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We got hold of Lisa Lambe in Houston, Texas, where Celtic Woman had performed one of the last concerts on a five-month and (ok maybe not the right words here) without exception sold out US tour. A highlight was a performance in the White House.
Barack Obama has just recently discovered his paltry (?) Irish roots and in Moneygall, where his great great great grandfather was born, he drank a pint of guinnes in “Ollie's Pub”.
Lisa, who comes from Dublin herself, and who hardly left Dublin before her CW era doesn't really know anything about Moneygall, which lies between the borders of the counties Offaly and Tipperary. “I think Moneygall is called 'Muine Gall' in Gaelic”, she says. “But I don't know what it means.”
“Muine Gall" means foreigners' thicket.
From Texas the four-leaved Celtic clover (Máiréad Nesbitt: violin, Chloë Agnew: vocals, Lisa Kelly: vocals and Lisa Lambe: vocals) flew to Japan for film recordings. “They'll probably expect me to become blonde again”, she laughs. At the moment her hair is red.
From Japan they continue to Germany, after a small stop to change clothes in Dublin. On 18th June they will be performing in the Düsseldorfer Phillipshalle, on 21st June in the Bielefelder Stadthalle and on 22nd June in Hanover. Lisa is eager to go to Berlin. There she spent a “total exciting summer term” a few years ago. She took intensive lessons in singing and in acting and gave some herself - for children.
In the meantime she's an awarded actress in Ireland and last acted as Nora Helmer in “Ibsens Nora” or “Ein Puppenheim” (a puppet home?). Why she gave up this career and joined the adventure of Celtic Woman? “I think that this is the biggest music show world wide at the moment”, she says. “And finally I've been able to leave Dublin.”
Lisa Lambe's most powerful appearance in the show is called “My Lagan Love”, which is an at least 400 years old Irish self-assertion song against the English occupying forces. Many have interpreted the song, Dusty Springfield and Kate Bush, but no one like the here rather unknown Sandy Denny. Lisa Lambe strongly resembles her.
