Artist: LOREENA McKENNITT
Album: NIGHTS FROM THE ALHAMBRA DELUXE (DIGI DVD+DCD)

Release date: 2007
Media type: CD

This autumn Loreena McKennitt will release her first live concert DVD, Loreena McKennitt: Nights From The Alhambra. The performances were filmed in Granada, Spain at the Palacio de Carlos V in the Alhambra Palace historic monument in September 2006. McKennitt is one of very few artists in the modern era to have been granted permission to perform in this breathtaking Unesco World Heritage site.

Selections from the concerts originally aired on PBS in the United States as a “Great Performances” special. The DVD includes debut performances of material from her first new album in nine years, An Ancient Muse, which the Los Angeles Times has called “a musical fusion that unites entire cultures,” as well as newly orchestrated renditions of familiar favourites including “The Mummers’ Dance,” “All Souls Night,” “The Bonny Swans” and “Cymbeline.”

In Nights From The Alhambra, McKennitt shares the stage with a diverse lineup of world musicians including all-Britain champion on uilleann pipes Steбfбn Hannigan, noted composer and jazz violinist Hugh Marsh, Syrian-born oud virtuoso Haig Yazdjian and classically trained lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos. “You really see the interplay with the musicians and how they spark each other,” McKennitt says of the recorded performances.

The international roster of musicians on the DVD mirrors the focus of her latest album. Produced by McKennitt, An Ancient Muse has been greeted with Top 10 chart success and platinum-plus sales in Canada, selling more than half a million copies in the rest of the world. Like An Ancient Muse, Nights from the Alhambra offers tantalising glimpses into the sights, sounds and poetry of other cultures and other times.

Nights from the Alhambra is offered as a deluxe three-disc set comprising one DVD (with a running time of nearly 140 minutes) and two audio CDs. The package is available in both a DVD-format digipak and a CD-format digipak.

TRCKLIST DVD:

Nights From The Alhambra Setlist
The Mystic's Dream
She Moved Through The Fair
Stolen Child
The Mummers' Dance
Penelope's Song
Marco Polo
The Bonny Swans
Dante's Prayer
Caravanserai
Bonny Portmore
Santiago
Raglan Road
All Souls Night
The Lady of Shalott
The Old Ways
Never-Ending Road (Amhran Duit)
Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance
Cymbeline

TRCKLIST DCD:

Nights From The Alhambra Setlist
The Mystic's Dream
She Moved Through The Fair
Stolen Child
The Mummers' Dance
Penelope's Song
Marco Polo
The Bonny Swans
Dante's Prayer
Caravanserai
Bonny Portmore
Santiago
Raglan Road
All Souls Night
The Lady of Shalott
The Old Ways
Never-Ending Road (Amhran Duit)
Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance
Cymbeline

MUSICIANS:

Vocals, Accordion, Harp, Piano
Loreena McKennitt

Drums and Percussion
Tal Bergman

Kanoun
Panos Dimitrakopoulos

Hurdy Gurdy
Nigel Eaton

Uilleann Pipes, Bodhran, Percussion
Steбfбn Hannigan