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This Dallas Texas band is a regional band that is developing a following. "Clandestine is surely one of the most impressive young Celtic bands in the country, and has everything necessary to achieve international fame, as well. With a sound as tight, powerful, and forthright as
the Tannahill Weavers', they'll survive comparison with almost any Celtic folk band. Built around the Highland piping of E.J. Jones and the singing and guitar of Jennifer Hamel, the band also features the excellent fiddler Gregory McQueen and the very talented percussionist and
singer Emily Dugas. With their latest recording, To Anybody At All, their entrance into the "big time" of Celtic music (if such a thing exists) is confirmed. The CD was produced by Gerry O'Beirne, one of the genre's foremost musicians and producers. The result of the band's efforts
and O'Beirne's direction is a first-class recording any group could be proud of". (Quoted from an article by - Steve Winick (Philadelphia, PA) in Dirty Linnen) included on the Clandestine web site.
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Celtic Heritage Article "The Ale Is Dear"
Celtic Heritage "The Haunting"
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Clannad bridged the gap between traditional celtic music and pop. Usually, their results were an entrancing, enchanting form of pop that managed to fuse the disparate elements together rather seamlessly. Such fusions have earned the band an international cult of fans.
Taking their name from the Gaelic word for "family," Clannad formed in 1970 when the Brennan family -- Maire (vocals, harp), Ciaran (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Pol (guitar, percussion, flute, vocals) -- began playing at their father
Leo's tavern with two of their uncles, Padraig Duggan (guitar, vocals, mandolin) and Noel Duggan (guitar, vocals). Soon afterward, the group began playing folk festivals in Ireland. They released their self-titled first album in 1973, yet the band didn't earn any wide-spread
success until they toured Germany in 1975. Maire's sister, Enya, joined the group in 1979, yet left in 1982, just as the group was beginning to come into some pop success in the U.K. Clannad recorded the theme song for the television program
"Harry's Game"; the single hit number five on the charts and won the band an Ivor Novello Award. The band recorded the soundtrack to the television production "Robin of Sherwood" in 1984; it won a British Academy Award for best soundtrack the next year. Clannad's success continued
in 1986, when U2's Bono was featured on the Top 20 hit "In A Lifetime." The band continued to release albums into the 1990s, building their pop following without losing their folk audience. Their latest release, Landmarks, was issued in early 1998. ~
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide (From CD-NOW Biography)
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Celtic Heritage Review "An Diolaim" This site
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Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell Back to Artist List
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Back to Artist List
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Clandestine Back to Artist List
Celtic Heritage "To Anybody At All"
Clannad Back to Artist List
Celtic Heritage Review of "Clannad"
Celtic Heritage Review of "Rogha: The Best of Clannad "
Dirty Linnen Article 1993
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