Lakefield

1	Mission 4:45
2	Seamus (Eamon Coyne's/Langford Collector) 4:20
3	Down That Road 4:10
4	Da (Stoney Lake and Juniper Island) 3:16
5	Moment 4:10
6	Leviathan (Rapids/Leviathan) 5:20
7	Don't Let Me Down 4:40
8	A Love Never Known 4:13
9	G Minor Medley 3:58
10	Borrowed Time 6:24
11	Stand Up 4:29
12	The Skater 3:59

Barnes & Noble

If music be the food of love, Leahy are one big well-fed family. Nine Irish-Canadian brothers and sisters from the farm country of Ontario, they got to know the States as the opening act for country star Shania Twain and they repeatedly blew the audience away with their mix of tight traditional Celtic ceilidh, homespun Riverdance-style stepdancing and a totally 21st-century fusion of their own devising. Hard-driving insistent emotions fuel fiddle-based tunes like "Seamus" or "Leviathan." While lead-singer sister Denise Leahy adds a heart-simple melancholy to songs like "Don't Let Me Down" and "A Love Never Known," backed up by her sisters' sweet harmonies. A true collective, the Leahys developed the tunes on Lakefield -- named after their farm country home -- as if they were very much at home, each talented sibling adding his or her part to create this seamless, swinging whole. Emily King

All Music Guide

This is divided between instrumentals emphasizing the Celtic component of this Celtic-pop-rock group, and vocal numbers with more of an adult contemporary rock feel. It's an approach with much more crossover potential than most Celtic music, as evidenced by their success touring with Shania Twain. That doesn't mean this is better than other Celtic or Celtic-derived music, and in fact, in this case it means it's worse. Certainly their skills on fiddle (and no less than seven of the nine members play the instrument) are undoubted. But the drums have a dishearteningly slick mainstream pop thud, and the vocal material is really dull middle-of-the-road pop given Celtic trimmings. Yes, efforts to merge Celtic music with other forms to create something different and more flexible can be a good idea, but this definitely is not the best of both worlds. Richie Unterberger