YMMV / Loreena McKennitt

• Awesome Music: "The Mummers Dance," both it's original version and the DNA remix which became a hit single. Later live performances often combine the two into an equally catchy up-tempo rock tune.
• Fandom Rivalry: A mostly civil one with Enya. While neither camp is exactly at one another's throats on the matter, there are some debates among fans over which one of them does Celtic-style New Age music better.
• Genius Bonus: "Night Ride Across The Caucasus" makes a lot more sense if you're familiar with Yogic theory and beliefs. For more specifics: thundering hooves and beating wings are the sensations they are said to feel in the spine and the roots of the ancient tree are the spine where the divine power of Kundalini is located.
• Heartwarming Moments: Many of her songs which are not tragic ballads (and even some that are) act as this due to their being expressions of love and devotion, but particularly notable are "Penelope's Song" and "Never Ending Road."
  The road now leads onward
  I know not where
  I feel in my heart that you will be there
  Whenever a storm comes
  Whatever our fears
  The journey goes on
  As your love ever nears
  Here is my heart, I give it to you
  Take me with you across this land
  These are my dreams, so simple and few
  Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands.
• Moment of Awesome: In every live version she's done of "The Bonny Swans" since The Mask and the Mirror came out, but especially the one from her Live in Paris and Toronto concert, the moment when the harp reveals to the entire court what her "false sister Anne" did to her is punctuated by an absolutely badass electric guitar riff which underscores just how screwed her sister is by the reveal.
• Nightmare Fuel: Enough to merit its own page.
• Signature Song: Probably "The Mystic's Dream". Or "The Mummers' Dance".

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