The High Kings

DVD [DVD]

Label: Manhattan Records

Style: Celtic

The High Kings

UPC: 5099952134494

Release Date: 02/26/2008

Original Release Date: 02/26/2008

Stewart Mason

The debut album by the High Kings was issued by the same folks who had a hand in Celtic Woman and Riverdance, and consists of easy listening and buffed-and-polished Irish folk music of appeal to an audience that is comparatively massive for the world music fringe: this album made the lower levels of the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The High Kings is glossy and polite -- targeted perhaps toward listeners who enjoyed the pennywhistle on Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" -- even on tunes that strive to be upbeat and frolicsome. [Manhattan issued a companion DVD in 2008.] ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi