Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Johnny Seoighe

Recording from Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill’s Celtic Christmas, Vol. 2 - A Windham Hill Collection. “If you prefer your contemplative Christmas music with a Celtic/folk undercurrent rather than a jazz/new age one, then Windham Hill’s Celtic Christmas series is a dependable choice. As an added benefit, you can bathe in relatively obscure traditional Celtic airs rather than yet another collection of the hoary carol standards. The second volume highlighted such artists as Nightnoise, Capercaille, and various members of the Ni Dhomhnaill and O Domhnaill clans, with trad mainstay James Galway and pop ringer Luka Bloom (vocal track “Listen to the River“) along for the sleigh ride“