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Hello Young Lovers!Welcome to a special Saint Valentine's Day TWOFER from The Splendid Bohemians:Today we're featuring two enchanting, encyclopedic British song stylists: Anne Briggs and Elvis Costello. First up: the majestic Ms. Briggs.SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR by Anne Briggs (Topic, 1963)Barefoot and bedraggled, Anne Briggs became the muse of the British Traditional Folk Boom in the early nineteen sixties. Her short performance career of mystical magic was retired at age 27, leaving behind a limited, but monumental discography. I first heard She Moved Through the Fair on Irish Heartbeat, made by Van Morrison and the Chieftains, and it's ethereal message left me paralyzed with romantic longing. But, that was just the prelude to my discovery of the plangent tones from this Goddess of acapella Celtic song. OPPORTUNITY by Elvis Costello and the Attractions (Columbia, 1980)This cut from my favorite Elvis Costello album, GET HAPPY!!! Is R&B funky with a Stax inspired beat and tasty organ punctuations by Steve Nieve. The music is absolutely giddy, and although the acrid lyrics - (so typical of the former Declan Patrick MacManus during this early period) - may be pessimistic and sneering, the overall effect is energizing. In fact, the recurring refrain: “this is your big opportunity….”, with the caveat: “don't turn around” indicates the intense, forward-looking dedication with which this artistic social climber fueled his rocket-like ascent to the firmament of the musical masters. Although Elvis succeeded handily, his early anti-authoritarian stance reminds me of so many other also-rans that, in preparation for their inevitable fall to irrelevance and obscurity, padded the ground below with a protective “fuck you” attitude. But, you knew all along that underneath the bravado that they really craved the gatekeepers recognition. The jaunty music belies the message of the sour lyrics, implying an alternate, more inspiring interpretation: Be alert! Recognize your opportunities and grab them while you can.

Te gast aan tafel: Lucie Horsch! Ze is al jaren een vermaarde blokfluitist, maar duikt ook steeds vaker op als pianist en zangeres. En toch is ze pas 23. Aan Joris en Guido vertelt ze over musici die haar inspireren, van de mezzosopraan Lorraine Hunt tot de kora-speler Ballaké Sissoko. Ze gooit een steen in de vijver van diversiteit en inclusie. Strenge subsidie-eisen aan kunstenaars? Laat ze lekker vrij, vindt lucide Lucie. Als de overheid het muziekonderwijs serieus neemt, volgt de kansengelijkheid vanzelf. Zelf speelt ze trouwens zo divers als maar kan. Luister maar naar dat swingende stukje Charlie Parker, of die oermelancholieke traditional. Speellijst: * Zequinha de Abreu, Tico tico, arr. Charlie Parker, Lucie Horsch (blokfluit), Fuse * Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet, Pedro Memelsdorff (blokfluit), Andreas Staier (klavecimbel) * Georg Friedrich Händel, ‘New Scenes of Joy', uit: Theodora, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzosopraan), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment o.l.v. Harry Bickett * Ludwig van Beethoven, Pianosonate nr. 31 (Op. 110), deel III (Adagio ma non troppo), Aleksej Ljoebimov * traditional: She Moved Through the Fair, Lucie Horsch (blokfluit) * Sinanon saran (Chant de griot), Kassé Mady Diabaté (zang), Ballaké Sissoko (kora), La Capella Reial de Catalunya o.l.v. Jordi Savall

Keep moving through the fair and through life with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #592. Plus, learn five things you can do in County Mayo, Ireland next time you go. Black Market Haggis, The Bookends, Stratford Symphony Orchestra, Ballinloch, Mary Beth Carty, Fire In The Glen, Logical Fleadh, The Out of Kilters, Crow's Nest, Clay Babies, Na Rósaí, Scythian, Reilly, Ryan MacNeil, Bill Grogan's Goat, Jen Midkiff   VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2023 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2023 episode.  Vote Now! Two weeks after the episode is launched, I compile your votes to update a playlist on Spotify and YouTube. These are the results of your voting. You can help these artists out by following the playlists and adding tracks you love to your playlists. Follow us on Facebook to find out who is added each week. 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Looking across the sea, we look to Ireland to learn about the folk song She Moved Through the Fayre follow up with a ghost tale set in a windswept coastal fortress 

S6 2022 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar Tunes: From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair, At My Wake, 1791: From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass: John Watlen: The Milliner's House in the Pantomime “The Fairy's Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil From Barry Shears: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster, I Can't Get a Grant Rant, John G. Dally, Mrs. Evelyn Shears, Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Put Me in the Big Chest), The Ale is Dear, From Jeremy's Memory: Piper's Warning to His Master Oliver and Company: Oscar's Ghost From Campbell (Albyn's Anthology): Young Benjie Peter Bellamy: Mountain Streams Where the Moorecocks Crow Thanks James for your songs and Tunes. For the Bagpipe Swag deal: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjRnekIscuq/ “For October, only, I've set up a special-run printing of our, "Memento Mori - Meanwhile Make Music," design. Halloween-orange on soft, comfy black t-shirts and big, fancy 15oz mugs. What's more: I've cut the price to where some of these orders are actually going to COST me a few pennies: $15/shirt and $11/mug! We're literally giving these things away! October, 2022, only: Shirt -- https://www.bagpipeswag.com/product-page/october-2022-special-memento-mori-meanwhile-make-music Mug -- https://www.bagpipeswag.com/product-page/october-2022-special-memento-mori-meanwhile-make-music-1 What's more: anyone who buys a shirt and/or mug and posts a photo with it, (just remember to tag @bagpipe.swag ) will be entered into a drawing for a $45 BagpipeSwag.com gift card on November 1st!” Tunes: From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair, James said of this track: “She Moved Through the Fair” played on Walsh polypenco 4-drone Scottish small pipes tied into a quiet piper bag, D-chanter, synthetic reeds, with singing. First known instance of transcription: “Irish Country Songs,” 1909, Padraic Colum. Alternative titles include, “Our Wedding Day”. I've heard versions of the lyrics that end, “happier,” with her not being dead and them getting married. I skipped a verse or two to make this recording shortER than it could be, though it's still pretty long. This is the first song I learned to sing with pipes, by listening to Judy Barker's Chanters Weave album a lot, and following the arrangement in Timothy Cummings' “How Can I Keep From Singing,” collection, though I've done it so many times that at this point I think this is at least kinda-unique. I do like messing with the lyrics to get as much alliteration as possible…. But a tune as old and as popular as this one has sooooo many renditions floating around, it's hard to imagine that there's a lot I could do with it at this point that would be truly, “original”. From James: Death and the Sinner James said of this track: played on Booth Blackwood Drones, Bordeaux Redwood reeds, tied into a gangway hide bag, with Warnock chanter that's been altered to allow for, “extra notes”. In this case, the extra notes are a G#, high-B, and high-C# Alternative titles include, “Cold in my Coffin,” and, “The Night of my Wake” - all really awesome titles, though, “Death and the Sinner,” is my personal favorite. I first heard it on Uilleann pipes here, and immediately fell in love with the melody. I was really excited to find that it worked on this altered chanter. One version of the lyrics goes like this: The night of my wake there will be pipes and tobacco, With snuff on a plate on a table for fashion's sake; Mold candles in rows like torches watching me, And I cold in my coffin by the dawn of day. +X+X+X+X+X+ From Watlin's Celebrated Circus Tunes 1791: The Milliner's House in the Pantomime “The Fairy's Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass: By John Watlen: https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n100/mode/1up?view=theater From Legacy By Barry Shears 2022: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster By Barry Shears 2022: I Can't Get a Grant Rant 2022: John G.Dally & Mrs. Evelyn Shears You can and Should Pick up Barry's Book Here: https://capebretonpiper.com/ +++X+X+X+X+++ A Piper's Warning to his Master You can see several settings for this tune in this excellent PDF: https://www.pipesdrums.com/wp-content/docengines/A51191C54453471192974BB509421138.pdf Here is a link to the Documentary Brian May first shared last year when I included this on the Bonus Episode: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81u9f2 You can find many different youtube videos about the affair of questionable and varying quality. +++X+++X+++X+++X+++X+++X+++ Oscar's Ghost 1806: Oscar's Ghost from Caledonian Musical Repository: a choice selection of esteemed Scottish songs, adapted for the voice, violin, and German flute. Published by Oliver and Company https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87663987 +X+X+X+X+X+X+ Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Put Me in the Big Chest), The Ale is Dear From Barry Shears. Put Me in the Big Chest is from Play it like I Sing It Vol. 2 Ale is Dear if from Legacy You can and Should Pick up Barry's Book Here: https://capebretonpiper.com/ +X+X+X+X+X+X+X+X+ Young Benjie 1816: Young Benjie, A Border Ballad From Albyn's Anthology by Alexander Campbell https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t5s77tq6m&view=1up&seq=47&q1=a%20border%20melody +X+X+X+X+ Mountain Streams Where the Moorecocks Crow For some good information check out this site: https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html Or here: https://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/2124 +X+X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! 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Traffic person Gráinne Brookfield sang She Moved Through the Fair. Yes, have a listen!  It's great.

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A selection of songs and tunes from Season 1, to take you through to the New Year.1. The Airy Bachelor, collected by Herbert Hughes (Episode 5)2. Rondo Minuet in Gm, Purcell (Episode 3)3. John Barleycorn, traditional, sung by Lynne Morley (Episode 2)4. En amours n'a si non bien, anonymous (Episode 3)5. Nine Herbs Charm, written and performed by Henry Parker (Episode 7)6. Death and the Lady (Instrumental), traditional, performed by Chris Nelson (Episode 6)7. She Moved Through the Fair, traditional (Episode 5)8. Old Pendle, Milton and Allen Lambert (words) and Ted Edwards (tune), performed by Peter Madeley (Episode 4)9. Green Lady, performed by Columbines (Bonus track)10. Eleanor Plunkett, Turlough O'Carolan (Episode 5)Songs performed by Jenny Shaw unless otherwise noted.A big thank you to those who have listened to the podcast in our first few months, it means more than you will ever know. More episodes coming in the New Year!

Is She Moved Through the Fair really a folk song, or is it an early 20th Century parlour song?  The answer to this question takes us deep into Irish social and cultural history and we meet some colourful characters along the way. But our journey's end is a cottage fireside where, in the space of just a few minutes, a woman and two men unwittingly sparked a musical phenomenon.MusicIn addition to She Moved Through the Fair, this episode includes the following music:The opening music is Eleanor Plunkett by Turlough O'CarolanThe music accompanying Padraic Colum's words is The Frost is All Over, a tune from DonegalThe piano version of She Moved Through the Fair is Herbert Hughes's arrangement, published in his book Irish Country Songs vol 1 in 1909. It is followed by an excerpt from La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin by Claude Debussy. Like many parlour pianos, mine is greatly in need of tuning.The harp tune behind the words of Herbert Hughes is The Airy Bachelor, a tune he also collected in Kilmacrenan, Donegal on the same trip on which he and Colum first heard She Moved Through the Fair.There's a verse of “The Grey Cock” played on piano.The reading of “My Own Rod's The Sorest” or “Out of the Window” uses the verses reconstructed by Hugh Shields (see below). The tune played is the one originally collected by Herbert Hughes (see below)The final version of She Moved Through the Fair is the version my Mum taught me, apart from the final verse - I've never heard her sing the final verse.All music performed by Jenny Shaw.AcknowledgementsAs always I'd like to express my thanks to the team at Stones Barn, Cumbria and the Barnstoners community, who are always supportive and encouraging, and to Steven, Cai and Eleanor Shaw who remain supportive despite having to listen to my nonstop singing and whistling.ReferencesThe song was first published by Herbert Hughes in The Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society in 1905.A free PDF version of Herbert Hughes' Irish Country SongsA copy of Wild Earth by Padraic Colum There's an interesting article on Irish sean-nos singing here She Moved Through the Fair in Fresno State's Ballad IndexMainly Norfolk's article about She Moved Through the Fair.Article about Colum in the Irish TimesLots of versions of the song; sheet music and videoAn article about Margaret Barry from The Guardian:Pickering, M. (1990). Review of The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour, by D. Scott. Popular Music, 9(3), 381–384. http://www.jstor.org/stable/853333 Shields, H. (1975). The Proper Words: A Discussion on Folk Song and Literary Poetry. Irish University Review, 5(2), 274–291. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25477077 

Episode one hundred and thirty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel, and the many records they made, together and apart, before their success. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Blues Run the Game" by Jackson C. Frank. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata I talk about a tour of Lancashire towns, but some of the towns I mention were in Cheshire at the time, and some are in Greater Manchester or Merseyside now. They're all very close together though. I say Mose Rager was Black. I was misremembering, confusing Mose Rager, a white player in the Muhlenberg style, with Arnold Schultz, a Black player who invented it. I got this right in the episode on "Bye Bye Love". Also, I couldn't track down a copy of the Paul Kane single version of “He Was My Brother” in decent quality, so I used the version on The Paul Simon Songbook instead, as they're basically identical performances. Resources As usual, I've created a Mixcloud playlist of the music excerpted here. This compilation collects all Simon and Garfunkel's studio albums, with bonus tracks, plus a DVD of their reunion concert. There are many collections of the pre-S&G recordings by the two, as these are now largely in the public domain. This one contains a good selection. I've referred to several books for this episode: Simon and Garfunkel: Together Alone by Spencer Leigh is a breezy, well-researched, biography of the duo. Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn is the closest thing there is to an authorised biography of Simon. And What is it All But Luminous? is Art Garfunkel's memoir. It's not particularly detailed, being more a collection of thoughts and poetry than a structured narrative, but gives a good idea of Garfunkel's attitude to people and events in his life. Roots, Radicals, and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg has some great information on the British folk scene of the fifties and sixties. And Singing From the Floor is an oral history of British folk clubs, including a chapter on Dylan's 1962 visit to London. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today, we're going to take a look at a hit record that almost never happened -- a record by a duo who had already split up, twice, by the time it became a hit, and who didn't know it was going to come out. We're going to look at how a duo who started off as an Everly Brothers knockoff, before becoming unsuccessful Greenwich Village folkies, were turned into one of the biggest acts of the sixties by their producer. We're going to look at Simon and Garfunkel, and at "The Sound of Silence": [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence"] The story of Simon and Garfunkel starts with two children in a school play.  Neither Paul Simon or Art Garfunkel had many friends when they met in a school performance of Alice in Wonderland, where Simon was playing the White Rabbit and Garfunkel the Cheshire Cat. Simon was well-enough liked, by all accounts, but he'd been put on an accelerated programme for gifted students which meant he was progressing through school faster than his peers. He had a small social group, mostly based around playing baseball, but wasn't one of the popular kids. Art Garfunkel, another gifted student, had no friends at all until he got to know Simon, who he described later as his "one and only friend" in this time period. One passage in Garfunkel's autobiography seems to me to sum up everything about Garfunkel's personality as a child -- and indeed a large part of his personality as it comes across in interviews to this day. He talks about the pleasure he got from listening to the chart rundown on the radio -- "It was the numbers that got me. I kept meticulous lists—when a new singer like Tony Bennett came onto the charts with “Rags to Riches,” I watched the record jump from, say, #23 to #14 in a week. The mathematics of the jumps went to my sense of fun." Garfunkel is, to this day, a meticulous person -- on his website he has a list of every book he's read since June 1968, which is currently up to one thousand three hundred and ten books, and he has always had a habit of starting elaborate projects and ticking off every aspect of them as he goes. Both Simon and Garfunkel were outsiders at this point, other than their interests in sport, but Garfunkel was by far the more introverted of the two, and as a result he seems to have needed their friendship more than Simon did. But the two boys developed an intense, close, friendship, initially based around their shared sense of humour. Both of them were avid readers of Mad magazine, which had just started publishing when the two of them had met up, and both could make each other laugh easily. But they soon developed a new interest, when Martin Block on the middle-of-the-road radio show Make Believe Ballroom announced that he was going to play the worst record he'd ever heard. That record was "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Paul Simon later said that that record was the first thing he'd ever heard on that programme that he liked, and soon he and Garfunkel had become regular listeners to Alan Freed's show on WINS, loving the new rock and roll music they were discovering. Art had already been singing in public from an early age -- his first public performance had been singing Nat "King" Cole's hit "Too Young" in a school talent contest when he was nine -- but the two started singing together. The first performance by Simon and Garfunkel was at a high school dance and, depending on which source you read, was a performance either of "Sh'Boom" or of Big Joe Turner's "Flip, Flop, and Fly": [Excerpt: Big Joe Turner, "Flip, Flop, and Fly"] The duo also wrote at least one song together as early as 1955 -- or at least Garfunkel says they wrote it together. Paul Simon describes it as one he wrote. They tried to get a record deal with the song, but it was never recorded at the time -- but Simon has later performed it: [Excerpt: Paul Simon, "The Girl For Me"] Even at this point, though, while Art Garfunkel was putting all his emotional energy into the partnership with Simon, Simon was interested in performing with other people. Al Kooper was another friend of Simon's at the time, and apparently Simon and Kooper would also perform together. Once Elvis came on to Paul's radar, he also bought a guitar, but it was when the two of them first heard the Everly Brothers that they realised what it was that they could do together. Simon fell in love with the Everly Brothers as soon as he heard "Bye Bye Love": [Excerpt: The Everly Brothers, "Bye Bye Love"] Up to this point, Paul hadn't bought many records -- he spent his money on baseball cards and comic books, and records just weren't good value. A pack of baseball cards was five cents, a comic book was ten cents, but a record was a dollar. Why buy records when you could hear music on the radio for free? But he needed that record, he couldn't just wait around to hear it on the radio. He made an hour-long two-bus journey to a record shop in Queens, bought the record, took it home, played it... and almost immediately scratched it. So he got back on the bus, travelled for another hour, bought another copy, took it home, and made sure he didn't scratch that one. Simon and Garfunkel started copying the Everlys' harmonies, and would spend hours together, singing close together watching each other's mouths and copying the way they formed words, eventually managing to achieve a vocal blend through sheer effort which would normally only come from familial closeness. Paul became so obsessed with music that he sold his baseball card collection and bought a tape recorder for two hundred dollars. They would record themselves singing, and then sing back along with it, multitracking themselves, but also critiquing the tape, refining their performances. Paul's father was a bass player -- "the family bassman", as he would later sing -- and encouraged his son in his music, even as he couldn't see the appeal in this new rock and roll music. He would critique Paul's songs, saying things like "you went from four-four to a bar of nine-eight, you can't do that" -- to which his son would say "I just did" -- but this wasn't hostile criticism, rather it was giving his son a basic grounding in song construction which would prove invaluable. But the duo's first notable original song -- and first hit -- came about more or less by accident. In early 1956, the doo-wop group the Clovers had released the hit single "Devil or Angel". Its B-side had a version of "Hey Doll Baby", a song written by the blues singer Titus Turner, and which sounds to me very inspired by Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'": [Excerpt: The Clovers, "Hey, Doll Baby"] That song was picked up by the Everly Brothers, who recorded it for their first album: [Excerpt: The Everly Brothers, "Hey Doll Baby"] Here is where the timeline gets a little confused for me, because that album wasn't released until early 1958, although the recording session for that track was in August 1957. Yet that track definitely influenced Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel to record a song that they released in November 1957. All I can imagine is that they heard the brothers perform it live, or maybe a radio station had an acetate copy. Because the way everyone has consistently told the story is that at the end of summer 1957, Simon and Garfunkel had both heard the Everly Brothers perform "Hey Doll Baby", but couldn't remember how it went. The two of them tried to remember it, and to work a version of it out together, and their hazy memories combined to reconstruct something that was completely different, and which owed at least as much to "Wake Up Little Suzie" as to "Hey Doll Baby". Their new song, "Hey Schoolgirl", was catchy enough that they thought if they recorded a demo of it, maybe the Everly Brothers themselves would record the song. At the demo studio they happened to encounter Sid Prosen, who owned a small record label named Big Records. He heard the duo perform and realised he might have his own Everly Brothers here. He signed the duo to a contract, and they went into a professional studio to rerecord "Hey Schoolgirl", this time with Paul's father on bass, and a couple of other musicians to fill out the sound: [Excerpt: Tom and Jerry, "Hey Schoolgirl"] Of course, the record couldn't be released under their real names -- there was no way anyone was going to buy a record by Simon and Garfunkel. So instead they became Tom and Jerry. Paul Simon was Jerry Landis -- a surname he chose because he had a crush on a girl named Sue Landis. Art became Tom Graff, because he liked drawing graphs. "Hey Schoolgirl" became a local hit. The two were thrilled to hear it played on Alan Freed's show (after Sid Prosen gave Freed two hundred dollars), and were even more thrilled when they got to perform on American Bandstand, on the same show as Jerry Lee Lewis. When Dick Clark asked them where they were from, Simon decided to claim he was from Macon, Georgia, where Little Richard came from, because all his favourite rock and roll singers were from the South. "Hey Schoolgirl" only made number forty-nine nationally, because the label didn't have good national distribution, but it sold over a hundred thousand copies, mostly in the New York area. And Sid Prosen seems to have been one of a very small number of independent label owners who wasn't a crook -- the two boys got about two thousand dollars each from their hit record. But while Tom and Jerry seemed like they might have a successful career, Simon and Garfunkel were soon to split up, and the reason for their split was named True Taylor. Paul had been playing some of his songs for Sid Prosen, to see what the duo's next single should be, and Prosen had noticed that while some of them were Everly Brothers soundalikes, others were Elvis soundalikes. Would Paul be interested in recording some of those, too? Obviously Art couldn't sing on those, so they'd use a different name, True Taylor. The single was released around the same time as the second Tom and Jerry record, and featured an Elvis-style ballad by Paul on one side, and a rockabilly song written by his father on the other: [Excerpt: True Taylor, "True or False"] But Paul hadn't discussed that record with Art before doing it, and the two had vastly different ideas about their relationship. Paul was Art's only friend, and Art thought they had an indissoluble bond and that they would always work together. Paul, on the other hand, thought of Art as one of his friends and someone he made music with, but he could play at being Elvis if he wanted, as well as playing at being an Everly brother. Garfunkel, in his memoir published in 2017, says "the friendship was shattered for life" -- he decided then and there that Paul Simon was a "base" person, a betrayer. But on the other hand, he still refers to Simon, over and over again, in that book as still being his friend, even as Simon has largely been disdainful of him since their last performance together in 2010. Friendships are complicated. Tom and Jerry struggled on for a couple more singles, which weren't as successful as "Hey Schoolgirl" had been, with material like "Two Teenagers", written by Rose Marie McCoy: [Excerpt: Tom and Jerry, "Two Teenagers"] But as they'd stopped being friends, and they weren't selling records, they drifted apart and didn't really speak for five years, though they would occasionally run into one another. They both went off to university, and Garfunkel basically gave up on the idea of having a career in music, though he did record a couple of singles, under the name "Artie Garr": [Excerpt: Artie Garr, "Beat Love"] But for the most part, Garfunkel concentrated on his studies, planning to become either an architect or maybe an academic. Paul Simon, on the other hand, while he was technically studying at university too, was only paying minimal attention to his studies. Instead, he was learning the music business. Every afternoon, after university had finished, he'd go around the Brill Building and its neighbouring buildings, offering his services both as a songwriter and as a demo performer. As Simon was competent on guitar, bass, and drums, could sing harmonies, and could play a bit of piano if it was in the key of C, he could use primitive multitracking to play and sing all the parts on a demo, and do it well: [Excerpt: Paul Simon, "Boys Were Made For Girls"] That's an excerpt from a demo Simon recorded for Burt Bacharach, who has said that he tried to get Simon to record as many of his demos as possible, though only a couple of them have surfaced publicly. Simon would also sometimes record demos with his friend Carole Klein, sometimes under the name The Cosines: [Excerpt: The Cosines, "Just to Be With You"] As we heard back in the episode on "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", Carole Klein went on to change her name to Carole King, and become one of the most successful songwriters of the era -- something which spurred Paul Simon on, as he wanted to emulate her success. Simon tried to get signed up by Don Kirshner, who was publishing Goffin and King, but Kirshner turned Simon down -- an expensive mistake for Kirshner, but one that would end up benefiting Simon, who eventually figured out that he should own his own publishing. Simon was also getting occasional work as a session player, and played lead guitar on "The Shape I'm In" by Johnny Restivo, which made the lower reaches of the Hot One Hundred: [Excerpt: Johnny Restivo, "The Shape I'm In"] Between 1959 and 1963 Simon recorded a whole string of unsuccessful pop singles. including as a member of the Mystics: [Excerpt: The Mystics, "All Through the Night"] He even had a couple of very minor chart hits -- he got to number 99 as Tico and the Triumphs: [Excerpt: Tico and the Triumphs, "Motorcycle"] and number ninety-seven as Jerry Landis: [Excerpt: Jerry Landis, "The Lone Teen Ranger"] But he was jumping around, hopping onto every fad as it passed, and not getting anywhere. And then he started to believe that he could do something more interesting in music. He first became aware that the boundaries of what could be done in music extended further than "ooh-bop-a-loochy-ba" when he took a class on modern music at university, which included a trip to Carnegie Hall to hear a performance of music by the avant-garde composer Edgard Varese: [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Ionisation"] Simon got to meet Varese after the performance, and while he would take his own music in a very different, and much more commercial, direction than Varese's, he was nonetheless influenced by what Varese's music showed about the possibilities that existed in music. The other big influence on Simon at this time was when he heard The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Girl From the North Country"] Simon immediately decided to reinvent himself as a folkie, despite at this point knowing very little about folk music other than the Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us album. He tried playing around Greenwich Village, but found it an uncongenial atmosphere, and inspired by the liner notes to the Dylan album, which talked about Dylan's time in England, he made what would be the first of several trips to the UK, where he was given a rapturous reception simply on the grounds of being an American and owning a better acoustic guitar -- a Martin -- than most British people owned. He had the showmanship that he'd learned from watching his father on stage and sometimes playing with him, and from his time in Tom and Jerry and working round the studios, and so he was able to impress the British folk-club audiences, who were used to rather earnest, scholarly, people, not to someone like Simon who was clearly ambitious and very showbiz. His repertoire at this point consisted mostly of songs from the first two Dylan albums, a Joan Baez record, Little Willie John's "Fever", and one song he'd written himself, an attempt at a protest song called "He Was My Brother", which he would release on his return to the US under yet another stage name, Paul Kane: [Excerpt: Paul Kane, "He Was My Brother"] Simon has always stated that that song was written about a friend of his who was murdered when he went down to Mississippi with the Freedom Riders -- but while Simon's friend was indeed murdered, it wasn't until about a year after he wrote the song, and Simon has confused the timelines in his subsequent recollections. At the time he recorded that, when he had returned to New York at the end of the summer, Simon had a job as a song plugger for a publishing company, and he gave the publishing company the rights to that song and its B-side, which led to that B-side getting promoted by the publisher, and ending up covered on one of the biggest British albums of 1964, which went to number two in the UK charts: [Excerpt: Val Doonican, "Carlos Dominguez"] Oddly, that may not end up being the only time we feature a Val Doonican track on this podcast. Simon continued his attempts to be a folkie, even teaming up again with Art Garfunkel, with whom he'd re-established contact, to perform in Greenwich Village as Kane and Garr, but they went down no better as a duo than Simon had as a solo artist. Simon went back to the UK again over Christmas 1963, and while he was there he continued work on a song that would become such a touchstone for him that of the first six albums he would be involved in, four would feature the song while a fifth would include a snippet of it. "The Sound of Silence" was apparently started in November 1963, but not finished until February 1964, by which time he was once again back in the USA, and back working as a song plugger. It was while working as a song plugger that Simon first met Tom Wilson, Bob Dylan's producer at Columbia. Simon met up with Wilson trying to persuade him to use some of the songs that the publishing company were putting out. When Wilson wasn't interested, Simon played him a couple of his own songs. Wilson took one of them, "He Was My Brother", for the Pilgrims, a group he was producing who were supposed to be the Black answer to Peter, Paul, and Mary: [Excerpt: The Pilgrims, "He Was My Brother"] Wilson was also interested in "The Sound of Silence", but Simon was more interested in getting signed as a performer than in having other acts perform his songs. Wilson was cautious, though -- he was already producing one folkie singer-songwriter, and he didn't really need a second one. But he *could* probably do with a vocal group... Simon mentioned that he had actually made a couple of records before, as part of a duo. Would Wilson be at all interested in a vocal *duo*? Wilson would be interested. Simon and Garfunkel auditioned for him, and a few days later were in the Columbia Records studio on Seventh Avenue recording their first album as a duo, which was also the first time either of them would record under their own name. Wednesday Morning, 3AM, the duo's first album, was a simple acoustic album, and the only instrumentation was Simon and Barry Kornfeld, a Greenwich Village folkie, on guitars, and Bill Lee, the double bass player who'd played with Dylan and others, on bass. Tom Wilson guided the duo in their song selection, and the eventual album contained six cover versions and six originals written by Simon. The cover versions were a mixture of hootenanny staples like "Go Tell it on the Mountain", plus Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'", included to cross-promote Dylan's new album and to try to link the duo with the more famous writer, and one unusual one, "The Sun is Burning", written by Ian Campbell, a Scottish folk singer who Simon had got to know on his trips to the UK: [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sun is Burning"] But the song that everyone was keenest on was "The Sound of Silence", the first song that Simon had written that he thought would stand up in comparison with the sort of song that Dylan was writing: [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence (Wednesday Morning 3AM version)"] In between sessions for the album, Simon and Garfunkel also played a high-profile gig at Gerde's Folk City in the Village, and a couple of shows at the Gaslight Cafe. The audiences there, though, regarded them as a complete joke -- Dave Van Ronk would later relate that for weeks afterwards, all anyone had to do was sing "Hello darkness, my old friend", for everyone around to break into laughter. Bob Dylan was one of those who laughed at the performance -- though Robert Shelton later said that Dylan hadn't been laughing at them, specifically, he'd just had a fit of the giggles -- and this had led to a certain amount of anger from Simon towards Dylan. The album was recorded in March 1964, and was scheduled for release  in October. In the meantime, they both made plans to continue with their studies and their travels. Garfunkel was starting to do postgraduate work towards his doctorate in mathematics, while Simon was now enrolled in Brooklyn Law School, but was still spending most of his time travelling, and would drop out after one semester. He would spend much of the next eighteen months in the UK. While he was occasionally in the US between June 1964 and November 1965, Simon now considered himself based in England, where he made several acquaintances that would affect his life deeply. Among them were a young woman called Kathy Chitty, with whom he would fall in love and who would inspire many of his songs, and an older woman called Judith Piepe (and I apologise if I'm mispronouncing her name, which I've only ever seen written down, never heard) who many people believed had an unrequited crush on Simon. Piepe ran her London flat as something of a commune for folk musicians, and Simon lived there for months at a time while in the UK. Among the other musicians who stayed there for a time were Sandy Denny, Cat Stevens, and Al Stewart, whose bedroom was next door to Simon's. Piepe became Simon's de facto unpaid manager and publicist, and started promoting him around the British folk scene. Simon also at this point became particularly interested in improving his guitar playing. He was spending a lot of time at Les Cousins, the London club that had become the centre of British acoustic guitar. There are, roughly, three styles of acoustic folk guitar -- to be clear, I'm talking about very broad-brush categorisations here, and there are people who would disagree and say there are more, but these are the main ones. Two of these are American styles -- there's the simple style known as Carter scratching, popularised by Mother Maybelle Carter of the Carter family, and for this all you do is alternate bass notes with your thumb while scratching the chord on the treble strings with one finger, like this: [Excerpt: Carter picking] That's the style played by a lot of country and folk players who were primarily singers accompanying themselves. In the late forties and fifties, though, another style had become popularised -- Travis picking. This is named after Merle Travis, the most well-known player in the style, but he always called it Muhlenberg picking, after Muhlenberg County, where he'd learned the style from Ike Everly -- the Everly Brothers' father -- and Mose Rager, a Black guitarist. In Travis picking, the thumb alternates between two bass notes, but rather than strumming a chord, the index and middle fingers play simple patterns on the treble strings, like this: [Excerpt: Travis picking] That's, again, a style primarily used for accompaniment, but it can also be used to play instrumentals by oneself. As well as Travis and Ike Everly, it's also the style played by Donovan, Chet Atkins, James Taylor, and more. But there's a third style, British baroque folk guitar, which was largely the invention of Davey Graham. Graham, you might remember, was a folk guitarist who had lived in the same squat as Lionel Bart when Bart started working with Tommy Steele, and who had formed a blues duo with Alexis Korner. Graham is now best known for one of his simpler pieces, “Anji”, which became the song that every British guitarist tried to learn: [Excerpt: Davey Graham, "Anji"] Dozens of people, including Paul Simon, would record versions of that. Graham invented an entirely new style of guitar playing, influenced by ragtime players like Blind Blake, but also by Bach, by Moroccan oud music, and by Celtic bagpipe music. While it was fairly common for players to retune their guitar to an open major chord, allowing them to play slide guitar, Graham retuned his to a suspended fourth chord -- D-A-D-G-A-D -- which allowed him to keep a drone going on some strings while playing complex modal counterpoints on others. While I demonstrated the previous two styles myself, I'm nowhere near a good enough guitarist to demonstrate British folk baroque, so here's an excerpt of Davey Graham playing his own arrangement of the traditional ballad "She Moved Through the Fair", recast as a raga and retitled "She Moved Thru' the Bizarre": [Excerpt: Davey Graham, "She Moved Thru' the Bizarre"] Graham's style was hugely influential on an entire generation of British guitarists, people who incorporated world music and jazz influences into folk and blues styles, and that generation of guitarists was coming up at the time and playing at Les Cousins. People who started playing in this style included Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, John Renbourn, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, and John Martyn, and it also had a substantial influence on North American players like Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, and of course Paul Simon. Simon was especially influenced at this time by Martin Carthy, the young British guitarist whose style was very influenced by Graham -- but while Graham applied his style to music ranging from Dave Brubeck to Lutheran hymns to Big Bill Broonzy songs, Carthy mostly concentrated on traditional English folk songs. Carthy had a habit of taking American folk singers under his wing, and he taught Simon several songs, including Carthy's own arrangement of the traditional "Scarborough Fair": [Excerpt: Martin Carthy, "Scarborough Fair"] Simon would later record that arrangement, without crediting Carthy, and this would lead to several decades of bad blood between them, though Carthy forgave him in the 1990s, and the two performed the song together at least once after that. Indeed, Simon seems to have made a distinctly negative impression on quite a few of the musicians he knew in Britain at this time, who seem to, at least in retrospect, regard him as having rather used and discarded them as soon as his career became successful. Roy Harper has talked in liner notes to CD reissues of his work from this period about how Simon used to regularly be a guest in his home, and how he has memories of Simon playing with Harper's baby son Nick (now himself one of the greats of British guitar) but how as soon as he became successful he never spoke to Harper again. Similarly, in 1965 Simon started a writing partnership with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, an Australian folk-pop band based in the UK, best known for "Georgy Girl". The two wrote "Red Rubber Ball", which became a hit for the Cyrkle: [Excerpt: The Cyrke, "Red Rubber Ball"] and also "Cloudy", which the Seekers recorded as an album track: [Excerpt: The Seekers, "Cloudy"] When that was recorded by Simon and Garfunkel, Woodley's name was removed from the writing credits, though Woodley still apparently received royalties for it. But at this point there *was* no Simon and Garfunkel. Paul Simon was a solo artist working the folk clubs in Britain, and Simon and Garfunkel's one album had sold a minuscule number of copies. They did, when Simon briefly returned to the US in March, record two tracks for a prospective single, this time with an electric backing band. One was a rewrite of the title track of their first album, now titled "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" and with a new chorus and some guitar parts nicked from Davey Graham's "Anji"; the other a Twist-beat song that could almost be Manfred Mann or Georgie Fame -- "We Got a Groovy Thing Goin'". That was also influenced by “Anji”, though by Bert Jansch's version rather than Graham's original. Jansch rearranged the song and stuck in this phrase: [Excerpt: Bert Jansch, “Anji”] Which became the chorus to “We Got a Groovy Thing Goin'”: [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "We Got a Groovy Thing Goin'"] But that single was never released, and as far as Columbia were concerned, Simon and Garfunkel were a defunct act, especially as Tom Wilson, who had signed them, was looking to move away from Columbia. Art Garfunkel did come to visit Simon in the UK a couple of times, and they'd even sing together occasionally, but it was on the basis of Paul Simon the successful club act occasionally inviting his friend on stage during the encore, rather than as a duo, and Garfunkel was still seeing music only as a sideline while Simon was now utterly committed to it. He was encouraged in this commitment by Judith Piepe, who considered him to be the greatest songwriter of his generation, and who started a letter-writing campaign to that effect, telling the BBC they needed to put him on the radio. Eventually, after a lot of pressure, they agreed -- though they weren't exactly sure what to do with him, as he didn't fit into any of the pop formats they had. He was given his own radio show -- a five-minute show in a religious programming slot. Simon would perform a song, and there would be an introduction tying the song into some religious theme or other. Two series of four episodes of this were broadcast, in a plum slot right after Housewives' Choice, which got twenty million listeners, and the BBC were amazed to find that a lot of people phoned in asking where they could get hold of the records by this Paul Simon fellow. Obviously he didn't have any out yet, and even the Simon and Garfunkel album, which had been released in the US, hadn't come out in Britain. After a little bit of negotiation, CBS, the British arm of Columbia Records, had Simon come in and record an album of his songs, titled The Paul Simon Songbook. The album, unlike the Simon and Garfunkel album, was made up entirely of Paul Simon originals. Two of them were songs that had previously been recorded for Wednesday Morning 3AM -- "He Was My Brother" and a new version of "The Sound of Silence": [Excerpt: Paul Simon, "The Sound of Silence"] The other ten songs were newly-written pieces like "April Come She Will", "Kathy's Song", a parody of Bob Dylan entitled "A Simple Desultory Philippic", and the song that was chosen as the single, "I am a Rock": [Excerpt: Paul Simon, "I am a Rock"] That song was also the one that was chosen for Simon's first TV appearance since Tom and Jerry had appeared on Bandstand eight years earlier. The appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, though, was not one that anyone was happy with. Simon had been booked to appear on  a small folk music series, Heartsong, but that series was cancelled before he could appear. Rediffusion, the company that made the series, also made Ready, Steady, Go, and since they'd already paid Simon they decided they might as well stick him on that show and get something for their money. Unfortunately, the episode in question was already running long, and it wasn't really suited for introspective singer-songwriter performances -- the show was geared to guitar bands and American soul singers. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the director, insisted that if Simon was going to do his song, he had to cut at least one verse, while Simon was insistent that he needed to perform the whole thing because "it's a story". Lindsay-Hogg got his way, but nobody was happy with the performance. Simon's album was surprisingly unsuccessful, given the number of people who'd called the BBC asking about it -- the joke went round that the calls had all been Judith Piepe doing different voices -- and Simon continued his round of folk clubs, pubs, and birthday parties, sometimes performing with Garfunkel, when he visited for the summer, but mostly performing on his own. One time he did perform with a full band, singing “Johnny B Goode” at a birthday party, backed by a band called Joker's Wild who a couple of weeks later went into the studio to record their only privately-pressed five-song record, of them performing recent hits: [Excerpt: Joker's Wild, "Walk Like a Man"] The guitarist from Joker's Wild would later join the other band who'd played at that party, but the story of David Gilmour joining Pink Floyd is for another episode. During this time, Simon also produced his first record for someone else, when he was responsible for producing the only album by his friend Jackson C Frank, though there wasn't much production involved as like Simon's own album it was just one man and his guitar. Al Stewart and Art Garfunkel were also in the control room for the recording, but the notoriously shy Frank insisted on hiding behind a screen so they couldn't see him while he recorded: [Excerpt: Jackson C Frank, "Blues Run the Game"] It seemed like Paul Simon was on his way to becoming a respected mid-level figure on the British folk scene, releasing occasional albums and maybe having one or two minor hits, but making a steady living. Someone who would be spoken of in the same breath as Ralph McTell perhaps. Meanwhile, Art Garfunkel would be going on to be a lecturer in mathematics whose students might be surprised to know he'd had a minor rock and roll hit as a kid. But then something happened that changed everything. Wednesday Morning 3AM hadn't sold at all, and Columbia hadn't promoted it in the slightest. It was too collegiate and polite for the Greenwich Village folkies, and too intellectual for the pop audience that had been buying Peter, Paul, and Mary, and it had come out just at the point that the folk boom had imploded. But one DJ in Boston, Dick Summer, had started playing one song from it, "The Sound of Silence", and it had caught on with the college students, who loved the song. And then came spring break 1965. All those students went on holiday, and suddenly DJs in places like Cocoa Beach, Florida, were getting phone calls requesting "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel. Some of them with contacts at Columbia got in touch with the label, and Tom Wilson had an idea. On the first day of what turned out to be his last session with Dylan, the session for "Like a Rolling Stone", Wilson asked the musicians to stay behind and work on something. He'd already experimented with overdubbing new instruments on an acoustic recording with his new version of Dylan's "House of the Rising Sun", now he was going to try it with "The Sound of Silence". He didn't bother asking the duo what they thought -- record labels messed with people's records all the time. So "The Sound of Silence" was released as an electric folk-rock single: [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence"] This is always presented as Wilson massively changing the sound of the duo without their permission or knowledge, but the fact is that they had *already* gone folk-rock, back in March, so they were already thinking that way. The track was released as a single with “We Got a Groovy Thing Going” on the B-side, and was promoted first in the Boston market, and it did very well. Roy Harper later talked about Simon's attitude at this time, saying "I can remember going into the gents in The Three Horseshoes in Hempstead during a gig, and we're having a pee together. He was very excited, and he turns round to me and and says, “Guess what, man? We're number sixteen in Boston with The Sound of Silence'”. A few days later I was doing another gig with him and he made a beeline for me. “Guess what?” I said “You're No. 15 in Boston”. He said, “No man, we're No. 1 in Boston”. I thought, “Wow. No. 1 in Boston, eh?” It was almost a joke, because I really had no idea what that sort of stuff meant at all." Simon was even more excited when the record started creeping up the national charts, though he was less enthused when his copy of the single arrived from America. He listened to it, and thought the arrangement was a Byrds rip-off, and cringed at the way the rhythm section had to slow down and speed up in order to stay in time with the acoustic recording: [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence"] I have to say that, while the tempo fluctuations are noticeable once you know to look for them, it's a remarkably tight performance given the circumstances. As the record went up the charts, Simon was called back to America, to record an album to go along with it. The Paul Simon Songbook hadn't been released in the US,  and they needed an album *now*, and Simon was a slow songwriter, so the duo took six songs from that album and rerecorded them in folk-rock versions with their new producer Bob Johnston, who was also working with Dylan now, since Tom Wilson had moved on to Verve records. They filled out the album with "The Sound of Silence", the two electric tracks from March, one new song, "Blessed", and a version of "Anji", which came straight after "Somewhere They Can't Find Me", presumably to acknowledge Simon lifting bits of it. That version of “Anji” also followed Jansch's arrangement, and so included the bit that Simon had taken for “We Got a Groovy Thing Going” as well. They also recorded their next single, which was released on the British version of the album but not the American one, a song that Simon had written during a thoroughly depressing tour of Lancashire towns (he wrote it in Widnes, but a friend of Simon's who lived in Widnes later said that while it was written in Widnes it was written *about* Birkenhead. Simon has also sometimes said it was about Warrington or Wigan, both of which are so close to Widnes and so similar in both name and atmosphere that it would be the easiest thing in the world to mix them up.) [Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, "Homeward Bound"] These tracks were all recorded in December 1965, and they featured the Wrecking Crew -- Bob Johnston wanted the best, and didn't rate the New York players that Wilson had used, and so they were recorded in LA with Glen Campbell, Joe South, Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, and Joe Osborne. I've also seen in some sources that there were sessions in Nashville with A-team players Fred Carter and Charlie McCoy. By January, "The Sound of Silence" had reached number one, knocking "We Can Work it Out" by the Beatles off the top spot for two weeks, before the Beatles record went back to the top. They'd achieved what they'd been trying for for nearly a decade, and I'll give the last word here to Paul Simon, who said of the achievement: "I had come back to New York, and I was staying in my old room at my parents' house. Artie was living at his parents' house, too. I remember Artie and I were sitting there in my car one night, parked on a street in Queens, and the announcer said, "Number one, Simon & Garfunkel." And Artie said to me, "That Simon & Garfunkel, they must be having a great time.""

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Come on down to St Stephen's Green for some great Celtic music on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Lilt, Anna Bosnick, The Rowan Tree, A Campo Traviesa, Lisa Schettner, Captain John Stout, Brad Reid, Dylan Walshe, Kellswater Bridge, The Celtic Camerata, St Stephen's Green, iThongo, Skeleton McKee, Mark Saul, Erin Ruth I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is here to build our community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, buy the albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow the artists on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. Every week, you will get a few cool bits of Celtic music news. It's a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Plus, you'll get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free, just for signing up today. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. Just list the show number, and the name of as many bands in the episode as you like. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2020 episode.  Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:03 - "The Jiggery Pokerwork / The Return Home" by Lilt from X 2:57 - WELCOME 3:33 - "Eddy & Back / Where's Your Flipping Fiddle / Millenium Bridge (feat. Matt Diaz & Erin Michet)" by Anna Bosnick from The Ring 9:24 - "Man of Letters" by The Rowan Tree from Kolar's Gold 14:03 - "Axéitame a Polainiña (Aire Tradicional) (Galicia)" by A Campo Traviesa from The Kid on the Mountain 18:28 - "Great Expectations" by Lisa Schettner from Single 22:05 - CELTIC FEEDBACK 26:04 - "Ye Jacobites by Captain John Stout from Love Abides 29:46 - "Haley Small's Reel" by Brad Reid from Single 33:19 - "Where Dublin Meets Wicklow" by Dylan Walshe from All Manner of Ways 36:48 - "Cobbler's Daughter" by Kellswater Bridge from The Proof Is In the Pudding 40:12 - "Beer, Beer, Beer/Charles O'Conor" by The Celtic Camerata from On the Threshold of a Drink 43:28 - CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 45:55 - "Oh Maggie" by St Stephen's Green from Shadows of Green 49:14 - "Banish Misfortune" by iThongo from Afroceltica 51:40 - "9000 Years" by Skeleton McKee from Edinburgh Underground 54:51 - "Wicked Train of Thought" by Mark Saul from Mixolydian 1:00:04 - CLOSING 1:01:12 - "She Moved Through the Fair" by Erin Ruth from Erin Ruth The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. The show was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME TO CELTIC MUSIC * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. Please support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. CELTIC PODCAST NEWS Find out more about Andrew McKee, The Irish Bard on his website and his new podcast, Life’s A Faire. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out every week. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. As a patron, you get to hear episodes before regular listeners. When we hit a milestone, you get an extra-long episode. You can pledge a dollar or more per episode and cap how much you want to spend each month over on Patreon. Your contribution also allows us to support the Middle Tennessee Highland Games & Celtic Festival on September 12-13 and the Texas Scottish Festival on October 16-18. A super special thanks to our newest patrons: Konni, Craig H, Richard, G, Alison S, Not Higgins You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Annelise emailed: "Hi Marc, I'm writing to thank you for the bonus episode, "Pandemic Patience." I'm a university student and was sent home from school last month because of the pandemic. I've been listening to your podcast for two years, and your extra episodes have helped soften the blow of school closing. I love listening to the podcast while I study for my online classes. (Which I'm doing right now!). Thank you again for your podcast and all you do! Slainte" Jacob emailed on Patreon: "I had to change my support level due to my job loss. Apologies. Hopefully I will find something that lets me move the amount back up again. Please keep sharing the great Celtic music!" 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Hello Earthlings! How are you managing? We are doing well at the Wigglian Compound. We've been busy creating. Yesterday, Mojo and I recorded the last little bit for Mojo's epic interview with Kellianna. Mojo and Kellianna chat about music and book writing. This interview was recorded in the "before times" so some things said within the interview may not apply. Kellianna, I sure hope we see you soon.  As our interview this episode is with Kellianna it only makes sense that our Feature Album is Traditions by Kellianna. I believe it is the only one we hadn't featured. From Traditions we hear She Moved Through the Fair, Ave Maria, and Scarborough Faire. How advantageous that we could all use a fair and a prayer to any and all the Gods (and their Mamas).  Scarborough Faire is a duet with another of our magical and musical friends, Jenna Greene.  Recently, the magical musical community lost one of their own, Shawna Carol. As a tribute we play her song, Spiritsong. Hail and Farewell, Shawna! What is remembered, lives.  Finally, we punctuate this episode with Jana Runnalls soothing chant, Deep Into the Earth, from Sacred Home.  The Wigglian Way is thankful for our carers and wish you all the best. You are added to our prayers.  Blessed Be.     

This was the Year of the Celtic Woman on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. But I’m proud to declare that the ladies deserve a little Fairple. Quarterly shows will continue to highlight the women of Celtic music on into the future. willos', Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Aerialists, Merry Wives of Windsor, Mazz O'Flaherty, The Borrowed Angels, Eilis Crean, Katherine Nagy, Anne Roos, Celtic Woman, Heloise Love, Lily Bentley, Maggie Drennon, Rising Gael, Fionnuala Gill I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is here to build our community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, buy the albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow the artists on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. 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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:04 - "Ballysillan" by willos' from 4th 4:17 - WELCOME 5:49 - "Cribbage Set" by Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer from Slip Tease 10:21 - "An Gille Dubh Ciar Dubh" by Aerialists from Single 14:58 - "Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots" by Merry Wives of Windsor from Bottoms Up 18:56 - "I Will Stand On This Land" by The Borrowed Angels from The Borrowed Angels Singing Songs By Mazz O'Flaherty Pictures: I have pictures of myself and Mazz when I stopped the Dingle Record Shop this summer. 20:46 - CELTIC FEEDBACK 24:42 - "Brierton's Jig - Finian's Visit" by Eilis Crean from Searbh Siucra 29:16 - "Clementine" by Katherine Nagy from Single 33:23 - "The Mermaid's Tears" by Anne Roos from Mermaids & Mariners 37:20 - "Ard Uí Chuain / Sadhbh Ní Bhruinneallaigh [Live]" by Celtic Woman from Homecoming: Live from Ireland Pronounciation: ard ih cuan / SAH-eev Nee Vrin-uh-lah 41:28 - CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 43:25 - "Holding Me" by Heloise Love from Song for the Mira 45:50 - "She Moved Through the Fair" by Lily Bentley from Norwood Gothic 50:58 - "Is Fad' O 'Bhaile Daithneoinn (Far From Home)" by Maggie Drennon from Just Now Pronunciation: Is fahd o 56:05 - "One More Day" by Rising Gael from One More Day 1:00:50 - CLOSING 1:02:11 - "Suantrai Ar Slanaitheora (Lullaby of our Savior)" by Fionnuala Gill from Whispers of Love Pronounciation: fin-noo-lah, soon-tree ar slan-eh-hyahr-ah The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.   CELTIC PODCAST NEWS * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. Please support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. At the beginning of 2019, I declared this the Year of Celtic Women. I’m proud to say that completed five episodes entirely dedicated to the women of Celtic music, with the generous help of Lady Susan of Thunder on the Plains. I feel like this podcast grew a lot as we talked about gender equality in Celtic music. So much so that I plan to continue my quarterly episodes dedicated to the ladies. Now many of the shows featured soloists or females bands. But I think in 2020, I’m gonna expand and just highlight all women for these episodes: the singers, the instrumentalists, whomever. I’m excited to hear our community grow. And I thank you for being a part of it! Get the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast app. It’s free! TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST!Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out every week. You can pledge a dollar or more per episode and cap how much you want to spend each month over on Patreon. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. Plus, you get to hear episodes before regular listeners. When we hit a milestone, you get an extra-long episode. We are super close to getting a two-hour instrumental special. I want to thank our newest Patrons of the Podcast as well as though who increased their patronage donation: George K, Peter G, Metta R, Thomas C, Gordon W, Dan C, Renee H, Jason Y You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast at http://patreon.com/celticpodcast.   I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Karen Mitchell Carothers emailed: “Morning Marc! I was just listening to Episode 437 of the podcast here at work and thought I'd finally write in. I've been listening since the early days. Today, I'm getting jiggy with it while at work at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. Satellites don't take holidays, but the awesome music always makes my work day go by faster." Rollin Butler emailed: "Hi Marc, we watch a PBS kIds animated show called “Molly of Denali”, and they had an episode of Fiddle Playing, “Jigging,” like Irish Step Dancing. I wondered if you have info about the Irish influence on the Alaska peoples, maybe from “Yukon gold Rush.”  Keep up the good work, and don’t let the Naysayers get you down." KIM KNEBEL emailed: "Greetings Marc and family. Sitting in my cozy warm bed listening to the program before getting busy for the celebrations. I love the show and really appreciate the diversity you showcase. I adore traditional Celtic music, of course, but things evolve and it's fun to see how folks have used the auld tunes to launch new music. I usually key up the podcasts on my trip up north for jewelry making classes. Makes the commute go by quickly and very pleasantly. Thank you for all you do to promote Celtic culture through the podcasts, newsletter and trips. Slainte!??" Nancy Klein emailed photos: "Dear Mark, I am an American woman who loves your show. I listen to it in Spain, where I live now. We used to live in Ireland where I really enjoyed listening to music there. So your show brings Ireland back to me. Here are three photos of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, where you will be going on your upcoming trip with fellow Celtic music lovers. Enjoy! With appreciation for all that you do,"   Marc Gunn with Mazz O'Flaherty #celticwoman #celticwomen #celticmusic

Join Lady Susan of Thunder on the Plains, Nebraska’s only Celtic music radio show as she highlights a small sampling of the Women of Celtic Music. Screaming Orphans, Colleen Raney, Hanneke Cassel, Ashley Davis, Cady Finlayson, Jennifer Licko, Eilis Crean, Sarah Copus, Sharon Shannon, Linda Relph, The Gothard Sisters, Joseph Carmichael I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is dedicated to growing our community and helping the incredible artists who so generously share their music. If you find music you love, buy their albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow them on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. Every week, I'll send you a few cool bits of Celtic music news. It's a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Plus, you'll get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free, just for signing up today. Thank you again for being a Celt of Kindness. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 With the new year comes a new votes in the Celtic Top 20. This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. Just list the show number, and the name of as many bands in the episode as you like. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2019 episode.  Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:12 “Winnie’s Tunes” by Screaming Orphans from Ballads Rule OK 4:22 “Sorrowlessfield” by Colleen Raney from Standing in Doorways 8:01 “The Goblin and the Mouse/The Fiddling Twin” by Hanneke Cassel from Trip to Walden Pond 13:25 INTRODUCTION 14:52 “Leanim Thu (I Follow You)” by Ashley Davis from Night Travels 18:33 “A Midwinter Waltz” by Cady Finlayson from Irish Coffee 22:00 “Fill Iu O” by Jennifer Licko from Sing 25:36 “The Old High Reel/The Lane to the Glen/The Trip to Durrow” by Eilis Crean from Searbh Siucra (Bitter Sweet) 30:58 “She Moved Through the Fair” by Sarah Copus from Moorland Winds 35:11 FAIRPLE INTERLUDE 38:03 “Frenchie’s Reel” by Sharon Shannon from Sacred Earth 40:40 “Woman - Man - Long” by Linda Relph from Fiddlinda: There & Then, Here & Now 44:56 “Grace O’Malley” by The Gothard Sisters from Mountain Rose 48:30 FAREWELL 50:48 “Lady Susan” by Joseph Carmichael, official theme song of Thunder on the Plains The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.   CELTIC PODCAST NEWS * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. I want to ask you to support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. You can find out more about Thunder on the Plains through the KZUM website. There’s a two week archive where you can enjoy back episodes. Find out more about “Lady Susan” J. E. Ritta on her Instagram page. FairPlé aims to achieve gender balance in the production, performance, promotion, and development of Irish traditional and folk music. They advocate for equal opportunity and balanced representation for all. Visit their website for more details about this great organization. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through it's culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! There are many ways to support the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. You can make a donation through our website. You can buy a bumper sticker to show your support. You can buy an Irish & Celtic Music Podcast t-shirt or get the Sainted Song Henger Collection to tell the world you support Celtic culture through music. The best way is to become a Patron of the Podcast. This show exists because of the kind patronage of people like you. You can make a pledge of a dollar or more per episode and cap how much you want to spend each month. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. And you also get episodes before regular listeners. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast at http://patreon.com/celticpodcast. I want to thank our newest patrons:   I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com    

The lads dodge the raindrops to get to the Windy City Irish Radio this week and have some mighty fine rainy night music to show for it with songs and tunes from Pogues, Mundy, County Louth newcomers Kern, Limerick's The Outside Track, D.C.'s own Scythian, fab family band, The Byrne Brothers, and all the way from France Doolin’. Also tune in for more music from We Banjo 3 off of their chart-topping new album, Haven, a tune from Altan in advance of their FREE concert at the Irish American Heritage Center on Thursday September 13, and a birthday tribute to Van Morrison (Official). Mike and Tim are also lucky enough to have Philadelphia actress/playwright Polly McIntyre in advance of her one-woman show She Moved Through the Fair as part of this weekend's Chicago Fringe Festival. We suppose it goes without saying that this week's show is JAM-PACKED! Tune in to WSBC 1240AM each and every Wednesday form 8PM - 9PM and check out this week's podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.

Yeah, I know that Imbolc has just past. There's nothing I can do about that. But here is the episode anyway. Because of Groundhog's Day the Spirit Guide is the Groundhog. The Dream Symbol this week is cars and there is a meditation. Here are the songs featured: 1. Spring is Returning by KIVA 2. Imbolc Eve by Hecate's Wheel 3. Brigid by Chronilius 4. The Circle is Underground by Silvermoon 5. Dandelion Wine by Blackmore's Night 6. She Moved Through the Faire by Kellianna 7. Spring in Mind by the Green Man 8. Imbolc by Elisa M. Welch

Sketch, Please! takes a breath between Dead Drunk Detective performances to bring you this month’s listener-submitted comedy sketches. Ever wanted to be a gritty police officer but are just too happy? Good! Think you could really do with some quiet prison time? So do we! This week we look at everything from relationships to ambition. Plus all the usual (and unusual chatter from our cast? All that and more is included in this month’s Sketch, Please! Don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe on iTunes and Soundcloud. And if you want to be involved in the next episode, check out our Submissions Page! CAST Gillian Horgan is from Cork, and trained at Drama Studio London. Theatre credits include: She Moved Through the Fair: The Legend of Margaret Barry at UK Folk Festivals, A Place at The Bridewell Theatre, The Conservatory at The Bread & Roses Theatre as well as one-woman show #nofilter. Screen credits include: Hungry Dogs, The Wives Did It, Persona Non Grata, The Inner Life of Veronica, Wounded, Three, Forget-Me-Not, Camden Calling, Verge, and Black Coffee. Radio credits include: Live From The Get In and Hang. Dave Chawner is an award winning comic, published author and mental health campaigner. He has just returned from the Edinburgh fringe with his one man show C’est La Vegan. For more information, including his gig at The Leicester Square Theatre, go to DaveChawner.co.uk. Suzie Houlihan is an Irish actor who trained at The International School of Screen Acting (ISSA) London and at The Ivana Chubbuck Studio in LA. She is an experienced presenter, voiceover artist and commercial model. She trained in stand up comedy at hooplaimpro.com performing at open mic nights around London. She also has a degree in Commerce and Law and worked in a city law firm prior to embarking an acting career. CREDITS First Day by Brendan Way JILL – Gillian Horgan BILL – Dave Chawner Luggage Restriction by Stephanie Weston ANNOUNCER – Edmund Fargher MAN – Dave Chawner WOMAN – Suzie Houlihan 2ND WOMAN – Gillian Horgan What A Time to Be Alive by Jasmine Tonie. Read by Dave Chawmer Prison by Luke Murray and Christopher Ward Guard – Gillian Horgan Prisoner – Suzie Houlihan Nose Theft by Steve Blair JANE – Gillian Horgan SOLICITOR – Suzie Houlihan JUDGE – Dave Chawner Write Here, Write Now by Michael Monkhouse. Read by Gillian Morgan A Quickie Encounter by Elliot Stewart Lady – Suzie Houlihan Gent – Dave Chawner Hosted by Edmund Fargher Produced by Katharine Kerr

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast! We are happy to bring some great Celtic Music from Garry O Meara, String Theory, Emish, Prydein, Plastic Paddy, Patrick D'Arcy, Kilrush, Andrew McKee, Beltaine, Finbar Furey, Black 47, Drone, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Thomas Patrick Kenny, Seamus Kennedy, The Muckers, Mitchell and Vincent, Abby Green, The Led Farmers, Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfetones, The Brayzen Heads, Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger, Brobdingnagian Bards, The Elders, NUA, Jim Cope, Battlelegs, Black Market Haggis, Sisters of Murphy, In For A Penny. Listen. Like. Share. Then download 34 Celtic MP3s for Free!  Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their music on iTunes, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.   Today's show is brought to you by Celtic Invasion Vacations Every year, I take Celtic music fans on an adventure of a lifetime. This is not your typical wham-bam-thank you m'aam tour. We travel in small groups. We explore the Celtic history of different regions. We don't need to see everything, because this is a vacation. Instead, our invasion brings out the relaxation and magic of our adventure. In 2018, you can join me on a Celtic Invasion of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Sign up to the mailing list at celticinvasion.com.   Notes: * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a musician and podcaster. You can share this show and find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. And you can support this show on Patreon. We have a big feature on iTunes this week. So if you're new, I want to welcome to the incredible world of Celtic music. We celebrate St Patrick's Day all year long. Every week, you get an action-packed, hour-long show full of Celtic music. Many of these bands are small, independent artists whoh don't have the financial support of a giant record label. They can't afford a publicist. So I bring you their music for free... with the hope that you might find a new favorite band and buy their music. If you enjoy what you hear. Please support the artists. You can also support this pdocast by sharing it with your friends. * CELTIC PODCAST NEWS: As always, I want to send out a HUGE thanks to the patrons of the podcast. Your generous pledge of as little as $1 per episode pays for the production of this podcast as well as my time in producing the show. You will enjoy a personal podcast feed where you can listen to the show before regular subscribers, occasional extended editions of the show, and my deepest thanks. When we hit a milestone, you get a 2-hour special. Thanks to our newest patrons: John OConnor, Keriann Noble, Mary Botkin, Samuel G, Donald McLeod, and a extra special thanks to our newest Celtic Superstar, Nancie. Thank you all for your generosity! Become a patron today! If you haven't downloaded your Free Irish & Celtic Music Podcast app, go to iTunes or Amazon and do so today. Listen to past St Patrick's Day episodes on our website. You can also find other St. Patrick's Day shows to check out, including St Patrick's Day Podcast and Pub Songs Podcast. I posted a 2-hour St Pats Special there last week. Best Irish Drinking Songs Lyrics Finally, I hope you listened to show #298: 17 for St Patrick's Day. Because you can download all 17 of those songs and tunes right now. Click here to read the article and download the MP3s. * I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK: What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Dan Cunningham emailed me on Facebook: "Thank you Marc for your podcast and all you do for the Celtic community. I've been an advid fan for years We receive your podcast on TuneIn and it's tradition that my wife and I listen to the new podcast every Saturday morning during our breakfast. My wife Cindy and I live in the North land of Minnesota and we both look forward to the weekends and the Irish and Celtic music podcast. God bless." Google changed their voicemail service. I can longer download the audio files. Fortunately, their voice-to-text feature is pretty good. I got a voicemail from Heidi Jane: "Hey Mark, I just wanted to say thank you very much for including me. It's really an honor, and I'm just grateful. It's a good time of year to remind me to tell people about your podcast. Thank you so much and happy Saint Patrick's day. I'm really glad that you are doing this for everybody and for the music. It's very noble and wonderful. Take care." Jason Roberts sent: "Hey mark, I've been a listener since pretty much the beginning and I just want to send a huge amount of congratulations out to you for your 300 episodes. I record audio and produce learning video for my job in the computer world, so I truly understand the huge effort that goes into planning and recording your audio and producing these podcast sessions. I also dabble with playing guitar and my favorite music to play is Irish trad music. You're an inspiration along with all the artist that you help, and I wish you the best on your next 300 episodes. Hey, man when you finish this next podcast. Take a few minutes and enjoy a pint or three of the black stuff."   This Week in Celtic Music 0:07 "The Jolly Beggarman/Whiskey Before Breakfast" by Garry O Meara from Pickin' Time 5:10 "Dowd's #9/ Bag of Spuds/ The Tamlin" by String Theory by String Theory 8:52 "P Stands for Paddy" by Emish from Sinners Make the Best Saints 14:28 "Backdraft" by Prydein from Loud Pipes (Save Lives) 18:16 "Muirshin Durkin" by Plastic Paddy from Lucky Enough 20:47 "Song & Hop Jig: The Whistling Thief / The Rocky Road To Dublin" by Patrick D'Arcy from Wallop the Spot 25:11 "Charlie on the MTA" by Kilrush from The Basement Sessions 29:05 "Sailor's Wife Set" by Andrew McKee from The Irish Bard 31:40 "Two Hours After St. Parick's Day" by Beltaine from Jump at Samhain's Fire 35:08 "Up By Christchurch And Down By St. Patrick's And Home" by Finbar Furey from Colours 39:25 "St Patrick's Day" by Black 47 from Last Call 43:24 NEW PATRONS OF THE PODCAST 44:07 "Branle Double" by Drone from Drone v Awen 46:29 "Merry Ploughboy" by Wild Colonial Bhoys from Century 50:13 "Raglan Road" by Thomas Patrick Kenny from The Music of Turlough O'carolan and Other Irish Treasures 53:30 "The Irish Pub Song" by Seamus Kennedy from Tricky Tongue Twisters 56:10 "Old Dun Cow" by The Muckers from The Muckers 1:00:09 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 1:01:03 "Morgan Rattler - Lads of Alnwick" by Mitchell and Vincent from Circling the Square 1:07:38 "She Moved Through the Fair" by Abby Green from Why Should I? 1:11:05 "The White Set" by The Led Farmers from Katie 1:14:42 "Song of the Celts" by Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfetones from Let Ye All Be Irish Tonight 1:18:16 "Whiskey in the Jar" by The Brayzen Heads from Floored 1:21:52 "Clawhammer Reels" by Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger from Sound & Fury 1:24:37 "Finnegan's Wake" by Brobdingnagian Bards from The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs 1:28:01 CELTIC FEEDBACK 1:31:10 "The Miners" by The Elders from Story Road 1:35:28 "YK INN" by NUA from FLOW 1:40:17 "Irish Rover" by Jim Cope from King of Balleyhooley 1:43:26 "Wild Rover" by Battlelegs from Lost My Shoes 1:47:58 "Whistling Postman Set" by Black Market Haggis from Better Than It Sounds 1:51:59 "Green Over Red" by Sisters of Murphy from Working Stiffs Unite 1:58:50 "Parting Glass" by In For A Penny from Every Day Should Be St Patrick's Day VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20. It's easier than ever to do. Just list the show number, and the name of one or two bands. That's it. You can vote once for each episode help me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2016 episode. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at celticmusicpodcast.com.

Songs include: Did Your Mother Come From Ireland, My Wild Irish Rose,  The Blind Fiddlers, I'll Take You home Again Kathleen, She Moved Through the Fair and Dwyer's Favorite. Performers include: John McCormack, Paddy Killoran, William Butler Yeats, Arthur Tracey, Muggsy Spanier and Chancey Olcott.

We're just a couple days away from October 31st which marks the Celtic Halloween here in the US and Samhain for the Celts. Enjoy some amazing indie Celtic music from Ciana, Donal Clancy, Bat Kinane, Lady Prudence, Tartanic, Carolina Ceili, Damanta, Stout Pounders, Arthur Hinds, StoneRing, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, Sylvia Platypus, Coyote Run, David Nigel Lloyd. If you enjoy this show, then please rate the show on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. Then subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Subscribe today to download 34 Celtic MP3s for free. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.   Today's show is brought to you by Celtic Invasion Vacations Do you love Celtic music? Want to see the Celtic nations? Want to learn the truth about King Arthur and the Holy Grail? Join your podcast host, Marc Gunn, in 2016 as I lead a Celtic Invasion of Cornwall. We will explore Celtic culture and Arthurian legends. There’s still room available and you can save money if you sign up before the end of October 2015. Subscribe to the mailing list and join the invasion at CelticInvasion.com   Notes: * Thanks to the Patrons of the Podcast. Your kind and generous support keeps this show running every week. Become a Patrons. Special HUGE thanks to our Celtic Superstars: Ockham's Razor, John Sharkey White II, Theresa Sullivan, Wesley R Dunnington, Anna Cylkowski, Brendan Nix, John Bilderback, Brakeing Down Security Podcast, Rian P Kegerreis, Steven, samual hill, Johnny Berry, and Shawn Cali. You folks are AMAZING! Thank you! * You can now Vote in the Celtic Top 20 * Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, Samhain is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November, which is about halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Similar festivals are held at the same time of year in other Celtic lands; for example the Brythonic Calan Gaeaf (in Wales), Kalan Gwav (in Cornwall), and Kalan Goañv (in Brittany). * Did you get to listen to Show #229: 2-Hours of Celtic Fiddle Music. There was a recent error if you are subscribed to the Feedburner feed that I've been using for the past 10 years. It's had a few issues over the past few years so I finally migrated the feed to Libsyn. If you are not receiving the latest episodes of the show, please go to our website to find instructions on how you can resubscribe with the corrected feed. * Off Kilter Kilts is a new store in Pasadena, California that caters to the modern kilted gentleman (and lady). Off Kilter offers the unique experience of being able to try on and compare kilts from multiple different brands before you buy. We carry both modern utility kilts and ready-to-wear tartans, as well as a wide selection of kilting accessories. Customers can also shop our large collection of Irish, Celtic, and Faire music – with more artists being added all the time. For more information, visit our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @offkilterkilts, or head to our website offkilterkilts.com. * The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is now syndicated on Celt103.com. You'll hear it on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. You can see other places the podcast is syndicated on terrestrial and internet radio on our website. I'd love to hear about other stations it should be played. * I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK: Email a written or audio comment. Visit celticmusicpodcast.com to post a comment in the shownotes. What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me pictures of what you're doing or picture of one of your travels to Ireland or Scotland * DuoLingo is adding a Welsh lesson Remember too, when you buy through our affiliates at Amazon or iTunes, you support the artists AND the podcast.   This Week in Celtic Music 0:36 - "Matt Peoples'/Pauline Conneelly's Mulqueen's" by Ciana from Loneliest Road 5:37 - "The Monaghan Jig/Old Hag You Have Killed Me" by Donal Clancy from Close to Home 9:18 - "Cockahoof" by Bat Kinane from The Hills Above the Valley 12:14 - "She Moved Through the Faire" by Lady Prudence from All's Faire: Songs of Love & War 15:53 - "Rock Monster" by Tartanic from Uncensored Vol. 4: Space City Con Live 19:09 - Celtic Music News 21:05 - "Soul Cakes" by Carolina Ceili from 50 Shades of Green 25:36 -"Port na bPucai (Song of the Fairies)" by Damanta from The Drunken Priest and the Ghostly Hymns 29:00 - "Molly Malone" by Stout Pounders from 3 Drink Minimum 31:38 - "Turn the Wheel" by Arthur Hinds from Dance in the Fire 36:47 - "Saddle Set" by StoneRing from Samhain 41:17 - Celtic Feedback 43:54 - "Samhain" by Before the Devil Knows Your Dead from Irish Goodbye 49:24 - "Like a Vampire" by Sylvia Platypus from Sylvia Platypus 53:40 - "Tam Lin" by Coyote Run from Between Wick and Flame 59:17 - "The Fall of Jack O'Lantern" by David Nigel Lloyd from Rivers, Kings, and Curses The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. You can post feedback in the shownotes at celticmusicpodcast.com or email me music@celticmusicpodcast.com.

Our 10th annual St. Patrick’s Day music playlist of 2015 is here. Once again, we have 17 awesome indie Celtic songs and tunes by Chambless & Muse, The Fenian Sons, Jimi McRae, The Canny Brothers Band, Flashpoint, The Stubby Shillelaghs, 3 Pints Gone, The Kildares, Faire to Middlin, Jesse Linder, Jonathan Milton, Jesse Ferguson, Martyn Wylde, Hugh Morrison, Poitin, The ShamRogues, Slan. Find a direct link to this show at celticmusicpodcast.com/200 If you enjoy this show, then subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Subscribe today to download 34 Celtic MP3s for free. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.     Today’s show is brought to you by Celtic Invasion Vacations Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans to exotic locations around the world. We don’t travel in big tour buses and see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to Know the region through its culture, history, and legends. Plus, I bring you some great Celtic music by me and other Celtic artists. The 2015 trip is now full. You can help us decide where we will invade in 2016. Subscribe to the mailing list to join the invasion at celticinvasion.com   Notes: – Your guide to the Best indie Celtic music online – Thanks to the Patrons of the Podcast. Your kind and generous support keeps this show running every week. Become a Patrons at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/patron/. 73 patrons for $195 – St. Patrick’s Day Internet Music Festival: Watch! – Vote for your favorite songs in February 2015and for your January votes – Download these 17 Free Celtic MP3s for St. Patrick’s Day here – I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK: Email a comment to celticpodast@gmail.com or call 678-CELT-POD to leave a voicemail message. That’s 678-235-8763. Check out these other awesome St. Patrick’s Day episodes: 199: Top 20 Best Celtic Music of 2014 198: St. Patrick’s Day Songs for Kids 197: Irish Drinking Songs Top 20 155: The Great St Patrick’s Day Music Playlist Extravaganza 2014 154: Free St Patrick’s Day Music Playlist of 2014 153: Best Irish & Celtic Music of 2013 139 – Best St. Patrick’s Day Playlist of 2013 138 – Top 20 Celtic Bands of 2012 for St. Patrick’s Day Playlist 137 – St Patrick’s Day Playlist 119 – Best Celtic Artists for St Patrick’s Day 2012 102 – St. Patrick’s Day Music 101 – Best Celtic Artists for St Patrick’s Day 80 – St Patrick’s Day Celtic Music Celebration 79 – 17 Free Celtic Music Downloads for St. Patrick’s Day 65 – St. Patrick’s Day feature on Best of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast Coimpilation CD   This Week in Celtic Music “Canadee-i-o” by Chambless & Musefrom Passing Tales & Glories 6:58“Galway Shawl” by The Fenian Sonsfrom 617 11:43“Songs from the Western Seaboard” by Jimi McRaefrom Last King of Pictland 17:08“William O’Connor” by Canny Brothers Bandfrom The Guinness Situation 21:02“Joe’s Lost E Jig/Marcel Martin” by Flashpointfrom A Timely Misadventure 29:49“Celtic-American” by The Stubby Shillelaghsfrom Celtic-American 32:32“Bonny Portmore” by 3 Pints Gonefrom It’s About Bloody Time 35:56“Lion Ring” by The Kildaresfrom Steal the Sky 40:04“She Moved Through the Faire” by Faire to Middlinfrom Faire to Middlin 46:10“All the Tunes in the World” by Jesse Linderfrom Ready for the Storm 49:56“Natalie Jane” by Jonathan Miltonfrom Just One More… 53:04“The Butcher Boy” by Jesse Fergusonfrom The Butcher Boy 1:01:00“The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Martyn Wyldefrom The Child Ballads, Vol. 1 1:06:55“Scotland is Free” by Hugh Morrisonfrom Scotland is Free 1:09:43“The Liberty” by Poitínfrom Wish 1:13:20“The Hills of Connemara” by The ShamRoguesfrom Drunken Memories 1:17:39“The Bold Grenadier/Melodie Cornouaillaise” by Slanfrom Later Remember too, when you buy through our affiliates at CD Baby, Amazon, or iTunes, you support the artists AND the podcast.      The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to CelticMusicPodcast.com where you can also join our mailing list. You can post feedback in the shownotes, on social media use the hashtag #CelticPodcast, or email me music@celticmusicpodcast.com.

PODCAST: 29 Dec 2013   Sig - The Hogmanay / Mrs Grace Bowie - Bill Spence and Fennigs All-Star String Band - The Hammered Dulcimer Strikes Again   01 - Big River - Jimmy Nail - Big River 02 - Byker Hill - Jed Grimes -  Heart and Hand 03 - Bless the Weather - John Martyn and Danny Thompson - Bless the Weather 04 - Stick Stock - Emily Portman - The Glamoury 05 - Bitter Gap - Béla Fleck - Natural Bridge 06 - Country Life - The Watersons - For Pence and Spicy Ale 07 - Dimming of the Day - Dave Burland - His Masters Choice 08 - 4 Loom Weaver - Maddy Prior and June Tabor - Silly Sisters 09 - Rua Reidh - Gareth Davies-Jones - Now But Not Yet 10 - Arizona - Tarras - Walking Down Main Street 11 - Notown - Michelle Holding and Bonz - Seeds Are Sown 12 - Blood Runs Red - Joe Solo (feat. Rebekah Findlay) - No Pasaran! 13 - She Moved Through the Fair - Anne Briggs - A Collection 14 - Lead The Knave / Bunker Hill - Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn - Lead The Knave 15 - There But For Fortune - Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune 16 - Doin’ the Manch - Cockersdale - Nowt So Funny As Folk 17 - Good Friends - Allan Taylor - unreleased 18 - Piper to the End - Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky 19 - Johnny Miner - The Mighty Doonans - The Mighty Doonans   Sig - Mrs Grace Bowie / The Hogmanay - New Victory Band - One More Dance And Then

Irish Celtic music from Bow Triplets, Loudwhisper, Nancy Daily-Green, Maggie Sansone, Marc Gunn, Anne Roos, The Secret Commonwealth, James Olin Oden, Merry Wives of Windsor, Gan Fidel, Hair of the Dog, Green Man, The BibleCode Sundays, FiddleSticks.  www.celticmusicpodcast.com If you enjoy this show, then subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember too, when you buy through our affiliates at CD Baby, Amazon, or iTunes, you support the artists AND the podcast.   Today’s show is brought to you by Celtic Invasion Vacations Good food, good drink, and good company. Join Marc Gunn on an exciting Invasion of Wales in 2014. You will enjoy a small, friendly group, one-third the size of most tour groups. Relax and savor the land like a local. You will enjoy lots of great Celtic music from Marc Gunn and other Celtic musicians. Smile, laugh, and make lots of wonderful memories with Marc Gunn’s Celtic Invasion Vacations. Subscribe to the Invasion today at CelticInvasion.com Notes: Join Song Henge Today!: This is the official fan club of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. You can join the secret club and get free access to Song Henge, our online archive of Celtic music downloads. Please join today… Because. We are changing the way you hear Celtic music. Do you enjoy the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Tell me about it. Why do you listen to the show? What new music have you found? How has this show affected your life? Post a comment on our Facebook fan page or call 678-CELT-POD to leave a voicemail message. That’s 678-235-8763. We have a brand new Irish & Celtic Music Podcast store. Visit it today! Is your WordPress site undergoing website hacks like mine was? Talk to Amber of SpeakingInVector.com. A Celtic Christmas compilation success. Order the album in our store. Special thanks to Mithril, Heather Dale, John McGaha, George Papavgeris, Tom Morley, Jed Marum, The Elders, Marc Gunn, The Gleasons, Rathkeltair, Pandora Celtica, Iona, Boston Blackthorne, Brobdingnagian Bards, The Malarkeys, The Brigands’ Folie, and The Gothard Sisters. This Week in Celtic Music 0:34“Dunrobin Castle & The King of Meenasillagh” by Bow Tripletsfrom Secret Signs 3:56“Jack of the Wood” by Loudwhisperfrom Jack of the Woodland 9:00“The Devil & The Farmer’s Wife” by Nancy Daily-Greenfrom Silly Songs of the Selkie 12:07“Lilting Banshee Set [Jigs]” by Maggie Sansonefrom Wind Drift: Celtic Grooves, Mystic Moods 19:12“MacPherson’s Farewell” by Marc Gunnfrom Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion 22:30“A Bruxa [The Witch]” by Anne Roosfrom A Light in the Forest 31:55“The Uninvited Guest” by The Secret Commonwealthfrom Uninvited Guest 35:13“Samhain’s March Revisited” by James Olin Odenfrom Samhain’s March: A Winter Journey 36:56“Devil and the Knight” by Merry Wives of Windsorfrom Here’s to the Men 40:06“WifeKillin” by Gan Fidelfrom Gan Fidel 44:02“Ghost of the Molly Maguires” by Hair of the Dogfrom At the Parting Glass 46:50“She Moved Through the Fair” by Green Manfrom LoveAndBeauty 53:32“Ghost of Our Past” by The BibleCode Sundaysfrom Ghosts of Our Past 1:00:30“Aftermath of the Pumpkin Wars” by FiddleSticksfrom Ampersand: Katie & Liz Davis The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. If you enjoyed the music you heard, support the artists in this show. Buy their music. Then tell your friends to visit CelticMusicPodcast.com

Music from Stonecircle, Heather Dale, Poitin, Crepuscule, Grey Aengus, Jasper Coal, Battlelegs, Circled by Hounds, Serious Kitchen, Poor Man's Fortune, David Nigel Lloyd, Minstrels of Mayhem, Ockham's Razor, John McLean Allan, Hair of the Dog, Angus Mohr, Rising Gael. www.celticmusicpodcast.com Sponsor: Celtic Invasion Vacations Wouldn't it be amazing to walk among the rolling green hills of Ireland? Picture the texture of standing stones, the sounds of Irish fiddle, and the wet taste of Guinness on your lips and you're just now beginning to understand the magic of each Celtic Invasion of Ireland. The next trip is scheduled for June 13-20, 2011. Find all the details when you visit the website at www.celticinvasion.com . Notes: Cast Your Vote in The Celtic Top Five. Remember. Cast your vote for your favorite song in this show! Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, Providing the best independent Celtic music online since 2000. Become a Member of the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast! Please Rate the October Celtic Music iMix Less Talk, More Music! Marc Gunn, The Celt Father at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival This Week 0:30 “Tamlin” by Stonecircle from Metamorphosis 3:55 “Black Fox” by Heather Dale from The Road to Santiago 6:59 “Lover's Ghost” by Poitin from Jiggery Pokery 13:00 “Devil in the Kitchen Set” by Crepuscule from Shades of music 16:23 “She Moved Through the Faire_A Maid in Bedlam” by Grey Aengus from Gaelic Soup 19:10 “Twa Corbies” by Jasper Coal from 1000 Feet Closer To Hell 24:05 “The Soup Mages” by Battlelegs from The Soup Mages 25:10 “The Well Below The Valley” by Circled by Hounds from Chasing Our Tales 30:35 “Young Hunting” by Serious Kitchen from Tig 38:18 “The Unquiet Grave” by Poor Man's Fortune from In Good Time 44:40 “The Three Sisters and the King of the Deep Dark Well/The Just Desert” by David Nigel Lloyd from Rivers, Kings and Curses 52:54 “The Banshee” by Minstrels of Mayhem from Rocky Road 56:57 “The Night Before Larry Was Stretched” by Ockham's Razor from Ten Thousand Miles To Bedlam 59:52 “Dark Island / The Bulgarian Bandit” by John McLean Allan from Stand Easy 1:04:03 “Devil's Coal (The Legend Of Jack O'Lantern)” by Hair of the Dog from Donegal 1:07:24 “Isabel the Elf-Knight” by Angus Mohr from Symphony from a Ghost Ship Find out more about the artists in this show at www.celticmusicpodcast.com. While you're there, subscribe to our Celtic MP3s Music Magazine and visit the link for our Celtic Music CD Store. Please support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. PROMO – Renaissance Festival Podcast 1:16:45 “William's Ghost” by Rising Gael from These City Walls CELTIC TOP 5 In every episode of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, I ask you to vote for your favorite song in that podcast. The most-popular song is then featured at the end of the next podcast. Here are the most-popular songs from the last show. 1. “Cruel Sister” by Tania Opland & Mike Freeman from Choice Fare 2. “Far Away” by The Kreellers 3. “Siul A Run” by Alizabr and Ann Sannat 4. “Rising of the Moon” by Michael William Harrison 5. “Pretty Too” by Rathkeltair

Young people the world over have become interested in the ocarina, a pocket-sized pottery wind instrument, thanks to the popular video game "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." Heather Scott, who is earning a master's degree in flute performance, has mastered the ocarina as well as the flute and is at home performing with both instruments. Featured CD Tonight - She Moved Through the Fair – The St. Louis Ocarina Trio Featured are 16 famous Celtic tunes, performed on ocarina, violin, and piano by the St. Louis Ocarina Trio. The CD includes a variety of fast and slow tunes such as airs, jigs, and reels. Each song is arranged to highlight the beautiful and unique tone of the ocarina. Songs include: As I Roved Out; She Moved Through the Fair; The Men of the West; King of the Fairies; The Last Rose of Summer; and Swallowtail Jig. http://www.stlocarina.com ********************************************* Please check out my other website - www.IntuitiveEyes.com for great Intuitive PsychicPhone or Skype Readings www.GypsyToeReadings.com for Unique Toe Readings www.PsyArk.com for Fantastic handcrafted leather items

Young people the world over have become interested in the ocarina, a pocket-sized pottery wind instrument, thanks to the popular video game "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." Heather Scott, who is earning a master's degree in flute performance, has mastered the ocarina as well as the flute and is at home performing with both instruments. Featured CD Tonight - She Moved Through the Fair – The St. Louis Ocarina Trio Featured are 16 famous Celtic tunes, performed on ocarina, violin, and piano by the St. Louis Ocarina Trio. The CD includes a variety of fast and slow tunes such as airs, jigs, and reels. Each song is arranged to highlight the beautiful and unique tone of the ocarina. Songs include: As I Roved Out; She Moved Through the Fair; The Men of the West; King of the Fairies; The Last Rose of Summer; and Swallowtail Jig. http://www.stlocarina.com ********************************************* Please check out my other website - www.IntuitiveEyes.com for great Intuitive PsychicPhone or Skype Readings www.GypsyToeReadings.com for Unique Toe Readings www.PsyArk.com for Fantastic handcrafted leather items

St Patrick's Day music from Merry Mischief, Serious Kitchen, Tears for Beers, Ali Benson, James Raynard, Trochrague, Murder the Stout, Minstrosity, Coyote Run, MojoKelt, Bow Triplets, Diane Linn, The Duplets, Redhill Rats, Porter & Stout, Great Big Sea, Irish Stout, Enter the Haggis, Gaelic Storm. http://celticmusicpodcast.com/ Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.  Do you download your podcasts by Hand? For shame. Let Apple Podcasts do it for you. Brought to you by… The Brobdingnagian Bards' TOUR OF IRELAND. Ever wanted to visit Ireland? Come drink Guinness with us in Dublin, visit the Rock of Cashel, roam the Dingle peninsula, Killarney, Galway, and enjoy a medieval banquet in Bunratty Castle. Next June, you can join the Brobdingnagian Bards on this exciting historical tour of Ireland Visit http://www.thebards.net/ireland/ for details. Notes – Renaissance Festival Podcast – Marc Gunn's Pub Songs Podcast – Celtic MP3s Music Magazine This Week in Celtic Music 0:27 - “Loch Lomond” by Merry Mischief from Just Love Songs 6:28 - “Young Hunting” by Serious Kitchen from "Tig" 14:13 - “Ye Jacobites By Name” by Tears for Beers from Cracky Bones 19:53 - “She Moved Through the Fair” by Ali Benson 23:38 - “The Loathsome Worm and The Mackeral of the Sea” by James Raynard from Strange Histories 30:16 - “Sweet Colleen” by Trochrague from Trochrague 34:13 - “Roddy McCorley/Sean South” by Murder the Stout from Murder the Stout 39:15 - “Do You Love An Apple?” by Minstrosity from Why Am I Not Surprised? 43:05 - “Dragon of Cabo San Lucas” by Coyote Run from Pleads the Fifth 48:08 - “She Wore Black” by MojoKelt from Live at the Grange 53:04 - “Boys From the Blue Hill/Cherish the Ladies” by Bow Triplets from One Spot on Earth also from Victims of Irish Music 56:23 - “Johnny Jump Up” by Diane Linn from A Rogue by Any Other Name 59:54 - “Strathspeys and a Reel” by The Duplets 1:04:54 - “Cold Haily Windy Night” by Redhill Rats 1:11:23 - “Black and Tans” by Porter & Stout from Uncharted Waters 1:14:45 - “Captain Kidd” by Great Big Sea from The Hard & Easy 1:17:33 - “Bonnie Ship the Diamond” by Irish Stout from A Collection of Irish Pub Songs 1:20:14 - “Down With the Ship” by Enter the Haggis from Casualties of Retail Next time music we'll have more music, but for now, I'm ready to pass out. THE CELTIC TOP FIVE 5. Kennedy's Kitchen, “Sleeping Under the Tables Set” 4. Bedlam Bards, “Ballad of Joss” 3. Maidens IV, “Four Aflame” 2. Arabesque, “The Gneeveguilla Reel” 1:29:00 - 1. “Radar” by Wicked Tinkers from Whisky Supper 1:33:06 - “Kiss Me I'm Irish” by Gaelic Storm from Bring Yer Wellies The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com.  

Celtic Music Awards of 2006 are here. Enjoy great Irish and Celtic music as voted for by you. Wicked Tinkers, Bedlam Bards, Arabesque, Celeste Howard, Maidens IV, Rowan, Blarnacles, Shadowdancer, Enter the Haggis, Rathkeltair, Barleyjuice, Kennedy's Kitchen Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Brought to you by Song Henge, the online archive of free and legal Celtic music downloads. Find out more at SongHenge.com Do you download your podcasts by Hand? For shame. Let Apple Podcasts do it for you. Notes: – The Celtic Top Five – Vote for Your Favorite Song in This Podcast – Order Victims of Irish Music Now – Order Irish Drinking Songs, the Cat Lover’s Companion – Link to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. I have new banners so you can link directly to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast – St Patrick’s Day Music Suggestions. I’m still accepting song suggestions for the St Patrick’s Day edition of the Irish & Celtic. – New Podcast: Your Weekly Irish Stout – Vote for Us at PodcastAlley – Download free Celtic music from Marc Gunn THIS WEEK IN IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC Best Celtic Folk Band 00:23 - “Radar” by Wicked Tinkers from Whisky Supper 4:30 - WELCOME Best Celtic Folk Album 06:08 - - “Ballad of Joss” by Bedlam Bards from On the Drift 09:26 - “The Gneeveguilla Reel” by Arabesque from Glen Road to Cordoba also from Victims of Irish Music 12:51 - “Blessings of the Guardian Angel” by Celeste Howard from Celtic Blessings 16:24 - “Four Aflame” by Maidens IV from Four Aflame 20:22 - CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 24:14 - “Ar Sorserez (La Sorciere)_Muneira” by Rowan from Tales Through Time 28:02 - “Pigeon on the Gate” by Blarnacles from Got Blarnacles? 33:22 - “She Moved Through the Fair” by Shadowdancer from Shadowdancer EP 37:26 - GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK Best Celtic Fusion Instrumentalist 38:56 - “Gasoline” by Enter the Haggis by from Casualties of Retail Best Celtic Rock Band 42:58 - “Dragonfly” by Rathkeltair from Everybody Best Celtic Rock Album 47:00 - “A Band’s A Band for A’ That” by Barleyjuice from Six Yanks THE CELTIC TOP FIVE 5. Finn’s Fury, “Raglan Road” 4. McGinty, “Mary Mac” 3. Ken O’Malley and The Twilight Lords, “Mo Ghile Mear” 2. Cady Finlayson, “Lannigan’s Ball/Sergeant Early’s Dream/Providence Reel” 51:03 -  CLOSING 53:18 - #1 THIS WEEK “Sleeping Under the Tables Set” by Kennedy's Kitchen from A Pocketful of Lint and from Victims of Irish Music The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast is a proud member of the Celtic Podcast Network. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.