I have a few bucks towards some mp3s at amazon. I'm looking for celtic recommendations. Maybe Irish welch, or some obscure scottish. I tend to appreciate traditional songs, but I'm a fan of the Dust Rhinos, less so the newer Gaelic Storm. I love traditional ballads (tam lin, cruel mother, Edward, etc ( Read more... )

Anyone involved with ComhaltasI am an intermediate level fiddle player, and I recently went out to a Comhaltas session in Toronto, it was interesting, there were a bunch of fiddle players, a couple of button accordion players and I think a flute player. I didn't know enough of the tunes to play along, so that is my homework now to learn more of ( Read more... )

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Point your browser at KZYX from 9:00 to 11:00 this morning (Pacific time) for 2 hours of great Celtic music! This morning we feature segments from an interview I conducted with Julie Fowlis two days ago. She talks about some of the songs on her recent CD, "Live at Perthshire Amber" (the festival started by Dougie MacLean ( Read more... )

Tune your browser to KZYX tomorrow morning (Sunday) at 9 Pacific time, for a special Labour-themed show. Featuring some great songs about the life of the working man, various labour movements, and union anthems; and lots of mining songs. Always a popular show!

Oak & Thorn starts in just about 3 hours (9:00 Pacific time). Special show today, featuring the voices of such luminaries as Alasdair Fraser, Moya Brennan, Dougie MacLean, etc. with brief but passionate appeals for support for American public radio, in short breaks between the music sets. Way more fun than anybody else's pledge drive shows! Get ( Read more... )

Hello everyone. I have noticed an uptick in the number of posts in the community containing non-English languages lately. I am glad that they are active and contributing to the community. However, posts that do not contain an English translation of the original language of the post are against the guidelines of the community and must be corrected. ( Read more... )

Вниманию нижегородцев и заинтересованных иногородних товарищей.

19 марта в 20-00 основательницы и солистки фолк-банды Athas Надежда Рыбакова и Мария Монакова в интернет-эфире Ральф Радио Экстренные выходные на Радиотерапии .

О новом альбоме, кельтской музыке в Нижнем, Дне Святого Патрика и обо всем на свете. ВПЕРВЫЕ ПРОЗВУЧАТ ТРЕКИ С " ( Read more... )

I'm an undergraduate student of Linguistics at McGill University and I am conducting a study on the properties of Belfast English. I am looking for people from Belfast to participate in my study by filling out a short online survey. The survey includes demographic information (kept completely anonymous) and questions about rhymes, words, etc. It ( Read more... )

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