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The latest YouTube shorts include:
Ave Maria
Isle of Hope
Parting Glass
A Stor Mo Chroi
And after seeing the harp front and center on stage in the screenshots, I'm thinking the original Ave Maria. By original, I mean CW original of Chloe with Orla on harp.
The Parting Glass is basically a given. I’m worried about if A Stór Mo Chroí is on the setlist, because although I love the song, Muirgen deserves more than that. I feel that she’s been getting the short end of the stick with solos and hope she can get two new ones for this tour. But the song is fairly popular within the CW fanbase…hopefully we can still see another new solo. I’m curious about if they would keep Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears as a solo or go back to a group song…I could see it as a Caitríona solo, but I miss the group version… I like the idea of Ave Maria with the harp…we really need more harps centred so hopefully they can add more. I’d say it might be more likely because Kate’s social media presence has been more harp-focused than violin-focused, but Tara was also quite harp-focused before that, she even played the harp on Destiny, and we still got relatively few songs with her playing.
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The latest YouTube shorts include:
Ave Maria
Isle of Hope
Parting Glass
A Stor Mo Chroi
And after seeing the harp front and center on stage in the screenshots, I'm thinking the original Ave Maria. By original, I mean CW original of Chloe with Orla on harp.
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In all fairness, they could have just started setting it up.
I love the design of the theatre! I’ll have to go there sometime just to see the rest of the design.
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I think we could expect: Danny Boy, You Raise Me Up, The Parting Glass as usual but also:
Teir Abhaile Riu
Dawning of the Day
Wild Mountain Thym
Ave Maria (Homecoming Version)
Just spotted on Cormac’s instagram (the guitarist) a story showing the stage, the design is pretty simple, looks like there’s only one drummer and we could expect some numbers with Kate playing harp.
I also think that there won’t be choir members or maybe the two dancers we saw in the rehearsals footage would be the backing singers?
Hopefully some of you will attend the opening night tomorrow and will answer most of our questions and expectations!
YESSSSSS HARP TIME LET’S GO!!!!!! I haven’t posted about this yet because I was planning on posting my whole DVD idea, but I’ve been wanting more harp instrumentals for a while. Maybe something like Brian Boru’s March or Cumha Eoghain Rua Uí Néill or Citi na gCumann?
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« Last post by dbbii on March 03, 2026, 07:42:42 PM »
Seems to me I flew into Wilkes-Barrie once. Involved in a construction project in Pottsville (home of Yuengling Beer!). Went to Scranton to see Steamtown. Figured out it was easier to fly into Baltimore and drive to Pottsville.
I've always liked smaller, historic venues. Yeah, there's something to be said for Radio City, but there's something to be said for smaller venues as well.
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« Last post by dbbii on March 03, 2026, 07:35:21 PM »
Going back to pre-Covid, I was probably going to 9 or 10 shows a year. Covid screwed up a lot of things, including tours. A lot of groups are still trying to get back to "normal'. Not touring for some amount of time can cause groups to lose audience. CW is probably no exception. Right now, I'm only planning on going to 1 show this tour. Some of my reasoning is because travel, mainly flying, has become a real PITA.
Having said that, Chloe is doing a show outside Savannah, GA on St Paddy's Day. Since it's only a 5ish hour drive for me, I'm going to go.
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« Last post by dbbii on March 03, 2026, 07:27:10 PM »
So no percussionist? And it looks like there are only 2 chairs for the band. And that appears to be an electronic keyboard on the right side?
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« Last post by Marcou on March 03, 2026, 01:49:29 PM »
I think we could expect: Danny Boy, You Raise Me Up, The Parting Glass as usual but also:
Teir Abhaile Riu
Dawning of the Day
Wild Mountain Thym
Ave Maria (Homecoming Version)
Just spotted on Cormac’s instagram (the guitarist) a story showing the stage, the design is pretty simple, looks like there’s only one drummer and we could expect some numbers with Kate playing harp.
I also think that there won’t be choir members or maybe the two dancers we saw in the rehearsals footage would be the backing singers?
Hopefully some of you will attend the opening night tomorrow and will answer most of our questions and expectations!
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Any last round of speculations on songs or guesses? 
I wonder if any of the throwback clips they post are hints. They posted a flashback of I See Fire and I had a sort of gut feeling that it would be on the tour setlist. But I could very easily be wrong…before Emma and Tara had officially left, I thought Muirgen would be the first one to go…now I sense that she’s going to be here for a while… Hopefully we can get some new solos from them…especially Muirgen, I feel that she’s been done a bit dirtily in that department! I think we’ll certainly see the omnipresent Danny Boy, You Raise Me Up, and The Parting Glass, etc as well! It wouldn’t be a CW show without them!
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I found a photo of the new stage design on someone’s Instagram story just now.
They definitely seem to have stripped it back a lot compared to how the stage designs were on the PFI and AL tours. I wonder if that’s because PBS or some type of external source previously funded the more grand designs on previous tours?
Also strange to see only one drum kit rather than having the two on either side and the stairs in the middle!
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