Lisa Kelly says Hayley is very competent

[Stephany]

Hello everyone,
Lisa Kelly posted a long message yesterday on her forum. She talks a little about Hayley. Here is the excerpt but if anyone is interested in reading the full post, it is available HERE.

Hi everyone

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Then we had 2 wonderful days in Boston, where obviously Meav did her last show and Hayley did ehr first. It was sad to see Meav leave but wonderful to welcome Hayley in to our group. And she's doing a great job. It's not easy to join a well established group but she is a very competent person and a wonderful performe and she's slotted in so well with the group.

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Hope you are all well
Thanks again for all your support
Best wishes
Lisaxxxx

[Mark]

Hi Stephany

Thanks for finding and posting this. It does give you the feeling that Hayley is very well thought of by the rest of the girls and really has fitted in well. Of course, I didn't know anything about the group before Hayley joined, so its difficult for me to know how established Celtic Woman fans feel about the changes. For those who didn't know about Hayley, I am sure as time goes on and she continues to show the sort of person she is, most will love her

Mark.

[comet]

Hi Folks.
I get the impression from the Celtic Woman forum that the CW fans are equally thrilled by Hayley.
They miss Maeve at the concerts but love Hayley's contribution to the whole show.
I think the CW show will bring out the delightful Hayley at her best.
I'm sorry to hear Hayley is homesick in the US at the moment as it can often be one of the deepest felt emotions, hopefully the other girls will take care of her for us.

I can hardly wait for her concert in Dublin In June

comet

[Stephany]

comet said:

They miss Maeve at the concerts but love Hayley's contribution to the whole show.

At the beginning, the CW fans were generally upset about Meav's absence. Things have changed quickly, they're now totally thrilled by Hayley.
Now they want them both

[Richard]

Hello Stephany and everybody!

It's good to read this little snippet from the inside. I'm sure Hayley made a very good impression with the other girls at the Slane Castle concert, and now she's building on the relationship. Hayley always settles well into new situations and bonds easily with everybody she works with, so with her natural talent it's hardly surprising that she is enjoying such a successful career! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Best Wishes,

Richard

[mariannek]

stephany said:

Hello everyone,
Lisa Kelly posted a long message yesterday on her forum. She talks a little about Hayley. Here is the excerpt but if anyone is interested in reading the full post, it is available HERE.

Hi everyone

[...]
Then we had 2 wonderful days in Boston, where obviously Meav did her last show and Hayley did ehr first. It was sad to see Meav leave but wonderful to welcome Hayley in to our group. And she's doing a great job. It's not easy to join a well established group but she is a very competent person and a wonderful performe and she's slotted in so well with the group.

[...]

Hope you are all well
Thanks again for all your support
Best wishes
Lisaxxxx

Hi Stephany,
I want to thank you especially now for your incredible input of Hayley information !!!
How do you do it !! Too clever for me !!!
The Mummer's dance clip was taken by one of the HWI fans;
( can't remember right now who), and I think it was the best to be captured at the time.
Maybe the event was * policed * and it was a very brave deed to video Hayley !!
Just my guess.
Love, Marianne

[Stephany]

mariannek said:

I want to thank you especially now for your incredible input of Hayley information !!!
How do you do it !! Too clever for me !!!

Nothing too difficult here, Marianne - I just love lurking around sites and forums. You see, we have plenty of free time in University i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif (ok, that's not entirely true, I wish!)
But back to topic, I'm really glad to see the warm welcome Hayley got from the CW girls and the audience. Everyone loves her, but again, who could not?

[Steve H]

mariannek said:

The Mummer's dance clip was taken by one of the HWI fans;
( can't remember right now who), and I think it was the best to be captured at the time.
Maybe the event was * policed * and it was a very brave deed to video Hayley !!
Just my guess.
Love, Marianne

Hi Marianne,

Your memory is indeed correct, it was Stuart (HWI Phonographer/Vidiographer) who captured the Mummers Dance, and I think the venue was Cadogan Hall.

Hope you and Graham are keeping well, sorry to hear that you missed out on meeting Thomas last month.

God Bless

Steve H

[Stephany]

Hayley made a very good impression within the group, without a doubt. Chloe, Lisa & Meav gave an interview to Classic FM radio last February and spoke highly of Hayley. Particularly Chloe, who seems to love her! (Ok - who wouldn't?) i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
Here is an excerpt, for the full transcript I suggest you click on this link.

We look forward to that. Now since you were here last and Chloe and Lisa were with us here about a year ago, you've added another singer to Celtic Woman: Hayley Westenra.

Chloe : We have, yeah. Fantastic young singer. We're delighted. She's joined us. She joined us for the DVD and we're hoping she's going to come out and join us for half of the tour now, so looking forward to performing with her. She's a lovely girl and she's really just fitted in so well with the five of us, so yeah. Great, another addition, fantastic.
Meav : And she is originally, well her family is originally from McMonaghan so although she's a New Zealander -

Well, I was gonna ask you that because she's from New Zealand. We've been playing some of her solo efforts, and introducing her as a young singer talent from New Zealand. But there are some Irish roots - doesn't everybody have Irish roots?

Lisa: I doubt it.
Meav: I think everybody wants to have them.

Well, you call it Patrick's Day, we call it St. Patrick's Day, but that day everybody's Irish. Thank you so much for being here.

Lisa: Thank you very much, Bill. Great to see you again.
Chloe: Thanks Bill.
Meav: Thank you.

Best of luck on continued success.

Lisa: Thank you.

Celtic Woman, the new CD is called A New Journey, the DVD A New Journey: Live at Slane Castle, Ireland. They have just been released and they're delightful.

[Richard]

Hello Stephany!

Thanks for posting the link to the full transcript. I see the interview was actually on Classical 96.3 FM in Toronto, and here is a direct link to an MP3 of the interview:-

www.classical963fm.com/uploads/classical963fm_celticwoman.mp3

Enjoy! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Richard

[Ed]

Way to go Stephany! I can't imagine me having the insight to peruse other forums in order to obtain such interesting information and then to be so unselfish as to share the information with the rest of us who come the to "The Altar of Hayley" to worship her. Thanks ever so much for your efforts. As to Chloe's acceptance of Hayley, it would be as I would expect of her--she's only 17 and is nearly as sweet as Hayley.

[Stephany]

Hi Ed,
I'm browsing the other CW girls forums because I also appreciate them a lot. I'm not necessarily looking for anything related to Hayley but when they do mention her, it's always nice to post it here as well so that we can read about the opinions of different fans.