Céad Míle Fáilte,
It is your intrepid editor, Todd. In this issue we have new episodes of our very own Irish & Celtic Music Podcast & Pub Songs & Stories podcast. The other podcasts we highlight are Celtic Source and Celt in a Twist. We have also included a list of new CDs. The articles we have included contain information on martyred saints remains returning to Ireland, police be called to a Willy Wonka event, Sea Sessions 2024, & a new film about the IRA. We hope you enjoy this issue. Until next time, slàinte mhath!
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST: CELTIC WOMEN #650
- Eimear Arkins, Mary – Kate Spring Lee, Sassenach, Bonhomme Setter, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Mary Beth Carty, Matt & Shannon Heaton, Rover's Way, Hanneke Cassel, Celtic Woman, Katherine Nagy, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Derina Harvey Band, Mànran
- A special thanks to our new and continued Celtic Legends: Bill Mandeville, Marti Meyers, Brenda, Karen DM Harris, Emma Bartholomew, Dan mcDade, Carol Baril, Miranda Nelson, Nancie Barnett, Kevin Long, Gary R Hook, Lynda MacNeil, Kelly Garrod, Annie Lorkowski, Shawn Cali
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2024 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.
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PUB SONGS & STORIES #280: REAVER DRINKING SONG
- “If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.” Zoe’s description of reavers on the TV show Firefly sounds pretty insane. And every time we meet the reavers in the show and movie, they seem just as insane. And yet… they can fly spaceships. I share the story behind my song “Reavers Drinking Songs” today on Pub Songs & Stories #280.
New CDs
- Get weekly updates of New CDs in our Celtic Music Magazine and download 34 Celtic MP3s for free at bestcelticmusic.net. #NewCelticCDs
- Live at Fiddler's Hearth – by Peat in the Creel
- Mystic Land – by The Soul of Wind
- In Manusland – by Mac Manus
- Live at Terra Firma Radio – by Keltricity
Attn Bands: Go to 4celts.com to submit your band to the podcast.
CELTIC SOURCE 65: WHAT THE WELSH STORY TRIADS CAN TELL US
- Trioedd Ynys Prydein, the medieval Welsh storytriads, can tell us a few different things about other sources of Welsh myth, particularly the Mabinogi.
‘HISTORIC MOMENT’ AS SACRED RELICS OF MARTYRED IRISH SAINT SET TO RETURN TO IRELAND FOR FIRST TIME
- THE relics of an Irish-born saint who was martyred in Germany in 689AD will be brought to Ireland for the first time this year.
- Born in Cloughbally, Co. Cavan in 640AD, Saint Kilian is believed to have received his religious training at a monastery in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork.
CELT IN A TWIST: FEBRUARY 25, 2024
- Spotlighting the thistle up the kilt of Celtic music, Scots Rock. Stramash celebrate the Flower Of Scotland. Culbeag take us Across The Water. Alba's Edge sail The Diamond. Celtronica from the Isle of Skye with Peatbog Faeries and from here at home, it's the fiercely Real McKenzies. Cry freedom! You've got yer Celt In A Twist.
POLICE CALLED TO WILLY WONKA EVENT AFTER REFUNDS DEMANDED
- Police were called to an event described as a “Willy Wonka Experience” in Glasgow as angry families demanded refunds.
- The event was advertised as a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn”.
SEA SESSIONS 2024: FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR DONEGAL FESTIVAL WITH TICKETS TO GO ON SALE THIS WEEK
- Sea Sessions, the hugely popular surf and music festival held every summer in Donegal, has unveiled its full-line up for this year's event.
- The three-day festival takes place in Bundoran from June 21 – 23, with Cork native Cian Ducrot previously announced as the first headline act for the festival.
THE BAD OLD DAYS
- Luke Hanlon told David Hennessy about his new film The Troubles: A Dublin Story which shows the true- and ugly- face of the IRA in Dublin during the dark days of The Troubles.
- With The Troubles: A Dublin Story, writer-director Luke Hanlon has created a film that shows the gritty and brutal reality of the IRA in Dublin: Intimating and kneecapping drug dealers, carrying out robberies, all to fund the war machine up north.
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Slainte!
Todd Wiley & Marc Gunn, The Celtfather
February 29, 2024
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