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If 16-year old singer Chloe Agnew ever writes a book she says that she’ll call it ‘From Carnegie Hall to Lunch Duty’. “That’s the way that my life turns anyway,” she laughs. “I played Carnegie Hall in New York one week with ‘Celtic Woman’ and the following week I was back at school on lunch duty, cleaning off tables and mopping the floor. But that’s life. I’m so fortunate to have this wonderful opportunity and I love every minute of it.”

Lisa Kelly might best be known to audiences as one of the soloists in ‘Celtic Woman’, but her background is purely steeped in the world of musical theatre. Her parents are both heavily involved in Ireland’s amateur theatre community and Lisa fit right in, staring in the musical “Bugsy Malone” at the age of 7. A talented actress as well as a singer, Lisa continued her studies in drama and was classically trained in both singing and piano.

Orla has a saying: “it’s a long way from Knockananna to Carnegie Hall.” The singer and harpist from the tiny village in the South East of Ireland ought to know because she’s made the journey. She’s won the International Feis Ceoil and International Pan Celtic competitions twice and has toured extensively in Europe and the USA as a soloist performing her renditions of haunting Irish airs along with her own original compositions.

Méav never imagined that music could take her this far. “Ireland has changed a lot in the few years since I graduated from university” she says. “There was no sign of the Celtic Tiger and I presumed that music for me would simply be a passionate hobby”.

"Energy" and "Beauty' are the two words that Máiréad feels best describe what she strives for as a musician and as a person. A fiddle player since the age of 6, Máiréad 's Loughmore, Co.Tipperary background is steeped in music in the way that only those who grow up in a family of accomplished musicians can be.