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 enlarge | Actor: Celtic Thunder
Studio: Decca
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  261 reviews
Sales Rank: 687
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Live, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: MCMDCMDVD002D
UPC: 602517665637
EAN: 0602517665637
ASIN: B00152PFAM
Theatrical Release Date: March 18, 2008
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Is this really Celtic Music? April 1, 2008
Johnnycakes (Conroe, TX)
10 out of 35 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying the guys all have great voices and if they were in a good show, it would be wonderful. This is over-produced, WAY over staged, corny, and quite frankly laughable. It also has little to nothing to do with Celtic music. Nights in White Satin? Puppylove? REALLY??? When they did Air Supply's, I Wanna Know What Love Is...I turned off the set. Rent it from your library or Blockbuster first...unless you like corny, over-staged productions. It is too bad they wasted such talent on this dribble...I feel bad for the guys...If they did actual Celtic music and lost the weird stances, the over-acting, an the apparent need to focus on public domain music, they may have a good show. Right now, it is a waste of plastic and silver oxide. (Hopefully Amazon will actually allow my post this time...)
Moving and Entertaining April 21, 2008
Brenda (Atlanta, GA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this dvd. I was disappointed that the cd doesn't contain all of the songs. Especially the solo A Bird Without Wings by Damian McGinty. This is my favorite of all. If you like great voices and songs, this you will love and not be disappointed. But get the dvd to get all of the songs and see the cutest little guy ever sing like an angel! Just a very moving experience! Love it so much!
 Celtic - NOT, Thunder - ALL WET !!! May 3, 2008
Mary Winch (Holtsville, NY)
9 out of 27 found this review helpful
It is worse than hokey - it is stick your finger down your throat awful - this group is being promoted by the same woman who promoted Celtic Woman. I have cousins in Dublin and Galway who have never heard of either of these groups and who told me they never appeared on stage in Ireland. I want to warn all the Irish and Irish-Americans - especially the Bronx Irish about this group appearing on PBS calling themselves Celtic Thunder - a show that airs on Sundays called Out of Ireland (RTE) featured this group calling themselves Celtic Thunder - it was relentlessly awful - actually painful to watch. I want to get the word out because this bears the name - Celtic Thunder - and anyone who has been to the Real Celtic Thunder Concerts in NY, DC, VA, MD, Ireland, et al will be sorely disappointed if they were expecting to see the Real Celtic Thunder. The members of the bogus CT group are supposed to be Irish patriots who sing traditional Irish tunes. One of the ancient, traditional songs was "Mull of Kintyre", with a bagpipe accompaniment. This ancient Irish tune was written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine during his days as a member of Wings. Other featured tunes included Londonderry Air (a song about English behind?) and Puppy Love from the 1950s. This is the Uber Crapola being foisted upon America as being traditional Irish music. I was strongly tempted to call the PBS station to demand the return of my membership contribution. They didn't even sing the crap well!!! The pinnacle of this moral obscenity was when all members of the band appeared on stage wearing black tuxedoes with black kilts! They looked like members of a Monty Python transvestite skit. The PBS aired show was awfully over staged - same stage production as the Celtic Women Show. The singers appeared to be lip-synching (with echo chambers turned on) and the audience also looked staged with their Grammies and relatives swooning and applauding them on. BUYERS BEWARE -THE CURRENT PBS CT SHOW AND ALBUM ARE AWFUL.
The REAL Celtic Thunder
... formed in 1977 by Indie Award winning singer, songwriter, poet and famous Irish-American author Terence Winch. The Real Celtic Thunder albums, feature original and traditional Irish songs and get out of your seat and dance music. The Real Celtic Thunder -featured on the album Light of Other Days - played at the Clinton White House 2 times - with a great write up in the Dublin Times.
You need to hear the original Celtic Thunder - Light of Other Days or Hard New York Days still available on Amazon and CD Universe as are Terence Winch's books Irish Musicians American Friends, That Special Place: New World Irish Stories, Boy Drinkers and many others. Garrison Keillor also read Terence Winch's Poetry on the Writer's Almanac Poetry Corner.
Another great choice is A&E DVD The Long Journey Home - Available on Amazon - Another true Irish American experience, albiet back to the Great Hunger era. Whereas the Real Celtic Thunder is Irish who came to America in the 1920s and their first generation American childrens' experience in keeping the traditions alive for generations to come.
Heart Stopper! March 3, 2008
T. Iris S. Sorisso (Midwest)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Saw this on PBS in advance airing --- can't wait to get it to watch over and over. A great mix of traditional Celtic music and more modern. The 'boys' are worth watching !!!!
 Great show! March 4, 2008
Pam Tompkins (Newark, DE United States)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I saw this show on PBS and really enjoyed it! I especially love the baritone ... sorry, I missed his name. He's really great on the songs about home and family (My Boy, The Old Man). I'll be pre-ordering the DVD for sure!
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