GREATEST JOURNEY, TH - CD

Personnel: Des Moore (guitar, bouzouki); Andreja Malir (harp); John O'Brien (whistle, pipes); David Downes (whistle, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); John O'Brien (tin whistle, pipes); Eoghan O'Neill (bass guitar); Ray Fean (drums, percussion); Robbie Harris, Andrew Reilly (bodhran); Nicky Bailey, Nick Bailey , Robbie Casserly (percussion); Andrew Boland. Audio Mixer: Andrew Boland. Audio Remasterer: Joe Gastwirt. Liner Note Author: David Downes. Recording information: Corrig Sound; RTE Studio 1, Dublin; Windmill Lane Studios 1 & 2. Ensembles: Aontas Choral Ensemble; The Discovery Gospel Choir; The Irish Film Orchestra. Photographer: Agata Stoinska. Arranger: David Downes. Celtic Woman, initially a one-shot collaboration by six leading Irish vocalists for a 2004 PBS special, struck a chord of adoration for the Emerald Isle, a fancy affecting both sides of the Atlantic, and swiftly became a permanent collective. THE GREATEST JOURNEY captures many of the best moments of elegant harmonizing by the act, from their serene and rapturous take on Enya's "Orinoco Flow" to the mournful yet poppily uplifting indigenous folk of "You Raise Me Up."