Actual celtic / new age music not sound tracks.

[Janx]

tartanic (instrumental pipes and drums)
midnight sindicate (they actually did some D&D cds)

I 3rd Loreena and Blackmore's Night


Here's some more artists off my MP3 drive:
Cusco
Enya
Gary Stadler
The Shantyman (sea shantys)
Wolgemut (instrumental pipes and drums)
Susan Hickey (more sea shantys)
Iris & Rose (a Tx RenFair act)
The Corsairs
Donal Hinely
Flying Fish Sailors
Minstrels of Mayhem

 

[Klaus]

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The Chieftains, all the way.

 

[Inferno!]

4th for Loreena McKinnett

I'm not quite as fond of her most recent album, but the earlier ones are gold.

 

[Askaval30]

good suggestions all...

I'd add Anuna, The Battlefield Band, Moire Brennan and Kate Rusby

 

[Umbran]

Many fine suggestions above.

I'd like to add Heather Dale.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Many fine suggestions above.

I'd like to add Heather Dale.

I 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Heather Dale (three of my four personalities highly recommend her, the forth just recommends her. ). Album "Call the Names" is all about the SCA. Its got a few good fighting songs and even better returning from a fight songs. 'Pierre and Marianne' and 'King of All Trades' are great songs to overhear in a tavern. Album "Trial of Lanceolot" and May Queen are also excellent songs.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I would put in a recommendation for Altan if you want a more traditional Celtic feel.

Enya's stuff if chosen correctly is new agey medieval.

Not quite Celtic but definitely Medieval are the Chant albums by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos that were big in the 90s.

 

[johnmarron]

I'll add a recommendation for [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Best-Corvus-Corax/dp/B0007ZEOWI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222184219&sr=8-1"]Corvus Corax[/ame]. They are a German band that makes their own medieval instruments and play very lively medieval music.

John

 

[Desdichado]

Hey, Evenglare... is getting to Plantersville for the day doable for you? I'm serious about hanging around the big Renfest there, listening to some live music and picking up the stuff you like. You can't lose.

Plus: hot Texan chicks in chainmail bikinis, turkey legs and mead. They've been bringing people to Texas's Renfest for years, even folks who otherwise don't have much interest in that whole scene.

 

[Umbran]

There's also a tone of actual Medieval music out there, some of which is quite nice, some of which sounds a bit off to a modern ear...