The Irrelevant Show’s hard-hitting documentary, “Loreena McKennitt: The Wind That Shakes the Barley” tells the story of Loreena’s meteoric rise in the world of Celtic music. You’ll hear her cut her ...

About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote that “[societies] must look for craftsmen who have the innate gift of tracking down…fine works of art…which imperceptibly [guide] them…until they are assimilated to, ...

Loreena McKennitt's name doesn't typically come up in conversations about DIY music, a label that's often reserved for punk or indie, but it's time to set the record straight: McKennitt is a badass — ...

Loreena McKennitt, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (Quinlan Road, Verve, UMG). 4 stars Loreena McKennitt has been a musical world traveler, but on "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" the Canadian ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Most people probably think of Loreena McKennitt as a New Age/Celtic singer in a ...

Loreena Isobel Irene McKennit is a prominent Canadian singer, recognized as a celebrated singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Loreena McKennitt has garnered a worldwide following for her lushly rendered ...

A series of seasonal concerts held in a historic sanctuary in Stratford, Ontario in December 2021 were recorded live and are now being released by Juno Award-winning Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt ...

So it’s a treat in this cacophonous, unsettling age to have a new album from Loreena McKennitt, a singer-songwriter with her own record label whose numerous honours include two Junos, Canada’s ...

Playing music in an old Spanish fortress is pretty damn cool, so Loreena McKennitt immediately gets high marks for recording her third live effort in the Palace of Charles V at the Alhambra. Musically ...