Celtic Woman Forum
Everything Else => Other Musicians => Topic started by: stars_at_dawn on December 17, 2025, 08:09:18 PM
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Just curious as Clannad is my favourite band and I’ve recently become obsessed with them. I love their folk songs especially, though their later new age material is wonderful as well! Moya Brennan is my second favourite voice of all time! ;D
Celtic Woman has covered two Clannad songs, both of them Órla solos (which is quite fitting in my opinion), Harry’s Game (Celtic Woman), and Newgrange (A New Journey). The latter was also covered again on Ancient Land as a Mairéad C solo. There’s also some folk songs that have been covered by both Clannad and Celtic Woman, such as Téir Abhaile Riú and Níl Sé’n Lá.
My favourite Clannad songs right now are:
The Pretty Maid (Clannad)
Siúil A Rún (Dúlamán)
Crann Úll (Crann Úll)
Téir Abhaile Riú (Clannad 2)
Harry’s Game (Magical Ring)
Anyway, I’m just curious to see if anyone else is a fan of them because they’re probably the most popular Celtic band and they’re wonderful. Also, Moya Brennan apparently performed at The Letterkenny Pride Festival earlier this year, so that’s awesome! (slightly random, I know, but I just wanted to gush about that because I found out about it today and it’s incredible)
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Thanks for the reminder.
I started listening to their material when everyone was stuck at home, but there was an overwhelming amount of content at that time and it was hard to keep up.
I started listening again before Éabha's Celtic World Forum in 2024 in prep for Moya's presence, but ran out of time.
I can't catch up during the holidays as I'm basically working every day this year. 🤣
Maybe some day.
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Of course, I love the covers that CW did. "Opera Mairead" makes her appearance on Newgrange. ;D
I also like reading the history of Clannad & Enya. I read about "Harry's Game" also, and how most of the song lyrics are not in any language at all.
Another song I like that always shows up on CW radio / streaming is 'I Will Find You' which is on "The Last of the Mohicans" soundtrack. At first, I always wondered why a movie about Native Americans was showing up on 'Celtic radio'.
As Tom mentioned, a lot of catching up to do as they have a large discography.