Celtic Music Magazine: One Day in Sligo

Feb 3, 2022 Celtic Music Magazine

This week's Celtic Music Magazine is packed. I'm also pretty psyched about this week's episode. There's some fantastic tracks you need to hear!

1. BEST IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC NOW ON AMAZON

  • The new playlists is now on both Spotify AND Amazing music.
  • How it works. Every week, patrons vote in the Celtic Top 20. Two weeks later, the most-popular songs are added to the playlist.
  • New this week: Tuatha De Dannan
  • You can vote for your favorites for shows #542 and #541 right now.

Follow and listen on Spotify and now on Amazon Music.

 

2. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20

  • Every year, I publish the Celtic Top 20. This is your pick of the best, most-popular songs of the year. But to make the show great, I need you to vote for your favorite songs in each episode.
  • Just list each of the bands performing those favorite songs to quickly and easily cast your vote.

Vote now!

3. PUB SONGS & STORIES #248: IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC BEST OF 2022

  • Duncan McLauchlan originally hails from Dunfermline, Scotland. He’s the son of a Scottish coal miner. Now he currently resides in Roswell, Georgia, not far from me. He has been around the Atlanta Celtic music scene for several years now.
  • One of my favorite Celtic songs to sing is “Mingulay Boat Song”. I recorded a fantastic version of the song for my CD Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion. You can hear more about that song in show #243 of Pub Songs & Stories.

Listen to the show.

 

4. OLIVIA BRADLEY | ATLANTA CELTIC MUSIC

  • What a heavenly-sounding voice! Olivia Bradley has more than her share of talent.
  • Another in my Atlanta Celtic Music blog series.

Learn more about her.

 

5. NEW CDS

 

THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST

The bands you listen to each week rely on your generosity and financial support. Just like this podcast. Your patronage allows us to create a free show for thousands of people week. It only costs you as little as one dollar per episode on Patreon. Join on Patreon now.

 

6. THE JEANIE JOHNSTON FAMINE SHIP IN DUBLIN | TRAVELING IN IRELAND PODCAST EPISODE 112

  • Step aboard the Jeanie Johnston in Dublin's Docklands and learn the stories of those who left Ireland for a better life across the ocean.

Listen to the Show.

 

7. U2 SHARE ACOUSTIC RENDITION OF SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF DERRY ATROCITY

  • IRISH band U2 have shared an acoustic rendition of their song Sunday Bloody Sunday on the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday atrocity in Derry.

Read the Blog.

MARC GUNN'S NEW CD – SELCOUTH

My next CD, Selcouth, comes out on February 14, 2022. It is an album of Sci F'Irish music. The song fuses Celtic folk-style music with science fiction and fantasy. There are also a couple traditional tracks on it as well. But if you like Firefly or Lord of the Rings, you might enjoy Selcouth. Follow me on Bandcamp to be the first to hear the new album when it goes live.

8. COPPERPLATE TIME 385

  • The Bothy Band, Open the Door For Three, John Regan & Paddy Glackin, Christy Moore, Casey Sisters, Seamus Maguire & John Lee, Aaron O’Hagan & Luke Ward, Paddy Cronin, Mairead O’Casey, Willie Clancy, Brendan McGlinchey, Joh Kerr &  Friends, Maurice & Brian Lennon, Muireann Nic Amhloibh, Kevin Burke, Kathleen Smith, The Baileys, Danny Meehan, Dick Gaughan, Tommy Peoples, Ralph McTell, Sandy Denny, The Bothy Band

Listen to the Show.

 

9. HOW THE ENGLISH FAILED TO STAMP OUT THE SCOTS LANGUAGE

  • OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental policy in the Netherlands (Frisian), Slovakia (Rusyn) and New Zealand (Maori), among many others, Scotland is in an unusual situation.

Read the Blog.

 

10. IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST #543: ONE DAY IN SLIGO

  • An Lár, Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger, Ed Miller, Téada, Hank Cramer, Crépuscule, Poisoned Dwarf, Plunk Murray, Seumas Gagne, Beyond The Pale, The Barley Boys, Kevin Flynn and The Avondale Ramblers, The Bloody Irish Boys, Hair Of The Dog, Fàrsan
  • A super special thanks to our Celtic Legends: Dan mcDade, Carol Baril, Miranda Nelson, Nancie Barnett, Kevin Long, Lynda MacNeil, Annie Lorkowski, Travis Senzaki, Shawn Cali

Listen to the Show.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE LISTENING?

You can send a comment or a picture of what you're doing. You can also send a photo from one of your trips to a Celtic nation or anywhere around the globe.

 

Slainte!
Marc Gunn, The Celtfather
February 3, 2022

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