It also saw use in the trailer for a wide-release 1998 Drew Barrymore film Ever After.
CARRICKFERGUS LOREENA MCKENNITT SERIES
McKennitt's single " The Mummers' Dance" received airplay in North American markets during the spring of 1997, and was used as the theme song for the short-lived TV series Legacy. In 1995, her version of the traditional Irish song " Bonny Portmore" was featured in the Highlander series, followed by the 1994 film Highlander 3: The Sorcerer.
In 1993, she toured Europe supporting Mike Oldfield. She and the musical team she headed would later re-record the documentary's main theme on her album The Visit under the title "Tango to Evora". In 1990, McKennitt provided the music for the National Film Board of Canada documentary The Burning Times, a feminist revisionist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials. All of her work is released under her own label, Quinlan Road. McKennitt's first album, Elemental, was released in 1985, followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991), The Mask and Mirror (1994), A Winter Garden (1995), and The Book of Secrets (1997). In 1981, she moved to Stratford, Ontario, to join the Stratford Festival acting company, and still resides there.
Lawrence Market in Toronto in order to earn money to record her first album. Developing a passion for Celtic music, she learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, including St. After performing at the inaugural Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1974, McKennitt developed an interest in Celtic music and visited Ireland to hear it for herself. While in Winnipeg she discovered folk music, including fellow Canadians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot. McKennitt enrolled at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg to become a veterinarian. In Morden, she developed her love for music, influenced, in part, by the musical traditions of the local Mennonite community. McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba, of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack (died 1992) and Irene McKennitt (1931–2011).
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