Etymology

Luar is Galician for moonlight; lubre is a magical forest in which the Celtic druids cast their spells.

Biography

During its career, this musical group has spread Galician music and culture. The band became famous worldwide after Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

 took interest in their music. Oldfield fell in love with their song "O son do ar" (The sound of the air; composed by Bieito R. de LNL). Oldfield's cover is on his Voyager album, entitled "Song of the Sun". In 1992 he offered help in their worldwide tour. Their tour together was called Tubular Bells 3. Now it is one of the most famous groups from Galicia. Their first singer Rosa Cedrón is also featured with Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

 in some songs of his live concert at Horseguard's Parade, near St James' Park, London. Rosa Cedrón left the band in 2005 and Sara Vidal became the new singer. In 2010, the group's leader, Bieito Romero, said the group was "fully fit".

The group recorded a version of Gerdundula

Gerdundula

"Gerdundula" is a single by the British Rock band Status Quo from their fourth studio album Dog of Two Head. Like previous single "Mean Girl", It was released by the band's previous label Pye to capitalise on their current success on a new label....

 by Status Quo.

The Spanish heavy metal band Mago de Oz

Mägo de Oz

Mägo de Oz is a Spanish folk/heavy metal band from Begoña, Madrid formed in mid-1988 by drummer Txus di Fellatio. In 1992, the band were finalists in the Villa de Madrid contest. Then, they went onto achieve great success in Spain, and in 1995, were declared Revolution Rock Band...

 made a cover of Luar na Lubre's song "Memoria da Noite."

Their most famous singles are "O son do ar", "Tu gitana" and "Chove en Santiago". Most of their lyrics are in the Galician language

Galician language

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

. Their song "Nau", written by Bieito Romero is about Galicia as a ship with no direction.

The song "Downstream" by Shira Kammen

Shira Kammen

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern...

 on her album "Music of waters" appears to have used its own cover of "O son do ar" in a segment of the song.

Members

• Sara Louraço Vidal - Vocals
• Xulio Valera - Bouzouki
  Bouzouki
  The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
  
  , vocals and percussion
• Bieito Romero - Bagpipes
  Bagpipes
  Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
   and zanfoña
• Eduardo Coma - Fiddle
• Patxi Bermudez - Bodhran
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  , drum and djimbek
• Pedro Valero - Acoustic guitar
• Xavier Ferreiro - Latin percussion
  Latin percussion
  The term Latin percussion refers to any number of a large family of musical percussion instruments used in Latin music, which in turn is a very loosely related group of musical styles, mainly from the Latin American region, and ultimately having roots or influences in African tribal...
  
   and effects
• Xan Cerqueiro - Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  s
• Rosa Cedrón - Vocals (former member)

Discography

• Solsticio (2010)
• Ao vivo (2009)
• Camiños da fin da terra (2007)
• Saudade (2005)
• Hai un paraiso (2004)
• Espiral (2002)
• XV aniversario (2001)
• Cabo do mundo (1999)
• Plenilunio (1997)
• Ara Solis (1993)
• Beira atlántica (1990)
• O son do ar (1988)

External links

• Luar na Lubre's official website