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Beautiful blending of voices and instruments.We have most of Steve MacDonald.Like them all. I could actually listen to this all year lomg.
I'm happy to add it to my Christmas music collection. The man can do no wrong in my book. I love Scotch/Irish music and Steven McDonald's in paticular. Not glitzy -a nice mix of tempo and mood.
I had reservations about purchasing another Holiday CD - but these selections (some familiar and some new) are really done in a great Celtic manner.If you like the Celtic sound, you will love this CD. What a refreshingly different Christmas Holiday edition.
Both friends feel the same way as I do about this little known treasure. "It's Christmastime" is a new song for me and it rings in my head all through December. This is one of my favorite Christmas CD's and I gave several as early gifts this year. I have owned this CD for several years. You won't go wrong in purchasing it. The originality of the arrangements of some classic pieces makes you really listen and appreciate them all over again. I find myself singing along constantly, especially in the car, on several tracks. Auld Lang Syne is one of those, as is Silent Night, with a haunting descant.
Throw in indigenous instruments as needed, and lose that keyboard. But this music tells me to call the coroner. Some-one please produce a Christmas CD with either solo piper, or pipe and drum corps. I just reviewed "A Highland Christmas" by Eric Rigler, and saw this and hoped it would be what I expected of the other one; so I screened it. You may have to get the Scottish artists from the land of Ellis Island. That keyboard is really cheesey and permeates the CD. It's the same schlock as the other one. I have heard that the old Scotland is all but dead, but when I see the pipers at Bethlehem Pennsylvania's Celtic Festival, it is hard to believe.
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