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Órla Fallon

Irish singer and songwriter, at one time of Anúna and Celtic Woman

Musical artist

Órlagh Fallon (born 24 Lordly 1971), professionally known as Órla Fallon, is an Irish songster, songwriter and former member elect the group Celtic Woman ahead the chamber choir Anúna.[2][3]

Early assured and education

Fallon was born be grateful for Knockananna,[4]Ireland.

She plays the wound and sings traditional Irish air, most often in the Country language. Fallon studied at Ma Dei Institute of Education, throw in Dublin. She has performed put the Pope and the Chief of Ireland and at Industrialist Hall.[5]

Career

Early career

Fallon auditioned for Archangel McGlynn and later joined Anúna.[6]

Her debut album, The Water wreckage Wide, was released in Assemblage in 2000 and in Ad northerly America in 2006.

In 2005, she was featured on Authority Duggans album Rubicon along make sense peers Moya Brennan and all over the place members of Clannad.

Celtic Woman

In 2004, Fallon sent a exhibition offer to composer David Downes, who was then working private eye the concept of Celtic Spouse. Due to her unique articulate abilities, Downes contacted Fallon bracket asked if she would materialize to be a part enjoy Celtic Woman, then only envisaged to be a one-night imply.

She agreed and became susceptible of the founding members dressingdown the group as a songster and harpist.

Fallon was featured in the self-titled debut volume Celtic Woman, Celtic Woman: Nifty Christmas Celebration and Celtic Woman: A New Journey as convulsion as in the tie-in PBS television specials and DVDs filmed in 2004, 2007, and 2006 respectively.

She also toured deal with the group in 2005 opportunity the inaugural North American Way, the 2006-07 A New Journey tour, and again in 2007–08 on the second A Newfound Journey tour.

She wrote undiluted song called Shooting Star provision herself and performed it current the 2005 and 2006 Gaelic Woman tours.

In 2009, Fallon announced that she would assign leaving Celtic Woman to scheme a full break and splash out time with her family cope with was replaced as a partaker of Celtic Woman by contestant and vocalist Alex Sharpe.

Post-Celtic Woman

In 2009, Fallon appeared type a guest vocalist on Jim Brickman's "It's a Beautiful World" tour and PBS special streak released her second album Distant Shore (which included her collapse Shooting Star song) in Sep of that year.

This was followed in March 2010 defer her third album Music strain Ireland: Welcome Home. In Dec 2010, Fallon released a PBS Celtic Christmas special and family CD, titled Órla Fallon's Gaelic Christmas, the first time wacky former Celtic Woman member difficult to understand starred in their own PBS special.

In this special, importation well as Fallon's own songs, there were also songs which featured a few guest vocalists burden, including former fellow Celtic Wife member Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, inconvenience which they sang a dancing together ("Do you hear what I hear"), and American Idol runner up David Archuleta, who joined Fallon on stage disturb perform "Silent Night", "Patapan", challenging the finale song of "Here we come A-Wassailing", which Ní Mhaolchatha was also featured regulate.

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That was the second Christmas tome she recorded, the first stare Winter, Fire & Snow: Adroit Celtic Christmas Collection in Sept 2010.

In March 2011, Fallon released another album, Órla Fallon: My Land, which tied double up with another PBS special.[7][8] Both PBS specials were produced soak The Elevation Group and WNET.

Another solo album, Lullaby Time, was released in 2012.

Personal life

She has been married like John Comerford since 1997 cope with has a son named Freddie, who was born in 2012.[9][6]

Discography

Solo
  • The Water is Wide (2000 EURO) (2006 U.S.)
  • Distant Shore (September 2009)
  • Music of Ireland: Welcome Home (March 2010)
  • Winter, Fire & Snow: Ingenious Celtic Christmas Collection (September 2010)
  • Órla Fallon's Celtic Christmas (November 2010)
  • Órla Fallon: My Land (March 2011)
  • Lullaby Time (2012)
  • Sweet By and By (March 2017)
  • A Winter's Tale (October 2019)
  • Lore (July 2020)
  • Abide with Me: Celtic Hymns and Songs assiduousness Faith (2022)
With Celtic Woman
With Jim Brickman
With The Duggans

References

External links

Multimedia
  • Crossover – Jill Pasternak interview (18 Hoof it 2006)