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Navan Sings Celtic Culture, A Cappella
Navan is a Celtic a capella group based in Madison, Wis. From left: Elizabeth Fine, Sheila Shigley and Paul Gorman.
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When the Irish arrived in America, their music came with them and took root in some unexpected places.
Madison, Wis., for example, is home to a group of singers whose selections go way beyond "Danny Boy."
Navan is a Celtic a cappella trio made up of Sheila Shigley, Elizabeth Fine and Paul Gorman.
The music on their latest album, Lowena, spans a wide swath of Celtic culture.
In fact, it goes way beyond Ireland to encompass songs from Scotland, Wales, Brittany and the Iberian Peninsula.
Lowena also offers a diverse array of selections: children's songs, haunting laments, love ballads, songs about daily life and work.
The singers don't translate their lyrics into English, preferring instead the beautiful, intricate rhyming schemes of the original language.
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Shigley and Fine talk to Liane Hansen about how a group of Midwesterners got so heavily involved in Celtic music.
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