Multi-million selling world music artist Méav teams up with Grammy award-winning producer Craig Leon (Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones, Pavarotti) to record folk-pop album The Calling.
“Her presentation was coolly elegant, and her voice remarkably pure. She sang with a subtle, underlying passion”
LA Times
“Adds delicious wriggles to her renditions of traditional tunes”
New York Times
Méav returns to her musical origins with The Calling, 12 tracks of newly written songs, folk ballads and fresh interpretations of timeless classics. Produced and co-written by the Grammy award-winning producer Craig Leon, responsible for iconic records by Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones and Pavarotti amongst others, The Calling showcases Méav’s crystal clear voice, elegantly fusing her Classical training with her folk roots.
From an early age Méav displayed an exceptional musical talent, immersed in Irish traditional music at her family home in Dublin, she went on to study Classical voice, harp and piano whilst simultaneously studying Law at Trinity College. Her professional music career was established with Anúna, the Riverdance choir, before going on to star in Lord of the Dance and embarking on three US tours as lead vocalist with the Irish National Concert Orchestra.
This brought her to the attention of Celtic Collections who released three Méav solo albums including Celtic Journey with EMI, which debuted in the Billboard World Music top 10. In 2004 Celtic Collections invited Méav to be one of the five founding members of female supergroup Celtic Woman, who have since gone on to sell six million records in the US and worldwide. It is remarkable that every album Méav recorded with Celtic Woman reached number 1 in the Billboard World Music Charts.
Méav left Celtic Woman in 2008 to start a family, and resumed her solo career in 2010, performing to a sell-out crowd at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In 2012, Méav met legendary producer Craig Leon in Abbey Road Studios, London while working together on the soundtrack of a space film in collaboration with NASA. Despite their different musical backgrounds they quickly realized that they share a love of song writing and ethnic music. This resulted in The Calling, a contemporary pop treatment of new songs and folk classics from Ireland, England, Scotland, Brittany, Galicia and America.
The Calling is released on 26th August 2013 by Warner Jazz
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