Why isn’t Loreena McKennitt on Archives?

      I was just looking through the Archhives here and notice no Loreena Mckennitt. I very much think she is prog as well as numerous other prog sites out there. I'll admit that perhaps she may not be considered rock but neither is Renaissance in my opinion either., and if you think Annie Haslin has a great voice,wait to you hear Loreena's!!

I notice this site has Amazing Blondel so why not Loreena???????

Has anyone else heard McKennitt's material( I would be highly surprised if no-one has) and what do you think. Prog or no Prog??

Loreena has been mentioned many times here, especially on our favorite lists.  But she isn't really prog..and she doesn't consider herself that way.  In most things I've read on her, she considers herself folk & celtic new age . I would think that Enya would be here before Loreena would.  Clannad is another band that considers themselves to be celtic, and I think Enya evolved that sound into something more international.

Well I don't like to endorse other prog sites but I will to back my argument.

New Gibralter has her listed and would consider that quite a reputable site. Perhaps even more extensive than this one, but without the forum so this one is cooler.

Also I would like to make a case on whether Loreena McKennitt considers herself prog or not. Well Peter Hammill doesn't either but we don't buy into that now....do we?

Why isn´t
Velvetclown on the Prog Archives ????????????????????


Don´t answer that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the music of LMcK, but I do think it would be stretching things a bit to call her music prog rock. She is very talented, and her music is beautifully melodic and extremely well structured, but yes, i think it's more Celtic/folk, influenced.

I had the pleasure of seeing her in concert a few years ago, she was superb.

By the way Ivan, have you heard "One more chance" by Fairport Convention from their "Rising for the moon album", the last with Sandy? It's as close to prog as they ever got, an excellent track indeed.

Well i GUESS I am alone on this island so the mature thing to say is" oh well....you're probably right"

There's no right or wrong Gdub, maybe 20 of us will assure she's not prog' and 20 more believe she's prog', it's a matter of opinions, especially when we're talking about non-commercial genres that are very close one to another.

By the way Ivan, have you heard "One more chance" by Fairport Convention from their "Rising for the moon album", the last with Sandy? It's as close to prog as they ever got, an excellent track indeed.

Probably I have heard it Easy Livin, but sincerely I can't remember, I like Fairport Convention but I don't follow their careers, a mistake I will try not to repeat, because their music is outstanding.

Iván