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Some Christmas CD cheer - Ashley Davis, Damien Dempsey and more (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:31:37 PST

Celtic WomanIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which must mean a fresh new assortment of Irish holiday music is heading for your stockings (as long as you’re not deserving a fresh delivery of coal)!The lasses from Celtic Woman have recorded a new collection of holiday goodies called Home for Christmas After selling over six million albums there is little incentive to change the formula, and there is little in the way of artistic growth from A Christmas Celebration, their last holiday collection, that was released in 2006 Of course, going to Celtic Woman for culture is like going for a meal at Olive Garden when you’re strolling through Little Italy, yet there is something heartwarming about how the voices of Chloë Agnew, Lisa Lambe and Méav Ní Mhaolchatha coalesce with the violin stylings of Máiréad Nesbitt to warm the heart The lasses will be taking a break from their Celtic Christmas Symphony tour to perform songs from Home for Christmas on QVC on December 5 at noon READ MORE

Warming up with Ashley Davis - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:15:26 PST

Ashley DavisA real Celtic Woman!  Just as the arctic winds blow through Manhattan this week, Celtic chanteuse Ashley Davis serves up a chilled collection of songs called Songs of the Celtic WinterFor this collection, Davis partners with Welsh musician Gawain Matthews (who co-produced with Davis) and Irish harpist Cormac De Barra (from Moya Brennan’s touring and recording bands), and Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies to create a winter wonderland for your earsThe gentle harp melody that gently wafts through songs like “Faucht” and “Wild Mountainside” conjure up images of heavy snow licking the bare tree branches as Davis weaves her poetry about making tracks in the white powder It’s an intoxicating blast of ethereal Celtic mysticism evoking vivid imagery of the natural world and our ever-shifting place READ MORE

Moya Brennan, Ashley Davis make beautiful music together (IrishCentral)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:45:11 PDT

By: MIKE FARRAGHER

Ashley Davis had a lot to celebrate last month. She was not only getting the opportunity throughout the East Coast to air the beautiful songs on her new “Down by the Sea” disc, she would be doing so as special guest on the tour of her idol, Clannad’s Moya Brennan.

Clannad singer preps for U.S. tour (IrishCentral)

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:12:16 PDT

By: MIKE FARRAGHER

Irish music fans will get two divas for the price of one when Moya Brennan hits the road with Manhattan’s own Ashley Davis for a spring tour.