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6 Degrees Entertainment

Title - Under A Winter’s Moon [2CD]
Artist - Loreena McKennitt

For those unaware, 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 as her 16th album, entitled Under A Winter’s Moon, while a two-week companion tour of Ontario is set to launch in early December.

The six-panel, two-disc digipak will be released November 18th, 2022 on her own label, Quinlan Road. The album features 15 seasonal songs performed by McKennitt, interspersed with seasonal readings by Canadian Indigenous actor and Companion of the Order of Canada recipient, Tom Jackson, Gemini Award-winning actor Cedric Smith, and Ojibway artist and flautist Jeffrey Red George. The album will also be released digitally, mixed in Dolby Atmos surround sound.

Beginning December 2nd, 2022 in Stratford, the seasonal concert will be re-staged with its original musicians and narrators. They’ll be taking the Under A Winter’s Moon Tour to seven other Ontario cities, including London, Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough and Kingston, wrapping up in Ottawa on December 17th, 2022.

CD 1:
1. Tom Jackson Reads The Sky Woman Story (3:07)
2. Bululalow (3:02)
3. Let Us The Infant Greet (2:57)
4. The Wexford Carol (4:22)
5. Banquet Hall (3:09)
6. Dickens Dublin (5:16)
7. Un Flambeau Jeanette, Isabelle / I Saw Three Ships Medley (3:06)
8. Jeffrey George Recites Winter Diamonds (4:21)
9. Huron Carol (7:09)
10. Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined (3:32)

The first set begins with a deeply rugged Tom Jackson reading The Sky Woman Story and then comes a veritably crystalline Bululalow, the delicate gossamer of Let Us The Infant Greet, a quite stirring The Wexford Carol, and then we are brought forth the Renaissance-flavored instrumental Banquet Hall, the atmospheric Dickens Dublin, an almost Celtic-imbued instrumental Un Flambeau Jeanette, Isabelle / I Saw Three Ships Medley, before the first disc rounds out on the breathy wonderment at first, before Jeffrey George’s recital of Winter Diamonds comes to be, the seven minute Winter ache found within Huron Carol, closing on the elegantly exquisite Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined.

CD 2:
1. Snow (4:38)
2. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part One (5:00)
3. The Holly and the Ivy (2:22)
4. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part Two (7:35)
5. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (4:03)
6. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part Three (3:53)
7. Gloucestershire Wassail (1:20)
8. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part Four (4:04)
9. Good King Wenceslas (2:29)
10. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part Five (2:48)
11. Coventry Carol (2:18)
12. A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part Six (1:45)
13. In The Bleak Midwinter (2:40)

The whole second set embodies Smith’s reading, in six parts, of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a moving and nostalgic piece of prose by the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Opening on the deliciously-ornate Snow, we next get the first of A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Part One (which, as noted, permeates itself throughout this second disc courtesy of Cedric Smith), meaning in between we get a robustly joyous The Holly and the Ivy, an uplifting God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, a short, but sweetly choralistic Gloucestershire Wassail, a gentle rambunctious Good King Wenceslas, this second disc rounding out on the serene Coventry Carol, coming to a most righteous close on the stunningly ornate rendition of In The Bleak Midwinter (complete with group introductions and rapturous applause).

“On a handful of winter’s nights close to the solstice of December 2021, my musical friends and I wove this miscellany of music and spoken word,” writes McKennitt in the new album’s liner notes. “…I sought to incorporate elements of the oral traditions found in many cultures – to capture, inspire and reconnect us with our past, while offering a reminder of the people of those times and what their manner of communication meant in their lives and might mean still.”

Loreena produced the record and in addition to vocals plays harp, keyboard and accordion. She’s accompanied by Caroline Lavelle on cello and recorders, Graham Hargrove on percussion, Errol Fischer on fiddle, Pete Watson on guitar and 12-string bouzouki, and Cait Watson on Irish whistle. All these musicians also added back-up vocals for the performance.

Under A Winter’s Moon was recorded at Knox Church in Stratford, Ontario, Canada then mixed and mastered by multi-award-winning engineer, mixer, producer and editor Jeff Wolpert at Desert Fish in Toronto.

McKennitt’s eclectic Celtic blend of pop, folk and world music has sold over 14 million albums worldwide. Her recordings have achieved Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum status in 15 countries on four continents. She has twice been nominated for a GRAMMY® Award and has won two Juno Awards, as well as a Billboard International Achievement Award.

She has performed in some of the world’s most-respected and historic concert venues, from Carnegie Hall to the famous Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain and for dignitaries including the late Queen Elizabeth II and His Majesty King Charles III, and other heads of state.

Loreena McKennitt - Huron Carol [Official Video]

Loreena McKennitt - Under A Winter’s Moon [Official Teaser Video]

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