''Songs from the Heart'' is the fifth studio album and fourth on-stage production by the group Celtic Woman, released on 16 January 2010. Performers in ''Songs from the Heart'' are vocalists

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Lynn Hilary Lynn Hilary (born 21 April 1982) is an Irish singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has also performed as a featured soprano soloist in the all-female ensemble Celtic Woman. Career Hilary was born in Dublin, Ireland, and completed a Bachel ...

, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler

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. The German deluxe edition, released in January 2011, also features newer member (at the time)

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, as well as former members

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and

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''Songs from the Heart'' was originally filmed as a TV special for American broadcaster

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, as well as a DVD release, at Powerscourt House and Gardens near

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, County Wicklow,

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, in July 2009. The concert was filmed by Alex Coletti Productions and Brennus Productions with editing by the Windmill Lane Post Production studios in Dublin. Like its predecessor ''A New Journey'', the show was delayed by rain days before taking place; it also rained the day before, 'washing out' the rehearsals and forcing the performers to rehearse inside the main hall in the Powerscourt House.During the 'making-of' featurette for the '' Believe'' special, composer and musical director David Downes said that it had rained for three days ahead of the ''Songs from the Heart'' concert occurring. The concert was further delayed when the electrical generator powering the lights, cameras, and other electrical equipment failed during the song " Goodnight My Angel," requiring the show to stop while a second generator was sent for. The first generator was later fixed, allowing the show to continue with a restart of said song. The DVD release and PBS special do not reprise the full concert, which composer and director David Downes mentioned was over two hours long. As the group did not have the rights to show all of the tracks performed during the recording of the PBS special and DVD release, the actual concert as shown was over one hour in length. Omitted songs that were performed included "Carolina Rua" and "

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". The DVD also includes a 20-minute 'making-of' featurette showing the lead-up to the first show, starting three days before, where former CEO of the group Scott Porter mentions that Powerscourt was 'one of the most beautiful and challenging locations we've ever performed in'.

Track listing

Notes * All songs arranged by David Downes. Downes also wrote and composed "The New Ground" from track 6 and track 13. * Track 14 was written and composed especially for Celtic Woman by Brendan Graham and William Joseph. * Track 5 was released as a single on iTunes in November 2009, around the same period of the broadcast of the

special.

Personnel

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 * Lisa Kelly - vocals *

- fiddle * Alex Sharpe - vocals Band * David Downes - grand piano, keyboards, whistles,

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 ...

, backing vocals * Des Moore -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

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 * Nicky Bailey - percussion * Anthony Byrne - bagpipes * Andrew Boland - pièna-flörten Irish Film Orchestra * John Page - conductor * Alan Smale - concertmaster * Martin Johnston - solo

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

Aontas Choral Ensemble * Rosemary Collier - choral director Black Raven Pipe Band * Paul Russell - pipe major Production * David Downes - producer, arranger, orchestrator, additional engineering * Andrew Boland - engineering, mixing * Caroline Nesbitt - sleeve design * Lili Forberg, Laurel Fisher, Joe Kelly - photography * Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios 1 & 2, StudioTWO and RTÉ Studio 1, Dublin, Ireland * Mixed in StudioTWO, Dublin, Ireland * Mastered by Mazen Murad at Metropolis Studios, London

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