Greetings my sweetest Loreena and everyone.

This evening Loreena has been here in my city, Barcelona, and we have really enjoyed her visit. As always she has been perfect, making us enjoy with her voice, their instruments and all her musics.
I'm glad of have been there. We have laughed and cryed with her music, thinking in the past and looking for the future...
I have to say that she is like my angel. I wish she never leave the music.

Thanks for being here and for your companion.
RUBEN

Hi again to everyone,

First of all, sorry for my english language. I'm trying to do my best.

Well, all of you have commented how wonderful was Loreena, and I don't have more words to describe her perfect voice, harp, piano, and all other things. But I have to complete something. I'm agree with Manel, the violinist Zoltan Lantos was really amazing, but I can't forget the perfect music of the Celo from Caroline Lavelle and the electric guitar from Brian Hughes and their syncronicity.
If I had to choose a song, I will choose Dante's Prayer too, because this song is very special for me and makes me fall my tears... I always think about the tragedy of Loreena with the sea... and that makes me sad for her.

Her fans will always be with her. Because she sings and plays like an angel.

Vedi di calmarti Jesse! anche noi abbiamo aspettato 9 anni ...vedrai che alla fine viene anche in Australia !soon she go in Australia too..I hope for you.
Betty

On Monday I went to see Tom Waits and six days later, on Sunday, I saw Loreena McKennitt and her wonderful band of musicians. Both concerts represented an exaltation of beauty, in its purest sense. Tom Waits is beauty as despair, Loreena is beauty as hope. Both are beauty as melancholy, perhaps the most profound form of beauty. Both Tom and Loreena have peculiar voices and styles, easily identifiable. I wouldn’t have thought, before this week, that I would be able to find any common ground to describe these two excellent musicians, artists, artisans of beauty. Then, yesterday, going over Loreena’s first albums, I saw a song dedicated to Tom Waits: Greensleeves, from the album The Visit. There had to be a connection.

Barcelona’s concert was a soul lifting experience. I was very lucky to be sitting in the front row and, as the concert started at 8 pm, there was plenty of light for us to see Loreena and for her to see us, as she commented during one of her long and very interesting introductions to the songs. I could appreciate the vibration of the strings of the harp, the complicity of the musicians. The music was mathematically perfect, it was like a multifaceted crystal, each ray of light minutely modulated to reach inside the audience, myself, and fill us, me, with joy. If I had to choose one song, Dante’s Prayer would have to be it, but just because its melancholy reflects very well my own feelings, sometimes. Marco Polo was synchronicity. All songs were wonderful.

Thank you with all my heart Loreena.

ps: head over to poetaperundia for a further rumination about the concert (in Catalan)

Genís

Regarding the concert in Barcelona of yesterday, if you let me say in my own language: visca!!!!! (hurray!). It was lovely to see so many people together attending Loreena's concert, I was watching them, all them very different people, and thinking about the inner connection that we all have regarding the music.
The concert was as always impeccable. Of course some songs had a special arrangement and we enjoyed very much the old and the new songs. There were some moments when the fan inside of us came out and some people said to her: Guapa! which means 'pretty!'(I didn't dare to do it but I am not sure if I'll be able to contain myself next time , ha, ha!). Her vocal quality was excellent, if I closed my eyes I could feel myself like I was listening to one of her cd's, she does a great job when perfoming live.
The other musicians were also incredible, including the "new ones" (very well the new violinist, especially in the second part of the concert), thank you all for the good vibrations!

Hi Ruben: I am Cintia from Málaga. I saw her in Málaga and in Lorca...and i hope to see her in Granada again.
Really to see her in touching in live is amazing.
She is a singer who has the direct one thousand times better that a DVD, she sounds incredibly well and to be able to listen to her music is a delight for the soul.
Makes me happy to knows how many people are enjoying with her tour along Spain and only I hope that it she offers us something similar in 2009 and to be able to see her again as soon as possible.

Hello Ruben!
how was the concert? I've just been saying to some other members of this message board that I've not yet seen her perform live yet, and feel very left out. I hope you and everyone else who has can spare a thought for those of us who live in a country where Loreena has not toured for 13 YEARS Loreena, we miss you in Australia!!!