The Fables was the brainchild of Glenn Simmons and fiddler D'Arcy Broderick, who wanted to form a Celtic rock group together.
The band performed at the re-enactment in 2000 of the Viking landing a millennium earlier in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, for a televised audience reported to have been 300 million viewers.
At the 2002 New Years Eve celebrations at Niagara Falls, the band performed for a crowd of 30,000 people, with a broadcast audience of eight million throughout Canada and in the eastern United States.
The music was significantly different from what the band had previously released, deliberately encouraging creativity by featuring more original and fewer Celtic pieces.
[2] In 2015, the original lineup of the band reformed and played a number of summer tour dates,[1] including the Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival.