I'm going to start off "Celtic night" with one from Connie Dover. Magical voice.

 

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The amazing Mary McLaughlin.

 

Maire Brennan.

 

I think this song made it to MTV; crossover. Another spectacular voice.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbkOIXkmX4

I saw this group from Quebec at the Cincinnati Celtic Festival several years ago. I was captivated by the use of the hurdy-gurdy (he starts playing it at about the 2-minute mark) as well as the chair dancing/foot percussion and would up buying one of their CDs.

 

Hosanna from Medjugorje

 

http://youtu.be/tTROwiHLh_c

This song has been done by many, but few versions are as good as this. I've got a couple of Clannad CDs in the collection.

 

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And a song from Medjugorje that I listen to about every night, Our Lady Of Medjugorje/We Come To You Dearest Mother:

 

I will learn to play this song on my violin:

 

A classic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBctzSb8uw

Any time you have the Chieftains backing the likes of Alison Krauss, the results are bound to be good.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpY0wQdJ5w

The Chieftains with an "old-timey Bluegrass legend".

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Is_C5KIVs

Youtube doesn't do this one justice. This was their opener when I saw them at the Aronoff a few years back.

 

You can take her politics or leave them, but one of the great voices.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DQnS18EeWM

Any time you have the Chieftains backing the likes of Alison Krauss, the results are bound to be good.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpY0wQdJ5w

 

Was lucky enough to see the Chieftans years ago, once with Sarah Mclachlan at Riverbend, and another time when they played onstage behind a Celtic Ballet dance performance (I forget where exactly that took place, but it very well could have been at the Music Hall or perhaps the Taft Theatre).