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Starring: David Downes, Chloe Agnew
Encoding: All Regions
Format: Color, Dolby
Rated: NR
DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005
Run Time: 117
DVD Features:
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Bonus interview footage with Chloe, Meav, Lisa, Orla, Mairead, and David Downes

Celtic Woman is perfect PBS fare, sort of a Riverdance without the dancing. Drawing on the same New Age-y sound and propulsive energy as that show's solo-voice and choral numbers, the live concert features four attractive young women in strapless evening gowns with voices backed by an orchestra, an Anuna-like chorus, and a large percussion section. The more traditional fare includes M©av Ni Mhaolchatha's "Danny Boy" and "She Moved Through the Fair," and Chlo Agnew's "Ave Maria" (the Bach-Gounod version). Movie and TV selections range from Agnew's "Walking in the Air" (The Snowman) and "Someday" (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame) to Lisa Kelly's "May It Be" (the Enya song from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King) and “rla Fallon's voice and harp rendition of "Harry's Game." A fifth woman, Mir©ad Nesbitt, adds some variety by fiddling "The Butterfly" and "Ashokan Farewell" (best known as the theme from Ken Burns's The Civil War). Occasionally the singers join together, as in Enya's "Orinoco Flow," an a cappella rendition of West Side Story's "Somewhere," music director David Downes's composition "One World," and a stately version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Celtic Woman was created by Downes (like many of the other performers, a Riverdance veteran)... --David Horiuchi