This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more. Performers profiled range from the rock-influenced group Clannad, to Welsh band Ar Log, Brittany group Gwerz, singer Christie Moore, harpist/piper/singer Alan Stivell, and many more! Reviews guide readers to the essential recordings, as well as unexpected, genre-expanding discoveries for any new or established Celtic collection.

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