Loreena McKennitt
Chanteuse

Canadienne

From Loreena's forthcoming album, The Road Back Home, an homage to simpler times, offering comfort, warmth and familiarity. It’s like going home.

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The album was recorded last summer when Loreena performed at four folk festivals in Ontario, Canada. It’s a joyous return to her roots, a kind of musical winding back to the beginning of her career, her earliest days on the folk circuit and its characteristic culture of community.

The Road Back Home is set for release on March 8th – just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s available on CD, 180-gram black vinyl, via digital music services (including Dolby Atmos) and in retail stores. The album features 10 songs, many of which have remained unrecorded until now.

From Loreena's forthcoming album, The Road Back Home, an homage to simpler times, offering comfort, warmth and familiarity. It’s like going home.

𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥: https://lnk.to/theroadbackhome
CD » LP » ATMOS » STREAMING » DOWNLOAD

The album was recorded last summer when Loreena performed at four folk festivals in Ontario, Canada. It’s a joyous return to her roots, a kind of musical winding back to the beginning of her career, her earliest days on the folk circuit and its characteristic culture of community.

The Road Back Home is set for release on March 8th – just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s available on CD, 180-gram black vinyl, via digital music services (including Dolby Atmos) and in retail stores. The album features 10 songs, many of which have remained unrecorded until now.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
https://loreenamckennitt.com/tour/

Loreena’s unforgettable behind-the-scenes exposé of her 2007 An Ancient Muse Tour will now be available for two weeks on YouTube in all its 60-minute glory, beginning today and ending on Sept. 27th.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
https://loreenamckennitt.com/tour/

The DVD, A Moveable Musical Feast, was released 15 years ago and gives you a bird’s eye view of what it’s like to mount a tour, with all its joys and challenges. This entertaining and revealing DVD includes 25 minutes of musical performance mixed with candid interviews with Loreena, members of the band, the crew, professional industry colleagues and encounters with fans. It’s a remarkable viewing experience and in some ways a snapshot of her career up to 2007.

You’ll get an insider’s look at touring, an endeavour Loreena describes as “intimate” and “intense” – “sometimes like an extreme sport”.

You’ll hear from members of the band (there were eight on tour with her), as well as crew members who reveal how the tours are done to the highest standards and what it’s like to spend so much time on the road away from family and friends back home.

You’ll see early footage of Loreena busking in Toronto at the start of her career, hear her talk about the challenges of balancing the demands of being the executive producer of her own tours, as well as the performing artist. You’ll hear her describe the overwhelming sensation when the band and the audience experience a mutual, spontaneous emotional connection during a song.

You’ll also hear others speak about Loreena, her image and personality, her artistry, her ability to bring new musicians into the band, and how as a “trailblazer” she’s grown her audiences and her business, all while keeping creative control throughout the process – a rarity in the music world. This DVD is like having a front-row seat to one of best shows in town.

As Loreena says in her introduction, “In the end, we seek to deliver a musical experience that in many ways resembles a lovingly prepared meal. Of course we would like to think it a feast, but that is not for us to say. What I do know is that the music is not complete until we have broken bread together”.

An Ancient Muse Tour took Loreena and her band to Europe, Eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast. The filming itself was done in Canada and the United States.

As you know, Loreena will be on the road again this October and November, taking The Visit Revisited Anniversary Tour to 23 American cities in the U.S. Northeast and parts of the Midwest, concluding with four performances in Western Canada.
Music

From the live, seasonal album 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗔 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻.
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Loreena has released a single of the oldest-known Canadian Christmas hymn, “Huron Carol”. It’s the first time she has ever recorded the song, written in 1642 by a Jesuit missionary living among the Huron people. Also known as “Twas in the Moon of Wintertime”, the original lyrics were in the native Huron-Wendat Indigenous language. The single will be available for download on all streaming platforms and will also be offered as sheet music from the Loreena McKennitt Shop, powered by Shopify.