The Calling Méav

• 1 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 03:32
• 2 The Calling 04:06
• 3 Light Flight 03:33
• 4 Listen, Listen 04:01
• 5 The Songline To Home 04:03
• 6 Wayfaring Stranger 04:53
• 7 Sovay 02:37
• 8 Shenandoah 03:15
• 9 Once You Were My Lover 03:36
• 10 Glimmering Girl 03:00
• 11 Glasgow's Burning 03:06
• 12 Black Is The Colour 04:00
• Total Runtime 43:42

Info for The Calling

Multi-million selling world music artist Méav teams up with Grammy award-winning producer Craig Leon (Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones, Pavarotti) to record folk-pop album The Calling.

Méav returns to her musical origins with The Calling, 12 tracks of newly written songs, folk ballads and fresh interpretations of timeless classics. Produced and co-written by the Grammy award-winning producer Craig Leon, responsible for iconic records by Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones and Pavarotti amongst others, The Calling showcases Méav’s crystal clear voice, fusing her classical training with her folk roots.

From an early age Méav displayed an exceptional musical talent, immersed in Irish traditional music at her family home in Dublin. She went on to study classical voice, harp and piano while simultaneously studying Law at Trinity College. Her professional career was established with the Riverdance Choir, before going on to star in Lord of the Dance and embarking in three US tours with the Irish National Concert Orchestra.

This brought her to the attention of Celtic Collections who released three Méav solo albums including Celtic Journey with EMI, which debuted in the Billboard World Music top 10. In 2004, Méav was invited to be one of the five founding members of female supergroup Celtic Woman, who have sold six million records in the US and worldwide. It is remarkable that every album Méav recorded with Celtic Woman reached number 1 in the Billboard World Music Charts.

Méav left Celtic Woman in 2008 to start a family and resumed her solo career in 2010, performing to a sell-out crowd at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In 2012, Méav met legendary producer Craig Leon in Abbey Road Studios, London while working together on the score of a space film in collaboration with NASA. Despite their different musical backgrounds in pop and world music, they quickly realized that they shared a love of song-writing and ethnic music. This resulted in The Calling, a contemporary pop treatment of new songs and folk classics from Ireland, England, Scotland, Brittany, Galicia and America.

“Her presentation was coolly elegant, and her voice remarkably pure. She sang with a subtle, underlying passion” (L.A. Times)

“Adds delicious wriggles to her renditions of traditional tunes” (New York Times)

„She’s embarked on the most exciting development on her stellar CV. She’s teamed up with Grammy award-winning producer Craig Leon for this new 12-track album…Meav’s approach to what one might term the Great Folk Songbook is to go straight for the romantic purity at the core of a song… Delightful.” (Eamon Carr, The Herald)

Produced by Craig Leon (Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones, Pavarotti)

Méav
is a multi-million selling Irish singer and recording artist. Raised in a family where every event was celebrated with music, Méav was educated through the Irish language and studied classical voice, harp and piano while completing her law degree in Trinity College, Dublin. Her professional career was established with Riverdance, when she performed at the US premiere in Radio City New York. Méav has performed regularly with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland from Sweden to Brazil. With the Irish choir Anúna, she sang with many diverse musicians such as Elvis Costello and the Chieftains. Méav has starred in Lord of the Dance and has toured widely as a soloist in Europe, North America, Japan and Korea where her singing is known as healing music.

Méav’s three US tours as the guest of the RTE Concert Orchestra brought her to the attention of Celtic Collections. They released three successful Méav solo albums including Celtic Journey with EMI, which debuted in the Billboard World Music top 10.

In 2004, Méav was invited to be one of the five founding members of female supergroup Celtic Woman, who have sold six million records in the US and worldwide. It is remarkable that every album Méav recorded with Celtic Woman reached number 1 in the Billboard World Music Charts. During her time touring with Celtic Woman, Méav live across America in such prestigious venues as Radio City in New York and Red Rocks in Arizona. Her performances in the Helix and Slane Castle were also recorded and broadcast to tens of millions of viewers across the PBS network in the US.

Méav left Celtic Woman in 2008 to start a family and resumed her solo career in 2010, performing to a sell-out crowd with the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Her bell-like voice is featured on several celebrated TV shows and film soundtracks. To the great delight of her two young daughters, she performs Where the Sunbeams Play in the Disney Movie Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure. She created the Love Theme for the popular BBC TV series The Aristocrats.

In 2012, Méav met legendary producer Craig Leon in Abbey Road Studios, London while working together on the score of a space film in collaboration with NASA. Despite their different musical backgrounds in pop and world music, they quickly realized that they shared a love of song-writing and ethnic music. This resulted in The Calling, a contemporary pop treatment of new songs and folk classics from Ireland, England, Scotland, Brittany, Galicia and America, which was released in August 2013. The album entered the Irish Charts to rave reviews at number 3 and will be released very soon as a HD download in the US on the Warner Music label.

Meav and her band will be featured on Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 2 on December 13th. She also returns as a guest member of Celtic Woman on their new TV special, Home for Christmas, which airs across the US on PBS from November 2013.

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