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Greetings. Todd should be back next week. In the meantime…
This week on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, we sit down with Open the Door for Three for a lively interview and fresh tunes from Fir Aida, Billy Treacy & the Scope, Adam Young, and more. Start planning your November adventure at IrishFest Atlanta, where Open the Door for Three headlines alongside Teada and a host of incredible Celtic acts.
Discover the haunting origins of Halloween at the Hill of Ward, explore new albums from The Gothard Sisters, Enda Scahill & Joel Andersson, Ally the Piper, Ninebarrow, and many others, and keep the festive spirit alive by supporting the Celtic Christmas Music Podcast—season starts November 2! Open your ears, open your heart, and let the music in. 🍀
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST 330: Open the Door for Three Interview
- We have an interview with Open The Door For Three today on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #730
- Open The Door For Three, Fir Aida, Billy Treacy & the Scope, Adam Young, Willowgreen, Thom Dunn, Dublin Gulch, Chance the Arm, The Inland Seas
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2025 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.
WHAT'S NEW WITH CELTIC MUSIC
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IRISHFEST ATLANTA
- Join us at IrishFest Atlanta on Nov 7-9, 2025. You’ll enjoy exclusive concerts with Open the Door For Three with Special Guest Kevin Doyle on Friday and Teada on Saturday night.
- Plus enjoy music from Kathleen Donohoe, O’Brian’s Bards, Olivia Bradley, Roundabouts, The Kinnegans, The Muckers, Irish Brothers, Celtic Brew, Station 1 2 3 and special set from Inara and Marc Gunn.
- There are music and dance workshops, Irish cooking competitions, IrishTea, Irish Films, and of course, LOTS of Irish dancing.
- Celebrate your Irish heritage at IrishFest Atlanta in November. Bring a friend!
Learn more at IrishFestAtlanta.com
IRISH MUSIC STORIES: RED ROSE AND WHITE LOTUS
- How tyrants and sages bloom from the same soil
- In this six-episode “Sidequest” series, Irish Music Stories host Shannon Heaton shares music from her “Perfect Maze” album (pollinator-inspired compositions for flute, strings, piano, and voice). And in keeping with the IMS mission, she also includes stories that helped her navigate the whole project.
- FOR INSTALLMENT #5, Heaton talks of kings and royal roses, and spiritual leaders and mud-born lotus plants; and how it takes a team and timing for plants—and for humans—to transform.
FOLK ON FOOT: Cerys Hafana at Corris Uchaf
- The latest album from Welsh triple harpist Cerys Hafana is called “Angel”.
- It’s inspired by the story of an old man who goes for a walk in the forest and hears an angel singing so beautifully it makes him fall asleep for three hundred and fifty years.
- That’s almost what happened to me on our glorious summer walk with Cerys near Corris Uchaf in mid Wales. We stumbled across a strange concrete replica of an Italian village, found the remains of disused mines and sat by tumbling streams to experience the subtle beauty of their singing and playing.
TRAVELING IN IRELAND: Halloween’s Historic Origins in Ireland
- Discover the enchanting origins of Halloween at the Hill of Ward in Athboy, Ireland, where the festival of Samhain began over 3,000 years ago.
- This article is based on Traveling in Ireland podcast episode 235. Join Tlachtga, the guardian goddess of this mystical place, as she shares her captivating story from the heart of Athboy in County Meath.
COPPERPLATE TIME 517
- Bothy Band, Liam O'Flynn, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Laoise Kelly, Gerry Hanley, Kevin Rowsome, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Dan Brouder & Angelina Carberry, Kevin Conneff / The Dublin Trio, Gatehouse, Stereo O'Connors, John & Jacinta McEvoy, Michael Banahan, Ralph McTell, Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Pentangle, Danny Thompson’s Whatever
ARCHIVES OF RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL PODCAST
- Music from: Barrowburn, Ed Miller, Consort of SomeSorte, Clandestine, Blackmore's Night, Music the Gathering, Dregs, Bocca Musica, Lark the Harper, Harpnotic, Siren's Song, Coeur De Lion, C. Wayne Owens, Iris and Rose, Culchies, E Muzeki, Jed Marum, The Craic Show, The Craic Show, Djilia Phralengo, Bethany McLyr, King's Busketeers
NEW CELTIC ALBUMS
- Dropkick Murphy – For the People
- The Gothard Sisters – Moment in Time OUT TOMORROW!!!
- Enda Scahill & Joel Andersson – The Dark Well
- Cyril O’Donoghue – Inis Cealtra (Holy Island)
- Ally the Piper – The Session
- Willos’ – One for the Road
- Ninebarrow – The Hour of the Blackbird
- The Murphy Sisters – Burnt Bridges
- Robin James Hurt – Hey Mary (Play a Song for Me)
- Graham Lindsey – Tune Machine
- Randall Stephen Hall – Wake the Blue Sleeper
CELTIC CHRISTMAS MUSIC LOOKING FOR UNDERWRITERS
- Celtic Christmas Music podcast now accepts underwriters for the show for the holiday season. The podcast is funded entirely by Patrons of Celtic Christmas music.
- Thanks to these generous Patrons of Celtic Christmas: Just_sayin', Craig Backus, Michael Cavanaugh, Przemysław Kacprzak, Hank Woodward, Mike Schock, robert michael kane, James Martin, Aaron Dent, Erin Nix, Laura Simpson, Cathy Henderson, Trevor N. Teuscher, Craig, Kirsten Nelson, Jan Czenkusch, Jennifer, Juliette Ling, Luke Miller
- The next episode comes out on Sunday, November 2!
Join Celtic Christmas Music on Patreon.
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Todd Wiley & Marc Gunn, The Celtfather
October 16, 2025
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