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The Celtic Tenors, like so many acts, have had their lovely ups and rotten downs, said Matthew Gilsenan on the telephone from a canyon in The Tenors Sunday United Tickets: PREVIEW Celtic perform at Knox Church. $30 at Ticketmaster CanWest News Service Archive left, James Nelson and Matthew Gilsenan play Knox United Church on Sunday. WYATT ARTIST IN RESIDENCE CONCERT SERIES VIOLINIST 7:30 P.M. LEACOCK THEATRE MOUNT ROYAL COLLEGE APRIL 19 (403) 440-7770 www.mtroyal.cawyatt jamrnes 250 to 400 people, they are now singing to nouses of 2,000. The tenors have done a mini-tour in Eastern Canada, and have appeared in B.C.

There's a really different sort of vibe in Canada. I think people are much less impressed by what's on TV, or that sort of thing," said Gilsenan. "Our experiences in Canada have been lovely, so far. I can't tell you how much we're looking forward to all of this again." Gilsenan joms James Nelson, who discovered him, and Daryl Simpson in the group. Gilsenan has been singing since childhood, but he's also an engineer.

"I suppose I'll always be an engineer. I'm kind of an engi neer at heart. My dad's an engineer and I grew up on a farm a typical Irish farm where every day something else is broken. Growing up with that gave me a great love for creating things." Once at university, he studied music as well as engineering. He started singing publicly and winning competitions, but ended up working with a food machinery company.

Then he got sidelined into designing high-powered microwaves. A friend of his from Algeria intervened, telling him he should take a chance and try to sing professionally. "He said, My friend, it is a much greater risk not to take this risk. Just take six months, see if it Gilsenan took the risk, but was just about ready to return to an engineering job when Nelson spotted him. Gilsenan joined Nelson's group of tenors for a successful run in Ireland; and they suddenly found themselves at eight o'clock one morning, singing in the boardroom at EMI in Londoa They landed a three-album deal on the spot.

Now they're touring quite relentlessly, with a combination of Irish songs and pop tunes (such as Air Supply's All Out of Love). The hardest part for Gilsenan is missing his wife, four-year-old son and six-month-old daughter. Then there are the crowds, which always demand Danny Boy. "They're screaming Danny Boy at the end. We have a version of Danny Boy we stripped away the sentimental-izatioa A three-part harmony version.

We love singing it; when you find something you really love singing, it gets the response that you wish for." 1 MASTERS A. CP Utah. "We've had really bad experiences with agencies in the U.S. and Canada," he says, without providing details. "Most bands would have stopped.

We had one thing going for us; we really love what we do." The Celtic Tenors were hanging in there, when 2years ago, their fortunes changed. "We got a superb agent, SI Feld-man from Canada. They opened up the whole North America for us; that success bred success in other parts of the world. Canada has a real resonance for us." While they are "kind of biggish in Ireland," it took some time and a heart-wanning coincidence to get things going in North America. A Canadian, Alice Miller, was passing through Dublin on her way home, where she picked up a Celtic Tenors CD.

Unfortunately, she learned soon after she was dying of cancer. "It was her dying wish that we might come and sing for (her) family. She wanted to introduce us to Canada. We came and did a show in a town on the outskirts of Toronto," says Gilsenan, wracking his brains for the name of the town, but not coming up with it "Then we did it the next year. And we met the family, and they were all so lovely.

It so happened that Richard Mills lived in that town. He just came to the show, and our lives changed." Mills is the Feldman agent for The Celtic Tenors. They have been touring the U.S. since the beginning of March. "It's been great We've been having great houses, we've been in nice venues.

We're kind of growing gradually in the United States." Indeed, where they used to attract alberta theatre projects www.ATPIive.com 294-7402 299 Performances in the Martha Cohen Theatre1 in the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts. Calgary Herald Smhx) Sponsor.