Modern Celtic music has made a major impact on the New Age genre its influence on pop and rock is a two-way street, with some modern Celtic bands absorbing the harder-edged sound of rock, while rock bands like the Pogues and the Saw Doctors incorporate Celtic instruments and rhythms into their music. Stringed instruments, hand-held drums like the bodhran, and a variety of pipes and flutes are played by musicians who usually play solo or in small groups. Traditional Celtic music is song-based, and ranges from melancholy tales of lost love and heroes to largely instrumental jigs and reels used for dancing. In the U.S., large Irish settlements in Chicago and Boston produce musicians who play music that at times sounds more traditional than that produced by their fellow musicians in Ireland. Maeshine is a duo fusing Celtic, Folk, World & New Age genres into a unique sound of their own. The Irish diaspora has also brought Celtic culture to the New World, with unique Celtic music styles arising from places like Cape Breton in Canada. However, Celts still live in large numbers in the Brittany region of France and Galicia in Spain and Celtic music has survived in those areas. The most evident homelands of the Celtic people are Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall and Wales, where they play a dominant cultural role and where their languages (with the exception of Cornish) still are spoken side by side with English. Modern Celtic music has made a major impact on the New Age genre its influence on pop and rock is a two-way street, with some modern Celtic bands absorbing the harder-edged sound of rock, while rock bands like the Pogues and the Saw Doctors incorporate Celtic instruments and rhythms into their music. She added: “Music can just reach through in those dark moments and sometimes give people strength to carry on.Rising up from the Iberian peninsula, over the span of two millennia the Celts engaged in cycles of conquest and retreat that left pockets of their descendents across Western Europe. She said “the pandemic has been hard for everyone” but cultural industries can help to comfort people. “I know that some venues are already making cancellations.” Only now music venues are starting to open up and even right now there is a lot of uncertainty (because of the new Covid-19 variant). Musicians have spent over a year not being able to do what they love and need to (financially) survive.
She said on Wednesday: “It has been hard. A reflective, thoughtful, and tranquil Celtic background music. A perfect soundtrack for a fantasy world in video games and films, underwater footage, unicorn and fairies, as underscore for a fairytale, imagination, mystical forest landscapes, etc. Last year she performed on the steps of Manchester Central Library, watched by Oscar-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, to shine a light on the difficulties facing the arts sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Magical and beautiful new-age music in Celtic style. Pike, who is of British and Polish heritage, has worked during her career to highlight lesser-known and under-represented composers, including curating a Polish Music Day at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2017, featuring specially commissioned works from Polish composers. I feel that she and those she works with should be getting this award.”
She is an NHS hospital doctor so she has had a really hard time. “My sister came from Manchester to be with me. Hearing the musicians playing live music during the ceremony made me very emotional.
She said: “It makes a lovely change from pandemic times to have this lovely day and to celebrate it with my sister. Pike, of Cheadle Hulme in Stockport, Greater Manchester, said hearing live music during the ceremony made her “emotional”, and she could share the moment with sister Alexandra, who is an NHS doctor. “I feel that there are many who can’t go out, who are suffering and can’t do their normal things, but somehow connect to music and art.” She said: “We have needed that, especially in these times. She said “it might not be in the way that you expect” and could range from a jingle to introduce the news or something you might hear while you are out and about. “I cannot imagine there would be a single person in this pandemic who hasn’t experienced in some form an uplifting experience through music.” Pike, 32, said: “I feel that in the dark times you need something to hold on to. Jennifer Pike with her award (Steve Parsons/PA) She collected an MBE on Wednesday for her services to classical music from the Princess Royal in a ceremony at Windsor Castle. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award at the age of 12 and has since built a successful career including playing at the BBC Proms, regular appearance at Wigmore Hall, working with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and also as a soloist.
The “healing power of music is needed now more than ever”, violinist Jennifer Pike has said.
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