunities to meet the girls. It remains to be seen how badly the funding cuts in 2025 are going to hurt Celtic Woman. What is for certain is that the group will depend on its loyal fans more than ever to spread the word, not just online, but within our communities.
The Celtic Woman Forum got attacked by bots for a while, but our admin Glen worked with the hosting company to successfully protect the Forum.
Looking forward to 2026:
For a while, it looked like we were going to have another spring without Celtic Woman. But when it seemed all hope was lost, Celtic Woman announced a spring tour: A New Era! Thus far, it appears it will be a shorter tour than normal, focused almost entirely in Canada and the eastern United States. But there may be more tour dates coming, either in the US or elsewhere in the world.
Éabha will likely host her 4th annual Celtic World Forum.
Both Meg and Mairéad Carlin are planning to release long-awaited original music in 2026. Muirgen also announced she’s releasing new music in the new year. Lisa Lambe has another album coming in spring 2026 as well, which can be pre-ordered on Patreon.
The debut album of The Brave Collide, ‘Till The Sun Burns Out, officially releases in spring, although it’s already available as a digital download and as a CD pre-order. I already have my copy.
Tara Howley ran into a licensing issue that prevented her Christmas album from releasing this year. Now we have something to already look forward to for Christmas 2026!
Celtic Woman is up to 20 members now, past and present, and there are lots of band and choir members to follow as well. Whatever awaits us in 2026, there will be plenty to enjoy from the performers we love.
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