Celtic Songlines: Recent Episodes
David A. Reynolds
Celtic Songlines celebrates the music, stories and traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and other Celtic lands.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
This week on Celtic Songlines we bring a close to a few wonderful years providing Celtic music on the KDRT airwaves. This final program includes several of my favorite artists and tunes including Ashley Davis, the Pied Pipers, Liz Carroll & John Doyle, Al Petteway, Kris Colt, Barley Juice, Niamh Dunne, Danú, Lúnasa and Golden Bough. Slán go fóill (Goodbye, for now). Next week on Feb 20th, please join me as we begin a new musical adventure with the program "High Country Music Radio."
This week on Celtic Songlines are selections from Solas' "Sunny Spells & Scattered Showers.".Also featured is Marla Fibish with Martin Hayes, along with Magpiety, Silly Wizard, The Tannahill Weavers, Drónan, Old Blind Dogs, Shirley Collins, the Prairie Druid - Patty Tutty, and the Battlefield Band.
Featured this week on Celtic Songlines is Solas, a couple of selections from their album Sunny Spells & Scattered Showers. Also featured is more great music from the Celtic catalogue, featuring Marla Fibish, Magpiety, Novemthree, Silly Wizard, The Tannahill Weavers, Barcelona's Drónán, Old Blind Dogs, Shirley Collins, our favorite Prairie Druid Patty Tutty and the Battlefield Band.
This week's Celtic Songlines features several selections from the popular Irish folk music band, Altan, that formed many years ago in County Donegal. Also featured is the Santa Cruz based band, Charmas, Sandy Denny, Sweeney's Men, Rúna, Highland Fling, Alasdair Roberts with Norway's Völvu, Dervish, Nova Scotia's Brad Reid and Lúnasa.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines are Kerfuffle, Louise Mulcahy with a medley of jigs and reels, Drónán, the legendary Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan, harpist/vocalist Mary O'Hara, the band Runa, a raven tune from Cuélebre, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends, the all star band Usher's Island and Arty McGlynn.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at @kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Celtic Tunes and Drones. This week's session of Celtic Songlines at KDRT 95.7FM features Boys of the Lough, Mike McGoldrick with John McCusker & John Doyle, The Shee, Silly Wizard, Kieran Fahy, Myrkur, Eivør, Natalie MacMaster, Danú, selections from Wizard Women of the North and The House Devils.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at @kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week's session of Celtic Songlines features several musicans new to the playlist, including Margaret Davis, Highland Fling, Vince Conaway and Celtic Stone. Also featured are Old Blind Dogs, award wining composer and guitarist William Coulter, Shirley Collins, Rakish, Boston based Laura Federson with Joel Wennerstrom and Owen Marshall, The Pied Pipers, Shelley Phillips with Robin Petrie, the band Dervish
As we endure summer's heat, "Glass of Water" and "Sunny Spells" are titles found on this week's playlist. Arriving soon on the West Coast is the band Téada, they're on the playlist as are the bands Charmas, Clannad, and from the UK we have Salt House and Moore-Moss-Rutter. Also joining the session are Irish vocalist Nuala Kennedy, Ghizela Rowe with a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry, Bob & Carol Pegg, Shide & Acorn, Tommy Maken & Liam Clancy, the band Solas and Vincey Keehan.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week's session brings forth the percussive sounds of Colm Phelan, from Scotland the fiddling band Rant, the band Runa, Maura O'Connell, Sarah McQuaid's St. Buryan sessions, Andrei Krylov with Lana Ross, Donovan, Ashely Davis, Jig Jam, John Doyle, Dougie Maclean, The Baileys and a selection from the Celtic Fiddle Fest, Live in Brittany.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week's session of Celtic Songlines at KDRT 95.7FM features fiddler Liz Carroll with guitarist Jake Charron, Niamh Dunne, from Prince Edward Island the band COSCÁN, a selection from Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones celebrating influential women in Scottish history, Old Blind Dogs, Liam O'Flynn with Mark Knopfler, Silly Wizard, Caitland Matthews & RJ Stewart, Lúnasa, from Barcalona the band Drónán, Sarah McQuaid, Natalie MacMaster and Buddy Macmaster, Mary-Grace Autumn Lee - Hammered Dulcimer.
Featured this week on Celtic Songlines, the band Dervish, Salt House, Kris Colt, legendary piper Willie Clancy, Vincey Keehan, The Elders, The Fire with Stacy Giermann, Culann's Hounds and Magpie Lane.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines we find NorCal's Golden Bough, Alasdair Fraser with Tony McManus and Natalie Haas, Capercaillie, Denmark's Myrkur, Lorkin O'Reilly, Kevin Crawford, from Northern Ireland the band Connla, the extraordinary fingerstyle guitar of Duck Baker, Paddy Tutty, trad band Open the Door for Three, Paddy Reynolds and friends, and Planxty.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Out-of-town so a replay for this week's Celtic Songlines featuring several new releases and old favorites with the band Kalos, Mike Tod, Sweeney's Men, Archie Fisher, Dando Shaft, Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, LANKUM, Danish band Myrkur, Turlough, a bit of Silly Wizard, Danú, Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan and the Whistlebinkies.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at @kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Out-of-town so a replay for this week's Celtic Songlines featuring several new releases and old favorites with the band Kalos, Mike Tod, Sweeney's Men, Archie Fisher, Dando Shaft, Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, LANKUM, Danish band Myrkur, Turlough, a bit of Silly Wizard, Danú, Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan and the Whistlebinkies.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at @kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Several new releases and old favorites are featured on this week's Celtic Songlines with the band Kalos, Mike Tod, Sweeney's Men, Archie Fisher, Dando Shaft, Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, Lankum, Danish band Myrkur, Turlough, a bit of Silly Wizard, Danú, Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan and the Whisltebinkies.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines a jump start with Solás, the boundry pushing Incredible String Band, Natalie Haas & Alasdair Fraser, Altan, beautiful vocals of Niamh Parsons, the Celestial Aeon Project, Andrei Krylov & Anastasia Goose, harmony singing of Anúna with Michael McGlynn, Sarah McQuaid, local favorites Donut Exchange, John Doherty, Enda Seery and Arise & Go.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines, a new project from fiddle player Martin Hayes, one of Irish traditional music's most significant talents. Also featured are Mac Talla Mor, guitarist and songwriter John Doyle with Mike McGoldrick, Dougie Maclean, the wonderful music of Ashley Davis, a George Burns piece recorded by Gordon Kelly, Van Morrison with the Chieftains, violinist Florie Brown, Bulgaria's Eriney, MagPiety and Silly Wizard.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week's session presents selections from the Dublin-based band Lankum and their new album, False Lankum. Also featured are Dervish, Ye Vagabonds, whistle player Mary Bergin, Emily Smith with Hawk & Crow, Altan, Kris Colt, Martin Carthy, Sandy Denny, Spiers & Boden, and DeDannan.
Replay this week with Arise and Go forth! This week's Celtic Songlines KDRT 95.7FM opens with traditional Celtic from the band Arise & Go, a taste of Cape Breton with Stephen MacDonald and Natalie MacMaster, Ohio's The Drowsy Lads, from Rachel Newton Music & Lauren MacColl: "a humanizing tribute to the women who were accused in the Scottish witch trails", the brilliant sounds of Aoife Scott, the band Open The Door For Three, a bit of Marrakesh from Shane Hennessy, Magpie Lane's Speed the Plough and a lively tune from the band Flook!
I'm out of town this week so a replay with The Castlebar Traveller, The Dusty Miller and a Prairie Druid are included in this week's Celtic Songlines KDRT 95.7FM. Tune in to the whistle and pipes of Louise Mulcahy, a bit of water from the well with The Chieftains, The Shee , John Doyle and his Path of Stones, The Furrow Collective, fiddler Aidan Connelly, from the UK we'll hear from Moore-Moss-Rutter, the band Runa, from the Canadian prairie is singer-songwriter Paddy Tutty, Prairie Druid Music and The Tannahill Weavers.
This week's session features Anne Briggs & Bert Jansch, piper Brigid Chaimbeul, Marla Fibish, The Wolfe Tones, Sweeny's Men, Shide & Acorn, guitarist Gwenifer Raymond, Lisa Lynn & Aryeh Frankfurter, Irish polkas with Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll & John Doyle.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week's program features The Whistlebinkies, Liz Carroll & John Doyle, Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl (Heal & Harrow), Open the Door for Three, Celtic folk band Faun, Runa, Fir Arda, Connla, Dougie Maclean with Alan Roberts, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr and Scotland's Old Blind Dogs.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines, The Elders share their cover of the Steve Earle song Galway Girl and later in the program we have Steve's original take on this popular song. For those "weary travelers" we have a tune from John Theodore, Norwegain folk from Myrkur, the band We Banjo Three, Traffic, Celtic pysch-folk from In Gowan Ring, the band Dervish, Celtic spirituality with Caitland Matthew & RJ Stewart, Todd Denman & Dale Russ.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
The Castlebar Traveller, The Dusty Miller and a Prairie Druid are included in this week's Celtic Songlines. Tune in to the whistle and pipes of Louise Mulcahy, a bit of water from the well with the Chieftains, The Shee, John Doyle and his Path of Stones, The Furrow Collective, fiddler Aidan Connelly, from the UK we'll hear from Moore-Ross-Rutter, the band Runa, from the Canadian prairie is singer-songwriter Paddy Tutty and The Tannehill Weavers.
Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Arise and Go forth! This week's Celtic Songlines opens with sweet sounds from the band Arise & Go, a taste of Cape Breton with Stephen MacDonald and Natalie MacMaster, Ohio's The Drowsy Lads, from Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl: "a humanizing tribute to the woman who were accused in the Scottish witch trails", the brilliant sounds of Aoife Scott, the band Open the Door for Three, a bit of Marrakesh from Shane Hennessy, Magpie Lane's Speed the Plough and a liveley tune from the band Flook!
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines we begin with the lovely voice of Niamh Parsons, Italian-Celtic band Alban Faum, Molly's Revenge, a song composed of a Welsh knight and his lover by David Crosby with Graham Nash, Máire Brennan, more beautiful harmomies with Scottish folk trio The McCalmans, Bulgarian-Celtic band Eriney, The Fureys, and a Parting Glass with Kris Colt.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
This week on Celtic Songlines are Kerfuffle, Louise Mulcahy with jigs and reels, Drónán, the legendary Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan, harpist/vocalist Mary O'Hara, the band Runa, a raven tune from Cuélebre, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends, the all star band Usher's Island and Arty McGlynn.
A replay from Dec 6th featuring Irish band Horslips, the choral sounds of Anuna, Flight of the Hawk, Karan Casey with Niall Vallely and Robbie Overson, Altan, Golden Bough, Lin Barnes & Allison Hampton, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter, Loreena McKennitt.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.
Joining us today on our walk into yon winter forest are Kate Rusby, the Yule time band Pagan Nation, The Chieftains, Magpie Lane, Ashley Davis, Liam O'Flynn with Mark Knopfler, Emily Smith, Mediaval Babes, Saffie, and Michael Ó Domhnaill with Keven Burke.
With the seasonal transition underway from autumn to winter, this week's session reflects the change. We'll listen in with the band Danú, Scotland's Dougie Maclean, mandolinist Marla Fibish, the folk arrangments of Salt House, our own local Golden Bough, fiddler Manus Maquire from the Copperplate Sessions, Kris Colt & the Black Rose band, Turlough, Ireland's Shane Hennessy, and Capid Draconis.
This week on Celtic Songlines KDRT 95.7FM we'll revisit the Nov1st session featuring music of Middle Earth and the forest inhabited by the band Lothlórien with a turn into Dark Brittanica with brilliant music from The Willow, Beneath The Oak and A Tiding Of Magpies. Also on the playlist is Florie Brown with Margie Butler and Pablo Carcamo, Lisa Lynn & Aryeh Frankfurter, Patrick Street, The House Devils, novemthree and Derek Fiechter.
On this session of Celtic Songlines I present three selections from Ashley Davis's sparkling new album "Songs of Celtic Winter II." Her songs are inspired by Winter which nicely fits within this week's theme of Nature, Myth, Magic and Music. Also on the program are Damh the Bard, Heather Alexander, ancient music from the band Hexperos, Will Millar, Natalie Padilla with Blaine Chastain & Peter Romero, the pagan folk of PerKelt, piper John Dew and I am of Ireland's W.B Yeats.
This week on Celtic Songlines we visit Middle Earth and the forest inhabited by the band Lothlorien with a turn into Dark Brittanica with brilliant music from The Willow, Beneath the Oak and A Tiding of Magpies. Also on the playlist is Florie Brown with Margie Butler and Pablo Carcamo, Lisa Lynn & Aryeh Frankfurter, Patrick Street, The House Devils, Novemthree and Derek Fiechter.
This week on Celtic Songlines we visit Middle Earth and the forest inhabited by the band Lothlorien with a turn into Dark Brittanica with brilliant music from The Willow, Beneath the Oak and A Tiding of Magpies. Also on the playlist is Florie Brown with Margie Butler and Pablo Carcamo, Lisa Lynn & Aryeh Frankfurter, Patrick Street, The House Devils, Novemthree and Derek Fiechter.
This week's session of Celtic Songlines features Old Blind Dogs, Kris Colt, Archie Fisher, The Black Country Three, Sandy Denny, the band Turlough, Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach, Golden Bough and Boxing Banjo.
This week's playlist for Celtic Songlines KDRT 95.7FM features the band Dervish w/Rhiannon Giddens, from Bulgaria neo-folk band Eriney, Lorkin O'Reillyy, Danu, Jerry Garcia with David Grisman, Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan, JigJam and Paddy Tutty, Prairie Druid Music.
This week on Celtic Songlines two more selections from the soon to be released album of the Chieftains from their historic sessions at The Boarding House with Owsley Stanley: Bears Sonic Journals, The Foxhunt, San Francisco 1975 & 1976. Also this week, the band Drop the Floor, Runa, Tannahill Weavers, Ye Vagabonds, the ethereal music of Micah Blue Smaldone, Banshee in the Kitchen and Tannas.
Thanks to former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally, this week’s playlist on Celtic Songlines will include sharing a pre-release of songs from the Chieftains and their first journey to America. The Owsley Stanley Foundation, in partnership with Claddagh Records and Universal Music Ireland, is pleased to announce the ninth release from Owsley’s storied archive of live concert recordings – Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Fox Hunt — The Chieftains Live in San Francisco, 1973 & 1976. This album set will be released Sept. 2nd. These previously unreleased live concerts showcase the Irish band The Chieftains in 1973 on their first US tour, playing at the Boarding House in San Francisco on October 1 as the opener for Old and In the Way at the invitation of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia.
In addition to two selections from the Chieftain’s Bear Sonic Journals, also featured on this week’s program are Connla, Beólach, Drónán, We Banjo 3, Lunása, The Drowsey Lads, Jig Jam and Tommy Makem with Liam Clancy.
This week on Celtic Songlines the sound of fingerstyle guitar and fiddle-play flow throughout the playlist. Duck Baker begins our guitar play with Davey Graham featured later on with a live session (1967) from Hull University. The playlist includes Cape Breton style fiddler Brad Reid, a bit of Burns with vocalist Janet Russell and Billy Ross. From Ireland The Wilderness Yet, singer/songwriter Emma Langford, the band Dervish and fiddler Sam Sweeney.
Featured this week on Celtic Songlines is Prarie Druid Paddy Tutty, jigs and reels with the band Fiddle Case, Quentin Cooper and Mary Casty, Emily Smith & Jamie McClennon, Ashley Davis. Ashly was nominated and selected as a voting member of the Recording Academy. Congratulations and respect, Ashley! Also on the program the band Tannas, fiddler Liz Carroll with guitarist and vocalist John Doyle and, finally, the Young Dubliners.
This week on Celtic Songlines San Francisco's Culann's Hounds, the Battlefield Band with Alison Kinnaird, Isobel Anderson & Ruby Colley, Socks in the Frying Pan, Chulrua, Maddy Prior, Capercaillie and Natalie MacMaster.
This week Celtic Songlines will be a bit of this and that with Planxty, a hammer dulcimer or two with tunes and songs from Mary-Grace Autumn Lee and English ballads with the Albion Country Band, The Battlefield Band, accordianist Johnny Connolly, striking interpretation of trad forms from Open the Door for Three, Boys of the Lough, fiddler Bruce MacGregor and Natalia Padilla with Blayne Chastain and Peter Romero.
For this week's session the band Patrick Street, Planxty, Kevin Burke, Rachael McShane & the Cartographers, Noel McLoughlin, the band Tara, Julie Murphy with Jo Anne Acty and Lynne Denmans, the band JigJam and from the SF Bay area, Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie.
This week we visit the land of the Scots and their music, traditional and contemporary, with The Whistlebinkies, Dougie MacLean, Papa Shandy, Tannas, a new generation of pipers with Piper.Alley and the Phantom Piper, aka, Jane Eisper, a bit of Burns set to music by Billy Ross and Janet Russell and Edinburgh's Old Blind Dogs.
Appearing this week on Celtic Songlines are vocalist Ashley Davis backed by the late/great Paddy Moloney and, later, Cormac DeBarca, Scotland's Old Blind Dogs, from their album "In Play" fiddler Liz Carroll and guitarist/vocalist John Doyle, Clannad, Bay Area fiddler Brittany Haas, cellist Natalie Haas with Alasdair Fraser, guitarist Al Petteway, SoCal's Banshee in the Kitchen, local favorite the Donut Exchange and classic trad from the Bothy Band.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream @kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
On this week's Celtic Songlines Steeleye Span alumnus Maddy Prior, the band Bellowhead, the all fiddle band - Rant, Lauren MacColl and Rachel Newton as "Heal and Harrow", the sublime vocals of Aoife Scott, Open the Door for Three, Danú, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, The Chieftains, Pádraig Rynne with Arty McGlynn and John McSherry, Kasír, The Young Dubliners and Fir Aida.
This week on Celtic Songlines we feature several tunes from "As the Day Brightens" a new release from the band Téada. We lean traditional this week with selections from Cherish the Ladies, Florie Brown & Margie Butler, The Johnston's, the band Oige, Martin Hayes, Billy Mccomiskey, Michaél Ó Heidin, Natalie MacMaster, Natalie Padilla with Blayne Chastain and Peter Romero, and Solas.
Pipes and Pipers mixed with other fine Celtic Music
This is a week for the pipers, of all types (of pipes). Wicked Tinkers, John Doyle, Cillian Vallely, Kenneth and Angus MacKenzie, Lúnasa, Maira Campbel and Martyn Bennett, Téada, An Dochas, Celia Ramsay, Piper Alley and some fine vocals from Niamh Parsons.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
Featured this week on Celtic Songlines are brothers Diarmuid & Brían MacGloinn, aka, Ye Vagabonds, Open the Door for Three, choral arrangements with Anúna & Michael McGlynn, vocalist Emily Smith, Lankum, Lisa O'Neill, Julie Fowlis with Source to Sea in support of climate change activism, Scottish piper Brìghde Chaimbeul and The Wilderness Yet.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
We seem smack in the middle of a return to winter, let's warm-up with sounds of the all-star band Planxty along with the bluegrass influenced music of We Banjo 3 and Jig Jam, guitarist Shaun Hennessy, a bit of the Plum Tree and the Rose with Sarah McQuaid, the band Runa, some mid-century Irish with Paddy Reynolds, Charlie Mulvihill & James Keane, music of The Shee, Natalie and Buddy MacMaster and Tommy Maken with Liam Clancy.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
Each week Celtic Songlines celebrates the music, stories and traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and other Celtic lands. No green beer on this week's program but you could find a few shamrocks from the band Altan, the trio of Natalie Padilla, Blayne Chastain and Peter Romero, the band Turlough, SoCal's Banshee in the Kitchen, Buddy MacMaster and Natalie, The Clancy Brothers, fiddler Ardan Connelly, Cherish the Ladies, John Doyle and Karan Casey, percussionist Colm Phelan with Sarah Jean Murphy and, finally, a vocal treasure from Judy Garland.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
Thank you to a listener, a native Newfoundlander now in CA, for sharing links to musicians from her native land. The songlinst on this week's Celtic Songlines include artists from this eastern Canadian province along with other tunes and songs from the Celtic world. This week on Celtic Songlines: Kelly Russell with Jim Payne, Gordon Quinton, the band Flook, Rufus Guinchard, Old Blind Dogs, Dave Swarbrick with Simone Nicol, Figgy Duff, Laura Fedderson with Joel Wennerstrom and Owen Marshall, a poem from Newfoundland's R.A. Parsons, Emile Benoit, The Furrow Collective, Kevin Burke, David Brewer and Piper.Alley.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
On this week's Celtic Songlines the playlist sings! A program for the vocalists, featuring Old Blind Dogs, Scotland's Emily Smith, Van Morrison with the Chieftains, the Pan-American band Iona, an Irish ballad from Rhiannon Giddens, Tommy Maken & Liam Clancy, Sinead Ó Connor, Tia Blake, the timeless Christy Moore, Dougie MacLean and Malinky.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.
This week's Celtic Songlines features songs and tunes from Lucy Ward, The Chieftains, Piper.Alley, Oxford Lane, Ewan McColl, fiddler Ciarán Tourish, Chulrua, the trio of Laura Fedderson, Joel Wennerstrom and Owen Marshall, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr, Katie Kirk & Rick Williams, the late great fiddler John Doherty.
Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. The program replays on KDRT each Wednesday 1-2 p.m., Thursday 6-7 p.m., Sunday 4-5 p.m.