Loreena McKennitt - Under A Winter's Moon - A concert of carols and tales Tour in December 2022 & December 2025

 
In September 2022, Loreena announced in an email to the members list the release of a new album and a short seasonal tour.

Extracts from that email and from the official website:

Loreena performed and recorded a series of live seasonal concerts with special guests in December 2021. She's now releasing that magical concert as her 16th album, entitled Under A Winter's Moon - with a two-week companion TOUR of Ontario set to launch in early December.

The eight-city Under A Winter's Moon Tour launches Dec. 2 in Stratford. The original seasonal concert will be re-staged with its original musicians and narrators. They'll be taking the concert to seven other Ontario cities, including London, Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough and Kingston, wrapping up in Ottawa Dec. 17.

Loreena will be accompanied by Caroline Lavelle on cello and recorders, Graham Hargrove on percussion, Errol Fischer on fiddle, Pete Watson on guitar and 12-string bouzouki, and Cait Watson on Irish whistle. All these musicians also added back-up vocals for the performance. Tom Jackson's narration will be a recorded playback on the tour.

"On a handful of winter's nights close to the solstice of December 2021, my musical friends and I wove this miscellany of music and spoken word," writes Loreena in the new album's liner notes. "#I sought to incorporate elements of the oral traditions found in many cultures - to capture, inspire and reconnect us with our past, while offering a reminder of the people of those times and what their manner of communication meant in their lives and might mean still." ~ Loreena

Loreena remounts her 'love letter to the season'

This December Loreena will be bringing her celebrated seasonal performance of Under A Winter's Moon concert back to the stage at Toronto's Koerner Hall, in her home base of Stratford and in neighbouring London, Ontario.

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Sparking the holiday spirit, Under A Winter's Moon features carols and tales that blend Celtic, Indigenous and Welsh cultures, interwoven with strands of the natural world revealed through an Indigenous lens. It also includes Gemini Award-winning actor Cedric Smith performing the nostalgic A Child's Christmas in Wales.

Loreena will be accompanied by Caroline Lavelle on cello and recorders and by members of the Celtic group The Bookends, with Errol Fischer on fiddle, Pete Watson on guitar and bouzouki, and Cait Watson on Irish whistle, with guest percussionist Romano DiNillo.

The performance, which Loreena has called "a love letter to the season" returns to Toronto's acoustic gem Koerner Hall by popular demand following sold-out concerts in 2023.

The show begins with Ojibway artist Christin Dennis, also known as Gzhiiquot/Fast Moving Cloud, performing the story of Skywoman. Under A Winter's Moon is a two-set concert, with the first set consisting of performances by Loreena and her band, as well as a reading and music by Ojibway artist and flautist Jeffrey `Red" George. The second set features actor Cedric Smith performing, in six parts, the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales, each segment interspersed with more songs from Loreena. In all, the show includes 15 seasonal tunes, with such favourites as "Coventry Carol", "Good King Wenceslas" and "Huron Carol".

Tour dates

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