It was overcast and threatening to rain when I put together this week's Irish & Celtic Music Podcast featuring some amazing indie Celtic music from Sarah Marie Mullen, Brian O h'Uiginn, Hanz Araki, New Shilling, Slan, Ed Yother, Bret Blackshear, Jil Chambless & Scooter Muse, Dublin Harpers, Judith Weikle, Boston Blackthorne, Amadan, The Canny Brothers Band, Staggering Jack, Lothlorien.
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Johnny Berry wrote a comment in the shownotes for the April Fool's special: “By far one of your best. Trying to pick the best is always hard…..but I will give ya two of my favorite: “The Orange and the Green” and “Doctor’s Orders”. I can not tell ya how happy I am that I am getting the podcast again. Thanks”
This Week in Celtic Music
0:28 “Planxty Irwin” by Sarah Marie Mullen from We Brought the Summer With Us
6:24 “The Copper Plate” by Brian O h'Uiginn from Tionchar
9:13 “Bonnie Jean Cameron” by Hanz Araki from Wind and Rain
13:32 “Ja Ja Jigs” by New Shilling from Live!
16:46 “Will Ye Go to Flanders” by Slan from South West
20:52 CELTIC MUSIC NEWS
21:39 “Paddy West” by Ed Yother from Ed Yother
26:06 “Si Beag Si More” by Bret Blackshear from Fingers, Frets and Fire
29:06 “The Bold Deserter” by Jil Chambless & Scooter Muse from The Laverock Sang
32:49 “Kindness of Strangers” by Dublin Harpers from Shenanigans
36:39 “Blackbird of Sweet Avondale” by Judith Weikle from Pirates, Poets and Patriots
40:17 CELTIC FEEDBACK
42:32 “Coal Tattoo” by Boston Blackthorne from County Kerry to Kerry Park
46:28 “Nevr 9 to 5” by Amadan from Hell-Bent Victory
50:19 “Come to the Bower” by The Canny Brothers Band from One Drop of Whiskey
52:47 “Fortune” by Staggering Jack from The Sailor's Daughter
“A Stor Mo Chroi” by Lothlorien from Greenwood Side
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