Show Notes
Around the year, there are numerous celebrations of Celtic culture in North America. Many of these festivals include Celtic games of strength and endurance, and also feature traditional food and libations. Included in these celebrations are musical performers from North America, playing traditional and contemporary Celtic music. Wonderful music from this side of the Atlantic … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways Ken Perlman / “Londonderry Hornpipe-Jenny Dang the Weaver-Sleepy Maggie” / Frails & Frolics / Redbud Kitty Donohoe / “The Lark in the Morning” / The Irishman's Daughter / Roheen Liz Carroll & John Doyle / “Rolling the Barrell-The Laurel Tree-O'Rourke's” / In Play / Compass Nancy McCallion / “All Around My Hat” / Opossum & Praties / Self-produced
Katie McNally Trio / “The Martlet-Father John Angus Rankin” / The Boston States / Self-produced The Duhks / “You and I” / The Duhks / Sugar Hill Finest Kind / “As I Roved Out” / Silks & Spices / Fallen Angle Music Ken Perlman / “Pride of the Ball-MacKinnon's Rant-Lasses of Glenalladale-St. Kilda Wedding” / Frails & Frolics / Redbud
Grayson & Whitter / “Handsome Molly” / My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean / Nehi Evan Carawan / “The Good Wife-The Kid on the Mountain” / Homeward Bound / Turquoise Connie Dover / “I Am Going to the West” / The Border of Heaven / Taylor Park
The Once / “Willie Taylor” / The Once / Borealis Marla Fibish-Erin Shrader-Richard Mandel / “Heather on the Moor”/ Irish Music from San Francisco / Self Produced Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
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