She is one of Manitoba's pride - the sultry, haunting and beautiful singer Loreena McKennitt has a date on May 16th to speak and sing at a Big Brothers Big Sisters event in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
McKennitt was born and raised in Morden, Manitoba to parents of Irish and Scottish descent. Early on she developed a taste for Celtic music. She already had a powerful and clear soprano voice. She learned to play the Celtic harp and cut her performing teeth busking.
After moving from Manitoba to Ontario, a favourite busking venue was the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. But she also had many busking adventures in England and Ireland. She once nearly got into a fist-a-cuffs with a flower-seller on Grafton Street in Dublin
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/music/2012/05/15/loreena-mckennitt/
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