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Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 16 million records worldwide.
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entertainment · Canadian musician (born 1957) · singer · composer · pianist · singer-songwriter · DJ producer · musician · also Loreena McKennitt, Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, McKennitt
Born 17 February 1957 · Q274562
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Released album “Live in Madrid 2024: The Mask and Mirror 30th Anniversary Tour”.
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CBC.ca: Loreena McKennitt says Juno-nominated album was 'really a second thought'
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2024· 4 entries
Released album “In Her Own Words: The Mask and Mirror”.
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Released album “The Mask and Mirror Live (Live at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Ca, 19 May 1994)”.
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Released album “The Road Back Home”.
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Released album “In Her Own Words: The Road Back Home”.
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2023· 1 entry
Voice of America: Border Crossings: Loreena McKennitt
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Under a Winter’s Moon: A Concert of Carols and Tales”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “In Her Own Words: The Visit”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the Royal Albert Hall”.
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McKennitt released the live album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, recorded earlier that year in London
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “In Her Own Words: Lost Souls”.
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Released album “Lost Souls”.
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2013· 3 entries
The Vancouver Sun: Review: Loreena McKennitt takes Vancouver fans on a tour of Celtic music
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The Province: Loreena McKennitt is on the move
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Released album “The Journey So Far: The Best of Loreena McKennitt”.
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2012· 4 entries
McKennitt lent her support to Kate Winslet's Golden Hat Foundation together with Tim Janis, Sarah McLachlan, Andrea Corr, Hayley Westenra, the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Dawn Kenney, Jana Mashonee, Amy Petty, and a choir, al
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Released album “Troubadours on the Rhine”.
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Appointment as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Canadian Air Force, September 2014
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Released album “The Journey Continues”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “A Mediterranean Odyssey”.
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McKennitt announced the release of a two-disc album, A Mediterranean Odyssey
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Released album “A Mummers’ Dance Through Ireland”.
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Released album “From Istanbul to Athens”.
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Released album “The Olive and The Cedar”.
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “A Midwinter Night’s Dream”.
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PBS: Loreena McKennitt: A Moveable Musical Feast
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Released album “The Journey Begins”.
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McKennitt released A Moveable Musical Feast, based on her 2007 An Ancient Muse tour
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McKennitt wrote and composed "To the Fairies They Draw Near" for the theme song for Disney's direct-to-video animated film Tinker Bell
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2007· 5 entries
Released album “Nights From the Alhambra”.
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“To the Fairies They Draw Near”
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Western Canadian Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, September 2009
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Released ep “Share the Journey: Passport”.
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Another extensive tour across Canada and United States later in 2007, a tour of Europe in 2008 and a Mediterranean tour in 2009 with stops in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Hungary and Italy
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “An Ancient Muse”.
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Released ep “Selected Tracks”.
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2005· 1 entry
McKennitt was involved in an acrimonious court case in England when her former friend and employee, Niema Ash, published a book, Travels with Loreena McKennitt: My Life as a Friend, that contained intimate details of the
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Live in Paris and Toronto”.
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1997· 7 entries
Released album “The Book of Secrets”.
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“To be a catalyst is one of my life’s objectives. I’ve been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It’s very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that’s wonderful. (ang.)”
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“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature. (ang.)”
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Released album “Catalogue Sampler”.
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Released ep “The Book of Secrets: Words and Music”.
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Released album “The Best of Loreena McKennitt”.
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“To be a catalyst is one of my life’s objectives. I’ve been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It’s very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that’s wonderful.”
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1996· 1 entry
Released ep “The Dark Night Of The Soul”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released ep “A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season”.
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Released ep “Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts”.
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Her version of the traditional Irish song "Bonny Portmore" was featured in the Highlander series, followed by the 1994 film Highlander 3: The Sorcerer
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1994· 2 entries
Released ep “Christmas with Loreena KCRW Studios”.
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Released album “The Mask and Mirror”.
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1993· 1 entry
Toured Europe supporting Mike Oldfield
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “The Visit”.
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1990· 1 entry
McKennitt provided the music for the National Film Board of Canada documentary The Burning Times, a feminist revisionist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Parallel Dreams”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “To Drive the Cold Winter Away”.
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1985· 2 entries
Followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991), The Mask and Mirror (1994), A Winter Garden (1995), and The Book of Secrets (1997)
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Released album “Elemental”.
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1981· 1 entry
Moved to Stratford, Ontario to join the Stratford Festival acting company; she still resides there
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1974· 1 entry
McKennitt developed an interest in Celtic music and visited Ireland to hear it for herself
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-02-17.
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