Loreena McKennitt - Under A Winter's Moon (Live At Knox Church, Stratford, Ontario / 2021) (2022) Hi Res

Heralding the start of the holiday season, GRAMMY®-nominated and Juno Award-winning Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt has released her 16th album, entitled Under A Winter’s Moon. The wintry collection was recorded live during a series of seasonal concerts held in a historic sanctuary in Stratford, Ontario in December 2021 and is presented as a two-disc digipak on her own label, Quinlan Road via Universal Music Canada.

Featuring 15 seasonal songs performed by McKennitt, Under A Winter’s Moon is interspersed with seasonal readings by Canadian Indigenous actor and Companion of the Order of Canada recipient, Tom Jackson, Gemini Award-winning actor Cedric Smith, and Ojibway artist and flautist Jeffrey Red George.

Recorded at Knox Church in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Under A Winter’s Moon was then mixed and mastered by multi-award-winning engineer, mixer, producer and editor Jeff Wolpert at Desert Fish in Toronto.

“On a handful of winter’s nights close to the solstice of December 2021, my musical friends and I wove this miscellany of music and spoken word,” writes McKennitt in the new album’s liner notes. “…I sought to incorporate elements of the oral traditions found in many cultures – to capture, inspire and reconnect us with our past, while offering a reminder of the people of those times and what their manner of communication meant in their lives and might mean still.”