Founded in 1997, Irish band Lúnasa is one of the best and most exciting Celtic groups in the world. The line-up and repertoire of the band is traditional, but its rhythmic approach is innovative: Lúnasa shows the underlying rhythms of a beautiful melody. A complex web of different propelling rhythms under an excellently played melody on fiddle, flute or uillean pipes, that's what makes Lúnasa's
… music so energetic and captivating. The Merry Sisters Of Fate is an intriguing album in which Lúnasa explores Breton and Galician music in addition to Irish. Dizzying up-tempo reels alternate with beautiful listening tunes. Lúnasa proves that you don't need a fusion with jazz or new age to keep Celtic music alive. The band, consisting of the talented musicians Sean Smyth (fiddle, whistles), Trevor Hutchinson (double bass), Donogh Hennessy (guitar, whistles), Kevin Crawford (flute, whistles) has been expanded with Cillian Vallely (uilleann pipes, whistles). (SvdP) _more
