TWO new members this holiday season.

We have some exciting news for you!

Drawing from our rich heritage of Irish female musical talent, we are delighted to announce that Sean-Nós singer Caitríona Sherlock and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurcú are joining the Celtic Woman line-up for our upcoming Symphony tour.
 Caitríona, Ciara, Mairéad and Muirgen

Did they replace Tara?!    That makes me sad if they did.

Did they replace Tara?!    That makes me sad if they did.

this is the way CW posted it and makes it sound just for the christmas tour

Caitríona Sherlock and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurcú are joining the Celtic Woman line-up for our upcoming Symphony tour.

As Tara just had her baby 2 1/2 weeks ago and with baby only little over 3 months old at the start of the christmas tour kind of hard to leave baby with new dad even more so if Tara is feeding the baby and as for Emma it's unknown

Thanks Glen. I completely forgot Tara had a baby! Been a day so far.

Did they replace Tara?!    That makes me sad if they did.

this is the way CW posted it and makes it sound just for the christmas tour

Caitríona Sherlock and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurcú are joining the Celtic Woman line-up for our upcoming Symphony tour.

As Tara just had her baby 2 1/2 weeks ago and with baby only little over 3 months old at the start of the christmas tour kind of hard to leave baby with new dad even more so if Tara is feeding the baby and as for Emma it's unknown

Given that Emma is missing again it seems doubtful that she may be there "too much longer". One would hope she'll do another tour but it seems like if she does another one she may leave after it.  Either way Mairead & Muirgen are still there though.

When CWFella2011 posted about a FB announcement yesterday, my first guess was adding Mairead N to the Christmas tour. And my second guess was adding one more sub, and hoping it was Chloe or Susan. That was all wishful thinking...

I'm a big fan of Caitriona Sherlock. My family had mentioned before, 'Why don't they add her as a CW?' Here's a recent vid posted by Eabha from CWF.
https://youtu.be/0CwaVRAWdQo?si=CnSw-SzFhEN1eY4f

just so you all know the forum has been updated with the 2 new girls so please use there boards for thing for them alone

Thanks

I'm travelling at the moment, but I'll spin up a few topics for the new girls and will fill them in more later.

They deleted the pics of Tara & Emma at the bottom of the CW website (Tours & Tickets, Store, etc). 

There are four pics of the "CW model" right now.

It will be interesting to see what Tara does.  I highly doubt she would be on some kind of a Spring tour.  I think it would be too tough.  I know Lisa K toured with her kids, but they were a little older. 

It will be interesting to see what Tara does.  I highly doubt she would be on some kind of a Spring tour.  I think it would be too tough.  I know Lisa K toured with her kids, but they were a little older.

No her kids were new borns she always said the one dress it was brown she called it her mom boob dress. Lisa traveled on tour bus for her and her kids and nanny and teacher

Caitriona has an official promo video for one of the shows.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/722720647464488

They deleted the pics of Tara & Emma at the bottom of the CW website (Tours & Tickets, Store, etc). 

There are four pics of the "CW model" right now.

The fact Caitríona & Ciara are announced as “new members”makes it sound like Emma & Tara are gone and not returning. Emma hasn’t been on stage since the 20 tour ended so a warning sign there

They deleted the pics of Tara & Emma at the bottom of the CW website (Tours & Tickets, Store, etc). 

There are four pics of the "CW model" right now.

The fact Caitríona & Ciara are announced as “new members”makes it sound like Emma & Tara are gone and not returning. Emma hasn’t been on stage since the 20 tour ended so a warning sign there

this is the way CW posted it and makes it sound just for the christmas tour

Caitríona Sherlock and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurcú are joining the Celtic Woman line-up for our upcoming Symphony tour.

They deleted the pics of Tara & Emma at the bottom of the CW website (Tours & Tickets, Store, etc). 

There are four pics of the "CW model" right now.

The fact Caitríona & Ciara are announced as “new members”makes it sound like Emma & Tara are gone and not returning. Emma hasn’t been on stage since the 20 tour ended so a warning sign there

According to a TikTok comment, Emma has confirmed that she’s coming back after her maternity leave, which would presumably be up soon. Obviously, that’s not the most reliable source, but I can say that Emma has been singing a lot (gigs, especially at weddings) shown by her Instagram.

I can’t say anything for Tara, but Celtic Woman has done (from what I can tell) much more showing off of Caitríona than they have Ciara. Caitríona has been on their official social media speaking about the new album and has done similar promotional stuff to Mairéad and Muirgen. Maybe Ciara is just more private, but from what I’ve seen, she hasn’t done any such promotions. I believe Tara posted something about the album (which would make sense because she’s on it), but I cannot confirm as unfortunately, I do not currently have access to my Instagram.

It could be possible that Caitríona is staying but Emma comes back to replace another member…? I don’t think that’s the case, but Mairéad did just record a new solo album and maybe Muirgen would want to pursue opportunities elsewhere…? For all we know, they’re returning to the original four vocalists lineup, although I highly doubt that’s the case.