Success is Made Crawling Backwards / #CF53

Success is Made Crawling Backwards / #CF53

Inara is learning to crawl! When trying to crawl, she pushes herself with her arms (as that’s where  her strength lies) which is preventing her from crawling forwards. Isn’t that a good life lesson? How often have you found yourself getting upset by failures as you try to go forward and only fall further back? […]

Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #229: 2-Hours of Celtic Fiddle Music

We have two hours of awesome Celtic fiddle music for this week’s Irish & Celtic Music Podcast thanks to the generosity of our Patrons of the Podcast. You’ll hear awesome indie Celtic music from Three Mile Stone, The Gothard Sisters, Clandestine, Cady Finlayson, Hair of the Dog, Samantha Gillogly/Tim Maurice, Marc Gunn & The Dubliners’ […]

Working on Pirate Songs (and Dragon Songs in Secret) : Hunting Dragons

Working on Pirate Songs (and Dragon Songs in Secret) : Hunting Dragons

I am happy to announce I finished stage one of the Dragons vs. Pirates CD. That means all of MY parts are now recorded! That’s HUGE because I wasn’t hoping to do that  in August so I could release the album to my Kickstarters in October. Obviously, that’s not happening. Right now, I hope to […]

Count 4dB – Celtic Music Spotlight / #CF52

Count 4dB – Celtic Music Spotlight / #CF52

Count 4dB is a hip Hop artist who spent two years living in Glasgow performing and recording with the local artists. His Song Fisherman’s song received praise from listeners aged 6 to 60 during shows in pubs, venues, and gatherings. The group behind the instrumental is Reely Jiggered from Greenock, and the instrumental, Mhairi’s Tune […]

Emerald Accent – Celtic Music Spotlight / #51

Emerald Accent – Celtic Music Spotlight / #51

Emerald Accent Irish Music was founded in the spring of 2010 for the enhancement of the Celtic cultures through music in South Mississippi. Emerald Accent includes members Clark Lowery (vocals, guitar, banjo), Gail Fox (fiddle), Tom McCandlish (bodhran, vocals). With backgrounds in Irish, Bluegrass, Blues and Classical, the band brings freshness to the genre while […]

Green Dragon Sighting : Hunting Dragons

Green Dragon Sighting : Hunting Dragons

It’s been a while since I last published the Dragons vs. Pirates podcast. It’s time to get off my arse and finish the job I started. The album is slowly proceeding forward. Over half of the songs are now recorded for the album. The latest was a Murphy shanty called “How Do We Steal From […]

The Rathmines – Celtic Music Spotlight / CF#50

The Rathmines – Celtic Music Spotlight / CF#50

The bass-player, Marcus, and the singer/guitar-player Martin had a band called STAINLESS BONES, which kind of broke apart in 2011. The two attended a POGUES-concert in August 2012, wanting to see Shane for at least one time before he kicked the bucket. Afterwards the sang (or maybe: growled) Irish Folk in the underground on their […]

The Boston Harbor Bhoys  – Celtic Music Spotlight / CF#49

The Boston Harbor Bhoys – Celtic Music Spotlight / CF#49

Welcome to this week’s Celtic Music Spotlight! The Boston Harbor Bhoys are a Celtic and Irish-American band consisting of the father-son team of Eddie and Ryan Biggins along with family friend Michael Maloney. All three are versatile singers and musicians, each capable of holding a stage on his own. But when they come together in […]

Pet Shop Math Game for Pre-K Children / CF#48

Pet Shop Math Game for Pre-K Children / CF#48

Big changes are coming to The Celtfather podcast. I can no longer publish the show on Monday mornings like I’ve been doing, more or less, for a year and a half. The demands of fatherhood and desire to keep a regular schedule to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast means that this show will once […]