Happy St Patrick’s Day with two hours of the great Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #653. Subscribe now!

Tradify, Sorcha, Jigjam, The Fire, Hayley Griffiths, Keltricity, Marc Gunn, Tarren, Celtic Wood and Wires, Altan, Michael Darcy & The Atlantic Tramps, Louise Bichan, Toby Bresnahan, The Walker Roaders, Lúnasa, Stout Pounders, Brother Sea, Clare Cunningham, River Driver, Philippe Barnes and Tom Phelan, Jimmy & Scots Folk Band, Clay Babies, CaliCeltic, Ironwood, Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones

The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free.

This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2024 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now!

You can follow our playlist on Spotify to listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. It also makes it easier for you to add these artists to your own playlists. You can also check out our Irish & Celtic Music Videos.

0:07 - Tradify "The Roaring Barmaid, Star of Munster Jig, Star of Munster & Fred Finn’s" from Take Flight

4:29 - WELCOME

6:43 - Sorcha "Stomp the Floor / Slide from Grace / The Mouse in the Kitchen" from Stomp the Floor

10:42 - Jigjam "Tullamore to Boston" from Phoenix

14:21 - The Fire "Captain Carswell" from Radiance

18:41 - Hayley Griffiths "Star of the County Down" from Far from Here

21:19 - Keltricity "The Butterfly  -  Behind the Bush in the Garden  -  Swallowtail Jig" from Live at Terra Firma Radio

25:22 - FEEDBACK

30:11 - Marc Gunn "Myra’s Lament for Lamlash Bay" from Come Adventure With Me

• Listen to Mad Jenny on Lamlash Bay #85

33:54 - Tarren "Hardwood" from Revel

36:48 - Celtic Wood and Wires "I'll Tell Me Ma" from Close the Back Door

40:53 - Altan "The Yellow Tinker (Slow Reel)" from Donegal

43:49 - Michael Darcy & The Atlantic Tramps "The Rambler from Clare" from Down to the Roots

47:12 - Louise Bichan "Qouyburray" from Out of My Own Light

50:27 - Toby Bresnahan "Farewell To Auld Ireland" from All In Good time

55:13 - CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS

57:23 - The Walker Roaders "Old Tar Road to Sligo" from The Walker Roaders

1:01:15 - Lúnasa "The Bull's March" from Live in Kyoto

1:06:25 - Stout Pounders "Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Live)" from Liver Let Live

1:09:16 - Brother Sea "All as One" from Brother Sea Ep

1:13:42 - Clare Cunningham "Home Again" from Home Again

1:17:57 - THANKS

1:19:44 - River Driver "John O'Reilly" from Flanagan's Shenanigans! Live at The Celt

1:24:11 - Philippe Barnes and Tom Phelan "New Kings Road/Órlaith's/New Found Out" from The Clearwater Sessions

1:30:22 - Jimmy & Scots Folk Band "COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS" from The Viking Irishman

1:33:16 - Clay Babies "OutOnTheOcean / FlowersOfEdinburgh / Mason'sApron" from Speechless Vol. 1: Sloppy Session in the Sticks

1:37:13 - CaliCeltic "Frosty Pint" from Whiskey Mustache

1:40:38 - Ironwood "She Likes the Guinness" from Gretna Green

1:44:31 - CLOSING

1:46:31 - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones "Spanish Lady" from Let the Free Birds Fly

1:50:09 - CREDITS

The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You’ll find links to all of the artists played in this episode.

Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you’ll get 7 weekly news items about what’s happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage.

Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor.

Finally, remember. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and think about how you can make a positive impact on your environment.

Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.

* Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn.

This podcast is here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Musicians depend on your generosity to keep making music. So please find a way to support them. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their communities on Patreon.

You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com.

If you are a Celtic musician or in a Celtic band, then please submit your band to be played on the podcast. You don’t have to send in music or an EPK. You will get a free eBook called Celtic Musicians Guide to Digital Music and learn how to follow the podcast. It’s 100% free. Just email Email follow@bestcelticmusic and of course, listeners can learn how to subscribe to the podcast and get a free music - only episode.

Check out these Celtic Bands on Patreon.

Looking for some more things to listen and watch for St Patrick's Day!

You are amazing. It is because of your generosity that you get to hear so much great Celtic music each and every week.

Your kindness pays for our engineer, graphic designer, Celtic Music Magazine editor, promotion of the podcast, and allows me to buy the music I play here. It also pays for my time creating the show each and every week.

As a patron, you get music - only episodes before regular listeners, vote in the Celtic Top 20, stand - alone stories, and you get a private feed to listen to the show.  All that for as little as $1 per episode.

A special thanks to our new and continued Patrons of the Podcast: O'McPub Band, Steve Bradley, Windswept Isles, Robert Crader, José Tomás Castro Comparini, John Schexnaydre, Frank

HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST

1. Go to our Patreon page.
2. Decide how much you want to pledge every week, $1, $5, $25. Make sure to cap how much you want to spend per month.
3. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music.

You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com.

Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast

What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Please email me. I’d love to see a  picture of what you're doing while listening or of a band that you saw recently. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic.

Ben Doran messaged on Facebook: “When I received the "music only version" of the "The Gaelic Blessing" podcast, I was immediately reminded of one of the most moving arrangements of The Irish Blessing that I have heard  -  - by Bill O'Connor and Larry Theiss on their – "Traditional And Original" recording.

I am getting ready to have a day off tomorrow and will  get to chores and baking for the "Wild Hog in the Woods" usual Friday night concert that we host at a neighborhood center here in Madison. While I am mixing and baking, I'll surely/certainly listen to that "Gaelic Blessing" program in its entirety. Thanks!”

Ryan S. emailed some photos: "Hi Marc. I love the Celtic Women episodes!!

I am currently building trails outside of austin while I listen to the cast.the spring flowers are already out!"

Shel O'Toole emailed a photo: "Hi Marc, As I'm listening today I'm promoting the International Women's Day event I organised for the Ballarat and District Irish Association. The all women trio I play with, Skedaddle is performing on the day.   I'm also looking at ways to promote my newly released poetry book Wildsong. I'll be officially launching it at the IWD lunch.

I'm loving the Celtic Women special. There's so many fabulous Irish women singers and musicians. Noirin Ni Rian, the sean - ós singer and chanter, Sandra Joyce singer and bodhran player are two amazing teachers I met at the Irish World Music Summer School  - Blas, many years ago.  Niamh Parsons & Delores Keane are firm favourites & I love discovering new  female artists.

I'll probably go to a session on St Patrick's day and there's a band playing at one of the Irish pubs in the evening I want to see. Sliánte"

As the famous English actor William Macready was preparing to go on stage in New York, over 300 police officers were placed in and around the theater. “But the head of the police said, ‘I don’t know that that’s going to be enough people.’” 

Karl Kippola’s book is called Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865.

Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the news. Providing all the answers are Zoe Lyons, Andrew Maxwell, Rachel Parris, and Danny Finkelstein.

In this week of Lent and Love Andy and the panel address Labour's difficult relationship with itself, Trump's flirtations with Putin, and giving up on the idea of home ownership.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Ben Clover, and Jade Gebbie

Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

Comedian Darren Carter join Daniel Lobell and Mark Schiff to kick off the first episode of the new podcast We Think It's Funny!

Let your fingers fly in the fire’s glow with Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #654. Subscribe now!

Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones, The Lilies of the Midwest, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O'Leary, Dàimh, CaliCeltic, Jigjam, Louise Bichan, The Darkeyed Musician, Celtic Wood and Wires, The Whipperginnies, The Walker Roaders, Stout Pounders, Ian Alistair Gosbee, Jimmy & Scots Folk Band, Hayley Griffiths

The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free.

This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2024 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now!

You can follow our playlist on Spotify to listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. It also makes it easier for you to add these artists to your own playlists. You can also check out our Irish & Celtic Music Videos

0:06 - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones "The Flying Fingers Set" from Let the Free Birds Fly

3:34 - WELCOME

5:52 - The Lilies of the Midwest "Three Deer and a Hare  -  Pangur Ban" from Flora

8:21 - Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O'Leary "Liffeyside" from Single

11:44 - Dàimh "Bog An Lochan" from The Hebridean Sessions

16:48 - CaliCeltic "Hotaling's Whiskey" from Whiskey Mustache

21:23 - FEEDBACK

24:16 - Jigjam "Good Ole Mountain Dew" from Across The Pond

26:56 - Louise Bichan "Coldstream" from The Lost Summer

30:05 - The Darkeyed Musician "Fire's Glow" from Fire's Glow

33:48 - Celtic Wood and Wires "Carraroe Jig & Joy of Life" from Close the Back Door

38:29 - The Whipperginnies "Lady in Grey" from Lady in Grey

46:36 - THANKS

48:10 - The Walker Roaders "Lord Randall's Bastard Son" from The Walker Roaders

52:02 - Stout Pounders "Stark Raving Mad (Live)" from Liver Let Live

55:08 - Ian Alistair Gosbee "Highlands" from Ray of Sunshine

59:17 - Jimmy & Scots Folk Band "THE VIKING IRISHMAN" from The Viking Irishman

1:03:22 - CLOSING

1:04:09 - Hayley Griffiths "Siúil a Ruin" from Far from Here

1:06:58 - CREDITS

The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You’ll find links to all of the artists played in this episode.

Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you’ll get 7 weekly news items about what’s happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage.

Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor.

Finally, remember. Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and think about how you can make a positive impact on your environment.

Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.

* Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn.

This podcast is here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Musicians depend on your generosity to keep making music. So please find a way to support them. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their communities on Patreon.

You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com.

If you are a Celtic musician or in a Celtic band, then please submit your band to be played on the podcast. You don’t have to send in music or an EPK. You will get a free eBook called Celtic Musicians Guide to Digital Music and learn how to follow the podcast. It’s 100% free. Just email Email follow@bestcelticmusic and of course, listeners can learn how to subscribe to the podcast and get a free music - only episode.

You are amazing. It is because of your generosity that you get to hear so much great Celtic music each and every week.

Your kindness pays for our engineer, graphic designer, Celtic Music Magazine editor, promotion of the podcast, and allows me to buy the music I play here. It also pays for my time creating the show each and every week.

As a patron, you get music - only episodes before regular listeners, vote in the Celtic Top 20, stand - alone stories, and you get a private feed to listen to the show.  All that for as little as $1 per episode.

A special thanks to our 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

HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST

1. Go to our Patreon page.
2. Decide how much you want to pledge every week, $1, $5, $25. Make sure to cap how much you want to spend per month.
3. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music.

You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com.

Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast

What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Please email me. I’d love to see a  picture of what you're doing while listening or of a band that you saw recently.

Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic.

James OConnor emailed: "Jim from Boston Blackthorne here. St Patricks week will be a fun one for us with a little festival in Northampton MA on March 9 then on the 15th we are opening for the Dublin City Ramblers at the Colony Theatre in Woodstock NY. Next night in the Berkshires at the Heritage House in Lenox MA.  We end the season as usual at Brennan’s on the Holyoke Parade route with all 5 original members for our 20th year!

Hope you have a wonderful month and thanks for all you have done for Boston Blackthorne!"

Darin Wallace emailed: "Hi Marc! And an early Happy Birthday to you! ☘️

Stout Pounders is my band and you know us. We will be celebrating by playing several gigs, starting with a show on March 10 in Spokane, WA at the Knitting Factory with the legendary Young Dubliners. So if you could add one of our songs and one of theirs to your podcast list that would be great!!! We have a newer live album streaming on all major platforms that I submitted to you a little while ago, but anything you like of ours is fine by me.

We will also be Headlining a show March 14 at the Spanish Ballroom at the McMenamins Elk Temple location in Tacoma with an opening band called Slainte and accompanied by the Seattle Irish Dance Company who will be dancing throughout the evening to the band's songs and in between. Will be a heck of a Pre - Paddy's Party.

We play Shawn O'Donnell's Everett location on Friday the 15th, The Blarney Stone Pub in Seattle on the 16th, and March 17 THE BIG DAY we are the band for the 40th Anniversary of Seattle's longest running (pun intended) 5K St. Paddy's Day Dash. The later that day back at O'Donnell's in Everett to cap off the day and week of fun.

Hope yours is a good one too! Thanks for all you do for us Indy Celts!"

Andrew Doyle, Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter and Ria Lina join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the week's news.

This week the panel tackle how a parliamentary debate about peace descended into constitutional conflict, why Donald Trump is actively urging his supporters to put their foot in it, literally this time, and how Britannia nuked the waves.

Strap in.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Cameron Loxdale and Viv May

Producer: James Robinson Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls & Dan Marchini Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

For almost thirty years, Adolfo Kaminsky lived quietly, forging documents for people all over the world. It started when he was 18.

Sarah Kaminsky’s book is Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life.

Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.

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The word 'hypochondria' has travelled from meaning physical ailments in a particular region of your body, to ones that are only in your mind. It has been in fashion, and thoroughly out; it has been subject to a range of treatments; it has been lucrative for quacks; and it's a very understandable form of anxiety - which I have, and so does Caroline Crampton, author of the new book A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria.

Content note: this episode contains a lot of discussion about health anxiety. There are mentions of cancer, doctors and hospitals - but not detailed accounts of medical conditions or treatments. 

EXTRA MATERIALS:

• There are several Otherlusionists related to this one!
  ★ You can hear Caroline talking about whodunnit authors’ pseudonyms in Alter Ego, and slang of the golden age of detective fiction in The Bees’ Knees.
  ★ Also thanks to her enlisting her husband Guy Cuthbertson, we got the episode about convalescent literature, A Novel Remedy.
  ★ In Bonus 2016, I covered the Four Humors-related etymologies of ‘sanguine’ and ‘temperament’. And the today’s-episode-related etymology of ‘quack’.
  ★ Tim Clare discussed anxiety on Coward.

• As for Jane Austen: my podcolleague Jenny Owen Youngs and I have recapped the 1995 BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice…

• AND the 2005 movie adaptation.

• “Jane Austen, one of the earliest female novelists and the first to write engagingly about provincial gentry life, employed illness and injury frequently in her works… one of the more puzzling representations of illness in her work involves rain and its apparently near-lethal qualities.”

• About historic cordials.

• CW cancer, death: “Personal stories about serious illness are hardly uncommon. Yet the preeminent narrators of sickness and dying in America tend to be people and institutions that are not ill… Patient voices remain plentiful and important, but not nearly as influential on how we think about sickness and death.”

• “There are recorded references throughout the Middle Ages and into the 17th century of people who believed they possessed glass hearts, feet and heads. Others thought they were actually glass flasks. Men seem to have had a certain predilection for glass buttocks, which would shatter if they sat down without a pillow strapped to their behinds.”

Support the show at theallusionist.org/donate and as well as keeping this independent podcast going, you also get behind-the-scenes glimpses about every episode, fortnightly livestreams with me and my dictionaries, and the Allusioverse Discord community.

There’s a space-themed live Allusionist IN THE PLANETARIUM at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver BC on 18 April 2024. The evening’s entertainments include a talk about space terms by astronomer Marley Leacock. Tickets are on sale now, at early bird prices until 28 March.

YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
edaphic, adjective: ecology of, produced by, or influenced by the soil.
Origin 19th century, coined in German from Greek edaphos 'floor' + -ic.

CREDITS:

• Caroline Crampton makes Shedunnit podcast, about golden age detective fiction - I’m on a recent episode, you can hear it and all the other episodes, and join the Shedunnit book club, at shedunnitshow.com - and she is the author of the new book A Body Made Of Glass: A History of Hypochondria.

• This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, on the unceded ancestral and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

• The original Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his podcasts Song By Song and Neutrino Watch.

• Find the Allusionist at youtube.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, @allusionistshow.bsky.social and instagram.com/allusionistshow

Back in two weeks with a new episode - HZ.

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Hugo Rifkind, Susie McCabe, Ashley Storrie and Stuart Mitchell join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the week's news from Aberdeen.

This week the panel discuss Gordon Brown’s vision for a second renaissance in Aberdeen, why Lee Anderson has lost the Tory whip, and the difference between Mob Rule and Ja Rule.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, Rebecca Bain, Alex Garrick-Wright, Krystal Evans, Peter Tellouche and Christina Riggs.

Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinators: Sarah Nicholls & Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox Recorded by Sean Kerwin

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4