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, and fiddler

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appear on both versions,CelticWomanSite.com
while the Japanese version features former members

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Track listing

International version

Japanese version

PBS special and DVD release background

A concert special of the same title was recorded live at the

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on 6 and 7 September 2011 to promote and accompany the international release of the album. The concert featured lead vocalists

and fiddler

with the Aontas Choral Ensemble and the Celtic Woman band and orchestra led by musical director and pianist David Downes, as well as the Atlanta Pipe Band and the Gwinnett Young Singers. The concert was broadcast on

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stations across the United States in December 2011 and released on DVD in March 2012.

DVD track listing

Personnel

Note: For international version only. Per the liner notes:
Featured performers
Celtic Woman *

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

– vocals *

– fiddle Other performers * Bagad de Lann-Bihoué * Gwinnett Young Singers Band * Ewan Cowley –

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and acoustic guitar,

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

* Eoghan O'Neill –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Tommy Martin –

uilleann pipes The uilleann pipes ( or , ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from thei ...

, whistles * Ray Fean – drums,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or oth ...

* Anthony Byrne – bagpipes * Andrew Boland – contra pièna-flörten * David Downes –

grand piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, keyboards, whistles,

, backing vocals The Irish Film Orchestra * Caitríona Walsh – orchestra contractor * David Downes – conductor, orchestrations, choral arrangements * Alan Smale – concertmaster * Martin Johnston – solo cello * Gerald Peregrine – solo cello * Nick Ingham – additional orchestrations Aontas Choral Ensemble * Rosemary Collier – choral director Production * Produced and arranged by David Downes * Engineered and mixed by Andrew Boland * Additional engineering by David Downes * Recorded at Windmill Lane Studio 1 and RTÉ STUDIOTWO, Dublin, Ireland * Mixed at STUDIOTWO, Dublin, Ireland * Mastered by Vlado Meller at Masterdisk, New York, United States

Track listing

International version

Japanese version

PBS special and DVD release background

DVD track listing

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

References