Title: Celtic Lite
Product review: Put me in the "unimpressed" camp of listeners to this album. As a fan of REAL Celtic music (Chieftains, Altan, et al.) I too find this an amazingly bland performance. The vocals are uneven - Lisa Kelly's voice, for instance, is pleasant and warm enough, but Chloe Agnew, who seems to be touted on this CD as a headliner, is no Charlotte Church - her teenage voice is thin and tentative. The orchestral arrangements are at times sappy and overblown, sounding like "Riverdance Lite". Some of the instrumental work is competent, like Orla Fallon's harp and Mairead Nesbitt's fiddle, but it's not like I haven't heard better elsewhere. My overall impression is this was an assemblage of pretty faces whose primary purpose seems to be to create another popular PBS pledge-drive special. Pardon me if I offended anyone - if this happens to be your cup of Irish tea, please indulge. As for me, I'm going to put on an Altan CD.
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