Winter Songs is a new retrospective compilation from the acclaimed Contemporary Celtic duo, Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning. This holiday release features music from their popular Celtic Christmas albums along with seven live tracks recorded in concerts with violinist, Wendy Goodwin.
Press release by Higher Level Media
Johnson and Dunning were well known in the Contemporary Celtic music genre having released the trilogy, Songs From Albion (1992-94), The Bard and the Warrior (1997), Byzantium (2000), Patrick (2003), King Raven (2008) and Eirlandia (2018) which have all been tied into the Celtic Fantasy stories by best-selling author, Stephen R. Lawhead.
Their music has been included on contemporary instrumental compilations released by Windham Hill (Celtic Christmas, Winter Solstice) and Hearts of Space (Celtic Twilight), and on soundtracks for documentary and feature films, including Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.
As mentioned above, they’ve released a string of popular Celtic Christmas CDs including A Quiet Knowing Christmas (2001), Stars in the Morning East (2005) and Under the Wonder Sky (2010) along with three beautiful Celtic chamber group releases with violinist, Wendy Goodwin including Winterfold (2013), If I Do Not Remember…(2016) and Kohelet (2020).
For more information and music samples, visit arkmusic.com.