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For the past 10 years, Irish musical group Celtic Woman has lifted the world through song and dance.
“I thought it was going to be just one night only. That’s what we were told, you know, ‘Are you free such and such a night?’ Basically, 10 years later, here we are,” said Máiréad Nesbitt, Celtic Woman’s angelic fiddle player.
Celtic Woman’s 10th Anniversary concert glides into the F.M. Kirby Center on Saturday, March 14, just one of 80 stops the musical ensemble will be making in North America.
In 2005, PBS broadcast Celtic Woman’s concert at The Helix in Dublin, Ireland, which introduced the music of the group to American audiences. Celtic Woman has performed on some of the largest stages in the world, including Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Since then, Celtic Woman has gone on to produce nine albums, selling more than 8 million copies combined worldwide.
“I would describe a Celtic Woman performance as dynamic, musically inviting and very uplifting,” Nesbitt said. Celtic Woman’s dynamism resonates through the group’s ability to shift from a small, intimate fiddle number to a tremendously powerful and vastly larger ensemble number, complete with orchestra, chorus and accompanying dancers.
Celtic Woman’s rendition of Josh Groban’s resplendent ballad, “You Raise Me Up,” has garnered the group much attention over the years. “It’s definitely a fan favorite. We will be including six or seven older numbers like “You Raise Me Up” in our 10th anniversary show, but we also have some exciting new numbers to share with our fans as well. There really is something for everybody,” Nesbitt said.