SUMMER IN THE CITY 2024 - Loreena McKennitt

For over three decades, Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt has been exploring the diverse aspects of Celtic music. Seemingly effortlessly, she combines instrumental and vocal perfection and emotion into a sound costume that enchants the listener. The passionate globetrotter will be touring Europe in the summer of 2024. From July 16 to 18, the performer will be coming to Munich, Mainz and Cologne with her The Mask and Mirror.

Her celebrated performances are made up of music and stories inspired by Loreena McKennitt's exotic search for traces of Celtic history. Songs, for example, are combined with mystical Irish poems by Yeats and Keats as well as texts by classical writers such as Shakespeare and Tennyson. Intimacy interwoven with personal, inspiring stories characterize Loreena McKennitt's concerts. Her crystal-clear soprano voice and her versatility as an instrumentalist on harp, piano and bandonion are and remain her trademarks.

Loreena McKennitt's Celtic blend of pop, folk and world music has sold over 14 million albums worldwide, more than 1.6 million of them in Germany. An astonishing triumph of musical poetry. Her recordings have achieved gold, platinum and multi-platinum status in 15 countries on four continents. She was twice nominated for a Grammy and has won two Canadian Juno Awards and the Billboard International Achievement Award.

As a musical ambassador, she has represented Canada around the world, written film scores and performed at countless prestigious festivals. In 1985, she produced her first album with her savings and founded her own record label. Since then, she has been one of the few truly independent artists to make her own decisions about song selection, production, design and distribution of her material.