CelticChristianTunes.com Newsletter
January 2003

Hello! Welcome to the CelticChristianTunes.com Newsletter!

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CONTENTS

SITE NEWS:    Monthly Drawing
RADIO NEWS:   CelticChristianTunes.com Radio News
MUSIC NEWS:   News in Celtic Christian music
NEW REVIEWS:  Album review news
NEW LINKS:    New website links
HOW YOU CAN HELP
SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS

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CelticChristianTunes.com SITE NEWS:

MONTHLY DRAWING

The winner of our current contest will receive Kildare's "Eternal Dance" 3-CD 
set, generously donated by Coventry Music. This is a great collection; don't 
miss your chance to pick it up for free! The next drawing will be shortly after 
March 1.

To enter the current contest, just fill out the form at 
http://www.CelticChristianTunes.com/surv.shtml.

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CelticChristianTunes.com Radio NEWS:

Getting tired of Christmas music yet? Seriously, we apologize for the lack of 
recent updates. We've updated the playlist to remove Christmas tracks, and 
within the next few days you'll hear a complete turnaround of songs played on 
CelticChristianTunes.com Radio. Every track will be songs that haven't played 
for at least 2 months. Even better, we'll have a number of brand new songs that 
have *never* been on CelticChristianTunes.com Radio from the following artists:

Charitie L. Bancroft
Maire Brennan
Caim
Joanne Hogg
Graham Kendrick
Joe King
Sarah Lacy
Wendy Ritchie

TO LISTEN: Visit http://www.CelticChristianTunes.com/list.shtml. (A high 
bandwidth connection such as cable or DSL is currently required.)

TO SUPPORT: If you would like to make a small donation to support 
CelticChristianTunes.com Radio (and CelticChristianTunes.com generally), please 
visit http://www.CelticChristianTunes.com/donate.shtml. Thanks!

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MUSIC NEWS:

MOYA BRENNAN: That's right, it's "Moya". If you're one of countless non-Irish 
speakers who've never seemed to get "Maire" Brennan's name right, you'll be glad 
to learn she's now officially going by "Moya" (which by the way is the way it's 
always been pronounced). You can now reach Brennan's website through 
http://www.mairebrennan.com/ OR http://www.moyabrennan.com/.

MOYA BRENNAN (again): Let no one say that Moya's name change is a sign that 
she's abandoned her life-long championing of the Irish language. Moya has 
recently begun adding Irish content to http://www.moyabrennan.com/. Just click 
on the "gaeilge" link.

MOYA BRENNAN (yet again): Be looking for a new album soon, "Two Horizons". It 
includes five tracks featuring Troy Donockley.

CAIM: Caim's new CD "New Life from Ruins" is now available in the Clunie Music 
online CD shop. "New Life From Ruins" was recorded in Boston with Shakuhachi 
Flute player Robert Jonas. The CD fuses Celtic Christian songs with the 
shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute.

FATHOM: Fathom has published a recording of their epic song "The Two Towers", 
based upon J.R.R. Tolkien's book of the same name. The MP3 can be downloaded for 
free from http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2908/2908454.html (10:25 minutes, 
9.5 MB).

NICK & ANITA HAIGH: The Haighs have released a new album entitled "Homecoming".

ISLE OF LIGHT: Isle of Light has released their second album, entitled "Winter's 
Welcome".

JOANNE HOGG: Iona lead singer Joanne Hogg and her husband Steve are expecting 
their child in May. Naturally, their pregnancy will put a damper on the Iona gig 
schedule for a while, but according to Iona's website, Joanne still hopes to do 
some writing and recording for Iona's next album.

JEFF JOHNSON & BRIAN DUNNING: Johnson's & Dunning's song, "Vows" from the album 
"Byzantium - The Book Of Kells & St. Aidan's Journey" has been included in the 
soundtrack of Martin Scorsese's epic film, "Gangs Of New York." A forty second 
excerpt of the song is heard at the climax of the film, which stars Daniel 
Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz & Liam Neeson.

PHIL KEAGGY: Phil has been in the studio working on a new CD to be released 
within then next several months. As fans of Phil know, family themes are very 
important to him and his songwriting, and this CD is no exception. It will be a 
compilation of songs written over the years for special occasions such as 
birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings. Appropriately titled "Special 
Occasions", it will feature some brand new tracks, some cover tunes, and some 
different versions of previously released songs.

If you have any news tips that our readers will want to know about, be sure to 
drop us a line at Cory@CelticChristianTunes.com.

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NEW REVIEWS:

We've just posted our review of Kildare's "Eternal Light", a 3-CD box set of 
previously released material. This is one to be sure to hear.

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NEW LINKS:

This month at CelticChristianTunes.com, you'll find new links for Answer Hymn, 
Fathom, and Lianna Klassen.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP:

CelticChristianTunes.com needs your support to ensure continued growth. If you 
would like to make a small voluntary donation, please visit 
http://www.CelticChristianTunes.com/donate.shtml for instructions. Thanks!

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Cory Engel
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