I saw the BEST singer on earth playing and singing live. I mean that. I’m serious. Nobody’s better than her.
I was so nervous all the way to Frankfurt. We bought the tickets in November and we got the last four seats and then the concert was sold out. In November.
Loreena McKennitt means so much to me and my best friend Rebecca.
She discovered her accidentally on youtube when she was searching a song of Clannad (the band where Enya’s sister is in) called “Skellig”. And Loreena sang a song with the same name. Since then she was listening to her all the time.
I only liked rock music like Green Day, Linkin Park, etc. and I never really listened to this kind of music, I never really liked it.
Then when I was at Rebecca’s she was listening to her song “The Highwayman” all the time. At first I was like “What are you even listening to?” but then I realised that I liked it. Since then I was listening to “The Highwayman” all the time and it was the first song of her’s that I heard.
Rebecca, who lives in a tower block, and I always were standing at her living-room window at night, watching the moon rising, thinking of our beloved persons, talking about God and earth and listening to Loreena McKennitt. Those were the times I was really happy and could forget about my cares.
When we sat in our seats at the old opera and the lights went out we started holding hands. We would see Loreena McKennitt. We never really realised we could actually see and listen to her live. When the violinist started playing the first note in the dark audience, with only one headlight spotted on him, we squeezed each other’s hands so hard it hurt.
My heart was beating so fast, I felt it without even checking my pulse.
And when she entered the stage and sang the first note I knew I never wanted to leave my seat. I wanted this concert to last forever, I just wanted to listen to her, watch her laughing, listen to her telling stories.
And then, when she started playing “The Highwayman” on the Piano and the violinist and the cellist joined, Rebecca and I were looking at each other in shock.
We would have never thought she would play that song that day.
The first song I heard.
With tears in my eyes, Rebecca and me lipsynced it while holding hands. It was our song.
When Loreena said “last but not least” I thought “Oh no, no, please don’t ever let it end, I want to sit here forever” and then she played “The Old Ways”. THAT song. My favourite song. The song that touches me the most.
I couldn’t hold my tears. I was crying because the concert was almost over, because the song was perfect and because I was incredibly happy and I knew that has been the best day of my life.
And I shared it with my best friend, whose hand I was holding for two and a half hours.
When we went outside I thought “If I die now, I die being happy.”
