1. Loreena McKennitt has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.
18 Facts About Loreena McKennitt
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Loreena McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba, of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack Loreena McKennitt and Irene nee Dickey.
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Loreena McKennitt enrolled at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg to become a veterinarian.
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In 1990, Loreena 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.
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Loreena McKennitt's music appeared in the movies The Santa Clause, Soldier, Jade, Holy Man, The Mists of Avalon, and Tinker Bell.
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Loreena McKennitt was deeply affected by the event, and she founded the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund for Water Search and Safety in the same year.
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In 2008, Loreena McKennitt wrote and composed "To the Fairies They Draw Near" for the theme song for Disney's direct-to-video animated film Tinker Bell.
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Since the release of An Ancient Muse, Loreena McKennitt has toured consistently, in Europe and North American, including the An Ancient Muse tour in 2007, another extensive tour across Canada and United States later in 2007, a tour of Europe in 2008 and a Mediterranean tour in 2009 with stops in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Hungary and Italy.
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On September 17,2009, Loreena McKennitt announced the release of a two-disc album, A Mediterranean Odyssey.
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When Loreena McKennitt released The Wind that Shakes the Barley she visited several countries to help promote the album.
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On November 30,2012, Loreena McKennitt lent her support to Kate Winslet's Golden Hat Foundation together with Tim Janis, Sarah McLachlan, Andrea Corr, Hayley Westenra, the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Dawn Kenney, Jana Mashonee, Amy Petty, and a choir, along with others, performing on "The American Christmas Carol" concert at Carnegie Hall.
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Loreena McKennitt planned a tour to support the album's release in 2018 and 2019.
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Loreena McKennitt had a small acting role in the 2018 film Road to the Lemon Grove, as the voice of God.
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In 2019, Loreena McKennitt released the live album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, recorded earlier that year in London.
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Loreena McKennitt's music has generally been classified as World or Celtic music even though it contains aspects and characteristics of music from around the globe and is sometimes classified as folk music in record stores.
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Late in the 1990s, Loreena McKennitt created No Journey's End, a half-hour documentary, for American television in which she discussed the influences behind her music.
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In 2008, Loreena McKennitt released A Moveable Musical Feast, based on her 2007 An Ancient Muse tour.
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Loreena McKennitt argued that much of the book contained confidential personal information that Ash had no right to publish.