Clio Awards Clio Awards The Clio Awards is an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design and communication, as judged by an international panel of advertising professionals. "Time" magazine described the event (in 1991) as the world's most recognizable international advertising awards. The awards, founded by Wallace A. Ross in 1959, are named for the Greek goddess Clio, the mythological Muse known as "the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments". The Clios were first given in 1959, for excellence in television advertising, by the "American TV and Radio Commercials Festival". Each winner received
An Ancient Muse and the Far East. Most of the tracks, with the exception of three revealed at the mid-September concerts in the Alhambra of Granada in Spain, were completely unknown until the release. "An Ancient Muse" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 at number 83, with about 19,000 copies sold in its first week. This was also its peak position on the chart. All music and lyrics written by Loreena McKennitt except as noted. An Ancient Muse An Ancient Muse is the seventh full-length studio album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was released on November