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Biography
refimproveBLP|date=June 2009Emma Christian is a prominent artist in the recent revival of traditional Music of the Isle of Man|Manx folk music .
Emma was born on the Isle of Man in 1972 and was brought up there on a farm. In 1990, she went to Cambridge University in England to study Celt ic history.
Her musical career was launched in 1994 at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland . Emma sings in both Manx language|Manx and English language|English and accompanies herself on the harp , but also plays the recorder .
She has made several acclaimed performances at the annual Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany and other Celtic festivals throughout the world
Emma's first album was Beneath the Twilightcite book|last=Vallely|first=Fintan|title=The Companion to Irish Traditional Music|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=_xN1VS6sWsEC& pg=PA228|accessdate=13 February 2011|year=1999|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814788028|page=228 or ''Ta'n Dooid Cheet in Manx (Manx Celtic Productions, 1994) and has also appeared on compilation albums such as Celtic Voices (Narada, 1995), Celtic Airs & Ballads (Beautiful Jo, 1996), Celtic Songs of Love (Beautiful Jo, 1997), Festival Interceltique de Lorient: Volume 2 (Eromi 1997) and Celtic Dreams (Ellipsis Arts 2003)
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