“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”

—  Loreena McKennitt

Website notes to The Mask And Mirror http://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/maskandmirror.asp

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