IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2022 PLAYLIST

• Every week, Patrons of the Podcast vote in the Celtic Top 20. Those votes are tabulated two weeks later. The most-popular songs are added to these playlists.
• You can vote for your favorite by following the link in this week's show.

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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 in the Celtic Top 20.

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.

FOLK ON FOOT: RAYNOR WINN AND THE GIGSPANNER BIG BAND ON THE SOUTH WEST COAST PATH

• Raynor Winn’s best-selling book “The Salt Path” tells how she and her husband Moth became homeless just as he was diagnosed with a terminal neuro-degenerative disease. Despite this, they set off to walk the 630 challenging miles of the South West Coast Path. The redemptive story of their dogged determination, loving relationship and close connection with the natural world made the book a best seller.

Listen to the Show.

BEE FRIENDLY

• Every primary school in Ireland will receive a Save the Bees Pollinator Packso they can learn more about these important pollinators and create their own bee-friendly garden.

Each pack contains pollinator-friendly guidebooks, posters and bookmarks, plus a garden kit with flower seeds. All elements of the Save the Bees Pollinator pack have been sustainably sourced and are recyclable.

The goal of the project is to create havens for bees at each of the 3,200 primary schools across the country. And the author reports that overall, the plan is working. You can read her mid-term report here.

If one country’s commitment and action can have this powerful impact, imagine what can happen when you organize your friends, your neighborhood or your city.

You can help build a different future.

COPPERPLATE TIME 398

• Bothy Band, Hendry/Mulholland\McSherry, Buttons & Bows, Dick Gaughan, Caoimhin O’Fearghaill & Paddy Tutty, Paddy O’Brien & Seamus Connolly, Brian Hughes & Dave Sheridan,  Muireann Nic Amhloaibh, Seamus McGuire & Steve Cooney, Angelina Carherry & Dan Brouder, John Joe Gordon, The Kane Sisters, Jack & Mary Heffernan, Kevin Burke, Briege Murphy, Terence O’Flaherty, Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy, Martin Carthy, John McEvoy & John Wynne, Mick O’Brien, Bothy Band.

Listen to the Show.

THE QUIET GIRL — PLENTY TO SHOUT ABOUT

• THE Broadway Cinema, an immensely popular venue in the centre of Nottingham, is an oasis of culture and cinematic glory.
• First generation Irish woman Caroline Hennigan, the cinema’s programme planner, invited Carlow-born Loughborough University Irish literature lecturer Deirdre O’Byrne to speak at a special screening of the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl).

Read the Blog.

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

June 2, 2022

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