Greetings Song Hengers
I am back from my Celtic Invasion of Loch Lomond as well as all of my European travels. I had a fantastic time. I look forward to sharing some blogs, pictures and videos in the days to come.
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.
Listen on Irish & Celtic Music on Spotify or Irish & Celtic Music on Amazon Music.
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.
NEW CELTIC CDS
- New CDs from Hannah Flowers, The Gaslight Tinkers, New Millennium Prophet, and Talitha MacKenzie. Get weekly updates of New CDs in our Celtic Music Magazine and download 34 Celtic MP3s for free at bestcelticmusic.net. #NewCelticCDs
- Amhrán na Cruite/Song of the Harp
- by Hannah Flowers
- II
- by The Gaslight Tinkers
- HEALING HARP
- by New Millennium Prophet
- Spiorad [Spirit]
- by Talitha MacKenzie
Attn Bands: Go to 4celts.com to submit your band to the podcast.
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.
THREE CASTLES BURNING: SITES OF MEMORY: GAY DUBLIN
- In Temple Bar, a plaque honours the Hirschfeld Centre. At Bow Lane East, an aging sign is all that remains of Incognito, a gay sauna that made it to the front of the international press in the early 1990s for all of the wrong reasons. Then there's Dublin Castle, a site of joy and scandal. These are just some of the many sites of memory that help us tell the story of Gay Dublin.
*This episode contains some explicit language.*.
ARTIST'S EYE ON GALWAY
- A NEW BOOK EVOKES THE LANDSCAPES OF GALWAY, CITY AND COUNTRY. THE PAINTINGS ARE ALSO ON SHOW IN GALWAY CITY IN JULY.
FOLK ON FOOT
- “My city, my people, my heart” – Jamie Webster loves his home city of Liverpool – and Liverpool loves Jamie Webster. The young singer and songwriter started out performing chants for fans of Liverpool FC, which led to a gig in front of 60,000 at the Champions League Final and a meeting with manager Jurgen Klopp. Now his songs of working-class life have made Jamie a local hero with two hit albums under his belt.
WELSH TIKTOK STAR LAUNCHES NEW ‘ONLYNANS' CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT YOUNG APP USERS
- A Welsh TikTok star has raised some eyebrows by launching a new campaign called ‘OnlyNans' on the video-sharing platform. Lewis Leigh, from Merthyr Tydfil, has more than 1.7m followers on the app having won a legion of fans during the coronavirus pandemic.
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST #563: CELTIC WORKOUT
- Calan, Poitin, Deirdre Graham, Téada, Barleyjuice, The Here & Now, Highlander Celtic Rock Band Australia, Boston Blackthorne, Marys Lane, Event Horizon, Bourbon & Shamrocks, Marc Gunn / Sam Gillogly, The Celtic Kitchen Party, Reilly, Chrissy Crowley, Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac
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 30, 2022
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