Celtic Harpestry: A Contemporary Celtic Collection

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Music Review: A Celtic "Festival of Harps" on CD
Rating: 5 Stars

The co-producer, Diana Stork, also produces the highly successful "Festival of Harps" concert series in the San Francisco Bay Area -- and that background certainly shows in the variety and quality of artists and pieces chosen for the CD. I had the rare privilege of reviewing this CD for the newsletter of the Bay Area Folk Harp Society and the Folk Harp Journal, and am glad to repeat here my high praise for this album (especially since Diane and several performers are my friends).

Reluctantly, I must agree that "My Heart Will Go On" is the least good of the tracks -- but its treatment here is traditional and elegant as well as sentimental. (The tune is *meant* to be a tear-jerker, and I happen to love Celine Dion's treatments of it. So there. *Nyaah!*) Everything else here is splendid, though Cheryl Ann Fulton's understated rendition of Breton music is for me the most surprising track on the album.

I do like the order of the tracks on the pre-release version better than on the commerical version. (The pre-release version starts with "A Walk Upon Belfast".) Diane agrees with me, but co-producer Dawn Atkinson at Imaginary Road thought a faster track should start the released version. Oh well, anything to get this album into the hands of more people! :-)

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