Ceredwen
Encyclopedia
Ceredwen is a celtic
band comprising Andrew Fryer and Renee Gray. Their debut album, "Ô'r Mabinogi, (Legends of the Celts)" (1997), featured in the Billboard
charts for 3 months and won 3 NAV awards. Their second album, "The Golden Land" (1999) was also successful.
Ceredwen are signed to Real Music in the US.
Their music has been compared to that of Enya
due to its use of traditional instruments and ambient
approach, but differs in its use of language. Enya sings in Irish
whereas Ceredwen sing entirely in Welsh
.
Named after the Celtic goddess of inspiration, the New Age group Ceredwen consists of vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Renee Gray and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Andrew Fryer. Gray hails from South Wales and also plays in the Lucys, a Celtic folk-rock band; Fryer is an Englishman who formed his first band when he was 13 and works as a songwriter and independent record producer. Ceredwen's 1997 debut album O'r Mabinogi was inspired by the tales ancient Celtic storytellers told of their ruler's heroic deeds, and featured real and sampled Celtic instruments like the bodhran, pennywhistle, flute and uilleann pipes along with contemporary rhythms and Gray's vocals. Their follow-up, 1999's Golden Land, followed a similar musical path and used the Druids' fight against the invading Roman army as source material. ~
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...
band comprising Andrew Fryer and Renee Gray. Their debut album, "Ô'r Mabinogi, (Legends of the Celts)" (1997), featured in the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
charts for 3 months and won 3 NAV awards. Their second album, "The Golden Land" (1999) was also successful.
Ceredwen are signed to Real Music in the US.
Their music has been compared to that of Enya
Enya
Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
due to its use of traditional instruments and ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
approach, but differs in its use of language. Enya sings in Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
whereas Ceredwen sing entirely in Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
.
Named after the Celtic goddess of inspiration, the New Age group Ceredwen consists of vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Renee Gray and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Andrew Fryer. Gray hails from South Wales and also plays in the Lucys, a Celtic folk-rock band; Fryer is an Englishman who formed his first band when he was 13 and works as a songwriter and independent record producer. Ceredwen's 1997 debut album O'r Mabinogi was inspired by the tales ancient Celtic storytellers told of their ruler's heroic deeds, and featured real and sampled Celtic instruments like the bodhran, pennywhistle, flute and uilleann pipes along with contemporary rhythms and Gray's vocals. Their follow-up, 1999's Golden Land, followed a similar musical path and used the Druids' fight against the invading Roman army as source material. ~
External references
- Reviews of the first two albums, musicaldiscoveries.com
- Artist biographies, realmusic.com