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« on: March 27, 2026, 04:16:09 PM »
Hello! Does anyone have a picture of the merch table for this tour? I recall someone might have posted one but now that i searched for it i couldn’t find it. I always like to see what they have before a concert (I’ll be attending the Nashville show) just to make some kind of estimate of a budget in my mind. Any help is appreciated, thanks! ☺️
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« on: March 18, 2026, 12:01:37 PM »
Thank you so much for posting this! I was trying to look for it yesterday but just had no luck. 😁
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« on: March 16, 2026, 03:51:31 PM »
^ Good discussion everyone! I enjoyed the read.
Hey everyone.
I was about to see my 20th CW show next Thursday, but there NYC show has been canceled. I believe it was due to low ticket sales, unfortunately. However, they did announce they are doing the TODAY Show on Monday here in NYC and performing at the St. Patricks Day Parade in Times Square on Tuesday at 10 AM!
It’s at the end of the “third hour”, however I don’t know if that version was edited down because they supposedly did an “interview” and sang both Danny Boy and Níl Sen Lá, but that version only has them singing Danny Boy and being asked a few questions.
Does anyone know what time during the show CW appeared on the Today Show? I think the entire episode will be on Peacock, but I don't want to watch the whole show.
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« on: March 13, 2026, 12:58:51 PM »
I am still surprised there hasn't been any official acknowledgment of Tara leaving. That gives me a glimmer of hope that she may come back one day.
However, she did update her website to say this:
Tara was a member of Grammy nominated Irish Music Sensation 'Celtic Woman' for 9 years.
https://www.taramcneill.com/irish-music-violin
So that ship has sailed I think. :'(
Yeah, sadly that part of her website was updated back in around November 🙁
She is my fav CW of all-time, and performs my two fav songs.
Just because, here's my fav pic we took of her. I had front row, dead-center seats @ the 20th tour. (Sorry for the watermarks.)
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« on: March 05, 2026, 02:37:27 AM »
I’d say it’s quite well known that the Irish love a good country song 😂 they also love Dolly Parton (who doesn’t?) So that’s more what i attribute it to. I was actually really hoping they would cover a Dolly song so yay for me, hope it gets released. But what I would say is that cw has a good amount of songs they’ve covered which are not particularly Irish, being more mainstream songs like Fields of Gold or Follow on. Though this was all more around Songs from the Heart to around Believe and it seemed to slow down a bit after that, we hadn’t totally seen it back until Rainbow on 20, I absolutely love it and hope they keep doing it, of course just keeping in the tradition of turning said songs into a “Celtic style” as they do.
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« on: February 21, 2026, 12:56:11 PM »
Attaching a screenshot from the clip.
Oh…well, thank you for sharing that!
I’m glad I got to see Tara Howley while she was with them…it’s really wild how many people are leaving now, though! Tara, Ciara, Lloyd, John Hunt, Tara Howley…this has me nervous for the future 
Well Ciara and Tara H were never actually meant to be permanent members, just guests on the tour. Tara was just covering because Darragh was on tour with Riverdance in China. That’s why I don’t really consider it “leaving”.
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« on: February 17, 2026, 11:02:40 PM »
To me, it's not unusual that a group keeps changing members, especially when, in the case of CW, they started like 20 years ago.
Yeah, but what’s odd is how many people are leaving right now. This is just after Lloyd Butler left. It’s a bit jarring.
Various members announced that he was leaving in December. Lloyd posted John was leaving to start a family or something along those lines.
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« on: February 13, 2026, 01:20:34 PM »
Oh no. I don't like change. Who does? It really is a New Era. 
Lloyd had posted on his Facebook that be had been diagnosed with cancer so i think it’s just possible that he doesn’t want to travel much or that he wouldn’t be able to. I wish him all the best and I do trust that whoever they do hire will turn out great.
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« on: February 13, 2026, 12:12:11 PM »
Lloyd recently posted he will be the musical director for a play from March 19th to April 19th. His bio on instagram now also no longer says he’s the pianist and touring md with Celtic Woman, now it’s just included in a list of his collaborations. I wonder who they’ll be having on this tour instead 😊
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« on: February 12, 2026, 02:18:44 PM »
If you look at Tara's FB page, it says this:
Celtic Woman 2016-2025
:'(
So I'm guessing she's not coming back. And IDK if there will be any big announcement or thanks. Or they will see how it goes, like when previous CW had kids.
I saw that on her instagram last night, i guess she just wanted to leave without making much of a noise. Now we just wait to see who they hire as a permanent replacement 😊, no doubt they’ll be wonderful.
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« on: January 23, 2026, 02:29:54 PM »
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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« on: January 23, 2026, 12:42:54 PM »
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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« on: January 23, 2026, 12:24:14 PM »
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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« on: January 23, 2026, 12:00:38 PM »
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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