Every year for St. Patrick's Day, I compile a new list of St Patrick's Day MP3 downloads that are 100% free and legal. Many of these artists are played regularly in the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. And ALL of these artists were generous enough to offer their music for a brand compilation CD entitled the Best of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.
This compilation CD benefits the podcast as well as a Celtic non-profit. I've donated over $6,000 to Celtic non-profits around the United States. So when you buy a CD, you support both this podcast and your fellow Celts.
But please don't stop there!
The main point of this compilation and these free MP3s is to help promote independent Celtic music. If you find an artist that you really love on this compilation, then head over to the artist website, drop them an email to let them know you found them through the CD. Then buy their CD.
While you're at it, if you want to find out what it's like getting an annual subscription to Song Henge, you'll get a good idea when you download this free zip file of 17 Free St Patrick's Day MP3s for 2009.
Download “17 Celtic Music Downloads
for St. Patrick's Day” (64 MB)
(p.s. these MP3s will only be up for a month, so download them soon)
17 Free Irish & Celtic Music Downloads for St. Patrick's Day
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“Sweeney's Buttermilk” by FIMM
from Roiboos e Disappunti -
“The Whiskey Never Lies” (Burns, ASCAP) by Sligo Rags
from The Whiskey Never Lies -
“The Girls Set” by Banshee in the Kitchen
from Live at Painted Sky -
“Star of the County Down”
by Jed Marum with Hugh Morrison and Mason Brown
from Sands of Aberdeen -
“Hot Days” (Siegl/Brabec/Trad.) by Poitin
from Hot Days -
“Chi Mi Na Morbheanna/Sleepy Maggie” by MacTalla Mor
from The New Colossus -
“Almost Irish” (Halloran) by Ceann
from Almost Irish -
“Considine's Grove” by Anne Roos
from A Light in the Forest -
“Boys Of Tandragee/Tuesday Morning/Checkered Blanket” (Trad./Lewin-Tiarks) by Athas
from Athas -
“Ye Jacobites By Name” (Burns) by Beth Patterson
from Hybrid Vigor -
“Loch Lomond” by Jesse Ferguson
from Old New Songs -
“The Mason's Apron” by Rattle the Boards
from The Parish Platform -
“Jig Jag” by Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder
from Zephyr in the Confetti Factory -
“Rocks of Bawn” by Maidens IV
from Emerald Fire -
“Auld Triangle” (Behan) by Patrick's Head
from Arse Biscuits -
“Ormond Sound/Liberty Joe's/Broken” (O'Brien/Hurley/Trad.)
by Pitch the Peat
from Far From Home -
“Wild Mountain Thyme” (McPeake) by Marc Gunn
from Slainte!
Well, I hope you have a brilliant St. Patrick's Day. Drink responsibly and Slainte!
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.
